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Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 Botany Bay
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  • Epigraph: These are the haunts of meditation, these/ The scenes where ancient bards the inspiring breath/ Extatic, felt; and, from this world retir'd/ Convers'd with angels, and immortal forms,/ On gracious errands bent. Thompson
  • The prose piece 'Botany Bay', attributed to J. A. B. and published in the Australian Magazine, January 1838, is similar in writing style and some content to this work.

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Sketch Book James Martin , Sydney : James Tegg , 1838 Z944430 1838 selected work prose Sydney : James Tegg , 1838 pg. 45-58
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser vol. 36 no. 4079 4 October 1838 7540251 1838 newspaper issue 1838 pg. 2-3
    Note: One phrase of the 'Botany Bay' text is italicised by the Sydney Gazette's editor. An editor's note, preceding the text, is separately indexed in AustLit and explains the reason for the editor's italics.
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y separately published work icon Botany Bay J. A. B. , 7674681 1838 single work prose

In her biography of James Martin, Martin of Martin Place, Elena Grainger describes this work as 'the basis of his chapter under that name in the Sketch Book' (23). The work is similar in writing style and some content to the work of the same title in Martin's Australian Sketch Book (1838).

Source: Grainger, Elena. Martin of Martin Place (Sydney, Alpha Books, 1970): 18, 23
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The Australian Sketchbook George Cavenagh , 1838 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 9 October vol. 36 no. 4081 1838; (p. 2)

This column is probably written by the editor of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, George Cavenagh. It is a justification for the writer's previous remarks on James Martin's 'Botany Bay' essay published in the Sydney Gazette issue of 4 October 1838 (2). 'The author of The Australian Sketch Book', states the writer, 'complains that we do him injustice in attributing to him the possession of opinions favourable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayers for the dead ...'
The Australian Sketch Book George Cavenagh , 1838 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 4 October vol. 36 no. 4079 1838; (p. 2)

This column is in the form of an editor's note preceding the publishing of James Martin's prose piece 'Botany Bay' taken from The Australian Sketch Book (1838). In this column the Sydney Gazette's editor (George Cavenagh?), though agreeing with much of the sentiments of the author ('particularly ... to the ... erecting a monument ... to the memory of the gallant [James] Cook') opines that 'we observe indications of the existence of opinions on the part of the author, which by no means meet with our assent ... we have marked a passage in italics, altogether inconsistent with our views of scriptural truth ...' The passage (in reference to the grave of a chaplain from La Pérouse's expedition) is: 'pray sincerely from the inmost recesses of their hearts, for the soul of the departed'. This is not consistent with the Protestant view of the soul.
The Australian Sketch Book George Cavenagh , 1838 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 4 October vol. 36 no. 4079 1838; (p. 2)

This column is in the form of an editor's note preceding the publishing of James Martin's prose piece 'Botany Bay' taken from The Australian Sketch Book (1838). In this column the Sydney Gazette's editor (George Cavenagh?), though agreeing with much of the sentiments of the author ('particularly ... to the ... erecting a monument ... to the memory of the gallant [James] Cook') opines that 'we observe indications of the existence of opinions on the part of the author, which by no means meet with our assent ... we have marked a passage in italics, altogether inconsistent with our views of scriptural truth ...' The passage (in reference to the grave of a chaplain from La Pérouse's expedition) is: 'pray sincerely from the inmost recesses of their hearts, for the soul of the departed'. This is not consistent with the Protestant view of the soul.
The Australian Sketchbook George Cavenagh , 1838 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 9 October vol. 36 no. 4081 1838; (p. 2)

This column is probably written by the editor of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, George Cavenagh. It is a justification for the writer's previous remarks on James Martin's 'Botany Bay' essay published in the Sydney Gazette issue of 4 October 1838 (2). 'The author of The Australian Sketch Book', states the writer, 'complains that we do him injustice in attributing to him the possession of opinions favourable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayers for the dead ...'
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  • Botany Bay, Botany area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
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