MRS CAPTAIN COOK
CHART EMBROIDERED IN SILK. While Captain Cook was away on his explorations his wife was busy embroidering in silk a chart of the western hemisphere, on which black lines showed the great navigator's voyages. This chart has been in the possession of her cousins, and now Mr James Tyrell, of Sydney, is its proud owner. Mrs Cook’s house must have been rather like a museum, with maps, drawings, and all the curios a world traveller collects and brings home after each voyage. When she was left alone for years, her husband and.children all dead, she asked a cousin, Admiral Isaac Smith (who had been the first English boy to set foot on Australia's coast) to come and keep her company in her house of memories at Clapham and in those sorrowful years we think of her at work on the embroidered chart.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1938, Page 4
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