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Sales particulars 1853-1854 Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFParticulars of property, mainly in Battery Point Hobart to be sold
by auction by Thomas Yardley Lowes:- (no plans or detailed descriptions)
1. Property of Sir George Arthur in Harrington St., Montpellier
Retreat and Hampden Rd. 13 May 1853
2. Property of Robert Quayle Kermode, in Battery Point - Mona
Street, Marine Terrace, Napoleon Street North, Derwent Road.
14 March 1854
3. Property of Robert Quayle Kermode in Battery Point, adjoining
St. George's Church, intersected by Colville St. and bounded
by de Witt St., CrOmwell St., a continuation of Napoleon St.,
and a new street called St. George's Terrace, subdivided into
39 allotments 6 June 1854
4. Property of Robert Quayle Kermode, 2 blocks of land in Battery
Point, 1 between Marine Terrace and River Derwent and the
other bounded by Colville Rd., Cromwell St., Napoleon St., and
St. George's Terrace.
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Miscellaneous Franklin Papers Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFSir John Franklin - Proclamation of Sir John Franklin's appointment as Lieut. Governor of
Van Diemen's Land. 6 Jan. 1837
Printed by William Gore Elliston
Letter from Sir John Franklin to Capt. Washington, Secretary of the Royal
Geographical Society. 1838
Concerns the dismissal of Capt. Maconochie as Sir John's private secretary.
Copy of extract of despatch from Lord Stanley to Sir John Franklin,
8 Mar 1842.
Copy of letter from Sir John Franklin to Rev. J. Lillie & others 2 Sep. 1843
Copy of letter to unknown gentleman from Sir John Franklin written on
his behalf by Lady (Jane)Franklin in, 20 July?
Lady Franklin -
Dinner engagement book 18 Jan 1837 - 12 Aug. 1843
List of guests invited to dinner.
Letter from Lady Jane Franklin to Archdeacon Davis, hoping to employ
Miss Hayter, 23 Jul. 1841
DR Adam Turnbull (1803-1891)
Copies of letters to Dr Turnbull, 1839-1845.
Letters from George Arthur (1839), John Franklin (1844, 1845), including
one written from H.M.S. Erebus, and Jane Franklin (1845), relating to
Tasmania, mutual friends, politics, Sir John's expedition, the college.
Folder of news clippings relating to the Franklins including report of
the Arctic expedition searching for Sir John Franklin (1852), poem on death
of Franklin, drawing of coronation of Charles 7th by John Franklin, photo of
Lady Franklin's piano, article by L.A.Triebel.
Photo of Lady Franklin Museum [19th cent.]
Letter from Sir John to L3.dy Franklin 1 Jan. 1841
Xerox copy of letter in the National Library, Canberra, (ref. ANL MS 114/12)
from Sir John Franklin in Hobart td Lady Franklin in South Australia
with Governor Gawler:- New year wishes. The colony quiet and prosperous
except for the squabbles of lawyers - refers to cases of Gilbert Robertson
v. Thomas Mcdonald and Abbot, when Mr Anstey was roughly handled by the
Attorney General - verdicts farthing in one case and for the defendants
in the other. Mr Jones directed to supervise criminal proceedings at
quarter sessions but declined so the Executive Council had been summoned.
Mr Anstey also 'carrying on a correspondence with the Gov. respecting
his office' and so Mr Sorell appointed his successor. Sir John also
refers to his proposed visit to Port Arthur, Mr Henslowe to come in
mid-January, Parker's lameness, Government House plans not yet drawn,
gardener arrived, Archdeacon Jefferies.
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Papers of Joseph Hone Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFLetter from J. Hone to J.B.Mather
5 Feb 1855 and
official notification of appointment of Joseph
Hone as Commissioner of Insolvent Estates for
Hobart
2 Aug. 1839
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Miscellaneous manuscripts Index : Royal Society Collection
Get PDFSmall items presented to the Tasmanian
Museum and transferred to the Royal Society
on Indefinite Loan.
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National Trust Acts Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFCopies of National Trust Acts (U.K.) 1907, 1937.
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Historical notes Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFNotes in aid of a history of the early days of Tasmania
by R. W. Giblin, made c 1923
Including copies o£ records of Van Diemen' s Land 1803 - 1818
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R.D Blackmore Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFLetter from R. D. Blackmore [Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
English novelist, author of Lorna Doone] to Mannington Caffyn, on
the origin of the title Cradock Nowell. 18 Feb. 1890
Letter from E. A.Nowell to Mr Morton secretary of Royal Society
of Tasmania enclosing Blackmore's letter.
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James Backhouse Correspondence 1831-1838 Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFJames Backhouse Correspondence
1831 - 1838
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James Backhouse (1794-1869) was a Quaker missionary, of Darlington,
and later, York, England. In 1831 he sailed for Australia, accompanied
by George Washington Walker (1800-1859), with the financial support
of the London Yearly Meeting. They arrived in Hobart in February
1832 and from then until their departure from Australia in 1838
they visited most of the scattered settlements throughout Australia.
They spent three years in Van Diemens Land where they visited the
penal settlements, reported to Lieut.-Governor Arthur on conditions
and made suggestions for improvement of the prisons, chain gangs,
assigned servants etc. They also encouraged the formation of benevolent
services, such as the Ladies Committees for visiting prisoners on
Elizabeth Fry's model, inspected hospitals and recommended humane
treatment for the insane, as well as distributing religious tracts
and school books. In 1833 they established a Monthly Meeting of the
Society of Friends in Hobart and in 1834 the Hobart Yearly Meeting.
In 1837 they bought property for a Meeting House in Hobart. James
Backhouse also collected many botanical specimens and continued to
correspond with the Tasmanian Society and the Royal Society. After
his return to England, Backhouse published an account of his journeys
as A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies (London, 1843)
(See Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 1.)
The correspondence consists of letters addressed to James Backhouse
and his companion relating to their missionary journey. Most are
from people in official positions thanking the missionaries for their
work, acknowledging books and reports, replying to requests for
information or offering int~oductions, help and hospitality and also
some discussion of religious matters and references to botany in
which J.B. was interested. A later letter of 1844 acknowledges
Backhouse's gift of his book to the Tasmanian Society.
The letters were kept by the Backhouse family until 1933 when a
grandson of James Backhouse, A.J. Crosfield, presented letters of
Australian interest to the Royal Society of Tasmania through Ernest
E. Unwin, headmaster of the Friends' School, Hobart. With them were
a few other letters not connected with James Backhouse but of the same
period and also of Australian interest. These (numbers 29-37) are
mainly addressed to John Gould and refer to his study of Australian
birds. It is unlikely that they were ever in the possession of James
Backhouse who died some years before Gould, but they were probably collected by a younger member of the family. Apart from their interest
in connection with John Gould and ornithology, many are signed by or
include references to well known explorers. Many of the letters bear
a pencil note in a later hand identifying the writer, often by a
position or title received some years after the date of the letter.
About the time of their presentation to the Society the manuscripts
were professionally guarded on to mounting paper and bound into a
volume entitled "Autograph Letters". At the front, typed directly
on to the mounting paper, is a list of the letters, probably copied by
the binder from a handwritten draft as it contains a number of misreadings,
such as Bushy for Busby, Benk for Back, Hirst for Stirt, Jawler for
Gawler, etc. Also typed on to the mounting paper is an "introduction"
by Mr. Unwin:-
The letters contained herein are original autograph letters
which have been preserved by the family of James Backhouse.
They came into the possession of Albert J. Crosfield of
Cambridge, England, a grandson of James Backhouse, on the
death of his brother James Backhouse Crosfield, and were
offered to the Library of the Royal Society of Tasmania
through Ernest E. Unwin, Headmaster of the Friend's School,
Hobart, who was consulted by Mr. A.J. Crosfield in the
matter.
Most of the letters are addressed to James Backhouse or
to James Backhouse and George Washington Walker from
prominent people in this and mainland states mostly
during the years 1832 to 1838. There are also a few letters
addressed to other persons, which were probably collected
by James Backhouse for their autographic value.
Ernest E. Unwin.
Presented to the Roya1 Society, September 1933. II
Other papers of James Backhouse are in the Friends' Library, London.
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Letter from Michael Maxwell Shaw to William Boyer about the 'Castra' settlement Index: Royal Society Collection
No full textLetter from Michael Maxwell Shaw to William Boyer about the
'Castra' settlement - "I think that a society of gentlemen
at Castra would do much to establish a sound tone of feeling
and manners through the island." He also describes
his own home 'Deans Point, La Trobe, formerly a coal mine
and good dairy land.(1 letter of 3 folded pages, slightly damaged)Letter 7 July 1869
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William Gunn Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFWilliam Gunn (1800-1868) was born in Ireland, the eldest
son of Lt. William Gunn, whose younger son, Ronald Campbell
Gunn, also settled in Tasmania. William Gunn was a lieutenant
in the Bourbon Regiment and arrived in Hobart in December 1822.He received a grant of 400 acres of land in the Sorell district.
He was given occasional command of soldiers searching for
bushrangers and in 1825 was wounded by a shot from one of
Brady's gang and had to have his right arm amputated. In
1824 he was appointed superintendent of convicts at Birch's
Bay (Channel south of Hobart Town). He was superintendent of the Prisoners'
Barracks in Hobart from 1826 until 1846 when he was transferred to Launceston.
He was appointed a justice of the peace in
1836 and served as a police magistrate in Launceston from 1850 until 1868.
He married Francis Hannah Andell at Sorell in
1829 and had six daughters and three sons, including William
later Warden of Brighton, and James Andell Gunn M.H.A. Includes letters,accounts, drawings and photographs
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