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'The Tasmanian Aborigine' Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFManuscript presented to the Royal Society by O. Reid
1958
'The Tasmanian Aborigine '
by Owen Reid, School House, Bridgewater, Tasmania.
Typescript (never published) chapters 1 - VI II, Introduction,
30 figures and map, plates 2, 6-10.
RS 5
Tasmania and Sydney Ship News 1803 - 1831 Index. Royal Society Collection
Get PDFShipping 1803 - 1831
'Tasmania and Sydney Ship News 1803 - 1831, copied from "The Sydney Gazette"
At Mitchell Library and Public Library, by S. K. Johnstone, 1927 and 1931'
Manuscript copy of announcements from Sydney Gazette, written into volume. Also separate volume of alphabetical index of ships' names.
Photograph of S. K. Johnstone at front.
(2 vols.)
RS.15
Personal Papers of John Watt Beattie (1859 - 1930) Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFJohn Watt Beattie (1859 - 1930) who was born in Edinburgh, arrived in
Tasmania in 1878 and settled at first in New Norfolk. He was a notable
photographer, both of views and portrait and acted as photographer to
the Tasmanian Government, and also took over Ansons' photographic studios (1892)
in Hobart (the Beattie studios were sold shortly before his death). Many
of Beattie's photographs of people and places were published in the
Cyclopedia of Tasmania, (1st edn. 1900). He also prepared sets of lecture
slides on the topography and history of Tasmania and gave many lectures
himself. He was interested in the history and made an important collection
of items relating to Port Arthur & convict days, which was sold to the Queen
Victoria Museum, Launceston in 1927. Another collection was secured for
the Tasmanian Museum Hobart after Beattie's death through William Walker,
the City paying 250 pounds. Some of Beattie's lectures and photographic notes
were placed with the Royal Society's manuscripts on loan by the Museum.
Some other papers of J.W.Beattie were bequeathed by him to the Royal Society
for safe-keeping. These consist of copies of historical manuscripts and some
original manuscripts, press cuttings and notes. See RS.30
RS. 2
Diaries, photographs and scrapbooks of the Mitchell Family of Lisdillon Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFSarah Mitchell, daughter of John Mitchell of Lisdillon, between
Little Swanport and Mayfield on the East Coast of Tasmania, was born in
1853, and kept a diary from the age of 13 until she died at ninety three
in 1946. In her later years, too, she kept scrapbooks in which she
stuck, indiscriminately, early letters and memoranda of her family,
photographs, newspaper clippings etc., which form an additional record,
not only of her own life but of her parents and brothers and sisters.
Her father, John Mitchell, was the son of James Mitchell of
St. German's, Cornwall, England, and came to Tasmania as a surveyor in
1837. He took a government post, and later became superintendent of
boys at. Port Puer, where he wrote a report on the health of the boy
convicts in 1846 . His Cornish fiancée, Catherine
Augusta Keast, followed out in 1839, remembering her voyage Tasmania
as particularly unpleasant, through storms, a drunken captain and shortage
of food. The couple were married at Old Trinity Church, Hobart, before
settling at Port Puer', where several children were born. Mitchell
bought a farm at South Arm, but in 1852 he left his government~ post and
moved to Lisdillon with hi s wife and five surviving children. There
they remained, acquiring an extensive property for raising sheep, cattle,
some arable crops and hops. Mitchell also served on Swansea Council
and held a government post in the Post Office. He had charge of the
Swansea mails, which gave him the privilege of franking his own mail.
the two eldest sons, Frederick Keast and Frank,William Drew, were
sent to "England to complete their education in 1858. Both boys kept,
brief diaries of their voyage on the “Derwentwater” via Cape Horn, and
their first days in England, where they were met by their Keast relatives.
At first they boarded at Sydenham School, near London, but later they
moved to a grammar school near their relatives in Cornwall. Here Fred's
delicate health became worse through the bullying (a letter from a
schoolmate is reminiscent of Tom Brown’s School Days (B.S.32/85 p.37) and
he died in,1861 at the age of 18. Frank, however, went to Mannamead
School in Plymouth, Devon, and did well in the British Civil 5ervice
examinations, being appointed to a post in Dublin, Ireland. In 1922
he built a house in Sussex, England, naming it Lisdillon after his
childhood home.
The other two sons, Edwin and Mark, attended Horton College,
Tasmania. Mark remained at home and worked Lisdillon, which he
inherited. after his marriage to Mabel Giblin he lived at the Wattles,
a cottage on the property, as his mother remained at Lisdillon during her
lifetime. Mark died in 1897, before his mother, leaving Lisdillon to his children
It was advertised for sale, under the terms of his will, when the children
were grown up, in 1913. His widow purchased it and remained there for
a while, but the property was eventually split up. Edwin, after a spell
in a job in New South Wales, settled at Mayfield, formerly part of his
father's property.
The eldest daughter, Catherine Penwarne (Kate) married the Reverend
John Aubrey Ball of Bright, Victoria, at St. John's Chuch, Buckland, in
1877 but died the following year and is buried at Buckland.
Of the two daughters born after the family moved to Lisdillon, the
youngest, Amy Mary Jane, took a trip to England about 1872 and after her
return married Herbert Giblin in 1877. Sarah Elizabeth Emma remained
at home, apart from brief holiday visits to Hobart. Her father died in
1880 and Sarah looked after her mother at Lisdillon until Mrs ~Mitchell’s
death in 1899. Sarah then took a holiday to stay with her brother, Frank,
in Ireland and to see something of England and Europe, before she settled
at Tirrzah, near Lisdillon, left to her by her father. In her later years
she moved to Schouten House in Swansea with her neice, Grace Catherine,
who took care of her. In 1937 she moved into the Westminster Rest Home,
North Hobart, where she stayed until she died in 1946.
Sarah started keeping a diary at the age of thirteen and continued
until she was ninety-two, although for the last few years she had to
dictate them to her niece, Grace. In her diaries she noted, daily the
state of the weather and a record of the day’s activities, such as helping
with routine tasks about the house and property, planting or picking
vegetables and fruit from the gardens (peas, lettuces, rhubarb, gooseberries,
etc.) or visits to or from neighbours.
RS. 3
St.George's society correspondence Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFCorrespondence with Archdeacon Whittington concerning the
formation of a branch of St. George's Society 1900.
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Architectural Plans Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFPhotographs of plans and proposed designs in the Tasmanian
State Archives for various buildings around Tasmania including Government
House : Watch House, New Town : Gaol and Court House, Longford : Hutchins Public School : Watch House, Kensington, Antill Ponds : Court House, Bagdad : Watch House, Kangaroo Point. Dated 1837 - 1840.
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Historical Notes Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFNewspaper article on Robert Mather, 1922, 1923 and news clipping stuck into a quarto exercise book.
Also
notes by Charles Meredith copied by Mr. Walker, on
biography of Francis Cotton, Gilbert Robertson, William
Kermode, Thomas Mason, Dunn family, John Swann,
Charles Meredith himself, etc. N.D
Scrapbook of Theatre Royal programmes, news clippings 1949 - 1959 Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFNews clippings relating to the reconstruction of the Theatre
Royal, programmes for plays, concerts, etc.
'The Theatre Royal: a brief history' 1837 - 1948, collected by Mrs. Olive Burns, at one time acting president of
the Hobart Repertory Theatre. Royal Society RS.8
Notes and Theatre Programmes Index: Royal Society Collection
Get PDFNotes and photographs of Faulkner's Cottage, Claremont,
part of which was built in 1808. 1955
Theatre & concert progammes 1911 - 1966.
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Peter Poulet (Art forum)
No full textTasmanian State Architect Peter Poulet will be discussing ‘ARTISTS IN PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTS’.
Poulet has over 20 years experience in Australia & Japan in private & government architectural offices. As well as continuing his career as a painter with regular exhibitions in Sydney & Melbourne. He has also been artist in residence at the Arthur Boyd’s property, Bundanon & at the New England Regional Gallery.
As a Monbusho scholar Poulet lived for two years in Japan, worked for Toyo Ito & Hisayo Koyama whilst studying Tokyo University. He exhibited in a group exhibition at the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art & at Lunami Gallery.
As the Tasmanian State Architect Poulet:
• Advocates for quality design & sustainable built outcomes across the State of Tasmania
• Provides strategic and independent advice to Government on matters relating to planning, urban design, architecture & heritage
• Maintains collaborative working relationships with State agencies & stakeholder groups to develop a shared vision of the built environment
• Develops best practice guidelines to create better & more sustainable urban environments & buildings
Poulet is interested in centring creative people in leadership & formation of our futur