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Two volumes of letter books dated 1867 - 1872. William Archer's memoranda of letters written and abstracts of letters. Volume 1 - January 1867 to September 1868 & Volume 2 - October 1868 to July 1872

Rough draft of a conveyance of property at St Patrick's River from Jane Franklin, widow of Sir John Franklin RN. decd, to Ronald Campbell Gunn of Launceston.

Diploma of admission to the degree of Doctor of Medicine dated 29 April 1867 for John William Hadden signed by the Chancellor, V.C. and 5 members of Council of the University of Melbourne

Letters written by George Andrew Gatenby to an uncle John from "Pisa" dated June (1867) and April 1869. Describing the Supreme Court in Melbourne, journey to U.K, traffic in London and Cambridge.

Notice of conditional assignment of insurance policy on the Australian Mutual Provident Society, from Emma Augusta Gatehouse to Wiilliam Robert Giblin dated 17 December 1867

Corresponcence between Francis and Anna Maria Cotton dated 1867 to 1868 during his visit to South Australia (including Adelaide, Streaky Bay, Wanstead, Melrose), Victoria and New South Wales

Correspondence from Martha (Beams) Martin 1867, 1872 – 1874
Daughter of Ann (Beams) Story, born about 1845, married John Martin in 1864. Requests for money, Emma (1872), send money weekly not quarterly, working at dress makers - sometimes 9s a week (Apr. 1874), mother's death (Aug. 1874), 3 children (Sept. 74), mother's will (Oct.74), going to New Zealand - sewing business (Dec. 1874). Also copy of authority to raise £100 on her expectations (1871), and letters from lawyers on behalf of M.M. requesting payment of or advances of her legacy or an account of trust moneys from : Elliston & Burbury (1867), R. Fitzgerald (1869), John B. Hull (1870), A. Inglis Clark (1878).

Letters between Francis and Anna Maria Cotton dated 1869 to 1872.

Bills for clothing, photographs (T.D. Webb, Launceston and M.P. Dowling, Launceston), receipt by Margaret Allison for cheques cashed for expenses including H.A. Brook - "schooling for Willie", quarter's board and lodging at Glen Dhu for herself and family, etc.

Corresponcence: Francis Cotton to sons and daughter dated 1867 to1868. Letters written while visiting South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales addressed to James, Edward, Joseph and Rachel (December 1867 to January 1868), to Rachel (29 June 1868), to
Joseph (29 June 1868)

Executors' accounts for the estate of William Gunn deceased . Dated 1868 -1877. Papers of the trustees and executors under the will of William Gunn (R.C. Gunn and Thompson and Ritchie), including authority to lease Glen Dhu to Mrs Gunn for one year, accounts for fencing and repairs at Glen Dhu, insurance, solicitors' fees, rent, rent for Bourbon, rent for Lakeland, share of income for Mrs Gunn, Mrs Allison, William Gunn jr., Isabella Simmons, E.E. Burrows, James A. Gunn and division of estate between Louisa Gunn, Elizabeth E. Gunn, William Gunn, Mrs Allison and James Gunn.

Rent for 350 acres at Moulting Lagoon requested by Survey Office

Farm journal for Kelvedon, November 1868 to April 1872

Plan of Ponsonby Vale, Eastern Marshes dated1868. Property of late Joseph W. Story, including Ponsonby Vale, Stone House and Long
Marsh, scale 2 ins. : 1 mile.

Three page typescript "Extracts from the Diary of Mr. W.M. Crosby, late of Leith, Tasmania" 1868-74.

Correspondence from C. Darwin to William Henty dated 29 February 1868. Scrap of paper with postscript referring to table of colts and fillies of race mare and part of envelope from C. Darwin, Bromley, Kent [U.K.]

Standing, carte de visite photograph of Esther A. Mather dated 24 April 1868 taken by H.H. Baily, Hobart.

Letters from daughter Rachel Cotton dated 1872. Statement of Rachel Cotton and of Annie Barber relating to Sarah Cole's forged purchase order and Mrs Brace

Letter received from Abraham Davy, dated, July 1868. James Backhouse, trustee question (Sydney Meeting House), Friends, Alfred Allen.

Part of draft letter written from Kelvedon (? by A.M. Cotton) to "my dear Cousins" William and Maria Peacock dated 1868

Two letters to Alfred Harrap from Robert Brooks & Co., London, about wool consigned to them by Harrap for the executors of the late A. I. Horne - no improvement in prices owing to the large quantity of wool on the market, with bill of lading (in duplicate) and insurance policy (in duplicate).

Notice of absolute assignment of insurance policy of imma Augusta Gatehouse on the Australian Mutual Provident Society, assigned to Rev. William Henry Browne by William Robert Giblin dated 16 October 1868

Correspondence from Emma Heathorn Dec. 1868 - July 1880
Daughter of J. W. Story and Ann Beams (probably born about 1848), married Charles Heathorn of Glenorchy on 2 April 1868. Letters inquiring about money due from her father's estate, etc.: Ballarat: son a week old (13/4/69), baby died (8/6/69); Hobart: baby girl 6 months old (15/6/71 }, Charlie gone to Sydney to find work (11/11/71 }, another daughter, Minnie (25/3/72); mother's illness (1873), moving to Melbourne to find a situation as governess, children with grandparents (1873); not willing to divide property (1874); mother's illness and death (Aug. 1874); mother's furniture, will, Martha (Aug.,Sept. 1874); taking youngest child back to Melbourne (Nov. 74); property- card of agent James Aarons, G. Brown (1874); Martha's conduct, New Zealand, Helen Petrie dying (17/3/75); husband claimed to be reformed (8/6/75); in South Australia with Mrs Rogers, not like S.A., Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Port Adelaide (15.10/75- 22/12/76); illness and husband's debts (20/3/76); heard Charlie drinking again - his father had to send him away again to New Zealand (8/10/77); Melbourne: hoping to take pupils and have her 2 girls with her, needed loan (19/4/77-78); settlement of estate - sorry Ponsonby Vale sold for so little, unfortunate for "first family" (1878-80); sending box for her "little ones" in Hobart (20/7/79). Also letter from A.O. Laing, merchant of Ballarat: debt owed by Charles Heathorn (26/2/71 ).

Stock records and accounts dated 1869 - 1903. Mainly sheep including ewes, rams, culls, wethers, lambs, sheared, dry stock,
bells, purcases and sales etc.; fatstock; horses (including mares for service with name of owner, name of stallion, date of foaling, filly or colt). Also Roads Account 1879-1887,1898: account of work on roads - carts, men, spars, sand etc and other Council expenses.

Notes of provisions under Downie's will not dated (late 19th/early 20th century) Rough notes on scrap of paper, beginning: "By a will in Scots from Andrew Downie residing at Park Terrace, Stirling, dated 19 February 1869. Exhibited on affidavit by Wm Downie 20.3.79".

Letter from William C. Blyth, of Plenty, to J. Waldie dated 5 September 1869.
Hops likely to be a remunerative speculation as they had failed in England, but there was no blight in the Huon which was likely to be the future hop garden of Tasmania and he urged J . Waldie and Frank Tappes to try. His father had sent a load of hop sets to Victoria. Blyth had received the apple trees from Frank Tappes. His school was giving him a comfortable living - he had all the children of the neighbourhood except some of the very lowest and dirtiest he had got rid of and the Read children who had a governess.

Photocopy of printed poems in the memory of King Billy, the 'last of the aboriginal race'

Letter from Ronald T. Gunn to sister Louisa dated 22 June 1869. Unwilling to contribute to Glen Dhu as he had his own rooms in the store in town.

Letter from Anna Maria Cotton to son James dated 27 March 1869, Afraid he was exhausting himself, Meeting, minutes, Edward, ceiling paper.

Various photographs of Hobart and Hobart environs taken between 1870 and 1882. Photographed by H. H. Baily, and Anson Bros.

Photographs of Sandy Bay taken c1870-1882 by Winter photographer.

Letter from Rachel Ann Mackie, wife of Frederick Mackie to Anna Maria Cotton, dated 22 December 1870 regarding health and family

H.H. Baily cabinet photo

Photographs of Mt Wellington, Huon Road, Fern Tree Bower, Waterworks. Taken c1870-1882 by photographers Anson Bros., Baily and Albert Sargeant Photographers

Copy of The Tasmanian Times, dated 8 July 1870

Helen Grueber (Mrs. E.0. Cotton) - poetry ND [ 1870s-1880s]. Poetry (ms in school exercise book) and cuttings of printed poems. Enclosed small tintype photo of Helen Cotton (c 1890-1900)

W.L. Dobson to Francis Cotton dated 1871: John Meredith's Cambria estate not for lease - trustees bound to sell

Offer from James Stormont dated 3 April 1871 to rent the property "Mount Morriston" : offer to rent at £210

Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph J. Neave dated 1871 and 1877

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from unidentified person, signature erased, from 309 Cotley St., dated 25 Mach 1871
Spiritual

Miscellaneous papers 1871 -1886 including welcome to Rev. J. Graham program 1871; notes on making lenses and for finding the focal distance and power of a telescope (ND); receipt for £342.15.0. paid for discharge of mortgage on Arthur Street residence (20 December 1886); notes for Sara's letter to her aunt Mary (ND); news cutting about debts of E.T. Walker stationer and manager of business of Henry Stevens (d. 1897, widow d. 1906) (ND c1906-7).

Letter received from James Backhouse jnr.dated 1871 regarding Family, Friends, Norway and J. Crosfield's visit, Father-in-law Isaac Robson visiting America, Hickites (followers of Elias Hicks) and other errors, modes of speech and dress "practically thrown overboard", uncle by marriage Benjamin Seebohn died.

Correspondence from solicitors Allport & Roberts regarding the Ponsonby Vale lease dated 1871-1872. Lease of Ponsonby Vale to Mr and Miss Tabart for 7 years at £230 pa. (May 1871 ); distraint costly (31 May 1872); transfer of lease to Wilson and Burbury; repairs to Stone House; bank receipt for £102 .0.11 paid by Wilson and Burbury.

Material relating to the whaling barque "Derwent Hunter" 1871 - 1881 including the will of John Bull, chief mate of the whaling barque "Derwent Hunter", Charles Bayley owner appointed executor (1871); papers relating to claim from NSW Govt. for refund of expenses paid on behalf of John Doherty, a seaman who was injured while serving on the "Derwent Hunter" and left ashore on Lord Howe Island to recuperate, including extract from log book (Capt. Richard Sparkes) and letter from Richard R. Armstrong, Commander RN. retired, Magistrate Lord Howe Island (1879¬ 81).

Miscellaneous documents relating to Helen Grueber - Confirmation card: St. John Baptist Church 2 June 1871 by C. H. Tasmania
[Bishop Charles Henry Bromby], prepared by Rev. H.B. Bromby; pink envelope containing a photo of girl's head (tiny tin type} and locks of hair; list of presents (ms) including toilet set, large centre cruet and five corner cruets, toast rack, wool antimacassar; news cutting notice of death of Elizabeth Grueber, wife of Stephen Henry Grueber sen. at her son's residence, Ormley, on 28 April [1891 ];
temperance notes (ms).

Letters from sons and daughters: Edward Octavius Cotton 1872, 1875 Kelvedon: Earlham sheep (1872); Hobart: death of Sarah, memorial card (12 March 1875)

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Abraham Davy; Narellan N.S.W. dated 17 October 1872

Typed copies of articles, including American Thistle (23 March 1872), hop-picking conditions - the growers' case (March 1918).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to his brother Thomas John Morris dated 6 September 1872-June 1877. Fingal: store business, cost of transport and import of goods, elections, parents at Mangana, Willie [William James Morris, son of James] helping, Annie Ashton [sister] in hospital at Melbourne - skin graft on leg, Collis schoolmaster on Islands [ie Furneaux Islands], family: wife Sarah, son Percy, baby Thomas (April 1872), daughter Celia Sarah born 27 March 1876 (April, May 1976), brother James and his family, visit of Anthony Trollope to Hobart - "they make quite a lion of him" (January 1872), gold mining, gold at Mangana (1872), Wesleyan chapel built (1872), telegraph across Australia from Adelaide to Darwin, talk of railway (September 1872), bought large building in centre of town formerly Highland Inn (February [1873]), Governor's visit, coal mines - Mt. Nicholas, Seymour, transit of Venus (November 1874), telegraph coming - learning alphabet in preparation (November 1874, August-October 1875, April 1876), death of father Thomas Morris (December 1874), description of district and journeys, Clifford the photographer visited Fingal - William had views taken - borrowed C's camera to take views of parents' house Mangana (October 1875), measles (September-November 1875), "little single needle instrument" [?electromagnetic telegraph], description of St. Helens (April 1876), death of mother (20/12/1876) and Mary Marshall [daughter of James Morris] (December 1876), scientific experiments, papyrograph [copying] process (1876-77), business quiet - thinking of looking for another occupation (February 1877), business closed, creditors treated him kindly except P.O. Fysh (April 1877).

Farm accounts dated 1872 to December1383. Accounts including: wages for reaping, building, fencing, ploughing etc., sales of wheat, purchases of flour, tobacco, sugar, tea etc. Also stock account and record of foaling (Diamond, Gypsy, Blossom) 1878-83. The accounts are mainly those of George Marshall but the later ones were kept by D. Marshall, including accounts of the estate of the late G. Marshall. Added at front: 'Indian sauce from Horace R. Spearman, 13 Feb. 1896' (recipe).

Bank book of Henry Martin (1877), bill (1872), rough note.

Articles or letters to the press on political subjects, including local self government (1872), elections and the franchise, state politics, farmers' outlook (1912), labour, women in politics (1915), Labour Party, power of the state (1918), prime minister or president (1921), government (1935).

Parliamentary Papers together with correspondence (manuscript copies) and news cuttings. Front of volume consists of Statistical Returns of Tasmania 1873.

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Frederick Mackie, Mount Barker, South Australia, dated 7 October 1873.
Spiritual, Tilney Cotton beginning to prosper, Lucy Coleman

Copies of letters and articles from Mercury by 'Marshman' and Calder on Hobart cemeteries, Hobart suburbs and Botanical Gardens. Handwritten copy in 'reporters' notebook.

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph Crosfield, London, dated 12 August 1873.

Bundle of cheques drawn by McGregor & Piesse for the period 1874-1887

James McGregor (d. 1883), brother of Alex: accounts and papers relating to Alex McGregor's purchase of a cottage in Battery Point (1874) and execution of John McGregor's estate by A. McGregor (1883-1889), including solicitors' accounts, receipts from J. McGregor's children (Amy L (Mrs E.B. Shepley), Janet (Mrs J.J. Matthews), Elizabeth P (Mrs E.K. Pigdon) and A.J. McGregor), and notes about dispute with A.J. McGregor, who was left an orphan and entered A. McGregor 's office.

Monthly record of rainfall (printed) for Bushy Park for 1874 -1923

Pocket book diary dated 1874. E.O. Cotton (?): entries incluse notes on sheep gathering, shearing etc., bullocks, quarrying stone at Bend, carpentery work, work of Costello and Leckie, father & brothers, picnic on Hollyhock Hills, Belmont fence

Letters from Helen P. (Nellie) Jackson, sister of Isabella to Joseph Cotton dated 1874 & 1875

Series of articles or letters to newspapers on "Public Works" relating to the New Norfolk Bridge (1874), roads and road trusts, Derwent Valley Railway and bridge (1883-6), railway extension (1889) (typescript, 20 p.)

Summons dated 16 October 1874. To John Cotton of Spring Bay to answer the charge by Henry George Quodling.

Two page document written by William Henty entitled "Hints & helps on conversation for a social (table) party in Brighton," dated Brighton, Christmas 1874

Articles and notes on social and industrial topics, such as ideals, the meaning of socialism, Saturday half holiday, power of churches, gambling, housing.

Letter from Frank Allison to cousin Dr John J. Gunn, Glasgow dated 13 April 1874. Shooting, athletics, cricket - Launceston beaten by all England Eleven.

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Charles Kingston dated 2 December 1874. Spiritual (letter torn)

Letter from Maggie Mather to Uncle Joseph dated 8 December 1874. regarding the purchase of workbasket, and "wishing you both every happiness"

Includes photographs of John Wilson and family (including wife Dinah, daughter Brightie (Mrs. W.T. Harris), John Wilson with a keel; son Walter Wilson's family (Elsie, Ruby, Frank, Clifton, Tasman), Walter in dinghy, Sydney Wilson. Also boats: Utieka III (materials cost 662, wages 978), Laleeta, Alcairo 1911, Jean Nichols being built and sailing 1923-4, Marina, Eva Leeta, ketch Stanley 1910, Lialeeta 1913 (John Wilson's last boat), Rooganah (100 tons 3 masted 1909), Good Intent built 1877, Leeta May 1919, Good Templar part built on slips 1874, Derwent Hunter 1946, Lenna, Sir John Franklin on slips 1943 and built (taken over by Government for service in New Guinea and sunk on reef), Alice M. 1904, Doris 1906, SS Dover on slips 1908, Mistrall III, Huon Chief repaired.
Also news cuttings about boats, including Huon Chief (Derwent Hunter), the Yard, obituaries of John Wilson, Walter Wilson etc. and sympathy cards; poems by several members of family; copy of specifications for oil engined boat for Jones & Co. 1907. (35 mm negative film taken for University Library 1967)

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Henry Propsting, dated 26 May 1874. Thanks for photograph, spiritual.

Invitation from Adam Jackson, Williamswood to Joseph Cotton dated 3 Sept. 1874 to come and stay to discuss proposed marriage to daughter.

Undated papers containing instructions to captains to watch for ambergris when killing sperm whales.

Microfilm copies of letters to James Smith from Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon (1829-1904) (82 letters) and John Henry (1834-1912), politician and merchant (72 letters).

Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Ann Mather (wife of R.A. Mather) dated 23 April 1875 regarding the death of her daughter Sarah

Farm journal dated April 1875 - January 1881. Enclosed is a note about roads and bushfires

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from J.I. Dymond, Sydney dated 10 April 187. Regarding Trusteeship of Meeting House, Devonshire St.

Copies of obituaries of John Foster (1875) Tasmanian politician, H.M. Hull and Calder

Letters written by William Knibb Morris to Henry Stevens (1875): sympathy on Mary's illness [Mary Ann Stevens nee Morris], parents, Annie's death, loss of steamer Gothernberg on way from Port Darwin to Melbourne, flood in NSW. Mary (Morris) Stevens to brother William Knibb Morris [1876], birthday wishes, family, little Henry. Also souvenir letter card with views of Bournemouth, U.K., from Ada Crouch (nee Stevens) to her uncle William Knibb Morris. Also a booklet of photographs.

Farm journal dated February - March 1875. Lat two pages and back cover of volume, decayed at bottom.

Photographs of Hobart, the harbour area and Franklin Square

C. A. Piesse: miscellaneous papers dated 1876, 1883, 1885 - Receipt for deeds from C. Piesse as agent for Edward Ellis from solicitors (April 1876); letters from E.A. Hanson about Young's hops (April 1883) and James Smith's estate (January 1885).

Letter from Adam Jackson, Ross, to Anna Maria Cotton dated 26 July 1876 regarding Anna Maria Cotton 's recovery from illness.