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Photograph of Sarah Benson Walker (1812-1893 nee Mather). Seated, full length, cabinet photograph by Albert Sargeant, Hobart.

Carte de visite photograph thought to be William Levitt Wells by Sarony, Scarborough [England] 1880

Photograph of Pillinger Drive, Hobart. Glossy print, amateurishly mounted.

Rough, traced plans including:
(1) Rocky Hill grant and leases
(2) Sandspit River leases and grants (Glover, Mather, Radcliffe) 1855
(3) Grange, Moulting Lagoon (Amos and Cotton, crap of printed plan)
(4) Belmont (showing roads from Campbll Town to Swansea and Avoca to Swansea, Swan River)
(5) Oyster beds, Spring bay 1862 (by Ram Island, opposite Buxton property, information from ''an oyster man" Thomas Williams. Tracing signed "A.T.M.('?) 16/4/62"
(6) Miscellaneous including Cotton purchases (much torn), lot numbers (unidentified), line of a ?road unidentified).
7) South Australia. (including Adelaide, Lake Alexandrina, Burra Mines, Mt. Barker, Wanstead, Yorke Peninsula)
8) Schouten Island showing allotments and coal shafts.

Photograph taken of Port Davey, South West Tasmania landing from a boat, dated 28th August 1898

Photograph taken at Port Esperance, southern Tasmania (faded).

Photograph of of Launceston: Princes Square and general view.

Proposed voyage to Van Diemen's Land in ship 'Hope' June 1821 - January 1822. Papers relating to the proposal of some members of the Wesleyan Methodist Society to proceed to V.D.L . and the decision at meetings of 29 June, 2 July, finalised on 4 July, to travel in the ship 'Hope' owned by Messrs Degraves and Macintosh, Captain Francis Allison. However the ship was held up by HM Customs at Ramsgate, being both unseaworthy and overloaded, and the owners failed to provide the provisions and accommodation promised. The Government eventually chartered another ship, 'Heroine', to continue the voyage.

Quaker marriage certificate - William Nichollias and Isabella Rayner dated 6 February 1835. First Quaker wedding recorded in Tasmania -

Quakers and education

M. Allport, "from Queechy Tasmania" (cliffs), 1862. S Clifford, Hobart Town.

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

Religious education: a Quaker's view - "Independence" May 1987

Notes from letters from Ann and Robert Mather from Van Diemen's Land. Report on arrival and prospects dated January 1824.

Frederick S. Gray, Earlham, Orford. Wished to buy or rent "Ringrove" at present leased to Alexander Ferguson dated 15 March 1883

Extract of Robert Mather's letter to his brother-in-law John Benson describing his wife's death, dated 16 October 1831

Torn part of rough draft letter relating to land

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

Photograph of Sarah Island, convict settlement. Photographed "from a watercolour in the possession of James B Walker, made by a prisoner at the settlement and given to George Washington Walker on his visit
there in the year 1832" (endorsed ms by? J B Walker)

Notes of answers to queries, written on Letter from Major Turner Police Office. relating to amount of damages for cattle trespass in Shaw v. Meredith dated 1837.

Pocket notebook noting sheep records and farm diary, dated 1865 to 1870 Also includes farm and general diary notes 1867-9

Printed copy of photograph of Sir James Willson Agnew (1815-1901) dated 1899. Seated, wearing medal and dress of KCMG .

Photograph of St. John's burial ground, church in distance (with steeple) Richmond, Tasmania

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.

Photograph of stone house, two storied, pillared front entrance with double steps, apron clad servants standing on steps.

Summons for trespass against Robert Webber, dated March 1839.

Undated photographs of Port Arthur, Eaglehawk Neck, Cape Pillar Fluted Cape and Bruny Island. Photographed by Anson Bros., Baily & Beattie .

Corresponcence between Thomas Cotton and his brother Francis dated 1835, 1856, & 1865
Francis Cotton to brother Thomas: goods shipped, surgical instruments sold (see also 47), Samuel Cook, Theophilus Pollard married again, James Backhouse and G.W. Walker, cattle dieing, 30 grazing on William Lyne's marsh, harvest good (1835, letter addressed to Evans & Co. surgical instrument makers "for Thomas Cotton, junr."); Thomas Cotton to Francis Cotton.: Heather Bell shipment, George E. Broadbent efg'rating to be near James and Fanny Dickinson, Samuel Cook, death of Aunt "Hill" (1856); Thomas Ball retired
doorkeeper of Stoke Newington Friends' Meeting, nephew's business well, Anna Maria "joins with me in greeting" (1865); death notice of Thomas Cotton (1876).

Letters between Thomas Cotton in London and his brother Francis. The first one, written in 1835, was addressed to Evans & Co. surgical instrument makers in London for Thomas Cotton junior. Francis talks about goods shipped, surgical instruments sold, Samuel Cook, Theophilus Pollard married again, James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, cattle dying, thirty grazing on William Lyne's marsh and a good harvest. The fragment of a letter to Francis mentions a shipment on the 'Heather Bell' and a letter of 1856 from Thomas to Francis mentions George E. Broadbent emigrating to be near James and Fanny Dickinson, Samuel Cook and the death of Aunt 'Hill'. A letter from Thomas to Francis of 1865 mentions Thomas Ball retired doorkeeper of Stoke Newington Friends' Meeting, a nephew's business doing well and Anna Maria joining with him in sending greetings. Finally there is a Remembrance Card on the death of Thomas Cotton junior in 1876.

Letters from Thomas Cotton, England to his son Francis dated c1831, & 1834 regarding religion and death, son Thomas' business fallen off.

Photograph of the exterior of the Union Chapel, Bathurst Street, Hobart . Now "The Playhouse"

Photograph of the Union Chapel, Bathurst Street, Hobart. View of the interior (looking down over the pews towards dais and railed chancel, hanging lamp and windows (which are overexposed and faint). Now "The Playhouse"

Mounted photograph of a view of Hobart from West Hobart, showing the tower of old St. David's Cathedral

Diary of the voyage to Australia written by William Wells, 30 April 1844 to 30 May 1884

Diary of the voyage to Australia, arrival in Hobart, 31 May 1884 - 6 July 1884, also visit to Bushy Park, 7 October 1884

Volumes noting wages, rations and stores accounts dated 1853 to 1861. Includes Cotton sons, first volume has index of names

Collection consists of digital files from a Walker Family scrap book compiled by Peter Benson Walker - held in a Private Collection

Photograph of the town of Waratah, Tasmania (visited by J B Walker 1887) c1878-88

Letters from sons and daughters: William May, son in law, dated 23 August 1866. Incomplete letter to "Father" from Wanstead, S.A. (? William May husband of Mary nee Cotton): loss of Henry and Lavinia's baby, Francis, Yearly Meeting, Adelaide Friends, price of wheat below a remunerative one, copper also low, S.A. importing beef from Queensland, wool sales reasonable, Joseph did not have the experience to manage a distant interior run on the Darling - brother Frederick took new manager, Waugh, to the run but dismissed him as intemperate, Joseph Barritt may sell - 450 sq. miles with 25 miles frontage on the river.

Suit for debt of £250 owed by Francis Cotton to William Woollett of Waterloo Point dated August 1838; sale contract: stock, farm equipment and household furniture (listed) from William Woollett to Francis Cotton for £115

Ambrotypes in case of two unidentified portraits. Woman in left side of case and on right side man, seated, thin face, side -burns, white shirt. Background of drapery and mountain view. Head lightly tinted, shirt front painted white. two portraits in oval frames in one case.

Unidentified daguerreotype in a plain leather and velvet case of a woman, seated, wearing bonnet with white ribbons and flowers, holding parasol, background of classical pillars, head lightly coloured.

Ambrotype in case of a woman, seated, youngish, hair straight, drawn back off face, lace collar, gold chain, background drapery and vase of roses. Head, chain and background lightly coloured. in a case of tooled imitation leather, lined with red velvet.

Collection of 3 photographs. A young man, wearing high collar and lilies of the valley in buttonhole; young lady with long hair, sailor type hat with flower and feather, white collar; young lady with hair combed back from face, white front on dark dress with bunched shoulders, tucked sleeves and bodice.