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Notes compiled on Frederick and Henry Propsting

Written from school, Mr Cowle's 'Hobart Town Classical and Commercial Academy' by John Beecham Brownell to parents [Thomas Coke and Elizabeth Brownell] dated 15 December 1851: Christmas holidays would start on 17 December.

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

Letter to Francis Cotton from Abraham Davy dated 7 November 1844. Davy remembered his visit to the Cottons and the Cottons visit to NSW. He also mentioned his family - Helen making progress at school, Meetings, Quakers Ruth Allen and J.P. Robinson, plainness of speech, T. Pollard's children, second marriage.

Notes and cuttings relating to the Brownell, Judd, Barnett and Propsting families, made by Nancie Hewitt, including:-

Brownell: notes by Mrs Hewitt including extracts from an account of Thomas Coke Brownell by his son John Beecham Brownell, photograph of T.C. Brownell.
Barnett: news cutting on Archdeacon Ernest Judd Barnett (died 1955) and copy of memorial address, notes, photograph of Grace Hannah Barnett, obituary of Barbara Burnett (1946).
Patricia Hewitt to serve in India news cutting 1961.
Judd: notes on Judd family; copy of letter from Elizabeth Judd to her aunt, H. Cane, London, on arrival in Hobart describing their voyage, Father being schoolmaster for the voyage in an emigrant ship, and describing Hobart - many things cheaper than in England 1 December 1842 (typed and manuscript copy).
Propsting: marriage declaration of no impediment to the marriage of Alfred Henry Barnett to Elizabeth Georgina Propsting no date; notes on the Propsting (or Probstein) family; extract from minutes of Friends Meeting concerning Henry Propsting 1878, 1901; photographs of Ann and Hannah, first and second wives of Henry Propsting.
Family tree showing connection of Brownell, Barnett, Judd and Propsting families.
News cuttings: Friends School painting of Matthinna, Arthur Circus, Fern Tree Hotel.

Miscellaneous items collected by Nancie Hewitt (nee Brownell), including copies of Judd and Brownell papers, notes relating to Judd, Brownell and Propsting families and other items given to Mrs Hewitt. Also Mrs Hewitt's notes on the Society of Friends and the Quaker faith and some photographs of Quakers.

Collection consists of notebooks and sketchbooks mainly regarding fish, other files consisting of press cuttings and a reprint

Rough notes and sketches made by Johnston and newspaper cuttings relating to the fishes of Tasmania

Reprint from the Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1913 entitled 'The foundation and early work of the society; with some account of earlier institutions and societies in Tasmania' , by Edmund Leolin Piesse. Read on 13th October, 1913, at a Meeting held in celebration of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Society. An account of the works of earlier Institutions and Societies, including the Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Society (1821), and the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1843-1848.

Note book contating notes and sketches of Tasmanian fish, mainly salmon made by Robert Mackenzie Johnston , date unknown.

Sketchbook of sea shells drawn by Robert Mackenzie Johnston, date unknown

Pocket sketch book containing sketches of Lakes Crescent, Sorell and Ann and miscellaneous notes on Tasmanian fish made by Robert Mackenzie Johnston . Undated.

Press cuttings collected by Robert Mackenzie Johnston, including some of his correspondence to the press. Undated.

Copy of William J. Johnstone's reminiscences of the history of William Johnstone's business in Launceston from 1842 and the partnership with Stuart Eardley Wilmot, who had married Rosa c. Johnstone, founding the firm of Johnstone & Wilmot.

Old day book for the firm Johnstone & Wilmot dated 1920 to 1924 into which invoices for supplies have been pasted. Supplies include: wines and spirits, whisky, lime juice, sarsaparilla, cigars, tinned herrings, tinned salmon, chocolates, jelly crystals, tomato sauce, pearl barley, etc. imported from U.K., France, Germany, etc.

William Johnstone's pass book with the Bank of Australasia dated 1842-1847.

Copy of William Johnstone's diary of his voyage to Launceston, dated November 1841 to March 1842 on board the barque "Arab".

The papers of William Johnstone consists a copy of his diary of the voyage to Launceston on board the "Arab" November 1841 - March 1842 and of material in relation to the business of Johnstone & Wilmot, general merchant, importer of wines, spirits & cigars established in Launceston in 1842

Notebooks containing vocabularies and notes relating to Aristophanes' "Knights", Theocritus' "Idylls", Vergil's Aeneid, Xenophon and Dumas' "La Tulipe Noir" made while Eric Jackson was a matric student at Leslie House School, 1905, and while a classics student at the University of Tasmania under W.H. Williams and R.L. Dunbabin. Jackson graduated BA. in 1910 and MA in 1912.

Undated poems and notebook of verse with some press cuttings.

Articles on a variety of subjects, medical, historical and biographical in typescript or manuscript, many under the pen name "Exul" for publication in The Bulletin including:
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An eye for an eye (13 pp, 2 copies)
• Some aspects of heredity (8 pp)
• The mental hygiene movement, parts 1 & 2 (10 pp)
• Reign of terror at Swansea October 13 1922 (4 pp)
• The commercial awakening in Tasmania (6 pp)
• [Jokes] (2 pp)
• Insulin (3pp 2 copies)
• Recollections of a medical student (3 pp 2 copies)
• Reply to "The Deacon" on birth control; further notes on birth control
• Dermotobia (3 pp 2 copies)
• An exploded superstition (10 pp)
• The Yarra mystery, Melbourne 8 March (5 pp)
• [X-Ray] 18 September 1922
• [Anecdotes] 18 September 1922
• A journey into the fourth dimension (9 pp 2 copies)
• The treatment of criminals (5 pp) and further notes
• [Anecdotes] 24 August, 3 & 13 September 1922
• A bush tragedy (2 pp)
• Autobiography of a rheumatic (5 pp)
• Coal mine explosions (4 pp)
• Incomplete account of Royal Society of Tasmania's trip to mark the site of Tasman's landing (2 pp)
• Campaign against consumption (5 pp)
• Mediums and trances; on back: ms. The wages of virtue (5 pp)
• How I came to take up writing by Exul (5 pp)
• The Tasmanian Aborigines
• Incomplete and miscellaneous loose pages

Letters from Professor R.L. Dunbabin, Sir R. Cilento and W.H. Hudspeth relating to the Jackson Lecture.

Draft typescript corrected (24 pp) and typescript (63 pp). of article in the Medical Journal of Australia V.2 No.14 October 1934 -The Jackson Lecture: "The Ancient Romans through Medical Eyes", by Eric Jeffrey, M.A., M.B., Ch.M.

This collection includes typescripts and manuscripts of articles by Dr. Jeffrey on a variety of subjects, medical, historical and biographical. Many were written under the pen name "Exul" for publication in The Bulletin.

Collection consists of material relating to the Hobart Town Council Lighting Committee and includes reports and petitions collected by Henry Propsting, chairman of the Lighting Committee

Collection consists of reports of council and an annual report.

Copy of examination papers and lists of results of the 1851 annual examination for the Annual Report of the High School of Hobart Town. Printed pamphlet 'Colonial Times' office, Hobart

High School of Hobart Town report on the 1859 annual examinations, with copies of examination papers, and list of council and masters. Drawing of building at front. Printed pamphlet J. Davies 'Mercury' office.

The Report of the Council of the High School of Hobart Town. Printed by H. & G. Best

The Report of the Council of the High School of Hobart Town, at the general meeting of shareholders and subscribers (printed booklet, H. & G. Best printers 'Courier' office).

Press criticisms & obituary notice

Bundle of cuttings, notices etc., collected by William Henty and mounted on papers, including: shipping advertisements - "Fairlie" to include Sir John Franklin, Governer with his lady and suite (1836), Worthing [U.K.] regatta (1831), exhibition of whale skeleton London (ND.), Guildford Royal Grammar School prospectus (NO.), opening of Mechanics Institute Hobart (1842), "Chambers Information for the People No. 14 'Emigration to V.D.L.' ", South Australian colonisation, Launceston Horticultural Society notices W. Henty secretary (1838-9), miscellaneous cuttings on horticulture, sheep management, immigration, female immigration (1836), insurance.

One booklet written by William Henty entitled "On improvements in cottage husbandry " published by Henry Dowling jun. Launceston, 1849

Consists of publications written by William Henty, press criticisms and obituary notice and a bundle of miscellaneous press cuttings

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

One poem written by William Henty entitled "On the wreck of the Isabella" dated Launceston 1837

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.]

Diary of kept by William Henty on his voyage to Van Diemans Land in the period 26 August 1836 to 6 January 1837.
William Henty's journal of his voyage on the "Fairlie" to V.D.L. accompanied by his wife, Matilda, their baby boy (referred to only as "Baby" or "Babet") and their servants Mr and Mrs Hutson. Other passengers included the new Lt.Governor of V.D.L. Sir John Franklin and his lady and their party, making 32 adults at table in the cabin (plus servants and others in the steerage, a total of 216 souls apart from the crew). To make room at the table some of the ladies dined with the children who were served their meals earlier.
Henty commented that "Sir John and his lady try to put everyone at their ease and require no state" Archdeacon Mayres, also on board, regularly read evening prayers and "reads beautifully". Once they were in calmer and warmer waters Sir John's piano was brought on deck and with Miss Kracoft [Cracroft] as "chief musician" 7 or 8 couples danced country dances, quadrilles, etc., allowing the games of leap frog, French and English etc to decline. The traditional King Neptune revelries on crossing the line were forbidden by the Captain and the occasion was marked simply by launching a lighted tar barrel. The Henty's were, however, mainly occupied with their young baby who was sickly. Henty washed and dressed the baby himself when his wife was seasick, although their servants were attentive. The baby was fed on arrowroot and water three times a day plus rusks and a little gravy from the children's dinner and then was put to sleep during the day in the arms of Hutson or his wife or on the hen coop. He was teething, had a bowel complaint and developed a cough and swollen and sore hands and feet, thought to be due to the wet state of their cabin. Henty hoped a spell ashore at the Cape would cure him but his journal entries cease after nearing The Cape on 31 October until Monday 12 December 1836 when he records the death of their baby son on the previous Friday. Hutson had laid him out and made a little black coffin. There were several deaths, too, among the steerage passengers and when an Irishwoman died leaving a baby the Archdeacon promised the father a job on landing and offered to have the child taken care of but he refused to part with it. Before they reached The Cape, however, Henty described shipboard life, noting the tremendous noise of the ship's work, especially scraping the decks in the early hours of the morning, the food provided which he considered very nice - plenty of fresh meat with puddings, bread and biscuits, passing ships - one "having a blue streak painted round her denoting the death of the captain or owner, flying fish, shark, Portuguese "men of war" and other sea creatures.

Classics exercise book of William Henty when "near 12 years old", including notes in neat copybook handwriting on Roman history, Latin exercises, and Greek alphabet, declensions and exercises. At back printed tables of weights, measures etc. dated Sept. 1820.

Correspondence from William Henty to wife Matilda and daughter Mary dated between August and October 1862.
Letters to his wife, Matilda, and daughter,Mary, on holiday with relatives at Tomago N.S.W., written in the form of a journal describing his last days in office and preparations for leaving the Colony. When Parliament was dissolved after the defeat over the "Ad valorem duty bill", having carried the State Aid Religion Bill, William Henty was able to resign and made his farewell speech on 17 October 1862. He described his preparations for departure: he cataloged his books for sale, sorted and burnt papers, packed up a side saddle for Mary, suggested sending Mary's old school and story books for Ann's children at Tomago, his servant Dinah was to go to Mrs Dobson, his dog Fanny was given to Joseph Archer - with Mrs Archer's permission - but "poor little Fanny looked very forlorn at me when the man took her away cuddled in his arms . . . she lately has come into the Council regularly with me and everybody took notice of her", Banjo the cat to the butcher, who promised to take good care of him, the mare sold for £30 and the carriage for £50 and he gave his picture of the cricketers to Lewis Dobson. Henty was suffering from a bad foot and Dr. Crowther "applied caustic" but might have to take off the toenail using chloroform. Dr. Crowther was operating on Mrs Buckland's eyes for cataract. There are references also to relatives and friends and social life. Henty dined at Government House with Governor and Mrs Gore Brown and the guests played at bouts rimes making verses out of questions and nouns. He also referred to Mrs Gore Brown's "theatricals", her slighting Miss Rose and then dining at "old Gregsons". The Messiah had been played at the Theatre for the Packers. Henty also dined at Archdeacon Davies' to meet Mrs Kermode and old Mrs Archer etc. Willy Garrett said "the girls" were getting on well with the scholars and "the young Cockburns" were going to board there. Bobby Maning had run away to Captain Fenton's and Willy Knight was trying for a Tasmanian Scholarship, but was thought to be "much behind the others". Mrs Crouch
had sent her promised book "The Young Ladies' Instructor". The Barnards had returned on the "Heather Belle". It snowed in Hobart several times that winter and a gale blew down the end of the stable. Henty hoped that young Mary was finding the weather in N.S.W. more agreeable and was pleased to hear she had seen the comet - Mr Abbott had also seen it.
Letter 19 dated 12 Aug. - 3 Sept.. Letter 20 dated 5 Sept.- 23 Sept. Letter 21 dated 23 Sept. to Mary.Letter 22 dated 9 Oct. - 18 Oct. (incomplete)

Correspondence from William Henty to nephew Henry dated 9 June 1843. Pleased with Henry's letter to his father, Henry and his brother's studies improving, plants, boomerang, family, compliments to Mr and Mrs Hawkes.

Correspondence with Sir John Franklin dated 1839 and 1841 regarding - Friends of the Church of England (4 April 1839); draft letter from Henty petitioning for the discharge of Edward Bonner from service as "boy" on H.M.S. Favorite (Capt. Dunlop) so that he and his brother, Henty's clerk, might provide means to bring out their poor mother and brothers and sisters from England and Sir John's reply that discharge was "contrary to the practice of the service", also reference to Launceston Horticultural Society (6 July 1841).

Series consists of personal correspondence between family and friends

Series consists of letters of appointment and resignation

Formal letters of admission of William Henty of the Strand, Middlesex, and Brighton, Sussex, as attorney, commissioner for affidavits, solicitor, notary public in London, Sussex etc., U.K. (1829-36); Commissioner of Supreme Court of Victoria to take and receive in Van Diemans Land verification of memorials & deeds relating to property in Victoria (1852); Colonial Secretary Tasmania (25 April 1857); summons to attend the Synod of the Diocese of Tasmania (1859).

William Henty's draft letter dated 1 November 1862, resigning as M.L.C. and from office as Colonial Secretary preparatory to "quitting the Colony for a season" and reply from Sir Thomas Gore Browne (1807-1887), Governor of Tasmania.

Collection consists of personal and business correspondence, diary of voyage to Van Diemans Land, school exercise book, publications and press clippings

Booklet issued to celebrate Alfred Harrap & Son's centenary entitled Alfred Harrap & Son Pty Ltd 1857 - 1957, A century of service". Documents the history of the company and includes photographs of founders and staff.

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).

One issue of the periodical publication of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce entitled "Hobart Commerce" Vol. 5 No. 21 May 1971

Publication entitled "Information for school leavers Who can help? : there are many people who can help you find your way". A joint project with the Tasmanian Education Department, Hobart Chamber of Commerce and Apex Clubs of Tasmania. Undated.

Hobart shopping guide : to assist Japanese visitors to Hobart compiled and prepared by Hobart Chamber of Commerce. Published Tokyo, Japan : Federation of Japan Tuna Fisheries Co-operative Associations, undated date [1971?]. Bilingual text: Japanese and English.

Handbooks of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1944-1950. Includes reports of 1945 and 1946. Handbooks were only issued for two years after the War and again in 1949 and a centenary handbook in 1951.

Directories and Annual Reports of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the years 1982 to 1984

70. 1982-83
71. 1983-84

Handbooks of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1921-1941. Official handbooks including annual report, names of officers, classified list of members, report on trade and industry in Tasmania (eg. 1923-1924 report on new Cadbury's works at Claremont), imports and exports, forestry, agriculture, soldiers' settlements. Also includes illustrations and advertisements.

• 11. 1921
• 12. 1922
• 13. 1923
• 14. 1923-1924
• 15. 1924-1925
• 16. 1925-1926
• 17. 1926-1927
• 18. 1927-1928
• 19. 1929-1930
• 20. 1930-1931
• 21. 1931-1932
• 22. 1932-1933
• 23. 1933-1934
• 24. 1934-1935
• 25. 1935-1936
• 26. 1936-1937
• 27. 1937-1938
• 28. 1938-1939
• 29. 1939-1940
• 30. 1940-1941

Includes the history of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce by Basil Rait, list of presidents 1851-1951, officers for 1950-51, list of members (classified by type of trade), reports on Tasmania's education, trade, industry, Hobart Port, agriculture, mining, the City of Hobart, and "Romance of G.P. Fitzgerald & Co." by Basil Rait. Also includes another copy of the 99th Report (1950). Illustrated.

Annual reports of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1910 to 1919. Includes names of officers, list of members (including trade and names officers), report of committee, summary of production, commerce and trade.
• 3. - 1910-1911
• 4. - 1911-1912
• 5. - 1913-1914
• 6. - 1914-1915
• 7. - 1916
• 8. - 1917
• 9. - 1918
• 10. - 1919

Annual Reports of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1947 to 1981. Reports only, although 1949 is included with a handbook, with list of members, rules as general information and from 1955 names of officers. Reports missing for years 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957.

36. 1947
37. 1948
38. 1949
39. 1950
40. 1951
41. 1952
42. 1955
43. 1958
44. 1959
45. 1960
46. 1961
47. 1962
48. 1963
49. 1964
50. 1965
51. 1966
52. 1967
53. 1968
54. 1969
55. 1970
56. 1971
57. 1972
58. 1973
59. 1974
60. 1975
61. 1976
62. 1977
63. 1978
64. 1979
65. 1980
66. 1981

Annual Reports of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1942-1944 includes names of officers, committees and list of members.

Various reports including handbooks and annual reports of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1851 to 1984. Also includes Rules and Constitution dated 1851 & 1854.

Printed reports of directors of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce, including names of officers and members, bound with copies of reports of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce for the years 1854, 1855, 1858, 1859, 1860 & 1869. Also included are Rules and Constitution for the years 1851 & 1854. Printed copies, bound with Abstracts of Council relating to Port and Customs regulations and with Reports
• Half yearly report 1852
• Annual reports 1855-1864, 1869
• Reports for 1870-1909 missing

Minutes of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 14 November 1938 to 14 September 1939. Signed minutes, typed, formerly in ring binder.

Minutes of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce. Signed minutes, beginning with the inaugural meeting of 3 February 1851 and first formal meeting of 10 February 1851, including names of members. Includes monthly meetings of directors and general meetings. Some news cuttings of notices of meeting stuck inside binding.

Incomplete minutes of the meetings of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1851-1939

Minutes of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 25 November 1918 to 21 February 1927.
Signed minutes, typed, removed from ring binder (filed in reverse date order). Enclosed alphabetic index, nomination forms for officers 1918.

Collection consists of one folio leather bound minute book and other material relating to the Chamber of Commerce including annual reports and handbooks and directories.
Minutes are incomplete, but annual reports or annual handbooks are complete from 1910 -1984.

Letters from Walworth Baguley, Smithton written 12/8/1914 and 20/5/1915. Two photocopies of original letters, signed W. Baguley, written from Smithton and Irishtown, addressed to 'Wilkie'. He describes attempts to establish a settlement in North West Tasmania: 'Blythe and I are at present squatted in the midst of a vast forest…' They hoped to obtain a grant of 10,000 acres on condition 50 people were settled there within three years and has had a promise from 5 cabinet ministers to that effect. The organisation was to be known as 'The Tasmania Colonizing Association Ltd.' In the meantime they were clearing timber and living in an old surveyors' hut 24 miles from Smithton - 'Smithton has a population of about 500, six stores, seven churches, 1 pub. 1 school, a sawmill, post-office etc.' By the time Baguley wrote his second letter they had been joined by 3 men, wives and children from British Columbia, Canada, but the bill to authorise the land grant had been defeated (although they hoped to try again) and so they had taken various jobs, including road making. Baguley also referred to the war - 'Bad job isn't it' - and sent 'kind regards to all in the office', probably his former colleagues since he also commented that now 'I ... shoulder an axe and walk into the forest, just as naturally as I used to walk up stairs to that refrigerator called an office in Birch St., Dunedin!

Collection consists of a typescript copy of an original diary of Peter Harrisson's voyage to Van Diemen's Land in 1822.

Typescript copy of a diary entitled Memorandum of a voyage to Van Diemen's Land 1822. It is the diary of Peter Harrisson's voyage to Van Diemen's Land during the period 1 February to 8 September 1822, with such observations as may prove useful to future migrants. Original diary is a 96 pp notebook held in Royal Society of Tasmania archives (RS47). This is a typescript copy of the original with index.

Extracts from the diary of William Gore Elliston 1829 - 1864, as selected by John Noel Douglas Harrison (1911-1980) for his proposed book: "Shades of Elliston : the diaries of William Gore Elliston 1829-1872"

Diary of William Gore Elliston 1829 - 1864 as transcribed by J.N.D. Harrison - consists of a typed carbon copy on flimsy paper

Collection consists of typed carbon copy of transcript of diary and separate extracts selected for proposed book.

Twenty six page typescript of a report entitled "Proposed resort development: Mount Rufus -Lake St. Clair" dated 1974 and signed by the author, A.J.W Harrison

Letter from James Reid to Dr James Scott dated 16 November 1893 apologising for not attending meeting but recommending Mr [W.C.] Eltham as choir master and Mrs. Eltham as organist, but could not afford more than 40 pounds for both.

Receipt counterfoil book for pew rents and sustentation fund for St. John's Presbyterian Church, signed by H. Ross, manager. On some receipts the heading St. Johns' has been changed to St. Andrews.

'Rules and regulations for the guidance of the choir of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, being a revision of those drawn up by the Session under date 1st August 1882 and submitted to the Board of Management for its approval and adoption', signed as approved and adopted by James Scott, chairman, 1885.

Correspondence from and to Laura Hull (Mrs Hugh Synnot Hull, formerly Allison).

Miscellaneous papers relating to St Andrews & St Johns Presbyterian Churches Hobart.

Laura Hull's correspondence including:Letter from Hugh, no date (c1879) with 2 copies of 'prayer of the betrothed'; letter from 'Nance', no date (1879); part of letter from Woolmers, 23 April 1893; letter from Laura to Harry, no date; letter from Mrs Joyce giving a weeks' notice for Lily, no date.

Poems written by Hugh Hull, extract from song, notes for entertainment, tickets for Orpheus Club concert, 1894, and Tasmanian Caledonian Society 1892, rules of Hobart Operatic Society (no date).

Bill of lading dated 1877 for a shipment of a case of fish to Melbourne.

Poems, music, and miscellaneous printed items.

Miscellaneous printed items including John Bradley's election notice, Sanitary Association - report of sub-committee on improvements referring especially to a suggestion that the closed burial ground should be planted with trees (no date), pages from 'The Ludgate Weekly' 1 October 1892, scrap of paper with list of fish.

Various bills, receipts, share certificates, and papers relating to debts.

Papers relating to liabilities, including requests for payments of unpaid bills, solicitors' letters, summons to Court of Requests, promissory note 1881. The sums involved were small and only related to minor items.

Three share certificates for North Silver Queen Mining Company dated 1890