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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).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to brother Thomas John Morris dated July 1877-1880. Regarding, Hobart: auction at Fingal successful, Sunday School gave Sarah purse of money - invested in small "Friend" sewing machine, train, job on Railways, Jerusalem [Colebrook] station, accident on line, going back to Susmans, Rev. Wade, temporary job with R. Lewis & Son then back to Susman (March 1878), experiments with telephone, Dr. Smart's telephone connected to another doctor's surgery across road (March 1878), value of electric telegraph, Mr Henry [Robert H. jr.] head of telegraph office, experiments with microphones - meeting at telegraph office, daughter born - "a regular Morris" dark eyes and black hair (30 August 1878), Prof. Pepper's lecture on electricity, Canon [Marcus Blake] Brownrigg missionary formerly at Lachlan goldfields 1860-1, sending photo of railway line at Jerusalem, also sending Father and Mother's cockatoo - they taught it to speak - on "Windward" which was carrying 2000 birds, electric pen (April-May 1879), winding up Duncan's estate at Fingal (May 1879), Cowper's writing telegraph, Edison's loud speaking telephone, Mr Henry to establish telephone circuit, experiments with telephone between New Norfolk-Hobart-Sandy Bay (31 August 1879), progress at telegraph office Mt. Nelson - connected with office by Bell/Siemen telephone, Collis family, Ackerman's museum at Launceston, Sydney Exhibition (August 1879), scientific experiments at conversazione in aid of organ fund (September 1879), Percy had rheumatic fever, Charles Bryant drowned in Derwent (February 1880), parrot skins and frames made by Martha Rothwell of Quorn Hall sent by Lufra for children (February 1880), "Star" newspaper, James Morris' tin mine (March 1880).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to brother Thomas John Morris dated July 1881-1891 regarding, Hobart: death of Mr Matthews [?Cephas Matthews, Chief Officer of "Lufra", drowned at sea 13 Sep. 1880, age 36], Mrs Matthews and little child (January [1881]), February 1882), Edney Morris [son of James], appointed Council Clerk of Swansea at ?210 a year (June, July 1881), children Percy, Tom & Albert at Government School (July 1881), smallpox at Sydney, signalling by light flashes or helestaph (sic), steamer "Patena" (1881), Percy died of heart trouble following rheumatic fever (October 1881), Paris Electrical Exhibition (October 1881), geology - visit of Prof. Denton (January 1882), Russian warship and electric light, Mr Henry of Electric Light Co. has 2 Swans electric lamps and 2 Siemen's Palfreyman opposite - children had treat talking and singing through it - used porcelain cupboard handles as insulators (February 1882), accumulator batteries, Juvenile Industrial Exhibition in New Market, Hobart - lit by electricity (1882-83), electric lamp arrived (December 1882), sending photo of Rocking Stone on Mount Wellington (December 1882), telephones on Kents Group Island to connect lighthouse with superintendent's house (January 1883), small lamps for microscope (May 1883), Hobart Telephone Exchange opened (July 1883), nephew Henry Stephens visit and death from TB (1883-March 1884), photographer Harold Riise [Riise & Barnett Elite Studio] insolvent - Susman's selling stock - beautiful pictures (May 1885), Edney Morris Superintendent of Police Swansea (8/10/1883), railway debate (8/10/1883), earthquakes in N.E. Tasmania and damage to houses in Fingal (7/9/1883, 8/10/1883), Australian Graphic pictures printed from glass engravings - a Tasmanian invention (3/12/1883), religious revivalists in Hobart (12/65/84), daughter Ada born June 1884 (19/9/1884), undersea cable broken (19/9/1884) fear of war with Russia (May 1885), appointed accountant to Building Society at ?150 pa - glad to leave Susman's (August 1885), scientific lectures by S. Clemes of Friends School (May 1887), sending photo "pan" of Launceston taken from Cataract Hill, lenses for microscope, lantern slide show "footisconopliscope" - William managed lime light and dissolving, Photographic Society (1888 April, May, November), Royal Society Conversazione, sending photo of Baptist Tabernacle (March 1889), Albert a telegraph operator, phonograph in Melbourne (July 1890), polariscope (1890), his little camera (August 1891).

Undated or unidentified parts of letters from William Knibb Morris to brother Thomas John Morris: 1) J.W. Pepper (of Pepper & Perrin drapers, Launceston) going to England, unsettled weather since last transit of Venus; 2) [post 1885] received little book on "Electricity to date", Ackerman, bank failure affecting building societies; 4) note about newspapers sent; 5) 17 October -- Melbourne Exhibition, Mr & Mrs Fryer, Swansea relatives; 6) newscutting of Holy Trinity Club meeting - William exhibited views of microscopic objects on a screen with "oxy-hydrogen" light.

Letters from William Knibb Morris to brother Thomas John Morris dated 1898-1900 regarding Hobart: family news, Craig given up Officer College and gone to Sydney - too great expense in maintaining staff to run it at a profit - Fanny and the six children and Willie Morris' daughter Bessie travelled by Oonah - large steamer lit by electricity (August 1898), old vessel Aladin laid up in river and used as gunpowder magazine had been whaler but was formerly French vessel La Mutine taken by Nelson at battle of Nile 100 years ago (August 1898), sending photos of Albert and his fretwork (September 1898), received book on "Wireless Telegraphy" - lent it to J.W. Agnew (November 1898), South African War (March 1900).

Collection consists of five ledgers containing details of wages and accounts, rations and shearing for two properties, Morningside and Riccarton. Located at Campbell Town in northern Tasmania and owned and managed by James Mercer.

Ledger account book number one - James Mercer for the years 1861-1871

Memorandum of money paid into the Union Bank, Launceston and cheques drawn for the period 1861 - 1863

Ledger for "Morningside Estate" at Campbell Town Norther Tasmania, detailing piece work and rations, some accounts signed as received by the worker, dated 1863-1876

Wage accounts for the Morningside Estate, Campbell Town, Tasmania, dated 1863-1876

Sheep account - shearing for the Riccarton and Morningside Estates dated 1863-1876

This collection consists of the papers of George Marshalland his grandson George Douglas Marshall who married Beatrice Terry granddaughter of Ralph Terry, of Lachlan Mills, New Norfolk, Tasmania so some papers of the Terry family papers are also included.
Also included are notes on family history and genealogy.

Geometrical exercise book of George Marshall, Dundee. Dated February-April 1810

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).

Notes on the genealogy of the Terry and Simmons families. Includes 3 photographs (picture postcards) of Askrigg, Yorkshire, England (probably c1910-20).

Notes on the life of George Marshall prepared for his obituary probably by David or George Douglas Marshall.

Probate of Will of David Marshall, died 16 September 1919 detailing that all real and personal estate be bequeathed to his son George Douglas Marshall of Flowerpot, Tasmania, farmer.

Letter addressed to Mr Marshall (or nephew) from T.T. Jackson of West Australia. Dated , 6 November 1916

Including excerpt from deed of settlement of Prof. Thomas Thomson Jackson D.D. of St. Andrews, Scotland, with bequest to Helen Pillans Jackson, wife of David Marshall, died in Queensland 1896, and petition for settlement of the trust.
A few of the papers are stuck inside a large green volume entitled A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans & Highland Regiments, ed. Keltie, Edinburgh, 1875.

Baby's Record Book of Peter Godfrey Marshall born 1922, son of George Douglas and Beatrice (nee Terry) Marshall, went to Clemes College, 1928, married Mary Meston and died 1965.

Facsimile copy of Sir Douglas Mawson’s proclamation of British sovereign rights over the territory of King George II Land and Oates Land between latitude 660 S. and the South Pole. Dated 5 January 1931.
The original document was buried under rocks in the Antarctic for 46 years. It has now been restored by the National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Collection consists of two family scrapbooks compiled by sisters of Ivy Moseley (formerly Blackmore), Susanna Jane Earle and Myrtle Walker.
Both scrapbooks contain mostly undated cuttings from unidentified but chiefly local newspapers (e.g Hobart Mercury and Tasmanian Mail), and magazines (e.g Sydney Bulletin and Mirror). Often cuttings are from Saturday supplements or the 'Pink Page' of the Bulletin. Topics reflect women's interests: anecdotes and folklore; poems and stories by Australian authors {e.g article about Marie Bjelke Peterson, Tasmania, novelist(; local history (e.g paragraph about descendents living in Tasmania of Capt. Michael Connor of the First Fleet); news of members of the family (e.g brother, A R Blackmore enlists and resigns from teaching at Adventure bay School).
A few cuttings annotated in the hand of Ivy Moseley, identifying "Lassie from Nugent" and "vino of Nugent" as herself. (e.g "Labour Unity" by 'Lassie').

Scrapbook of Myrtle Walker c.1913 -1965. Cuttings pasted into ledger book of W A Walker, grocer, c.1903 -1905. Some loose cuttings. Contains also ms. copies of light verse attributed to A. A. Walker. After 1929 entries fall off in number and many relate to family and descendants (e.g news of an underground lake located at Tyenna in the Ross Walker cave).

• (a) Scrapbook of Susanna Jane Earle (nee Blackmore c1880), c.1913 -1932 -News cuttings. Earlier pages contain cuttings about John Earle (e.g "Senator J Earle c1916).
• (b) Scrapbook also contains baptismal and confirmation certificate of Susanna Blackmore and letter written to her by Mark H Hawthorne, theosophist, May 1910.

Collection consists of material relating to various members of the Mather family, the Society of Friends , miscellaneous correspondence from Quakers and the Friends School

Collection consists of a photocopy of Mackie's diary dated 1852 - 1855 bound into two volumes with accompanying photographic prints and 35 mm. negatives of some illustrations contained in the diaries.
The diaries (except for the South African portion), with most of the sketches, were published in 1973 as Traveller underconcern, transcribed and edited by Mary Nicholls for the History Department of the University of Tasmania.

Illustrated progamme of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Tasmania Regiment: Presentation of Queen' s and Regimental Colours by his excellency the Governor of Tasmania, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Gairdner KCHG, KCVO, KBE, CB, (Honorary Colonel The Royal Tasmania .Regiment) at the Brighton Military Camp, Saturday 2nd March 1968' includes colour photographs of the colours, photos of Governor and officers, and list of parade

Papers relating to the historical research of Archibald Lawrence Meston (1890-1951), including notes, drafts and copies of articles for publication, transcripts or photocopies of documents, and newspaper cuttings.

Folder containing typescripts of article with other associated material written by Meston

Folder containing "Early Days on the Tamar"; 2 copies of a photograph of Launceston; photocopy of "Plan of Launceston" (from Ross: Hobart Town Almanack, 1832); printed broadside, "Ackerman's Exhibition", Launceston.

Six page typescript of article by A.L Meston entitled "A Short History of Latrobe"

Six page typescript of article by A.L Meston entitled "A Short History of Devonport"

Folder containing manuscripts of lectures and talks.
• "Introductory Talk to a Course on Australian Literature" (W. E.A. Launceston);
• two press cuttings and notes on English and Scottish localities;
• "Lost Cities of Southern Rhodesia" (Schools Broadcast, 9th February 1938);
• W.H. Hudson (Schools Broadcast, 4th December 1939);
• "A Visit to Kruger National Park", 7th July 1939;
• "Geology of Tasmania"; Talk to Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club 1949.

Fifteen page typescript article entitled "The Derwent Bank", 1829-1854. (by A.L.M.?)

Five page typescript of article by A.L Meston entitled "Settlement of the North-West Coast"

• "On Behalf of the Company: the Explanation of Henry Hellyer".Cuttings from Circular Head Chronicle, 28 April-26 May 1948.
• Typed copy of Hellyer's despatch to Edward Curr, 29 Nov.1928 with annotations by A.L.M.;
• Letters re Hellyer's ancestry, 1933.

Collection of miscellaneous news clippings, history, animals, obituaries and reminiscences in notebooks and binder

Collection of miscellaneous news clippings, dated 1928. Literary matters, in quarto note book, partly unused.

Collection of miscellaneous news clippings, dated 1928-30. History, reminiscences etc. in quarto notebook

Collection of miscellaneous news clippings, dated 1930-31. History, animals, Frenchman's Cap, obituaries, reminiscences, ships. Arranged in a spring binder.

Collection of newspapers, "The Mercury" and "Tasmanian Times"

Copy of The Mercury dated 4 July 1863

Copy of The Mercury Supplement dated 4 December 1883

Copy of The Tasmanian Times, dated 8 July 1870

Notes on genealogy: Including families of Luttrell (ancestors of Mrs. A.L. (Winifred) Meston; Rockwell, including typed copy of letter written by J. Rockwell, an officer on H.M.S. Dreadnought, describing the battle of Trafalgar, photograph of Captain Rockwell, Master of P.S. "Kangaroo"; Churchill and Crocker families.

Research notes for "Van Diemen's Land Company, 1825-1842".

Five folders of research notes, transcripts and rough drafts for "Van Diemen's Land Company, 1825-1842".

Letters and photographs from various people regarding research topics

Letter from Charles Whitham, regarding the exploration of North West Tasmania dated 17 September 1927.

Eight letters from A.L. Wayn, State Secretary's Department, in reply to queries from A.L.M.; 2 articles by A.L.Wayn from Educational Record: "0use in the State Records"; from the State Records, second article. 1947.

Correspondence, including 3 letters from (J?) R. Kirkup, on finding Hellyer's Slab in the Arthur Gorge. 1927

Three letters from Alan W. Lade, Deniliquin, on sheep breeds, dated 1929-30.

Letter from R.S. Sanderson, Burnie, dated 10 September 1930, enclosing copy of "Notes on the life of Edward Curr by his Grandson, Frederick Curr."

Folder containing 25 letters from R. Stuart Sanderson, Burnie, to A.L.Meston re
• exploration of N.W. Tasmania, 1927-1932.
• Copies of 2 letters from A.L.M. to Sanderson, 1930, 1932.
• "Brief History of the Port of Burnie", compiled by
R.S. Sanderson. Typescript 21p. 1921.
• "Notes on the North-West of Tasmania" by J. Sanderson. 5p. Typescript. 26 October 1948.
• "Discovery of tin at Mt.Bischoff" by R.S.Sanderson. 2p. Typescript.
• Extracts from personal diaries of R.D.Sanderson, Burnie. 6p.1884-1928.
• 3 photostats of maps of V.D.L's land grants from Lands Department, Hobart.
• 9 photographs, including 2 of Stonehenge, near Pruana South and 1 of Hellyer's tomb.

Letter from R. W. Giblin, London, to "Mr. Murray" re Governor Arthur. 6 p. holograph signed. 10 Dec. 1927.

Copies of manuscripts written by Meston and held in The Royal Society of Tasmania Collection

List of Calder papers with index of scrapbooks, and some transcripts of articles in A.L.M's hand. (see RSI9).

Hurst, W.N. - Notes on the old correspondence in the Lands Department. 1943. Duplicate of RS23/1(10).

Copies of manuscripts and records in Tasmanian State Archives

Typescript copy, alphabetically arranged, of arrival of vessels at Hobart Town and their departure from 1st June 1816 to the 31st December 1823.

"V.D.L. Co. Survey of Lands", Correspondence with Colonial Secretary, 1842-1844.

"Death of Henry Hellyer" 1832. Colonial Secretary.

Typed copy of "King Island: Barnard's Report". Despatch to Colonial Office, 24 October 1827.

'Report of Backhouse and Walker of a visit to the V.D.L. Cols establishment, 1833'. Copy of letter to Governor Arthur. 1833. Typescript. Also copy in A.L. Meston's hand.

Miscellaneous transcripts and manuscripts

"Macquarie's Journals". Typed copy of diaries of visit to V.D.L., 1811-1821. From manuscript held in Mitchell Library, published in full, 1956.

Letter from Charles Butler to Bishop Montgomery, 27 November 1902. (Another copy in same hand, also signed, in B9/B15).

Typed copy of letter by Adam Amos dated 1826. Given to A.L. Meston by descendant, L.E. Amos in 1945.

Transcripts from newspapers, almanacs and Colonial Office correspondence, concerning the Van Diemen's Land Co. 1827-43.

Research material on Van Diemen's Land Company including:
• Brochure advertising land for sale, ca.1920;
• Sydney Stock Exchange, Investment Service. [Report] on Emu Railway Co., 1938;
• Mining Services [Report] on Mount Lyell Mining &Railway Co., Nov. 1939;
• copies of letters from J. Norton Smith, V.D.L. Co. to James Smith re Mt. Bischoff Tin Mine, 1873-79;
• Transcripts from Bigge's Report, 1820;
• Baptist Magazine, 1832; "Authentic Information regarding Van Diemen's Land Company" by F. Boucher, 1859 (Ferguson no. 7296).

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

Description of a trip to the Frenchman Cap, in February 1887 by Mr. T.B. Moore. Copied from Mr. Moore's mss. in January 1915. (Published in Hobart Mercury, 14 Apr. 1887. See RS5/9).

Miscellaneous transcripts on historical subjects

Transcripts of ten articles on the history of North West Tasmania by Richard Hilder. Published in newspapers. n.d.

"Sheep". Transcripts including letter to Pastoral Review, by R.S. Sanderson, 8 June 1928; "Early History of Saxony Sheep in Australia", by A.W.L. (Pastoral Review, 16 July 1928); transcripts from Historical Records of N.S.W. concerning John Macarthur's sheep interests.

"Ross v. Gurr": transcripts from Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemens Land Almanac. 1833-35.

Typed copy of 'Report of Mr. Gould upon the Gold Exploring Expedition' (House of Assembly Journal, vol.10 (1863) no .9).