Guide to the Collections held by the West Sussex Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1815-01 June 1926

Summary

Collection number:

M822, M1549-M1550

Creator:

West Sussex Record Office

Extent:

55 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Papers of the Liberal politician and free trade campaigner Richard Cobden including three letters 1864-1865 from Sir George Bowen in Brisbane, Henry H. Brown on the Maori wars, and Archibald Michie about the Shenandoah; letter 1926 from Stanley V. Larkin; two letters 1903 to Thomas Fisher Unwin (Cobden's son-in-law) from Senator E. Pulsford and Sir Josiah Symon; 'Papers Respecting Sir James Brooke's Policy and Position with Regard to Sarawak' (1863), with related dispatches; copy of a statement 1851 regarding a grant of land in Sarawak by the Sultan of Brunei; pamphlet 'Sir Stamford Raffles and the Spice Islands' (Chambers Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, no. 53).

Cobden and Unwin papers; 18 letters 1881-1892 to Emma and Margaret Cobden from the Richmond Family of Nelson, New Zealand; letters 1889-1890 from Henry Norman, Singapore, to T.F. Unwin, one mentioning an expedition in Malaya; letter 1878 from J.W. Longmuir of Sydney about Cobden papers.

Cowdray archives: 14 documents 1867-1875 relating to the estates of George James, 6th Earl of Egmont, and his relatives, members of the Perceval Family, in Canterbury, New Zealand and Melbourne.

Goodwood archives: papers of the politician Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, including reports and printed pamphlets 1831-1832 concerning: the promotion and funding of emigration to Australia and disposition of Crown lands; letters 1832 from the Colonial Office and Foreign Office relating to emigration, especially by women; document 1833 entitled 'The Duke of Richmond's mode for reducing the army in the colonies'; letter 1834 from I. Montgomery on the state of the Boys Establishment at Point Puer, Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land; letter from T.J. Maslen to the Duke of Richmond proposing an expedition to survey the north-west coast of Australia in 1832, written on the back of an 1827 map of Australia drawn by Maslen.

Additional manuscripts: conveyance 1871 of Mary and Alfred Barker of Baldina Keringa, Burra Burra; two maps 1813, one depicting the world in two hemispheres, the other Asia, including the East Indies; letter 1860 from R.W. Nutt, Melbourne, to Richard Cobden including reference to the influence of his theories on economic thinking in Australia.

Papers 1837-1857 of Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, mainly dealing with the work of 1838 New Zealand Committee, voyage of his sister Lady Mary Fitzroy to Australia in 1846 and governorship of Sir Charles Fitzroy in New South Wales. Other correspondents include S. Bannister and Sir George Arthur.

Ledger 1815-1819 of Walter S. Davidson referring to properties in New South Wales.

Papers 1841-1846 of politician John Abel Smith including memorandum on future of Australian colonies.

Copies of papers 1836-1884 of John B. Hack, an early settler in South Australia, including a typescript by L. Darton on the Hack Family and Henry Watson.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn8049734] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

West Sussex Record Office, Orchard Street, Chichester, West Sussex, England.

For further information see the West Sussex Record Office.

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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