Scrap books and notebooks
- Component identifier:
- Series 3
- Content Summary:
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Four books form this series.
Book 1 contains press cuttings of letters and articles written by Petherick and published in The Bridgewater Mercury (1881), The Atheneum (1884 and 1901) and The Colonies and India (1883). They relate to the discovery of Australia, the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands and the people of New Guinea.
Book 2 is marked "extracts 1865" and contains Petherick's transcriptions of prose and poetry.
Book 3 is dated 1868 with a note by Petherick "kept up for two or three years to 187- - resumed in 1895 - stopped 1896".
Book 4 is a large book marked "chronology and history, notes and extracts 1896-1903". Loose notes found in this book have been kept together in a folder at the back of the book.
This series comprises Items 1-75.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- Edward Augustus Petherick presented his collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps and pictures relating to Australia and the Pacific to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1909 as the 'Nucleus of an historical museum'. The agreement between Petherick and the Library Committee was formalized by the Petherick Act, which was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1911.
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1441032).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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