(Jacques) Alfred Huybers, Tasma's father (1811 -1893)

Containers:

Box 28 (MS 8363)

Component identifier:

File 19

Content Summary:

Note on birth from Enid Jones (French), 23 April 1811, Antwerp

Copy of letter from London to wife Charlotte [1848] visiting Brussels

Arrival of Huybers family in Hobart, Mercury, 8 December 1852 plus cutting on goods imported

Death third child Robert aged three, Hobart 27 August 1853

To let advertisements for Highfield (later home of Huybers family) Mercury 6 October 1860, 18 February 1862, 21 May 1862

Transfer Highfield from James Elijah Crooke, Harriet Matilda King, William King, Marcus Richard Loane MD Port Sorell d. 22 August 1865 - Marcus Walpole Loane to James Alfred Huybers 17 July 1866

Correspondence with Frank Harris re building of Highfield

Transfer document of Highfield to Alfred Huybers. Information on previous owners, including Captain George King

Transfer of Highfield 2 September 1887 from Alfred Huybers to Lucy Mills Hudspeth

Information on cards re Captain George King, formerly of Highfield

Transfer of Highfield from Wilfred Hugh Hudspeth to Zelda Eleanor Jones, 4 December 1941

Newspaper cutting on Huybers at Highfield

List of subscribers Hobart Telephone Exchange 1883 (includes Huybers)

Catalogue of Library of A Huybers - French and English works to be sold on 19 August 1887

Advertisement Mercury 6 August 1887 - sale of household goods

Cutting Mercury 7 May 1887, Alfred Huybers retirement

Letter Perpetual Trustees re distribution of estate of AlfredHuybers, 8 August 1908 (following death of Charlotte Huybers)

Correspondence with Supreme Court of Tasmania re wills of Alfred Huybers and Degraves family wills

Correspondence with Geoffrey Stilwell, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Curator re Alfred Huybers, J.J. Stutzer, Arthur Loureiro

Record of crown grant 1882 Ringarooma, Bransholme (north east coast) to Alfred Huybers

Correspondence with Archives Office of Tasmania re Huybers burial

Will of Alfred Photocopy of records kept by Dr Renée Erdos on Maria Theresa (Koozee) Huybers, married to artist Arthur Loureiro, Includes copies of her articles as Melbourne Age art critic in 1890s; manuscript copies of her columns published in the Age 'by Marmite' (on domestic matters) in early 1900s; some cuttings of 'Marmite' articles; letters to her daughter Fauvette (later FauvetteErdos and FauvetteMowle)

Correspondence with Jane Clark, Curator of Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria

Correspondence with Gerard Vaughan, Wolfson College, Oxford.

Article by Jane Clarke on Arthur Loureiro - original ms and edited version from Art and Australia

Entry on Arthur Loureiro from Golden Summers, by Jane Clark and Bridget Whitelaw, 1985

Correspondence Felicity Druce (re artist Violet Teague in Brussels)

Marriage certificate Maria Theresa Huybers /Arthur Loureiro, Lambeth Surrey 1881

Death certificate Maria Theresa Loureiro 28 March 1907

Numerous newspaper extracts about Arthur Loureiro, particularly as painter in Melbourne.

Letter from Geoffrey Stilwell, Allport Librarian Hobart

Notes on interview with Renée Erdos on opening of Cabana (Loureiro studio in Kew, Victoria)

Copy of letter by KoozeeLoureiro, Kew Vic to brother William Huybers, Brisbane, re grave of Frank Huybers, 6 September 1898

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Patricia Clarke were donated to the National Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme (now the Cultural Gifts Program (CGP)) in 1990, 1994 and 1997. Further donations were received via CGP in 2006 and 2011.

Subjects:

History
Literature

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