Guide to the Collections held by the Bodleian Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1679-1894

Summary

Collection number:

M1924-M1926

Creator:

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

Extent:

181 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:

Acland Papers 1841-92 including letters of W. Acland written from the Australian Naval Station 1883-85 and correspondence with the entomologist Rev. William Cotton 1841-46.

Papers 1839-52 of the poet Arthur H. Clough, including letters of J.P. Gell and Thomas Arnold in Hobart.

Letter-books 1813-31 of Calcutta merchant John Palmer. Correspondents include Lachlan Macquarie, E. Riley, T. Harrington and R. Jones.

Letters 1851-56 of Sir Edmund Du Cane to his family concerning his life in Western Australia, treatment of convicts, road-building, travels and racial conflict.

Letters 1798-1802 of Rev. Richard Johnson to William Gilpin referring to his work in Sydney.

Papers 1840-52 of Jacob Hagen concerning properties in South Australia.

Letters 1869-85 of W. Henley Rawlings to Caroline Napier describing life in Queensland and New South Wales.

Letters 1872-94 of historian and Victorian politician Charles H. Pearson concerning political and social conditions in Australia, visit of A. Deakin to England in 1887, and writings on democracy. Correspondents include James Bryce, Sir Charles Dilke, Sir George Goschen and John Morley.

Letters 1862-64 of E.C. Dunn of Geelong to book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Letters 1862-84 of Sir George Grey and J. Henniker Heaton to bookseller Bernard Quaritch.

Papers 1846-69 of Sir Henry Taylor, Colonial Office official.

Papers 1791-1870 of William Wilberforce and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce relating to missions in the Pacific Islands, the Church in New Zealand, convict transportation, the endowment of colonial bishoprics, the 1852-53 Colonial Church Bill, and the establishment of the Melanesian Mission. Correspondents include Rev. S. Marsden, Bishop G.A. Selwyn, Angela Burdett-Coutts, W.E. Gladstone, Sir James Stephen, Bishop E. Hobhouse, Bishop F.R. Nixon, Bishop T. Staley and Bishop F. McDougall.

Correspondence 1854-82 of sculptor Thomas Woolner and copy of a diary he kept on the Victorian goldfields 1852-53.

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-vn2288026] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Bodleian Library. University of Oxford, England. For further information see: Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford (http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/subjects-and-libraries/collections).

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

Contact:

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