Guide to the Collections held by the Brynmor Jones Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1817-1975

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Summary

Collection number:

M2649-2656

Creator:

Brynmor Jones Library

Extent:

98 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 Hull History Centre 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:

Not for loan

Access conditions:

Partly closed.

Background

Content Summary:

Letters 1963-1975 of Peter Porter and other writers sent to publisher Harry Chambers concerning the poetry magazine Phoenix (closed until 2005).

Records 1942-1949 of Union of Democratic Control concerning Australia, Malaya, Sumatra and Philippines. Subjects include: migration to Australia; independence movements; and Japanese treatment of Malays.

Correspondence 1939-1951 between J. Henry Lloyd and Dr J. Bell Ferguson of South Yarra. Subjects include: Tasmanian sweepstake; BMA opposition to a national health service in Australia; Ferguson's job as physician at Royal Melbourne Hospital; and political views.

Records 1945-1954 of Revolutionary Communist Party, including: campaign against military intervention in Java and Indo-China; resolution of the Labour Socialist Group of Australia on forthcoming conference of RCP; strikes by painters and dockers in Australia; and position of communism in Australia.

Southeast Asian manuscripts 1823-1948, including letter of Charles S. Brett referring to: conditions on a rubber estate due to economic climate in 1929; typescript 'Education in the Netherlands Indies' by B.H.M. Vlekke; 'Anthology of Malaya' by H.R. Cheeseman; diary of an officer in the Public Works Department in Penang 1890-1892 and photograph albums.

Papers 1850-1909 of William M. Baines who lived in Auckland in 1851-1868. Includes: a diary describing voyage to New Zealand on the Sir Edward Paget in 1850; accounts of life and conditions of early settlers in New Zealand; timber mill; accounts of Baines voyage to England on the Kate Waters in 1868; Mount Eden Gold Mining Co; sinking of the Tauranga; and family news. Correspondents include W.P. Fooks, M.V. Baines, P.V. Dixon, J.W. Dixon, E.V. Dixon, A. Hunter and R.C. Dyer.

Emigrant letters 1862-1869 sent to Marmaduke C. Maxwell. Correspondents include nephews Robert, Wilfred and Edward Maxwell, who worked on sheep stations in New Zealand.

Papers 1871-1910 of Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock, who accompanied the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Australia and New Zealand in 1901.

Papers 1854-1878 of Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria 1854-1855. Subjects include: land question; colonial governorships; colonial finances; Convict Prevention Act 1854; Commission of Enquiry into the Gold Fields in Victoria; customs legislation; Victorian goldfields; mining legislation; travels in the colony; military defence; Eureka uprising; Constitution of Victoria; and steam postal communication between England and Australia. Correspondents include Duke of Newcastle, Sir George Grey, Lord John Russell, C.J. La Trobe, Beaumont Hotham and Sir William Molesworth.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:: Available for research.
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 Hull History Centre.