Guide to the Records held by the Derby Central Library (as filmed by AJCP), 1704-02 September 1878

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Summary

Collection number:

M791-M793

Creator:

Derby Central Library

Extent:

110 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

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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-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-987654321)

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Background

Content Summary:

Catton Papers comprising correspondence of Wilmot Horton, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1821-1828. The collection is arranged in four series:

(a) Catton ABC: a series of volumes of letters 1821-1837 arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Correspondents include Sir George Arthur, Saxe Bannister, John T. Bigge, Sir Thomas Brisbane, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, George Canning, William, John and Richard Carter, Sir William Colebrooke, Sir Francis Forbes, Robert Gouger, Henry Goulburn, Lord Hatherton, Henry Hobhouse; William Huskisson, Rev. John Dunmore Lang, John Macarthur, R. Matheson, W. Norris, Lord Palmerston, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Herbert Taylor, Robert Torrens, and William Wilberforce. Includes a paper (42 p.) by the National Colonization Society, arguing against proposals made by Colonel Torrens and Wilmot Horton on a system of emigration and land allocation for South Australia.

(b) Numbered volumes: a series of volumes of correspondence 1824-1837. Correspondents include Sir Richard Bourke, James Busby, Thomas Potter Macqueen, Henry Forbes and H. Dumaresq.

(c) Unbound letters: letters 1822-1834 arranged chronologically. Correspondents include George Villiers, H.B.M. Vavasour, George Galway Mills, G. Watson Taylor, Rev. Edward Stanley, T.H. Scott and Edward Miller Mundy.

(d) Subject volumes: papers arranged by subject, with a letter from Governor Bourke 1835, and printed papers relating to emigration.

Miller Mundy Manuscripts: 27 letters 1835-1850 mainly to Alfred Miller Mundy while he was with the 21st North British Fusiliers in Van Diemen's Land and Port Phillip and when he was Colonial Secretary of South Australia 1843-1849. There are letters from his father Edward Miller Mundy, his father-in-law Sir John Hindmarsh, Admiral Sir George Mundy and Sir George Grey.

Brickhill Hall Collection: journals and correspondence of William Sacheverell Coke. Diary February-September 1827, describing his life in New South Wales and two journals kept on the Wanstead from Van Diemen's Land to England. The correspondence 1825-1832 consists mainly of letters to Coke's father describing conditions on board the convict ship Regalia from Ireland, at the barracks in Sydney and while living at Newcastle in 1827. There is a letter from James Stirling promoting the settlement in Western Australia. Two letters, dated 1877 and 1878, are to Coke from H.H. Hayter, Office of the Government Statistician, thanking him for information on officers in the early colony.

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