Lilian Foulis - papers relating to Isaac Nathan and Nathan family history, 1820-ca.1954

MLMSS 6152/Folder 2X
MLMSS 6152/Box 3X

series

1820-ca.1954

Textual Records, Clippings

126301

0.30 metres of textual material (1 outsize folder and 1 outsize box)

Sept. 1820; Coloured broadsheet featuring cartoon entitled 'The Black Joke!! or, the Jew Harper and Demi-rep Countess, alias, the Amorous Chambermaid, in her Cabin, on board the Polacre'. Published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill. This cartoon was once mistakenly considered to represent Isaac Nathan and Lady Langford. However, it relates to the famous trial of Queen Caroline in 1820. The woman was the so-called 'Countess Colombiere', a Swiss chambermaid to Queen Caroline, and the 'Jew Harper' was a wandering musician who boarded the Polacre, the vessel in which Caroline was touring the Mediterranean. (Call No.: MLMSS 6152/2X)

11 Aug. 1823; Playbill for the 25th performance of Isaac Nathan's new operatic comedy 'Sweethearts and wives', printed by T. Woodfall, Little Queen St, Westminster. (Call No.: MLMSS 6152/3X/1)

ca.1846 (original); Photographic copy of a caricature printed in Punch magazine entitled 'Baron Nathan dancing his celebrated Egg Dance, blindfolded between 30 eggs'. The original was in the possession of Sir Thomas Colyer Fergusson. Baron Nathan, or Barnett Nathan, (1793-1856) was Isaac Nathan's younger brother. (Call No.: MLMSS 6152/3X/2)

1897-1954; Research material on Nathan family history compiled by Lilian Foulis and her aunt, Mrs F. J. Clarke, including letters from Maria Gane, Ethel Gane, Alfred W. Nathan, M. Montagu Nathan, M. Venour, E. M. Woolley, and the Jewish Museum in London. Also includes research notes, photographic copies of Isaac Nathan's two marriage certificates in Hebrew, newscuttings and a copy of the death certificate of Isaac Nathan's younger brother, Barnett Nathan. (Call No.: MLMSS 6152/3X/3)

ca.1898; 3 notebooks written by Mrs F. J. Clarke (aunt of Lilian Foulis), containing extracts from 'The Southern Euphrosyne' by Isaac Nathan and from an article about Isaac Nathan in 'The Australian' newspaper 7-9-1841, transcriptions of various letters to and from Isaac Nathan, translations of Isaac Nathan's two marriage certificates, and a Poniatowski family tree. (Call No.: MLMSS 6152/3X/4-6)

ca.1951; Typescript draft of biography of Isaac Nathan, with ms. annotations, forming Part I of 'Four generations - pages from the record of an Australian family' [by Catherine B. Mackerras], 64 pages. (Call No.: MLMSS 6152/3X/7)

The complete manuscript of 'Four generations' by Catherine Mackerras is held at MLMSS 5682/8 entitled 'Sidere mutato - pages from the record of an Australian family'. [ML MSS 5682 has restricted access].