Sir Thomas Mitchell - Papers, ca. 1838-1880

MLMSS 7076

series

ca. 1838-1880

Textual Records, Clippings

413661

Microfilm : CY 4194, frames 1-32 (MLMSS 7076)

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Clippings

1838, 1848; Two brief notes from the Duke of Wellington, dated 19 November 1838 and 10 March 1848, thanking Mitchell for his work in drawing up plans of the Peninsular War battlefields.
Undated; A copy of observations made in 1804 about Van Diemens Land and its Aborigines, and the Kent Group of islands together with a copy of a vocabulary of the New Caledonian language compiled in 1803.
ca. 1838; Polynesian dialects compiled by Dr Pritchard
Undated; Poem beginning 'Seas without fish / Rivers without water'.
Undated; Notes for a speech about colonisation possibly made on Mitchell's return to Australia in 1841.
ca. 1852; Note signed 'H.H.' (Henry Halloran) enclosing a newscutting of a poem titled 'The Departure of Sir Thomas Mitchell'.
1880; Newscutting of a poem by Henry Halloran titled 'Sir T.L. Mitchell'.
ca. 1838; Two designs for the spine of a book titled 'Mitchell's Expeditions into Australia'. One is annotated with a subtitle beginning 'The blood - the toil - perils - ...'. The paper is watermarked 1838 and the designs probably refer to Mitchell's book 'Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia ...' which appeared in 1838.