Holt family - correspondence of Frederick Samuel Ellis Holt, 1867-1900

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series

1867-1900

87613

Textual Records - (manuscript)

Frederick Samuel Ellis Holt (1846-1902) was the eldest son of Thomas Holt. Under his father's will he acquired the property of Salisbury Plains near Bowen in Queensland and he became tenant-for-life of the Sutherland estate which was leased to the Holt-Sutherland Estate Land Company Ltd. F.S.E. Holt lived at Sutherland House from 1881 to 1894 when he leased the house to be run as a sanatorium.

1867-1896; Letters received from Robert Cooper Walker, 1867-1868, 1884-1896
1875-1893; Letters from his uncle William Holt, 1878-1882, and papers concerning E. and J. Holt Trust, 1875-1893
1882-1886; Letters received, mainly from Alexander Neill of the City Bank
1882-1900; Letters received from Samuel Cook (co-attorney of Thomas Holt's affairs). Includes sketch of Wingello Park estate, 1885, and copy of letter from Cook to Thomas Holt concerning Henry Parkes, 1887
1883-1888; Letters received from Thomas Holt
1897-1898; Correspondence with his mother Sophia Holt
1868-1899; Miscellaneous personal correspondence