Lewis Family - papers, 1838-1991, being mainly papers of Richard Race Lewis relating to the Sydney Expansion Scheme, 1897-1931

MLMSS 7295

series

1838 - 1991

Textual Records, Ephemera, Clippings, Cartographic Materials, Manuscript Cartographic Materials

395406

6 boxes - 1.26 Meters
Ephemera
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Clippings

I. SAMUEL RACE LEWIS and MARY LEWIS

1838; 1847-1875; Family correspondence. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/1)
1847-1904; Testimonials, Passenger's Contract Ticket, and other miscellaneous material. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/1)

II. RICHARD RACE LEWIS

1877-1901; Letters received, including testimonials. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/1)
1906-1926; Notebooks relating to Lewis's activities as a lay preacher, and other miscellaneous material. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/1)
1914-1929; Scrapbooks. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/1)

III. JACK EDWARD LEWIS

1961-1971; Correspondence concerning his attempts to have interest in his grandfather's Sydney Expansion Scheme reactivated.

IV. PAPERS RELATING TO THE SYDNEY EXPANSION SCHEME.

1919-1925; Letterbooks. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/2)
1921-1931; Miscellaneous correspondence. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/2)
1919-1929; Notebooks. Include rough drafts of some correspondence, minutes of meetings, notes of interviews, and newscuttings pasted in. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/2)
1925-1926; 'The Sydney Expansion Scheme. A brief sketch of its history by the Promoter, Organiser and author R.R. Lewis, J.P.' Variant drafts. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/2)
1923-1927; Lecture notes. Notes for lectures delivered to Members of Parliament (1923) and to Strathfield Community Service Club (1927). (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/2)
n.d.; Miscellaneous material. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/2)
1913-1929; Scrapbooks. Include newscuttings, photographs, correspondence and jottings. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/3)
1912-1932; 1961; 1974; 1987-1991; Newscuttings. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/3)
1907; 1919-1922; Journals and magazines. Include articles by or about Richard Race Lewis. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/3)
1906-1912; Property Searches. Land Titles Office and Metropolitan Water Board. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/3)
1901-1928; Government Reports. Includes Standing Committees, Annual Reports various departments, and Royal Commissions, including Report of the Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs (1909). With annotations by Richard Race Lewis. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/4-5)
1897-1928; Acts of Parliament and Parliamentary Debates. (Call No.: MLMSS 7295/6)

MAPS
Collection of maps taken from the collection Lewis Family - papers, 1838-1991, being mainly papers of Richard Race Lewis relating to the Sydney Expansion Scheme, 1897-1931. (Call No.: M ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 7295)

For maps accompanying this collection see M SER 4 000/1 MLMSS 7295.