Collection 01: King family papers, 1791-1956

MLMSS 1973/vol. 1X

sub-fonds

1791-1956

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Photographs, Prints

422415

Partly Digitised

1 outsize volume of textual material - typescript
drawings, photographs, prints and photomechanical prints

Philip Gidley King was Governor of New South Wales, 1800-1806. Phillip Parker King was his son, and Philip Gidley King the younger was his grandson

From an album purchased from Mr Bruce Gidley Abbott (son of Elizabeth Matilda Abbott (b. King, 1872; m. Ross, 1893; m. Abbott, 1901) and great-grandson of Philip Gidley King (1817-1904)). The album was bequeathed to Mr Abbott by his aunt, Olive Maria Laura Gidley King. The contents of the album were catalogued individually.

VOLUME 1X
Contents list in volume
Includes MS copies of journals (2) of Anna Josepha, wife of Governor King: diary of a voyage to Australia on board the whaler 'Speedy', 19 Nov. 1799 to 15 Apr. 1800, diary of voyage from New South Wales to England on board HMS 'Buffalo', 4 Feb. to 24 May 1807; letters (8) to Admiral Phillip Parker King, 1839-1846, including two from Sir Francis Beaufort, 1839, 1841, one from Rev. William Branwhite Clarke. 1842, re Ludwig Leichhardt, and one from Captain John Septimus Roe, 1840, re Allan Cunningham and the Beagle; typescript autobiography of Philip Gidley King, the younger, 1791-1894, and other papers of family members, 1839-1946

PICTORIAL MATERIAL
Item 01
Sydney Cove: looking at Dawes Point from Government Domain, ca.1802 / probably by Governor King

Item 02
Sketch of a lion / Phillip Parker King, Admiral

Item 03
Commandants House, Melbourne, [by R. Russell, December 1886] from the original sketch by Captn ... [i.e. Captain] P.P. King, 1837 / Phillip Parker King

Item 04
Hemocallideoe order 191 / Philip Gidley King, the younger

Item 05
Myrtacae / Philip Gidley King, the younger

Item 06
Dianella / Philip Gidley King, the younger

Item 07
Myrtaceae [and]? Flindersia , 1901 / Philip Gidley King, the younger

Item 08
Sketches in New South Wales, 1891-1893 / probably by P.G. King

Item 09
Residence at Goulburn / possibly by P.G. King

Item 10
Mill at Stroud / Philip Gidley King, the younger

Item 11
Crossing place to Nichols /probably by P.G. King

Item 12
Views in the Cavan Caves near Yass, 1837 / Philip Gidley King

Item 13
Arched entrance to Tallendun? Cave : Caven, 1837 / Philip Gidley King, the younger

Item 14
Pagoda in Tallendun? Cave, 1837 / Philip Gidley King

Item 15
Unidentified residence, probably in New South Wales / possibly by P.G. King

Item 16
Morning lights Banksia, 1899 / possibly by P.G. King

Item 17
Woy Woy, 1899 /possibly by P.G. King

Item 18
Tahiti near Papawa, 1835 / Philip Gidley King, the younger

Item 19
Goonoo Goonoo, 1861 /George Bartholomew Gidley King

Item 20
Portrait of a child / G.B.G. King

Item 21
Untitled sketch of a house near a river?, 1861 /George Bartholomew Gidley King

Item 22
Photographs, sketches and prints from an album / Olive Maria Laura King

Item 23
Party landed from HMS Rattlesnake, 1849 / pencil sketch by Thomas Henry Huxley

Item 24
H.M. Torpedo gun-boat Rattlesnake

Item 25
Cape York Id., 1849? / possibly by T. H. Huxley

Item 26
Professor T.H. Huxley, President of the Royal Society, 1883?

Item 27
Gigantia Lily / [watercolour drawing attributed to John William Lewin]

Item 28
Boronia / [watercolour drawing attributed to John William Lewin]

Item 29
Involucrata Candia / Banks & Solander / [watercolour drawing attributed to J.W. Lewin]

Item 30
The Ceremony of unveiling the statue of Captain Cook, Hyde Park, Sydney, 1879 / Montagu Scott

Item 31
Launceston Castle / Drawn by T. Shaw, lithographed by R. Groom and C. Moody, published by Thomas W. Maddox, Launceston

Item 32
View of the Grounds taken at the door of the library leading in to the [Verandah]

Item 33
A view of Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains, New South Wales / James Wallis

Item 34
Photomechanical prints of early Sydney scenes, 1804, ca. 1840-1890, 1930 / from drawings chiefly by Albert Collins, 1935-1950

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (1-191C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

This collection was listed as part of the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW 1856-2006 Project.
Microfilm available at: CY 2253, frames 1-137 (MLMSS 1973X)