Sub-series 2: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, 1794-ca. 1885

A 1677/vol. 2

sub-series

1794-ca. 1885

Textual Records, Clippings, Graphic Materials, Drawings

411816

0.2 metres of textual material (4 volumes) - manuscript, printed, clippings - 42.5 x 28.0 cm

CONTENTS:

File 1: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 1-297, 1794-ca. 1823

Correspondence of Samuel Marsden, Elizabeth Marsden and Thomas Hassall. Correspondence of Samuel and Elizabeth Marsden being manuscript copies of letters sent (28) to Mrs Mary Stokes and her husband Thomas Stokes; and manuscript copies of letters sent (3) by Samuel Marsden to William Wilberforce. Correspondence deals with Marsden family matters, as well as matters of wider interest, including social conditions of the colony, sheep breeding and wool production, and missionary work in New Zealand.

Correspondence of Thomas Hassall, being mainly letters received, 1815-ca. 1823, prior to Thomas Hassall's departure for England and during his time in England and Wales. Letters received prior to his departure include a number from missionaries in Tahiti who relied on the Hassall family for trade and supplies. These letters give accounts of the work of the missionaries, their health and family situations, and conditions at Otaheite (Tahiti). Letters received while Thomas Hassall was in England and Wales include letters from missionaries in Tahiti and friends at Port Jackson, including a letter from Reverend Walter Lawry, Wesleyan minister, recently married to Hassall's sister, Mary Cover Hassall. Correspondents include Reverent Robert Cartwright, George Bicknell, Henry Bicknell, Henry S. Douglas, Richard Hill, William Wilberforce, Samuel Marsden, William Henry, James Shepherd, and John Davies. Copies of letters sent include unsigned letters to Samuel Otoo Hassall and Thomas Hancox. There is also a short narrative, probably written by Thomas Hassall, 'The little Irish Sailor Boy - By one of the Chaplains in New South Wales', n.d.; and a copy of a petition by Thomas Hassall to the Bishop of London requesting an appointment as a colonial chaplain in New South Wales, ca. 1823.


File 2: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 298-702, 1817-1826

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Thomas Hassall, and including some letters sent. Letters received while Thomas Hassall was in England and Wales, 1817-1821, correspondents include H. Longford, R. Hall, Ann Williams, William Ellis, and various Sunday School students from Lampeter who express regret at Thomas Hassall's departure.

Letters received by Thomas Hassall, 1822-1826 (after return to Port Jackson). Includes letters from missionaries in Tahiti and New Zealand describing their work and local conditions, letters from family, and letters from friends and colleagues. Missionary correspondents include: James Shepherd, John Williams, George Clarke, and Thomas Kendall from New Zealand; William Pascoe Crook, Thomas Blossom, William Henry, and William Ellis from Tahiti; and Walter Lawry from Tonga. Family correspondents include Ann Hassall and Mary Cover Hassall. Other correspondents include: Reverend Richard Hill; Sarah Henry (2) from New Zealand; Samuel Marsden (2), one letter giving Thomas Hassall permission to 'pay your Address to my Daughter Ann', 1822; Reverend William Cowper; Mary Crook; Reverend Robert Cartwright; R. Mansfield, on behalf of teachers of the Parramatta Wesleyan Sunday School, 1822; James Meehan; and William Lawson.

Letters sent include manuscript copies and drafts of letters sent to Thomas Hancox, 1817, Samuel Marsden, 1822, and the Bishop of London, 1822.

Papers include a fragment of a journal of Thomas Hassall, 9 Sept 1817 to 1 June 1819, being manuscript pages of journal, recording details of Thomas Hassall's time outside Australia, pp. 303-348; a printed notice from the General Post-Office concerning posting of letters overseas, 1819; a vote of thanks from the Teachers of the Wesleyan Sunday School Union to Thomas Hassall, 1822; and an unsigned rough draft of report concerning the trial of three Aboriginal men (Foley, Dingangan and Burraya) at Port Macquarie, ca. 1824’.


File 3: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 703-1164, 1825-1867

Correspondence and associated papers of Thomas Hassall and James S. Hassall, being mainly manuscript letters received, along with a small number of letters received by Ann Hassall and by Miss Elizabeth Marsden.

Correspondence of Thomas Hassall, 1825-1829. Correspondents include: missionaries William Henry (3) and J. M. Orsmond at Eimeo (Moorea); George Clarke (5) at New Zealand; Thomas Blossom (2) and William Pascoe Crook (2) at Tahiti; John Williams at Raiatea; Hassall's brother-in-law Reverend Walter Lawry (9) at Cornwall; Samuel Marsden; the Benevolent Society of New South Wales, asking colonial chaplains to preach charity sermons for the benefit of its funds, 1826; Robert Hoddle, 1827; and Reverend Richard Hill (3). Also letters received by Ann Hassall (3) from her father Samuel Marsden, 1826-1835; and a letter received by Miss Elizabeth Marsden from George Bennet at Mauritius, 1827.

Thomas Hassall, papers, 1825-1828. Includes a fragment of a journal from 1 Feb 1825 to May 1827, with short entries recording Thomas Hassall's activities, pp. 725-736, 1825-1827; a signed address on parchment by the 'Principal Inhabitants, Settlers and others' of Bathurst in appreciation of Thomas Hassall's ministry, 1827; and papers concerning an 'Inquisition held at the General Hospital Windsor on Tuesday the tenth day of June 1828 on the Body of Dennis Maloney a Prisoner of the Crown', 1828.

James S Hassall, letters received, 1832-1867, being mainly letters from clergymen concerning the ministry and church. Correspondents include: Robert Allwood (2), 1845-1850; Reverend Robert Forrest, 1848; William Grant Broughton (20), in his capacity as Archdeacon and later Bishop of Australia, 1832-1852; Frederic Barker, (14), in his capacity as Bishop of Sydney, 1856-1867; Reverend William Cowper, 1853; and William Woolls (2), concerning botanical specimens he collected on a visit to James Hassall at Berrima which he forwarded to Ferdinand von Mueller for identification, pp. 1099-1106, and then requesting Hassall to collect further botanical specimens, pp. 1113-1116, 1864.

James S. Hassall, papers, 1845-1865. Includes printed notices concerning St Paul's Church, Cobbitty and St Peter's Church, Cooks River; a notice of permission given to Charles Throsby to disinter the body of William Throsby from the burial ground at St Peter's Church, Cooks River, under the supervision of James S. Hassall, and remove it to Bong Bong, being a manuscript signed under seal by Bishop W.G. Broughton, 1848; and printed circulars from Bishop W. G. Broughton and Bishop F. Barker to the clergy, concerning various matters including proposals to establish Provincial and Diocesan Synods in Australia and other matters of Church governance, 1847-1865.


File 4: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 1165-1708, 1814-ca. 1885

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Thomas Hassall and James S. Hassall, papers of Thomas Hassall and James S. Hassall, and including letters received by Frances Hassall (3) and Miss Elizabeth Marsden (1).

Thomas Hassall, letters received, ca. 1818-ca. 1829 (being mainly undated letters received). Correspondents include Samuel Marsden; Richard Hill; William Lawson; Ann Hassall (sister) (15), ca. 1818-1826; Ann Hassall (wife) (50), 1825-n.d.; Marianne Hassall; Catherine Hassall; and Elizabeth Marsden (d. 1835), 1829.

Thomas Hassall, papers, ca. 1817-n.d. Includes an unsigned draft manuscript report by Thomas Hassall on the settlement at Port Macquarie, n.d.; an unsigned draft manuscript report by Thomas Hassall on Aboriginal people at Bathurst, n.d.; draft copy of letter sent from Batavia including details to date of Thomas Hassall's journey to England, ca. 1817.

James S. Hassall, letters received, 1868-1877. Correspondents include William M. Cowper; Earl of Belmore, concerning tree ferns which James Hassall is collecting for him and which he intends to send to Ireland, 1869; Frederic Barker (2), 1870-1873; Ann Hassall (mother), 184?-1875; Matthew Hale (4), 1876-1877; and the Brisbane Diocesan Council, 1875.

James S. Hassall, papers, ca. 1868-ca. 1885. Papers include a paper concerning stamp duty on the estate of Thomas Hassall, ca. 1868; a printed notice concerning the formation of a committee to re-open The King's School, including a list of committee members, 1868; a printed leaflet 'Two Letters to the Rev. George F. Macarthur, Head Master of The King's School, Parramatta, on his attacks upon the Wesleyan Methodists. By the Rev. Ralph Mansfield', 1870; 'The Parish Intelligencer for Berrima, Nattai and surrounding districts', No 1, November 1874; an unsigned draft report to the Bishop of Brisbane on the practicality of establishing a Church of England mission in the agricultural districts surrounding Brisbane, 1873; a notice from the Brisbane Diocesan Council, 1876; manuscript accounts of the Church fund, Ipswich, n.d.; a printed circular letter from Frederic Barker, Bishop of Sydney, concerning the resignation of the Bishop of Brisbane, 1877; and a printed notice of welcome to William Thornhill Webber as Bishop of Brisbane, n.d.

Microfilm copy available at CY 913, frames 1-255 (A 1677/2, pp. 1-297); CY 920, frames 1-299 (A 1677/2, pp. 298-703); CY 921, frames 1-331 (A 1677/2, pp. 703-1164); CY 922, frames 1-329 (A 1677/2, pp. 1165-1708). Digitised from the microfilm copy in 2019.
Letters of the Marsden family in volume 2 part 1, pp. 1-297, are manuscript copies. Originals of the letters, and additional letters, are located at MLMSS 719, Letters from the Marsden family to Mary and John Stokes, 1794-1824, along with a carbon typescript draft by Dr G. Mackaness entitled 'Some private correspondence of the Marsden family', and a typescript report on the letters.