Collection 01: Archer family correspondence, 1834-1912

MLMSS 598

sub-fonds

422010

Microfilm : MAV/FM4/3660 (MLMSS 598/1-2)

2 volumes

Letters from the Archer brothers in Australia to their family in Norway and to one another, 1852-1912, with a letter from Theodor Lous in Norwegian, 1834 and one from Wilhelmina Walker to William Walker, 1849. These letters are mainly concerned with family affairs, descriptions of their pastoral pursuits in New South Wales and Queensland, gold digging in Victoria, and cattle droving and shipping cattle between Twofold Bay and Van Diemen's Land. Letters from James Walker to members of the Archer family, mainly William Archer senior, 1836-1838, 1847 and 1850, concerned chiefly with advice about the Archer sons and plans for their future in Australia. James Walker was the London representative of the Walker's New South Wales firm and the letters deal with mercantile affairs, emigration and economic affairs in general and with market prices of sheep and crops in New South Wales

None of these originals appear in the typescript "Australian letters, 1833-1855" (A3876)

Contents list in vol

Maps at MSer.4.000/1 -- MLMSS 598 maps 1-4