Oswald W.B. Brierly - Abstracts of Journals [whilst at Twofold Bay and on board the Wanderer], ca. 1842-1847

A 539

item

1842-1847

Textual Records, Drawings

423825

Microfilm : CY 868 (A 539)

Textual Records - (manuscript) 1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Drawings

[front cover]
12 Jun. 1847; [Journal entry] East Boyd Twofold Bay. Present position and circumstances. Brierly recounts the building of a house at East Boyd and his appointments as manager and magistrate in Boyd Town.
Contents page:
General Abstract June 22nd 1843
Abstracts from 7th August to 23rd of December 1843
Sydney Journal From 3d April to 18 July 1844
General Abstract from 1st August 1844 (being date of arrival at Bay iii Wanderer) to 7th Nov - being date Wanderer return to Sydney
Sydney Journal
19 Jan 1844
19 Decr 1844
A/c Cash drawn on Sydney 11 Nov 1844; 31 Dec [1844]; 20 Feb 1845; 10 Ap [1845]; 1 July [1845]
Account of Payments made (July 1844)
4 Sep. 1842, 2 Jun. 1843, Aug. to Oct. & Dec. 1843, Jan. to Feb. & Jun. to Jul. 1844; [Journal entries and weekly summaries of recent events written at Twofold Bay and on board the Wanderer. Includes sketches of whales, ships, skylines, Cutting In Twofold Bay.]
Journal Abstract of Journal from August 1st to Monday 4th November 1844 [includes recent events]
[back cover]
Coat of arms [watercolour with "O.W. Brierly" handwritten in pencil beneath]
28 Sep. 1842; Expedition to Bathurst
7 Dec. 1845; List of whales with sketch of tails caught from Jun. to Oct 1845
Notes on Artesian Well and historical figures including; The Cetucea; Cato the Censor; Demosthenes; Cicero; Roman Emperors; Julius Caesar; Coriolanus; Origin of the Tribunes; Aristides; Pericles; Alcibiades
16 Jun. 1844; Verse, "When, freed from earth, unlimited its power...."
[General notes on whaling and other matters]
19 Nov. 1844; Present circumstances and views, "things to do", preparation of sketches.

The volume is reversible, as it has been used from the front and back.
There is a handwritten contents page at the beginning of the volume.
The volume was bound into new covers at an unknown date.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature on inside original front cover.

Title taken from plate on front endpaper.
Signed and dated, "O.W. Brierly May 28th 1842" on p.i of original volume.