James Erskine Calder - Maria Island, ca. 1834, 1848, 1855

A 599

series

1834, 1848, 1855

430382

Microfilm : CY 4639, frames 1-52 (A 599)

1 volume - 0.01 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

Calder undertook a comprehensive survey of Maria Island in 1834. -- Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.1, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1966

Letters received by Calder and notes made by him pertaining to Maria Island. Correspondents include G. Frankland, B. Bayley?, H.C. Cotton. Topics include: the survey of Maria Island; shearing of Government flocks in 1848 [with the names of shearers in margin]; sentence history of the shearers William Cowther, John Dain, James Aitkins, and George Melton, Joseph Parkinson, Mark Hill, Thomas Fleming, and James Smith; copy of the Governor's (H.E.F.Y.) [i.e. Henry Edward Fox Young] memorandum of 15th May 1855, [regarding allotment of land]; orphan school survey; supply of provisions; Calder's "Report of Maria Island" [disclosing places surveyed and vacant and occupied land].

Volume was rebound into new covers at an unknown date.
The correspondence is written on various types and sized paper. Several watermarks are evident including: "Edward Smith / 1845" ; "J. Coles / 1851" ; "R. Barnard / 1854"
D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.

Titled on spine, "Maria Island".