James Erskine Calder - Papers relating to Tasmanian bushrangers, ca. 1860-1875

A 598

series

ca. 1860, 1870-1871, 1873, 1875

430383

Microfilm : CY 1162, frames 118-285 (A 598)

1 volume - 0.03 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

29 Dec 1870 - 3 Oct. 1871, 1873, 1875; Letters and notes to Calder (and some copies of Calder's replies) regarding the lives of early Tasmanian bushrangers ca. 1816-1827, the difficulties of finding accurate personal information about them, and access to Police records. Some of the correspondents include: J.H. Wedge, Ronald Gunn, George Smith, Charles Meredith, Theodore Bartley, Mulgrave, Beamont [Hobart Town sheriff], and the Public Library of NSW.
Additional material:
[An account of the pursuit and capture of Michael Brady and his confederates, and Jeffery. Unsigned and addressed to Mr Bartley, 41 pages]
Bushrangers - anecdote of Matthew Brady &c. extracted from 'The Life and Labours of George Washington Walker of Hobart Town by James Backhouse and Charles Tylor - pages 50 to 52"
Short notices of Bushrangers ... in Brents Almanac 1829 [1815-1817]
Extracts from Government Gazettes [for 1814, 1816-1818]
23 Apr. - 26 1860; Papers relating to William Fishers Case and perjury of Mary Ann Brock

This material was collected by Calder during his research for his publication: Brady, McCabe, Dunne, Bryan, Crawford, Murphy, Bird, McKenney, Goodwin, Pawley, Bryant, Cody, Hodgetts, Gregory, Tilley, Ryan, Williams, and their associates: bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land, 1825-1827 by James Erskine Calder, 1873. The Library holds an edited version by E. Fitzsymonds published in 1979 (ML Q364.996/2)
Some letters are unsigned.
The volume was rebound into new covers at an unknown date.
D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.

Titled on spine, "Bushrangers".