Society of Friends - Records [M693-707] 1785-1934

M 693-707

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432555

Microfilm : M 693-707

5 microfilm reels 35 mm

Includes: minutes, 1817-1919; correspondence, 1785-1881 of the London meeting and members of the Society in Australia; records, 1835-1934 including material about the Friends School, Hobart, conscription, and Wellington Friends Hostel; notes on the history of Friends in Australia and New Zealand; entries from "Testimonies concerning ministers deceased"; of James Backhouse 1831-68, Daniel Wheeler 1832-46, George Washington Walker, Lucy Fryer Moerland, Charles J. Holdsworth, Robert and Sarah Lindsey, William Benson, 1866-8, Isaac Sharp, 1880-82 and Howard Hodgkin; 1887-90

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 141, p. 67-68
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M693-707
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Society of Friends Library, Friends House, Euston road, London
Descriptive list available (51 p.)
Detailed description in 'Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific' edited by Phyllis Mander-Jones, p. 314-20