Peter Scratchley - Papers [M1914-1917], 1836-1938

M 1914-1917

fonds

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

432759

Microfilm : M 1914-1917

microfilm reels 35 mm

Commissioned in Royal Engineers, 1854; served in Crimea, 1855-6; India, 1857-9; Victoria, 1860-3; 1878 commissioner on colonial defences; retired 1882; defence advisor for Australia, 1882-6; special Commissioner for British New Guinea, 1884-1885

1. Journals, 1855-69, 1884-85. 2. Certificates and commissions, 1836-80. 3. Indian papers, 1858. 4. Personal account book, 1864-72. 5. Official papers, correspondence and notes, 1854-85. 6. Paintings, drawings, plans and photographs, 1851-85. 7. Official notes on New Guinea. 8. Papers and cuttings on New Guinea and death of Scratchley, 1885-1901. 9. Miscellaneous family letters. 10. Newspaper cuttings re Scratchley, 1877-87. 11. Papers concerning New Guinea artefacts collected by Scratchley, 1887-91

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 miscellaneous series M1914-1917
Microfilm copy of originals held in private ownership
Descriptive list available (5 p.)
Australian defences and New Guinea / compiled from the papers of the late Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley... by C. Kinloch Cooke (London : Macmillan, 1887)