• Title
  Series 08: David Scott Mitchell correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1844-1907
• Call number
  A 1461
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1844-1907
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera, Clippings
• Reference code
  433243
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 886, frames 1-603 (A 1461)
  
• Physical Description
  0.08 metres (1 volume
  7 photographs (1 cabinet) - 16 x 25 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  Correspondence, receipts, invitations, cards, newspaper cuttings, and photographs.
  
  CORRESPONDENCE
  Letters received by D.S. Mitchell from various sources that relate primarily to the acquisition of books, manuscripts, and pictorial material (ordering, purchase, and shipment), advice sought regarding matters of history, and the establishment of a Public Library of New South Wales. Includes letter written to Miss Rusden from D.S. Mitchell, 12 Feb. 1844; Mary Harpur's offer of letters her husband Charles received from H. Kendall, July 1895; and correspondence from the National Art Gallery of N.S.W. regarding the loan of Brierly paintings for the Art Loan Exhibition of 1897.
  
  EPHEMERA
  Invitation to Private Theatricals at Government House, Sydney, Aug. 1862
  Women's College, Newtown [request for list of articles given by Mitchell to display at Loan Exhibition]
  Sydney City Mission, Waterloo and Alexandria Branch, A Tea and Public Meeting, June 1884 [programme]
  Art Society of NSW ... a private view of the Annual Exhibition, Oct. 1896
  Art Loan Collection, 1897 [flyer for exhibition]
  Bachelor Club Luncheon, Ascot Races, 1898 [ticket]
  The Sydney Philatelic Club [invitation to celebrate Jubilee of five pence stamp of NSW], 1905
  The Victor Daley Fund [invitation for contributions]
  General Post Office, Adelaide [postcard from G. Leonard Garnsey [?]
  Sylvia Falls, Valley of the Waters, Wentworth Falls ... From G. Hendy-Pooley [picture greeting card]
  The Mitchell Library, Lines respectfully dedicated to David S. Mitchell ... 11 Sept. 1906
  Cards, from friends and relatives, including seasons greetings (Christmas and New Year), postcards, and flower drawing by M.J. Scott, ca. 1882 (14 cards)
  Mr & Mrs H.C. Russell at home, to meet the delegates to the Jubilee celebrations of the University of Sydney [invitation]
  RECEIPTS
  Bot. of Henry Sotheran & Co. New & Second Hand Booksellers, 1878-1880, 1882
  "Orient" line of steam ships, freight payable, package posted between England and Australia, 1878-1880
  National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Loan Exhibition, 1897 (loan receipt with insurance amounts for watercolours including the Black Prince, by O.W. Brierly)
  The School of Industry, received from D.S. Mitchell annual membership subscription, 7 Dec. 1903
  D.S. Mitchell in account with H.C.L. Anderson and Agent-General, September 1904 - December 31st 1906 [typed list]
  NSW Institution for the Deaf & Dumb & the Blind, receipts, 17 Sept. 1906
  Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage, March 1907
  
  MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL
  Includes notices of meeting, printed material, newscuttings, and photographs.
  Newscutting relate to the Public Library bequest of David Scott Mitchell, 1898-1901
  Legislative Assembly N.S.W., The Public Library of N.S.W. (Report from Trustees for 1898), 1899 [typescript]
  Requirements for a Public Library for N.S.W. calculated to provide sufficient accommodation for twenty year's growth .... by H.C.L. Anderson [printed]
  Address of the Hon. J.H. Carruthers, Premier and Colonial Treasurer, on the occasion of setting the Commemoration Stone of the Mitchell Library, 1906 [printed]
  Notes by the Acting-President, Hon. Alex. Kethel, M.L.C. for his Address at the Ceremony of Laying the Commemorative Stone ... [printed]
  Australian Books, Manuscripts, Pamphlets etc. List of packages delivered to Mr Mitchell, Darlinghurst Rd., 1906 [typescript]
  Memorandum for preservation with manuscript documents in the Mitchell Library concerning David Scott Mitchell [and Rose Scott], 1924 [typescript].
  
  PHOTOGRAPHS
  Cumberland Place, Cumberland St. [with James and Augusta Maria Mitchell on grass near verandah]
  Construction of the Mitchell Library [5 sepia photographs]
  Rev. J.C. [Gnylls?] [copy print photograph]
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The material in this volume is largely derived from D.S. Mitchell but appears to be an artificial series containing documents that postdate his death and items from various sources.
  This volume was bound in 1920 in half red morocco, cloth sides, with gold vein marble paper ends. The spine is decorated with leaves and waratah and wattle flowers, hand tooled by F. Heyner.
  Another copy of the photograph Cumberland Place is located at SPF/388.
  D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
  Original volume copied onto preservation microfilm (CY 886), Dec. 1985.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846302
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Mitchell, David Scott, 1836-1907
  
• Subject
  State Library of New South Wales--Photographs.
  Book collectors--Australia.
  Book collectors--New South Wales.
  Book collectors--New South Wales--Correspondence.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Libraries--Gifts, legacies.
  Libraries--New South Wales--History.
  Adult Males
  
• Place
  Cumberland Place (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A grand obsession : The D. S. Mitchell story - State Library of New South Wales (18 June - 30 September, 2007). Applies to: p. 61 and p. 130
  Australian Inspiration - State Library of New South Wales (July 2015 - September 2015). Applies to: Waratah decoration on binding<br>
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