• Title
  Elizabeth Henrietta Macquarie miscellaneous papers, 1817-1824
• Creator
  Elizabeth Henrietta Macquarie, 1778-1835
• Call number
  MLMSS 5052
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1817-1824
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  923634
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 box of textual material
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Elizabeth Macquarie was born in 1778, the youngest daughter of John Campbell of Airds, Scotland. She married Lachlan Macquarie in 1807 and when, two years later he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, she accompanied him to the colony. She was concerned with the welfare of Aborigines and women convicts and took a keen interest in her husband's public work programme. She also accompanied him on several arduous tours of the colony. Upon Macquarie's resignation in 1821 they returned to England, eventually retiring to their home of 'Jarvisfield' on the island of Mull. She died in 1835
  
  Provenance unknown
• Scope and Content
  Item 1
  Autograph signed letter from Louis de Freycinet to Elizabeth Macquarie, 28 Januray 1824, written from Paris, commending Lachlan Macquarie as Governor of N.S.W. and requesting information on the customs and habits of Aborigines and details of all buildings erected in the colony. In French with an English translation (not contemporary with the letter). Formerly filed at Af 31 /1-2
  
  Item 2
  List of names ca. 1818 Probably a guest list for a function at Government House. Formerly filed at Am 15/1
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-570 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Keyword subjects:
  French letters
  Praise
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 1717
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842
  
• Name
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824
  
• Subject
  Governors--New South Wales.
  
• Place
  Old Government House (Parramatta, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4598635

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