Various documents and correspondence collected by Sir William Dixson largely to do with postage matters in Australia, 16 January 1835-13 September 1851

DLADD 57

fonds

16 January 1835-13 September 1851

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1 folder of textual material - manuscript, printed, printed forms

Material also deal with silos, the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, silos and silk

Item 1
Report of the directors of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney to the proprietors at their first half-yearly general meeting, held on the 16th of January, 1835. Sydney, Stephens and Stokes, [1835]

Item 2
New South Wales Post Office Department Return for the year 1839. Printed forms filled in manuscript

Item 3
Silos: observations upon the storing and preservation of grain in under-ground granaries, chiefly compiled from a report by Monsieur le Baron Terneaux to the Society, at Paris, for the encouragement of Arts and Industry; [with plans], [1841?]

Item 4
Call, dated 16 February 1845, for tenders for the conveyance of a mail between Brisbane and the Darling Downs; signed by John C. (?) Wickham, Police Magistrate. Accompanied by memo dated 23 August 1845 and signed by E. Deas Thomson, James Raymond and William Lithgow and schedule of tenders received

Item 5
Letters, dated 26 August and 11 September 1846, from Benjamin Boyd to James Raymond, Postmaster General, about the establishment of a post office at Eden

Item 6
Acts of the New South Wales Legislative Council and regulations of the Post Office Department, New South Wales, Sydney, Government Printer, 1848

Item 7
Growth and reeling of silk: [report of a meeting to form the Experimental Institution for the Growing and Reeling of Silk, 12 July 1848. With list of subscribers, James Beuzeville's report on the Institution for 1848-1849, and a letter, dated 13 August 1849, from him to C. Cowper]

Item 8
Letter, dated 13 September 1851, from the Stamp Office to the Postmaster General about one penny and three penny plates designed by Mr. Carmichael

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

Previously known as Tasmanian Estrays