Various documents collected by Sir William Dixson mostly regarding mail and postage matters in Victoria, New South Wales and Great Britain, 1830-9 October 1867

DLADD 63

fonds

1830-9 October 1867

Textual Records, Cartographic Materials

950378

1 folder of textual material - manuscript, printed, maps

Along with mail and postage matters the material also relates to the Royal North British Fusilliers and other military matters, the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and the Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company

Item 1
Correspondence about the 21st Regiment, Royal North British Fusilliers: commications from Major George Deare, 1835, to Colonel Arthur, Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land and letter, 1830, from Private John O'Farrell

Item 2
Letter, dated, Stockdale, Harper's Hills, 31 July 1836, from C. J. H. Smith, to the Major of Brigade, about the behaviour of Serjeant Alfred Evans, Corporal Patrick Brennan and Private Joseph Browne

Item 3
Letter, dated 5 November 1844, by William Wilson, to the Post-master General, asking for a regular postal system between Sydney and Richmond River; accompanied by a letter from another Wilson, dated 14 September 1844 on the same subject

Item 4
Letter, dated 2 November 1846, from Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell, to the Governor, complaining of detention of letters forwarded through the Post Office to his military secretary

Item 5
Statement of the sum appropriated by the Committee of the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society towards the support of the Hospital at Windsor, July to September 1849; with list of patients, etc

Item 6
Letter, dated Somerset House, 26 November 1851, from Internal Revenue to H. M. Treasury giving opinion on New South Wales Act for preventing forgery of British stamps. [Accompanied by letter from Grey to the Governor of N.S.W., forwarding the report, dated 10 February 1852, and letter, dated 5 February 1852 from the Treasury to Herman Merivale]

Item 7
Australian and New Zealand mails: articles of agreement made - [28 May, 1858] between Zachariah Charles Pearson and James Coleman of - London, ship owners and copartners - and the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom and Ireland [for conveying mails between Australia and New Zealand]

Item 8
Articles of agreement made and entered into - [9 October 1867] between - Sir John Young - Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Colony of New South Wales - and - Sir George Grey - Governor - over - New Zealand [for conveying mails between New South Wales and New Zealand]

Item 9
Map showing the route of the Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company via Panama. [London?], no date

Item 10
Undated petition from the inhabitants of Concord, Burwood, Longbottom, etc., to the Postmaster General, asking for a post office at Concord

Item 11
Letter, dated 8 June 1846, to the Postmaster General, asking t have a letter delivered to him.

Item 12
Report on Kershaw's conduct and sworn statements of Michael Goodwin and John Jackson, 11 November 1843.

Item 13
Petition, dated 11 December 1844, from the inhabitants of the Valley of Jamberoo to the Postmaster General, asking for a post office.

Item 14
Petition, dated 1 July 1846, from the inhabitants of the Moneroo to the Postmaster General, asking that a regular mail be provided.

Item 15
Tenders for the conveyance of Post Office mails between Melbourne and Portland, Mount Macedon, 1843

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

Previously known as Tasmanian Archival Estrays