• Title
  Volume 40: Sir William Macarthur letters received, 1827-1857
• Call number
  A 2936
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1827-1857
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1195275
• Physical Description
  0.055 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  Subjects include James Macarthur's support for Sir Roger Therry, and his electoral defeat; winding up of estate of Reverend S. Marsden and monies to be received by Rev Thomas Hassall; invitation to become a Vice-Patron of Australian Mutual Provident Society (printed circular, 1848, with prospectus); selection of boys from Male Orphan School for apprenticeship; relations with Colonial Office; financial depression in New South Wales; dispute between Henry Dumaresq and Dr James Bowman over Ravensworth boundaries; impressions of Sir William Denison; description of Raoul or Sunday Island; Paris Exhibition; emigration of French workmen to Australia; establishment of wine trade with France; management of New South Wales Lands Office; separation of Victoria; William's candidacy for Parramatta election; breeding habits and specimens of platypus and echidna; honorary membership of William in Societe Imperiale Zoologique D'Acclimatation; Governor's desire to appoint William to Legislative Council; reestablishment of steam communication with Australia; specimens for British Museum and exchange of plants with Glasgow Botanic Gardens; death of John Carne Bidwill; William's knighthood; naming of a new genus of plants in Western Australia in honour of William.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
  Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
  Approval for publication required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D33999/c03343.html
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 1001
  Digital order no: Album ID : 1296624
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Macarthur family papers 1789-1930 [First collection] : vol. 40
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Macarthur, William, Sir, 1800-1882
  Bannister, Saxe, 1790-1877
  Australian Mutual Provident Society
  Bidwill, John Carne, 1815-1853
  Bigge, Francis, 1820-1916
  Clarke, W. B. (William Branwhite), 1798-1878
  Curr, Edward M. (Edward Micklethwaite), 1820-1889
  Davidson, Walter Stevenson, 1785-1869
  Denison, Alfred
  Dobie, John
  Druitt, George, 1775-1842
  Dumaresq, William (William John), 1793-1868
  General Association for the Australian Colonies
  Hamilton, Edward William Terrick, 1809-1898
  Harington, Thomas Cudbert, 1798-1863
  Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871
  Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865
  Huegel, Charles von
  King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856
  Knox, Edward, Sir, 1819-1901
  Macleay, George, Sir, 1809-1891
  Nicholson, Charles, Sir, 1808-1903
  Norman, George Warde, 1793-1882
  Norman, Sibella
  Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
  Scott, A. W. (Alexander Walker), 1800-1883
  Taunton, Henry Labouchere, Baron, 1798-1869
  Thomson, E. Deas (Edward Deas), 1800-1879
  
• Name
  Marsden, Samuel, 1765-1838
  Hassall, Thomas, 1794-1868
  Therry, R. (Roger), Sir, 1800-1874
  Macarthur, James, 1798-1867
  Australian Mutual Provident Society
  Dumaresq, Henry
  Bowman, James, 1784-1846
  Denison, William, Sir, 1804-1871
  Paris Universal Exhibition (1855)
  Societe imperiale zoologique d'acclimatation (France)
  New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
  Bidwill, John Carne, 1815-1853
  
• Subject
  New South Wales--Politics and government--1788-1900
  Botany--New South Wales.
  Elections--New South Wales.
  New South Wales--Economic conditions--19th century.
  Natural history--Australia.
  Wine industry--New South Wales.
  
• Place
  Ravensworth (property)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE763386

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