• Title
  Series 05: George Ernest Morrison, Miscellanea, 1881-1921
• Call number
  MLMSS 312/265-280
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1881-1921
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Philatelic Records, Clippings, Paper money, Ephemera
• Reference code
  1206228
• Issue Copy
  Partially Microfilmed : Refer to Contents for microfilm numbers
  
• Physical Description
  1.03 metres of textual material and ephemera (9 vols, 6 boxes)
  
• Scope and Content
  MLMSS 312/265-268 (4 vols.)
  Sub-series 1: Miscellanea: Notes, ca. 1900-ca. 1920
  
  MLMSS 312/269 (20 vols. in 1 box)
  Sub-series 2: Miscellanea: Notebooks and address books, 1881-1921
  Notebooks, 1881-1900 and address Books,
  Account Books, 1887-1921
  
  MLMSS 312/270 (3 vols. in 1 box)
  Sub-series 3: Miscellanea: Invoices, Receipts, 1911-1921
  Item 1: Invoices and Receipts, May 1919-September 1920
  Item 2: Invoices and Receipts, October 1920-September 1921
  Item 3: Hotel Invoices and Receipts, June 1893-January 1911
  
  MLMSS 312/271 (42 vols. in 1 box)
  Sub-series 4: Miscellanea: Cheque butts, 1914-1922
  
  MLMSS 312/272-277
  Sub-series 5: Miscellanea: Visiting Cards
  
  MLMSS 312/272 (1 box)
  Visiting Cards (Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, China)
  
  MLMSS 312/273 (1 box)
  Visiting Cards (China, France, Germany, Great Britain)
  
  MLMSS 312/274 (1 box)
  Visiting Cards (Great Britain)
  
  MLMSS 312/275 (1 box)
  Visiting Cards (Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Scandinavia, Siam, Spain & Portugal, Swedan, Norway, Finland, USA, Missionaries & Clergy)
  
  MLMSS 312/276-277 (2 vols.)
  Chinese Visiting Cards
  
  MLMSS 312/278-279
  Sub-series 6: Miscellanea: Invitations, Menus, Tickets
  
  MLMSS 312/278 (1 box)
  Invitations, Menus, Tickets etc.
  Request Microfilm: CY 4439, frames 1-354
  
  MLMSS 312/279 (1 volume)
  Chinese Invitations, menus, tickets
  Includes: Menu for the President’s Dinner, 5 August 1912; Invitation and entrance ticket to the Ceremony of Installation of Yuan Shi-kai, 10 October 1913; Ticket to the viewing of T’ai-ho-tien (Grand hall for Grand Ceremonies) and She-chi-t’an, 13 October 1913
  
  MLMSS 312/280-280A
  Sub-series 7: Miscellanea: Annotated copy of bible, stamps, paper money, galley proofs
  
  MLMSS 312/280 (1 box)
  Item 1: Holy Bible, Oxford, 1877. Inscribed on flyleaf ‘George Ernest Morrison / Geelong College / March 20th 1880’ and annotated throughout in four different coloured pens. There is commentary on various theories and discussions of the text. Amongst his comments, he mentions the writer, philosopher and historian Voltaire; the first-century Roman-Jewish scholar and historian Titus Flavius Josephus; British mathematician, theologian, and social activist John William Colenso; English secularist and journal editor George William Foote; English scholar and theologian Hugh Broughton; and Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Bancroft.
  Item 2: Booklet of Korean stamps.
  Item 3: Chinese paper money (27 notes) issued by the Chinese Govt, 1854-ca. 1912.
  Item 4: Souvenir of the wedding of G.E. Morrison and Jenny Wark Robin on 26 August 1912.
  Item 5: Guest Book with tooled leather cover and blank pages.
  Item 6: Newspaper cuttings, 1896-1920. Includes articles and letters by Morrison.
  
  MLMSS 312/280A (1 box)
  Miscellanea: Documents mainly in Chinese:
  Items 1a & 1b: Peking Gazette, 28 May-9 Aug. 1900.
  Item 2: Copies (2) of the Shen-pao, 1893, with supplement.
  Item 3: Chinese newspapers including copies (4) of the Shen-pao, 1893.
  Item 4: Miscellaneous Chinese printed items.
  Item 5: Japanese education magazine
  Item 6: Information re mining in Shandong
  Item 7: Information re commerce
  Item 8: Information and regulations re commerce
  Item 9: Report of Chungking Methodist Union Hospital by an American doctor (possibly James H. McCartney)
  Item 10: Chinan-fu. The XV Regulations for Residence in the International Settlement.
  Item 11: Information re a mining contract
  Item 12: Code book for sending Chinese telegrams internationally.
  Item 13: Letter by G.E. Morrison translated into Chinese
• Language
  Chinese, Japanese
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823249
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Morrison, Jennie Wark
  Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920
  
• Subject
  Bible, English.
  Paper money--China
  
• Topic
  visiting cards
  invitations
  tickets
  postage stamps
  
• Place
  Beijing (China)
  Korea
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2005). Selected items
  A living collection - State Library of New South Wales (March 2010 - July 2010). Applies to: MLMSS 312/11
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1634604

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