Guide to the Papers of Edward Augustus Petherick
MS 760 and MS Acc09.003
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Petherick, E.A. (Edward Augustus)
- Title
- Papers of Edward Augustus Petherick
- Date Range
- 1756-1917
- Collection Number
- MS 760 and MS Acc09.003
- Extent
- 11.57 metres (16 archives boxes + 92 security binders + 1 volume [1 medium folio box] + 1 folio [1 large folio box SB-000143)] + 1 volume [1 small folio box SB-000142] + 1 folder [1 ms box] + 4 security binders + 1 elephant folio)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- NLA
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The papers are divided into two parts: Petherick's own papers, and letters, documents and transcriptions that he acquired.
Petherick's papers consist of family documents, general correspondence, drafts of articles and addresses on exploration and bibliophilism, correspondence and papers relating to the presentation of his collection to the Commonwealth and his subsequent work as an archivist, and the manuscript of his unpublished 'Bibliography of Australasia'.
Original documents, together with transcriptions Petherick made, relate to the discovery and settlement of Australia, 1756-1880. Many of the transcriptions draw on Spanish, French, Dutch and English sources and include many descriptions of early voyages. He also acquired letters and autographs of statesmen, travellers, and literary and military persons.
A number of manuscript items relating to Sir Joseph Banks have been transferred to the Banks Papers (MS 9). These items are identified by the symbol EAP in the descriptive list of Banks' papers.
In 2009, the deed of gift to the Commonwealth of Australia of an Australasian and Polynesian library was added to the collection.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1441032).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Edward Augustus Petherick, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file/item number]'.
Provenance
Edward Augustus Petherick presented his collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps and pictures relating to Australia and the Pacific to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1909 as the 'Nucleus of an historical museum'. The agreement between Petherick and the Library Committee was formalized by the Petherick Act, which was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1911.
Biographical / Historical
Edward Augustus Petherick was a bookseller, publisher, bibliographer and book collector. He was born on 6 March 1847 in Somerset England, son of Peter Petherick and his wife Ann, née Press. The family migrated to Melbourne in 1853, and in 1862 Edward Petherick joined the bookselling firm of George Robertson.
In 1870 Petherick was appointed Robertson's London agent for the next thirty years. Whilst working for Robertson, and after 1887, in his own business Colonial Booksellers' Agency, he built up a large collection of Australiana. During this time too, he worked on his 'Bibliography of Australasia' that remains in manuscript form. He won recognition as bibliographer in 1882 by publishing the Catalogue of the York Gate geographical and colonial library for William Silver.
Petherick was declared bankrupt in 1894, but was able to save his valuable collection with the help of friends and his wife Mary Agatha Skeats, whom he had married in 1892. From 1895 until 1908 Petherick worked as a cataloguer for Francis Edwards and Co. and produced a series of outstanding catalogues of Australasian material.
Negotiations for the presentation of his collection of 'Federated Australia' began in 1895, but it was not until he returned to Australia in 1909 that the Federal Parliamentary Library Committee recommended its acquisition. This was 'in consideration of an annuity of £500 a year: Mr Petherick to render during the currency of the annuity such services in the Commonwealth Library as the Committee may from time to time prescribe'. An agreement between the Pethericks and the Commonwealth was signed in November 1909, and was confirmed by the Petherick Collection Act of 1911. Unfortunately the association between Petherick, as archivist to the Commonwealth and the Library was an unhappy one and his last years were spent in considerable professional frustration.
Petherick was appointed a Companion of St Michael and St George in June 1916. In September of the following year he died. His wife predeceased him in 1915.
References: Burmester, Clifford A. 'Edward Augustus Petherick (1847-1917)'. In Australian dictionary of biography, v. 5 (Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1974): 348-9. Langdon, Robert. 'Bibliography of Australasia' by E.A. Petherick. In The Journal of Pacific History, vol 4, 1969: 154-8.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 760. Original Consignment
Comprises E.A. Petherick's correspondence concerning business affairs as a bookseller in London, 1870-1900, letters to his father, 1870-1877, letters relating to his collection, 1875-1914, to its presentation to the Commonwealth Parliament, and to his subsequent work as Archivist. The collection also comprises Petherick's working notes and drafts for his publications including "European enterprises in Australia" and for his "Bibliography of Australasia", press cuttings and biographical material. A large part of the papers comprise original manuscripts acquired by Petherick, transcripts of historical documents, and the manuscript of his unpublished, "Bibliography of Australasia".
Contained in 16 boxes, 92 binders and 2 folio items.
Series 1. Family papers
The family papers contain both original documents and copies, concerning the Petherick and Jarman families, letters written by Petherick to his father in Melbourne (1870-1877) and the certificate of Companion of St Michael and St. George dated June 1916.
The documents include an abstract of title belonging to Edward Jarman (1756), the wills of George Richardson (1777) and Edward Jarman (1783) and the certificate of probate issued after the death of Mary Agatha Pethrick in 1915. Petherick's letters to his father are pasted in a note book; they commenced in 1870 when he left home for London and continued regularly until his father's death in 1877.
Xerox material was added to the collection in 1971. It includes the Petherick and Jarman family tree and biographical notes by a niece, Constance Petherick, written in 1956.
This series comprises Items 1-378.
Series 2. General correspondence
Petherick's general correspondence covers the years 1868 to 1916 and includes drafts and copies of letters he wrote, together with those he received. They are arranged chronologically.
During the early years the correspondence related to Petherick's work as an agent in London for George Robertson (1870-1887) and in his own business, the Colonial Booksellers' Agency in Paternoster Road (1887-1894).
The letters from the later years were almost entirely concerned with his acquisition of Australiana and his compilation of the 'Bibliography of Australasia'.
Among those Petherick corresponded with were the poet Henry Halloran in 1896; Sir Charles Markham in 1907 concerning a transcription of Recollections of Edward Markham (1834); Sir Samuel Way and Robert Barr-Smith in 1908 concerning their possible purchase of the first four folios of Shakespeare's works; the Count A. de Fleurier of the Geographical Society of France, whilst he was visiting Australia in 1911, to urge the Federal Government to restore old French names to the Australian coast; and A.J. Campbell and Henry G. Turner in 1916 concerning Campbell's work Nest and eggs of Australian birds.
Petherick also received a small number of letters of condolence after his wife's death in 1915 and congratulatory messages after his appointment as a Companion of St Michael and St. George in 1916.
This series comprises Items 1-580.
Series 3. Scrap books and notebooks
Four books form this series.
Book 1 contains press cuttings of letters and articles written by Petherick and published in The Bridgewater Mercury (1881), The Atheneum (1884 and 1901) and The Colonies and India (1883). They relate to the discovery of Australia, the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands and the people of New Guinea.
Book 2 is marked "extracts 1865" and contains Petherick's transcriptions of prose and poetry.
Book 3 is dated 1868 with a note by Petherick "kept up for two or three years to 187- - resumed in 1895 - stopped 1896".
Book 4 is a large book marked "chronology and history, notes and extracts 1896-1903". Loose notes found in this book have been kept together in a folder at the back of the book.
This series comprises Items 1-75.
Series 4. The York Gate Library
The York Gate Library was a private collection of books assembled by bibliographer S. William Silver of London at his home 'York Gate'. Its strength was in history, geography and colonial affairs.
The catalogue of S. William Silver's York Gate geographical and colonial library was compiled by Petherick in London and published by John Murray in 1882. After Silver's death in March 1905 Petherick informed Sir Samuel Way of Adelaide that the library was for sale. The series contains a printed lecture on the library given by Petherick at Silver's home c. 1883, and typescript copies of the cables and letters written by Petherick, Way and Silver's widow in 1905 'in the negotiations for its / the library's / sale and purchase by the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia'.
This series comprises Items 1-30.
Series 5. Presentation of collection to the Commonwealth of Australia
The papers in this series document the acquisition by the Commonwealth Government of Petherick's collection of Australiana and his relations with the Library Committee before and after its transfer. The series contains correspondence, notes, drafts, reports, financial papers and published documents.
A printed memorandum dated 1896 entitled 'Library presented to the Federation Colonies of Australia' contains a description of Petherick's collection, a 'summary' and 'notes of the press'. With association notes and drafts, it outlines the history and scope of the collection.
The correspondence commences in 1895 with a copy of the letter written by Petherick to the Agent-General for the Colony of Victoria, Duncan Gillies. In this he urges the early acceptance of his collection. The remaining letters date from 1909 onwards when Petherick was appointed Archivist to the Commonwealth and adviser to the Library Committee. There are drafts of letters he wrote, as well as ones he received, from Sir Albert Gould, Sir Robert Garran, Charles McDonald, W.J. Higgs and Sir William Eliott Johnson. They discuss library administration and policies, copyright legislation, finance and personnel matters, and show the unhappy situation in which Petherick spent the last years of his life.
Other papers include a book marked 'Australasian Historical Museum - notes on taking over, housing etc.'; the draft of a report to the Library Committee in 1912 concerning the collection; a printed report signed by Petherick in 1912 entitled 'Extract from a report on the Commonwealth Library. Part IV, accessions through Copyright Act - British and foreign'; an account book (1909-1915) and loose orders, accounts and receipts for the same period and a reprint of the debate in the House of Representatives on the Petherick Collection Bill, 17 October 1911.
Correspondence in the papers of Charles McDonald, Speaker of the House of Representatives 1910-13 and 1914-17 (MS 40) and also the Library's own files complement Petherick's correspondence in this series.
This series comprises Items 1-728.
Series 6. Matthew Flinders Memorial Statue Committee
At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia held in Melbourne on 13 November 1911, it was decided that the work of Matthew Flinders in Australia should be commemorated by a bronze statue to be erected in that city. A provisional committee was appointed to initiate the movement. The series is small but contains letters to Petherick from the committee during the years 1911 to 1914, a subscription list, printed material and press cuttings.
This series comprises Items 1-29.
Series 7. Library Association of Victoria
Petherick was invited by Alfred McMicken to a meeting on 29 May 1912 to form the Library Association of Victoria. The invitation, correspondence between McMicken and Petherick (1912-1915), the Association's objects and by-laws, annual reports for 1912 and 1913, and press cuttings form this small series.
This series comprises Items 1-72.
Series 8. Colonel William Light
These papers concern Colonel William Light (c. 1786-1839), founder of Adelaide, and include a transcription by Petherick of 'Colonel Light' from Horley's The Veteran v. 2, 1838, together with two letters from Albert Felsenthal dated 1902 and 1903 concerning Light's journal. Also contained here are two monographs: a facsimile copy of A brief journal of the proceedings of William Light (Adelaide, Macdougall, 1839), A short narrative of the circumstances attending the late trails in the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras for forgery perjury and conspiracy to cheat (London, Ridgway, 1810), containing a reference to Light.
Items 1-30
Series 9. Royal Geographical Society of Australia (Victoria)
A paper entitled 'Geographical discovers at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century' was read by George G. McCrae to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victoria) on 16 August 1912. The invitations directed replies to be addressed to E.A. Petherick. The small series contains a number of invitation cards, a list of the invitees, the replies received by Petherick, and his notes concerning the meeting.
This series comprises Items 1-56.
Series 10. 'European Enterprise in Australia'
During the years 1883 to 1885 The Melbourne Review published a series of articles by Petherick entitled 'European enterprise in Australasia'. In the frontispiece of a bound copy of the articles Petherick wrote an undated note: 'These 'sketches' written in 1883-1884 at the suggestion of Henry Gyles Turner editor of The Melbourne Review, link to work of the explorers with current European history - and show what led to the discoveries in Australasia. I had only completed the Portuguese and Spanish enterprises and was about to begin those of the Dutch when the publication of the Review was suspended.'
The series contains papers relating to the articles. They include notes, drafts, manuscripts for the publisher, and a complete set, cut from The Melbourne Review, annotated and bound by Petherick. There is also a manuscript entitled 'European enterprise in Australasia during the sixteenth century. Venice-Spanish-Portugal. London, John Murray, 1887'.
This series comprises Items 1-1811.
Series 11. 'Bibliography of Australasia'
In conjunction with his collecting activities, Petherick compiled a 'Bibliography of Australasia'. It was not published and now forms a significant part of Petherick's manuscripts. The bibliography consists of tens of thousands of entries handwritten on slips of paper or cut from catalogues, which were classified, sorted into chronological order, pasted on quarto sheets and arranged in 92 boxes. The entries mostly refer to books and journal and newspaper articles, but there are also occasional references to manuscripts and paintings.
The series also contain many thousands of call-slips issued from the British Museum (1881-1901) and the Public Record Office (1895-1901), together with copies of prospectuses of the proposed bibliography dated 1897, 1898 and 1915.
Petherick compiled his bibliography largely in Britain before he returned to Australia. Most of the entries were create before 1909, though there are a few compiled later. Consequently, the material referred to in some of the citations may not be held in the National Library or indeed, anywhere in Australia.
This series is contained in 92 red-bound binders (comprising Items 1-2726).
The following list is an alphabetical subject index to the binders.
Series 12. Discovery of Australia
On 19 January 1911 the Sydney Morning Herald published an article, headlined 'Australia was discovered in 1499 by Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine.' This claim was made by Petherick after researches extending over 40 years. He had previously made the same suggestion in articles in the Melbourne Argus (13 June 1897) and The British Australasian (6 May 1897. He stated that the crowning proof was brought to light by Professor Estreichera at Cracow, in Poland (Athenaeum, London, 6 September 1902: 323-4)'.
This series comprises Petherick's correspondence, notes, drafts, of articles address, letters, and published material concerning this theory.
Handwritten notes made by Petherick in 1884-5, 1907 and 1908 together with his extensively corrected and annotated bibliography of maritime discovery in Australasia (Item 1-26)
Papers concerning Dr Tad Estreichera's report in 1900 'Globus biblioteki jagielonskief z poczatku wieku XUI'(a globe of the beginning of 16th century in the Jagellon Library). They include correspondence written in 1902, 1909 and 1911 between Petherick and Estreichera and Petherick's transcription of The International Official Report of the Cracow Academy of Science., March 1900 (Item 27-184)
A cutting, and reprints from The British Australasian 6 May 1897 containing a letter from Petherick to Sir Malcolm Fraser, Agent-General in London for Western Australia, written on 26 April 1897, in which he says 'I have this day laid before the President of the Royal Geographical Society a paper treating of the early discoveries in Australasia and tending to prove the discovery of part of the coast of Western Australia in the year 1499'. (Item 185-300)
Drafts of letters from Petherick to The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) in 1913, press cuttings of the letters and replies by H. Wright and others (Item 301-309)
Petherick's correspondence with Heinrich Charles in 1911 concerning Charles' The romance of the name America (New York, 1909) (Item 310-327)
Publications: The first four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci reproduced in facsimile and translated from the rare original edition. (Florence 1505-1506), London, Quaritch, 1893, and R.H. Major's On the discovery of Australian by the Portuguese in 1601 (a supplement to the volume of early voyages to Terra Australia) (Item 328-333)
Series 13. Other writings
Petherick's other writings are arranged in this series. In some cases they have been brought together under a broad heading; most are in Petherick's handwriting.
Bibliography of the State of Victoria. In The Victorian Historical Magazine, 7 parts., 1912-1914 (Item 704-1152)
Boer War. A collection of letters and articles relating to the Boer War., 1899-1903 (Item 1153-1227)
Colonial matters. The colonisation of Australia. In Imperial and Colonial Magazine and Review, November-December 1900: 88-94 and 214-222. Also notes and drafts of letters relating to colonial affairs written between 1899 and 1904 to London newspapers, The Times, The Daily News, The British Australasian and The Review of the Week. (Item 1228-1343)
Series 14. Addresses
Addresses given by Petherick are listed below. Where research material, notes and letters were kept with the address, this arrangement has been maintained.
Early Collingwood: recollections of the fifties and sixties of last century. Historical Society of Victoria. 14 October 1909. Later published in The Victorian Historical Magazine, v. 1, January 1911: 3. (Item 1-212)
Mr Petherick's Australiana collection. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victoria)., 8 March 1909 (Item 213-232)
Series 15. General printed material
The small amount of printed material in this series includes advertisements for books, and a small collection of papers concerning John Ruskin.
The brochures include Catalogue of selected books and maps on the Colonies, the United States, South America. (London Stanford, 1870); Bernard Halliday's Catalogue of books old and modern (1908-1909), and Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 1872-1892.
The Ruskin material includes George Allen's advertisements dated 1883, 1884, 1907 and 1908, for Ruskin's books, a pocket Catalogue of the works of John Ruskin (New York, Wiley, n.d.) and a brochure headed 'Proposed Ruskin Union' dated 1900.
This series comprises Items 1-35.
Series 16. Manuscripts acquired by Petherick, 1667-1890
This series contains a heterogenous group of manuscripts acquired by Petherick in London, many of them of no historical value but a few of them relating to Australia and the Pacific..
Services of Captain Philip Gidley King from 1770 to 1797; dated London, 13 October, 1797 (in Captain King's hand?). (Item 1-2)
Letter, 31 Dec. 1795, and circular from George Burder of the London Missionary Society to Rev. Rogers, Stratford on Avon concerning the purchase and use of the ship Duff for the South Seas. (Item 3-5)
Mr Inman's 'Account of expenses during a voyage from England to New South Wales and back by way of China in 1802, 1803 and 1804'. Ship Rolla (transport), Commander, Robert Cummings. (Item 6-7)
Dillon, Peter, Capt. Autograph on leaf of his work Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of La Perouse and a letter signed C.P. Dillon, 2 February 1841 (Item 8-10)
Cunningham, James E. 'The sequel to the Tichborne case Arthur Orton or William Creswell?: the proceedings in New South Wales'. Handwritten MS with press cuttings and two photographs. (Item 11-80)
'An account of the plants on board H.M.S. Providence at the time of her leaving Otaheite on the 18th of July 1792' - J. Wiles' journal. (Item 81-83)
Macquarie, Lachlan, Major-General. Catalogue of manuscripts, notes and news cuttings concerning the manuscripts. (Item 95-131)
Stephens, Sir Philip, Secretary to the Admiralty: letter of 20 July 1776 to Captain Cook, Resolution sloop, informing him that Doctor Forster had submitted specimens of New Zealand flax 'prepared by a Foreign Lady to a degree of fineness …which could be little expected'; biographical note on James Cook, in German (n.d.). (Item 132-135)
Frederick, Duke of York to Vice Admiral Mitchell, 21 and 22 October, 1799, Headquarters, Sohagen, and 17 and 27 September 1799. (Item 136-140)
Nepean, Sir Evan. Power of attorney appointing William Pollock of Downing Street as his attorney, 28 July 1792 (Item 145-146)
Popham, Sir Home to Captain of H.M.S. Komney, 14 October 1799, regarding embarkation of Dutch volunteers. (Item 147-148)
Copy of Instructions for the Sheriffs of London (from King John's Charter c. 18th century). Samuel Gregory's copy. (Item 154-155)
St. Saviour's Home for pregnant women in Montague Close, Parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, 1798 - register sheets. (Item 155-180)
Memorial for Messrs. Creech, Elliot and Smile, Edinburgh, 1774, concerning blasphemous essay. 26pp. (Item 181-194)
A volume marked 'Expedition against the Dutch in 1799 original Despatches etc etc'. Contains letters, despatches, memoranda, memorials, etc., 1799-1804, concerning the English campaigns on sea and land against the Dutch. (Item 195-318)
Memo signed by Henry Wellesley transmitting accounts and vouchers (enclosures are missing) for the garrison at Gibraltar, 1 July to 31 December 1806. Signed and dated 23 September 1807. (Item 319)
Passport for Dr Vincent Garcia signed by Henry Wellesley, British Consul and Plenipotentary in Spain, signed at Cadiz, 28 May 1812 (Item 320)
A bundle of Native Cream Cloth, manufactured by the indigenes of the South Sea Islands from wood fibre. [NOTE: MISSING] (Item 347)
Passport of Captain John Anderson, Bengal Artillery, 24 March 1841-1844, signed and marked in many European centres. (Item 348-351)
Treasury Order from the Lords of the Treasury to pay the sum of (not exceeding) £500,000 to Thomas Coke Esq. or his assignees, signed by Sir Robert Walpole, George Baillie and Richard Edgcumbe (1st Baron Edgcumbe), 15 September 1721 (Item 354)
Order to Lord Shirlow to pay out of Consul excise, Joseph Brame British Consul at Genoa the sum of £62:10 for the quarter ending October 1789. Signed by William Pitt . (Item 355)
Treasury order for £100 signed by Sir Robert Walpole, George Bubb Dondington, Baron Melcombe, Sir George Oxenden Lord of the Admiralty, Sir William Clayton, and Sir William Younge, 4th Baronet, Commissioner of the Treasury. (Item 356)
Treasury Order, October 1703, signed Leeds, (Sir Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, George Aphin or Ashin, Henry Boyle, Baron Carlton. (Item 357)
Receipt, 27 July 1739 (annuities out of sinking fund), signed by Francis Egerton, 6th Earl of Bridgewater. (Item 358)
Repayment of a loan between Henry, Earl of Lincoln, George Middleton, and others, 28 January 1719 (Item 360)
Resignation of commission in the United East Indian Co. by George Gardner, being a certificate of his services signed by the President and Councillors at Fort St George, 6 October 1758 (Item 362)
Receipt signed by John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham, for the sum of £62:10 (1st instalment of annuities, £40,000 per annum), 23 October 1708 (Item 363)
Fielding, Sir John. Order for placing Mararate Eaton and her child in the poor house in the Parish of St Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex, 17 February 1769 (Item 364)
Letter from Lord Arthur Somerset (second son of the first Duke of Beaufort) to Mr Southwell, 19 April 1697 (Item 365)
Order to pay Thomas Kippis £20, October 1667, with his receipt signed by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury. (Item 366)
Shares belonging to Abel Joshua Oldham of Stamford Hill Middlesex and Richard Wilson, in the Theatre Royal, Dury Lane, and receipt for the same, 27 August 1812 (Item 367-377)
Notification of remittance to the Bank of England to the credit of Paymaster General for £137.4.8 to pay East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry Corps, 22 May 1827 (Item 378)
Abstract of sums required for the use of the military of the King's German Legion, signed by Major General J.C. Sherbrooke, commanding officer at Messina, 8 April 1808 (Item 379)
Pay warrant to Richard Alex Tucker, Paymaster, from Lt. General Sir George Prevost, commanding H.M. Forces in North America, 30 April 1811 (Item 380)
Abstract of paysheets for hospital staff serving in Sicily signed by W. Franklin, Inspector of Hospitals, 24 November 1801. Approved by T. Shiail, Commander of H.M. Forces. (Item 381)
Pay warrant from Sir George Provost to John Hale, Deputy Paymaster General for the sum of £144.12.5, 25 October 1811 (Item 382)
Payment for stabling of horses by the Master of the Horse. instead of the Master of the Wardrobe, n.d. (Item 383)
Pay receipt of Major General W. Sherret, commanding in Sicily, for his A.D.C., 3 June 1811 (Item 384)
Paymaster's warrant to Lt General Sir George Prevost in Nova Scotia, signed George Prevost, Captain A.G. Armstrong and Lt John M. Kinnon of the 104th Regiment, 1 May 1811 (Item 385)
Pay receipt of Major General Peter du Plat for his A.D.C. (Staff in Sicily), 11 July 1811 (Item 386)
Pay warrant to Paymaster General of H.M. Land Forces, signed James Puttenes, 18 October 1808 (Item 387)
Pay warrant signed by Major General Hilderbrand Oakes, commanding in the islands of Malta and Goze. (Item 388)
Return of field equipment of 4th line Battalion, King's German Legion, Cartzite, 24 July 1807, signed by Major General Harry Kinorber. (Item 392)
Power of Attorney by Gabriel Maturin, Secretary to the Commander in Chief North America, to Henry Davison, 23 June 1766 (Item 395)
List of Captain, Officers and ship's company of H.M. sloop Spitfire who were on board at the capture of the Concordia, 15 September 1796 (Item 398-401)
Abstract of muster rolls of corps and company of Yeomanry and volunteers in County Northampton, December 1809, signed by the Earl of Northampton. (Item 402-404)
Order in Persian and English to pay Sidi Mahamed be Hadge Meloot ben Talbet, 130 Spanish dollars, 12 December 1823 (Item 406-407)
Letter from Professor Horace Hayman Wilson (Professor of Sanscrit at Oxford), 19 March 1806 (Item 402)
HMS La Minerve prize list for two French frigates Success and Bravoure taken 1 September 1802 at Minorca. (Item 409-412)
HMS Maidstone prize list and banker's receipts (Mildred, Masterman and Walker. v.d. 1781-1782) (Item 414-450)
HMS L'Immortalite prize list for French frigate Le Dedeneuse taken by the L'Oiseau, Sirius and Amethyst, 27 January 1801 (Item 451-455)
HMS Santa Teresa prize list for the capture of L'Independent, French National zebeck, 17 September 1800 (Item 457-458)
Submitting copy of Charter party of ships with tea cargo, signed by William Devaynes and Stephen Lushington, East India House, 16 July 1789 (Item 461)
Admiralty letter to the Paymaster General signed by D. Long requesting statement for payment of the Greenwich pensioners, 19 January 1846 (Item 462)
Staff warrant signed by J.C. Sherbrooke and Thomas Finn Addison to Richard Alex Tucker, Department of the Paymaster General, at Halifax, 25 April 1816 (Item 463)
War Office circular to Lt. Col. Stapleton, authorising his drawing half pay from 82nd Regiment together with pay as Assistant Barrack Master, 26 March 1803 (Item 465)
Orders given and signed by John Vaughan, the General Commander in Chief in the Leeward and Charibee Islands to Robert Haldane Bradshaw, Deputy Paymaster-General of H.M. Forces, 1 March and 1 June 1781 (Item 466-467)
Copy of order with regard to ammunition to be provided and transported to Port Mahon, 16 January 1708 (Item 468)
Acknowledgement for victuals and forage received from 25 June to 24 August 1797. (2 forms). The first form is signed by Brig General J. Sheard, and the second by W.A. Villattes. (Item 469-470)
Affidavit of Stephen Thurston Adey (banker of Lombard Street) re the bankruptcy of James King and Joseph King signed by Edward Montague, 15 September 1788 (Item 472)
Prize lists of HMS Druid for the capture of the Prince of Murat, 2 February 1806 and in the capture of the Prussian property on board the Danish brig Swansen on 2 July 1806. (Item 473-480)
Appointment and power of attorney granted to William Jones by Charles A. Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough, 13 September 1808 (Item 481)
Oath of Carl Biermann re allowance granted to him by the British Government as a reduced Lieutenant from the late infantry of the Duke of Brunswick, 24 March 1816 (Item 482)
Order for the conveyance of military prisoner, signed by Lt. Col. T.R. Crawford of the Horse Guards, 29 August 1856 (Item 483)
Rolls of the regiment 'Lind's Mooltance Horse' forwarded to the Adjutant General at Allahabad, 21 December 1858 (Item 485)
Appointment of E.W. Jones by the Governor and President and Council of the East India Company to Major of Infantry at Bombay, 30 March 1837. Signed by Sir Robert Grant, Governor and John Keane, 1st Baron Keane (written on vellum) (Item 486)
'St Luke's Gospel in the language of Iai, Uvea Island, New Caledonia', translated by Rev. S. Ella , 1868. Typewritten from the original in 1890 and given to E.A. Petherick by Sydney H. Ray, 1891 (Item 487)
Series 17. Documents transcribed by Petherick and others
Petherick transcribed many documents relating to the discovery and settlement of Australia during the years 1565 to 1847. They are drawn mainly from English, French, Spanish and Dutch sources and include descriptions of many early voyages. In 1966, Father Celsus Kelly O.F.M. prepared notes for some of the documents; these are included in brackets below the descriptions.
D. Solander to 'Doctor', December 1771 - 27 July 1772, with account of Cook's voyage. 13pp. (Item 1-7)
Notes on the life of Governor Arthur Phillip from Adventures and Recollections of Col. G.T. Landmann (3pp). (Item 8-10)
'A Journey in the South of New Holland', by W. Hovell and H. Hume, from Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, XXVIII, Paris, December 1825 (Item 69-75)
Voyage of Captain Edwardson along southern coast of Lavai - Poenammon, November 1822 to March 1823, from Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, XXIX. 40pp. (Item 76-116)
Jean Hardouin. Prolegomena to a Censure of Old writers, London, P. Vaillans, 1766, 166pp. in 3 parts. (Item 117-313.)
'Scheme of a Voyage for the Conveyance of Food and other necessaries of Life to New Zealand' by Alexander Dalrymple, 1771 (Item 342-349)
Edward Markham. Account of voyage to Van Diemen's Land on the ship Warrior, sailed 17 March 1833 from Gravesend. 56pp. (Item 404-438)
Letter to His Majesty from Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and others who accompanied him to the Island of Zebu, 29 May 1565 /?/ - from Mendoza, Coleceion, XIII (1870), ff 527-528. 5pp. (Item 555-559)
Narrative or Log-Book of the Course of the Navigation made by the Brigantine which sailed from Zacatula in New Spain to discover the coast of the South Sea, by order of Alvaro de Sayavedera Ceron, Captain General, and of O. Hernando Cortes, Governor of Said Kingdom (1527). 116pp. (Item 560-812)
Description of the expedition and first voyage made for the discovery of the Solomon Islands by the Governor Alvaro de Mendana, his chief pilot being Hernan Gallego who wrote the narrative, 1567-1568, 576pp. Vol. I with contents list. Also Introduction by Justo Zaragoza, 49pp. (Item 813-1427)
Vol. II Description of later voyages of Mendana, extracts from memorials, etc. 1595-1700, 546pp. with Contents List and introduction by Justo Zaraqoza. (Item 1428-2015)
Journal of a Voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador commencing 7 April and ending 17 November 1766. 96pp. [Original held in Royal Geographical Society of Australia, Adelaide] Anonymous copy. 96pp. Joseph Banks' 'Lisbon Journal', 1766. 14pp. (Item 2016-2076)
Account of the discovery of the Molucca islands by the way of the West Indies by Ivan Caetan, Castilian pilot. n.d. 7pp. (Item 2077-2081)
Extracts from State Papers, Domestic, James I, vol XIX, March 1606, concerning the trial of John Healey. 17pp. (Item 2028-2092)
Discourse upon the letters of the Florentine Andrea Corsali to Dukes Guiliano de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici, n.d. 35pp. (Item 2093-2123)
John Welbe. Memorial for a company to trade with Terra Australis and petitions 1712-1721, 28pp., together with Petherick correspondence and notes, 1911-1912 (Item 2124-2169)
John Peter Purry - 4 memorials for Colonizing the Land of the Kaffirs, Cape of Good Hope, and of Nuyts Land in New Holland, 1718-1725, 62pp. (Item 2170-2194)
Charles Tompson. Description of districts on the South Coast, 1847. 4pp. Marcus Clarke's poem 'The Australian Bush'. n.d. 1p. (Item 2195-2201)
Alexander Humboldt. Examien Critique on the History of the Geography of the New Continent, n.d. 47pp. (Item 2202-2218)
Class MS Acc09.003. Consignment Added 2009
Comprises the deed of gift to the Commonwealth of Australia of an Australasian and Polynesian library. This is the signed and sealed illuminated address, recording the presentation by E.A. Petherick and his wife Mary Agatha Petherick, to the Chairman of the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, of his private library for the use of the people of the Commonwealth. The collection of some 16,500 titles formed the nucleus of the National Library of Australia's collection of Australiana.
Contained in 1 elephant folio.