Guide to the Sir John Ferguson collection of papers of John Fawkner
MS 3337
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- Fawkner, John Pascoe, 1792-1869
- Title
- Sir John Ferguson collection of papers of John Fawkner
- Date Range
- 1810 - 1869
- Collection Number
- MS 3337
- Extent
- 0.75 metres (4 folders + 1 packet + 1 large folio box)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise legal documents such as agreements between Fawkner and Joseph Robins (1852), E. M. Sayers (1842), and Fred Hinton (1842); diaries (1859, 1860), a Rent Book (1866); insurance policies, receipts, invoices; petitions to Fawkner concerning the Amended Insolvency Bill (1867) and the Mining Law Amendment Bill (1865); and a few letters to Fawkner from town clerks, the Treasury Department, and the Melbourne Public Librarian, Augustus Tulk. A second group of papers consists of cuttings, photographs and factual accounts of Fawkner sent to Sir John Ferguson by Mrs A. E. Walsh, whose husband was related to Fawkner. In addition there are typescript notes on the Colder manuscripts (held in the La Trobe Library, Melbourne), issue no. 1 of The Freeholder and Convention Expositor (8 Jan 1858) and typescript extracts from Fawkner manuscripts also held in the La Trobe Library. Finally there is a large album (kept in folio run) containing early maps of Melbourne, receipts from sales of Fawkner's land, original copies of Vol. 1/no. 1 and Vol 1/no. 10 and two facsimile copies of Vol. 1/no. 2 of Fawkner's The Melbourne Advertiser (1838) and a copy of the Leader (June, 1862)(1 box, 1 folio box).
Item Descriptions
Series. Legal documents, diaries, financial records and related papers
Legal documents such as agreements between Fawkner and Joseph Robins (1852), E. M. Sayers (1842), and Fred Hinton (1842); diaries (1859, 1860), a Rent Book (1866); insurance policies, receipts, invoices; petitions to Fawkner concerning the Amended Insolvency Bill (1867) and the Mining Law Amendment Bill (1865); and a few letters to Fawkner from town clerks, the Treasury Department, and the Melbourne Public Librarian, Augustus Tulk.
Series. Cuttings, photographs and accounts
Cuttings, photographs and factual accounts of Fawkner sent to Sir John Ferguson by Mrs A. E. Walsh, whose husband was related to Fawkner. In addition there are typescript notes on the Colder manuscripts (held in the La Trobe Library, Melbourne), issue no. 1 of The Freeholder and Convention Expositor (8 Jan 1858) and typescript extracts from Fawkner manuscripts also held in the La Trobe Library. Finally there is a large album (kept in folio run) containing early maps of Melbourne, receipts from sales of Fawkner's land, original copies of Vol. 1/no. 1 and Vol 1/no. 10 and two facsimile copies of Vol. 1/no. 2 of Fawkner's The Melbourne Advertiser (1838) and a copy of the Leader (June, 1862).