Guide to the Papers of Sir John Henniker Heaton

MS 7910

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Collection Summary

Creator: Sir John Henniker Heaton
Title: Papers of Sir John Henniker Heaton
Date Range: 1818-1916
Collection Number: MS 7910
Extent: 0.15 metres (1 box)
Language of Materials: English
Repository: National Library of Australia

Introduction

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2074613) for the access conditions.

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Sir John Henniker Heaton, National Library of Australia, MS 7910, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Item Descriptions

Series 1. Letters to Henniker Heaton

M. Norton, 3.9.1880 (Item)

Van Stephan-German PMG, 10.10.1886 (Item)

Francis Knollys, 25.9.1889 (Item)

Sir Henry Parkes from Sydney when P.M. of N.S.W., 4.11.1889 (Item)

Paul Blouet, 1.5.1891 (Item)

Viscount Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 27.2.1892 (Item)

Paul Blouet, 24.9.1892 (Item)

Morley Roberts - author, 29.5.1895 (Item)

Viscount Lamington ? P.M. of Queensland, 8.2.1897 (Item)

Viscount Lamington ?, 21.1.1898 (Item)

General French when C. in C. Aldershot, 8.10.1902 (Item)

W.T. Stead, journalist and author, 25.2.1903 (Item)

A.J. Balfour when P.M. from 10 Downing Street, 19.12.1904 (Item)

Henry Waoe, Dean of Canterbury, 5.4.1905 (Item)

Duke of Northumberland, 5.8.1905 (Item)

Algermon de Horsey, 12.10.1905 (Item)

Reginald Tower, 18.10.1905 (Item)

Johitelaw Reid, U.S. Ambassador in London, 11.6.1906 (Item)

Viscount Milner, statesman, 8.5.1907 (Item)

Henry Cust, politician and journalist, 1.2.1909 (Item)

H. Waoe Dean of Canterbury, 21.11.1908 (Item)

Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir Joseph Ward, 7.5.1909 (Item)

Prime Minister of Ceylon, 21.7.1909 (Item)

J.J. Casey, 24.8.1909 (Item)

J.R. Boose Secretary Royal Colonial Institute, 7.6.1910 (Item)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American poet, 2.5.1911 (Item)

Colonial Office, 7.6.1911 (Item)

Viscount Knutsford 87th Birthday, 4.8.1911 (Item)

Herbert Samuel P.M.G., 16.2.1914 (Item)

? from Brisbane promoting the "Compulsory Training which Australia has adopted", 17.2.1914 (Item)

Earl of Jersey, Governor of N.S.W. 1891-1893 (Item)

Wilfred Meynell, biographer journalist (Item)

Series 2. Letters from Henniker Heaton

Wilfred Meynell, biographer journalist, 14.8.1901 (Item)

Envelope, letter enclosing cutting to E. Cant-Wall Esq., 29.8.1901 (Item)

Harry Brittain, 9.10.1908 (Item)

T.L. Garvin, 10.6.1911 (Item)

Harry Brittain, 12.6.1911 (Item)

Harry Brittain, 26.6.1911 (Item)

Harry Brittain, 23.6.1911 (Item)

Harry Brittain, 25.7.1911 (Item)

Wilfred Meynell, 22.8.1911 (Item)

Sir Wolf Barry, 12.12.1912 (Item)

E. Cant-Wall Esq., 29.11.1912 (Item)

"My Dear Old Friend" E. Cant-Wall, 1.5.1913 (Item)

"My Dear C." E. Cant-Wall, 1.4.1914 (Item)

Colonel Terry, 29.4.1914 (Item)

Series 3. Other Letters

Letters to Mrs Heaton, 10.4.1910, from William Redmond (Item)

Letters to Rose Henniker Heaton (the daughter later Mrs. Adrian Prior) after her father's death on 8th September 1914 at Geneva (Item)

Writers include: Charles Allen - American politician; Mackenzie Bell; Earl of Buxton (from Government House Pretoria); Austen Chamberlain - statesman; G.M. Chamberlain (2); H.J. Creedy(W.O. Kitchener's p.s.); Arthur Davidson; Marjorie Drummond; William Heaton - relative; Harrison Hill; Robert Mellors; Wilfred Meynell - journalist; J.M. Le Safe; L.F. Sandys; Mrs. James Speyer - American poet; T.S. Townend (2); M. Webb

Series 4. Postal Souvenirs

Mulready 1d. envelope unused, 1840 (Item)

Ocean Penny Postage envelope designed by Valentine of Dundee, c. 1852 (Item)

Postcard written by Henniker Heaton at Karlsbad to his daughter in England, 1898 (Item)

Victoria 3d. registered envelope - a sample copy, unused but dated 7.1.1901, 1901 (Item)

Two envelopes posted on 1.10.1908, the first day of Ocean Penny Postage in America, one from Buffalo addressed to "The Father of Penny Postage London, Eng." , the other addressed to "The Hon. J.H.H. at the House of Commons" containing a congratulatory letter., 1908 (Item)

First U.K. Aerial Post - the pink presentation envelope addressed to H.H. and flown from London to Windsor 15.9.1911, with compliments enclosure from W. Windham (the founder), 1911 (Item)

Series 5. Personal Souvenirs

Military Pass for Sir H.H. as former P.M.G. - Karlsbad 19.8.1914 American Consul in Karlsbad recommendation for Sir H.H., 31 August 1914 (Item)

Series 6. Printed Material

Universal Ocean Penny Postage - Speech made by J. Henniker Heaton, M.P. for Canterbury, in the House of Commons 30 March 1886. (Item)

Jottings from Memory 1818-1824 By Alfred Stephen. Sydney 1891 (Private Circulation Only). Endorsed to Henniker Heaton with a covering letter. (Item)

Recollections of Sir Henry Parkes by William Walker, MLC. Windsor, 1896 (Item)

Guinea Postal Orders - A BILL to enable the Postmaster General to issue Postal Orders of the value of Twenty-one Shillings Henniker Heaton 11 June 1903 signed "Passed 1803 J. Henniker Heaton". (Item)

A Morning with the Postmaster General. Corrected proof of a monograph by J.H.H. (Item)

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