Guide to the Journal of Thomas Hodgkin (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1918
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Online Items
Series. Volume 1, 22 January 1909 - July 1909
Retrospective account of voyage on Orontes from Tilbury to Melbourne, 22 January 1909 - 5 March 1909 (File)
Travels via Suez, Colombo, Perth and Adelaide. Includes lists of passengers, impressions of Perth and Adelaide, and meetings with Friends. (pp. 1-30)
Journal kept at irregular intervals during visit to Tasmania, March 1909 - April 1909 (File)
Describes Launceston, Hobart, and landscape, social events, meetings of Friends, addresses and readings, affairs of Friends' School, history of Walker Family, and gives details of several Quaker families. (pp. 31-54).
Journal kept at irregular intervals during visit to New Zealand, April 1909 - July 1909 (File)
Describes voyage across Tasman Sea, impressions of Dunedin, Lake Wakatipu, Christchurch, Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Auckland, visits to Canterbury College and other universities, meetings with T.M. Hocken, J.W. Salmond, W.B. Matheson, Holdsworth Family, Reverend. H.W. Williams, Joseph Vaughan, meetings of Friends, details of individual Quakers, Conference of New Zealand Friends in Wellington, proposal to establish Quaker colony, lecture in Dunedin by E. Shackleton, and meetings with politicians. (pp. 55-117).
Series. Volume 2, July 1909 - January 1910
Journal of visit to New South Wales, July 1909 (File)
It gives his impressions of Sydney, and describes visits to Sydney University, meetings with Friends, and a trip to the Blue Mountains. (pp.1-19).
Journal of visit to Queensland, July 1909 - August 1909 (File)
It refers to the Queensland economy, Pacific labour trade, Chinese in Queensland, impressions of Brisbane, Friends in Brisbane, visits to and meetings with Friends in Rockhampton, Mount Morgan and Toowoomba. (pp. 20-41).
Journal of visit to Victoria, August 1909 - September 1909 (File)
It gives his impressions of Melbourne, and describes visits to Melbourne University and Federal Parliamentary Library, talks with E.A. Petherick, Sir Thomas Carmichael and G. Swinburne, the Australian Church, and meetings with Friends in Melbourne and Ballarat. (pp. 42-59).
Journal of visit to South Australia, September 1909 - October 1909 (File)
It includes impressions of Adelaide, notes on South Australian history, meetings with Sir Samuel Way, A. Darnley Naylor, and Sir Day Bosanquet, visits to Adelaide University and a wool auction, meetings with Friends at Adelaide and Blackwood, discussions about the Labor Party and migration the land question, irrigation, Germans in South Australia, and a visit to settlements on the Murray River. It also summarizes discussions at the General Meeting of Australian Friends. (pp. 60-96).