Guide to the Collections held by the Nottingham University Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Nottingham University Library. Manuscripts Department

Title

Collections held by the Nottingham University Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1840 - 1942

Collection Number

M1578

Extent

27 items

Language of Materials

English

Repository

Australian Joint Copying Project

Sponsor

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Papers of Vernon Family, comprising journal 1857-1860 of HMS Cordelia, captained by C.E.H. Vernon, on voyage to Australia and the Western Pacific and correspondence book 1856-1861 of HMS Iris.

Papers 1933-1942 of George Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, Governor-General of New Zealand, referring to his appointment as a Privy Councillor, the abdication of King Edward VIII, New Zealand public affairs, and Galway's return to England in 1941.

Letters 1907 from Lieutenant H.D.H. Willoughby to his mother while serving on HMS Powerful on the Australian Station.

Papers 1840-1907 of J.E. Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, including extracts from letters of Henry and Alfred Denison in New South Wales and letters of Sir William Denison referring to public affairs in Van Diemen's Land, education, churches, Irish political exiles, and cessation of transportation.

Papers 1792-1794 of William Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, comprising a list of convicts and petitions of convicts sentenced to transportation.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Material selectively filmed at the Manuscripts Department, University of Nottingham, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1982 (AJCP Reel: M1578). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

University of Nottingham Library, King's Meadow Campus, Lenton Lane, Nottingham, England.

For further information see The University of Nottingham Library - Manuscripts and Special Collections. [http://mss-cat.nottingham.ac.uk/CalmView/default.aspx?]

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2257875] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Related Materials

The Papers of Henry Pelham Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle under Lyme (M1575-M1577) [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn735333], also held by the Nottingham University Library were listed and filmed seperately.

Finding-aid Notes

This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.

Subjects

Arundell, Sir George V., 8th Viscount Galway; Australia; Bentinck, William C., 3rd Duke of Portland; Church buildings: Australia; Convicts; Convicts: Tasmania; Cordelia, HMS (ship); Denison, Alfred; Denison, Henry; Denison, J.E., 1st Viscount Ossington; Denison, Sir William T.; Education; Edward VIII, King of England; Great Britain; Governors and Governors General: New Zealand; Iris, HMS (ship); Naval officers; New South Wales; New Zealand: politics and government; Politicians: Britain; Powerful, HMS (ship); Royal Navy: Australian Station; Royal Navy: voyages; Transportation of Convicts: cessation; Vernon Family; Vernon, C.E.H., Capt.; Willoughby, H.D.H., Lieut.

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 355, p. 136. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]