Guide to the Collections held by the William Salt Library (as filmed by the AJCP)
M831
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- William Salt Library
- Title
- Collections held by the William Salt Library (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1798-c.1890
- Collection Number
- M831
- Extent
- 1 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
Kirby manuscripts: letter 1880 from J. Barrett, Waimate, New Zealand, describing life in New Zealand; printed catalogue c.1905 (16 p.) of a historical exhibition aboard a ship reputed to be the Success. The catalogue contains lengthy notes about individual convicts and settlers associated with the Success, especially during its days as a prison hulk.
Hand, Morgan and Owen, solicitors: New Zealand Company Terms of Purchase for a Quantity of Land in the Wellington District, by John Ward, Secretary, New Zealand House (London, 1843); printed circular 1843 on the subject of purchase of land by Thomas C. Harington, an official of the Association for Promoting the Settlement of Otago. A map of New Zealand is included in the article.
Six engravings of people and views of Manila c.1798.
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 William Salt Library, Stafford, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1971 (AJCP Reel: M831). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
William Salt Library. 19 Eastgate Street, Stafford, Staffordshire ST16 2LZ, EnglandFor more information see William Salt Library (https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/williamsalt/home.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-vn725577] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
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
Association for Promoting the Settlement of Otago; Barrett, J.; Convict ships; Convicts; Harrington, Thomas C.; Land companies; Land: New Zealand; Manila, Philippines; Maps, plans and charts: New Zealand; New Zealand; New Zealand Company; Otago, New Zealand; Paintings, drawings and prints: Philippines; Philippines; Solicitors; Success, convict ship; Waimate, New Zealand; Ward, John; Wellington, New Zealand
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 502, p194.
Biographical / Historical
The William Salt Library opened in Stafford in 1872 and has occupied its current building since 1918. William Salt (1808-1863), whose grandfather was the founder of the Stafford banking company Stevenson Salt & Company, was a London banker and antiquary. He assembled a large collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, watercolours, drawings and transcripts. After his death, the collection was donated to the county of Staffordshire. The Library is administered by an independent trust, with the support of the Staffordshire County Council. Assisted by the Friends of the William Salt Library, it continues to collect printed material relating to Staffordshire.
Item Descriptions
Series 253/68. Records of J.N. Mart (Select)
Catalogue of exhibits displayed on the barque Success (File)
Used as a convict hulk at Melbourne in 1852-1854, and the last surviving convict ship, n.d. (printed, cover page missing, 16pp). The ship was first exhibited as a relic in Australia in 1890 and sailed to England in 1894, where it was exhibited for many years.