Guide to the Papers of Edward Pratt
MS 2277
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- Edward Pratt
- Title
- Papers of Edward Pratt
- Date Range
- 1854-1902
- Collection Number
- MS 2277
- Extent
- 1.96 metres (14 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2281967).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Edward Pratt, National Library of Australia, MS 2277, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Item Descriptions
Class. Original Consignment
Notes on taxation and confiscation, fortnight's visit to Melbourne Winter 1867, and Meteorological observations on Myalla in 1882. (File 23) - Box 3
Press cuttings from 1880s, 1 photograph (File 28) - Box 3
Mainly letters to the editor written by Edward Pratt who signs himself E. P., E. Pratt, A Southern Squatter or Edward Pratt, Myalla. The letters are concerned with a variety of issues including shearing agreements, land, taxation, the Cooma-Goulburn Railway and accounting.
Sydney Morning Herald p, 5-6, 10 July 1867 (File 29) - Box 3
This article which has been pasted together details the case of blasphemy made against Edward Pratt of the Grammar School. The matter was discussed in the Legislative Assembly and the SMH printed a number of letters from pupils and others who supported Mr. Pratt.
Indentures 10 April 188; Mortgage of Samuel Alfred Pratt, 10/4/1883 of Myalla for 500 pounds. (File 33) - Box 3
Miscellaneous folder that contains lists of students and the fees paid for tuition by Pratt and a number of documents that list how to perform household chores, some basic recipes, some extracts from poems and plays. (File 35) - Folio-Box 1
The Tyro's Greek and English Lexicon, London, 1825 inscribed Edward Pratt, Corpus Christi College Cambridge (Item) - Box 4
Line upon line, or, a second series of the Earliest Religion Instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving, 1846, London, Part 2. (Item) - Box 4
Prideaux's Connections - The Old and New Testament connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations, Part 1 and 2. (Item) - Box 5
History of the English Revolution, 1845, by F Guizot presented to Edward Pratt by Peter Holmes for satisfactory progress in his school duties. (Item) - Box 5
An exposition of the thirty-nine articles of the Church of England, by Gilbert Bishop of Sarum. London, 6th Edition. (Item) - Box 5
Manners and customs noticed in various passages of Holy Scripture London 1845. Inscribed to Edward Pratt for satisfactory progress in his school duties. (Item) - Box 5
Moore's Irish Melodies, illustrated with black and white pen and ink drawings on each page, 1866 (Item) - Box 6
The History of the College of Corpus Christie and the B. Virgin Mary at the University of Cambridge. (Item) - Box 6
Class. Consignment added 2 August 1993
The Myalla diaries, 1871-1890 (22 vols), kept by Pratt, were donated to the library by Gordon Ferguson, grandson of Edward Pratt. Pratt bought the lease of Myalla Station, near Cooma, in 1872 but continued teaching at the Sydney Grammar School until 1881. His brother Samuel managed the station from 1873-1881. Samuel Pratt's diary, 1874, is included in the papers. Diaries for 1884 and 1888 were not received by the Library. Biographical details of the Pratt family are included with the diaries.
Class. Consignment added 13 March 1995
Myalla Station was managed from June 1897 by Gilbert Percival Ferguson, who married Edward Pratt's daughter, Ellen Amy, in 1898. The Gilbert Fergusons bought Myalla after Pratt's death in 1903. Gilbert died in 1923 and Myalla was managed by his sons Edward Bruce and Gordon Alexander (b. 1905) from 1928 until it was sold to J. Litchfield in 1967.
The papers include the Myalla diaries kept by Gilbert Ferguson and his sons, 1905-1965, station books including ledgers, stock, cash and wages books, indenture and mortgage books, a Chinese book and photographs. The book was a gift to Mrs E. A. Ferguson from her brother Frederick Pratt, a journalist for the Far Eastern Review in China.
Diaries for 1912, 1921, 1966 and 1967 were not received by the Library.