Guide to the Papers of Edward Pratt

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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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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

Diaries, 1871-1880 (File 1-12) - Box 1

Diaries, 1881-1890 (File 13-22) - Box 2

Notes on taxation and confiscation, fortnight's visit to Melbourne Winter 1867, and Meteorological observations on Myalla in 1882. (File 23) - Box 3

Ricardo's Law, Land Value, Taxation (File 24) - Box 3

Accounts for Lasseter Co; Civil Service Co-op Society, 1900-1903 (File 25) - Box 3

[No file 26] (File 26) - Box 3

Correspondence, accounting notes (File 27) - 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.

Press cutting book of Pratt's Letters to the Editor (File 30) - Box 3

Sydney Grammar School Testimonials to Mr. Pratt (File 31) - Box 3

Press cuttings of Pratt's Letters to the Editor, 1864-1882 (File 32) - Box 3

Indentures 10 April 188; Mortgage of Samuel Alfred Pratt, 10/4/1883 of Myalla for 500 pounds. (File 33) - Box 3

Biographical notes of Edward Pratt (File 34) - 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

Essay concerning Human Understanding in four books, Vol 1, by John Locke. (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

Photos (small) of various Pratt family members. Some have notation. (Item) - Box 4

Album of photos of Myalla station and sleeves of photos of Pratt family members. (Item) - Box 4

Scrapbook of further letters to the editor by Edward Pratt. (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

The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, Vol 1 and 2 (loose cover on volume 1) (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

Aeschyli, Tragoedie written in Greek (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

Homer, Iliad in the Greek, 1828 (Item) - Box 5

The English Poets, Chaucer to Donne (1892) Vol, 1 by T H Ward (Item) - Box 6

The English Poets, Ben Johnson to Dryden (1895) Vol 2 by T H Ward (Item) - Box 6

The Holy Bible 1821 (cover detached) (Item) - Box 6

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

Natural Theology or evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity by William Paley, D. D Archdeacon of Carlisle, 1803 (Item) - Box 6

The Greek Testament, 4th Edition, in Greek with some explanations in English (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.

Myalla diaries, 1871-1880 (File) - Box 7

Myalla diaries, 1881-1890 (File) - Box 8

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.

Diaries, 1905-1911 (File) - Box 9

Diaries, 1913-1924 (File) - Box 10

Diaries, 1925-1941 (File) - Box 11

Diaries, 1942-1965 (File) - Box 12

Stock returns, 1887-1901 (kept by E. Pratt) (Item) - Box 13

Stock returns, 1952-1967 (kept by G. A. Ferguson) (Item) - Box 13

Wages book, 1926-38 (Item) - Box 13

Wages book, 1955-64 (Item) - Box 13

Cash book, 1902-24, kept by Pratt and later G. P. Ferguson (Item) - Box 13

Cash book, 1955-71, kept by G. A. Ferguson and the Accountant (Item) - Box 14

Ledger, 1894-1902, kept by Pratt (Item) - Box 14

Ledger, kept by the Accountant in 1967, and continued after the sale of the station in 1967 to J. Litchfield, to show distribution to membersof the family. (Item) - Box 14

Six indentures and two mortgages, 1872-1904 (File) - Box 14

Sian: a coup d'etat ; Chinese photographs (File) - Box 14


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