MS Acc10.207 and MS Acc10.216
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Mawson Family
- Title
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Papers of the Mawson Family
- Date Range
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1865-1997
- Collection Number
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MS Acc10.207 and MS Acc10.216
- Extent
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2.03 metres (6 boxes + 1 map folio + 1 folder)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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National Library of Australia
Introduction
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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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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
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Item Descriptions
Class MS Acc10.207. Original Consignment (received 17 December 2010)
papers collected by Gareth Thomas relating to the Mawson family. The majority of the papers in this collection comprise personal correspondence of Paquita Mawson (née Delprat), principally with her daughter Patricia, but also with her daughter Jessica, and with other members of her extended family. There is a small group of letters of Douglas Mawson to Patricia, 1925-1931. Other papers include a small number of undated black and white photographs depicting Antarctic exploration; a typescript draft of Paquita Mawson's biography of her father, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, published in 1958; a Deed of Agreement between the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and G.D. Delprat (1898); and architectural plans of a house for G.D. Delprat at Brighton, South Australia (1909).
Comprises 6 boxes + 1 map folio.
Deed of Agreement between the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and Guillaume Daniel Delprat, 1898 (File) - Box 1
Undated letters from Paquita Mawson to her daughter, Patricia, nd (File) - Box 1
Letters to Paquita Mawson from her daughter, Patricia, c1930s (File) - Box 1
Letters to Paquita Mawson from Holland, mostly written in Dutch, 1938-1952 (File) - Box 1
Letters from Paquita Mawson to her daughters Patricia and Jessica, c1930-1947 (File) - Box 1
Letter from Nancy Flannery to Jessica McEwin (1997) and ephemera relating to Douglas Mawson in the form of a program of the Adelaide Repertory Theatre (1930), of which he was a Patron, 1930; 1997 (File) - Box 1
Letters from Jessie Delprat to Paquita Mawson, 1955-1966' [Jessie Delprat was married to Paquita's brother, Guillaume Daniel Delprat], 1955-1966 (File) - Box 1
Letters Paquita Mawson from her brother, Daniel Delprat, 1951-1962 (File) - Box 2
Letters to Paquita Mawson, mainly from Patricia, but included are several from Jessica and other family members, c1930-1940 (File) - Box 2
Summary of letters to Paquita Mawson from her sister-in-laws Sadie Delprat and Phyllis Delprat, both of whom were at one time married to her brother Theodore Daniel Delprat [created by Nancy Flannery?], 1954-1965 (File) - Box 2
Letters: Paquita and Douglas Mawson to Henrietta Delprat [Paquita's mother] (1918-1919), Theodore Delprat to his mother (1904-1930), Irene Delprat [first wife of Theo] to her mother-in-law, Henrietta Delprat (1912-1916), 1904-1930 (File) - Box 2
Letters of Paquita Mawson to her daughter, Patricia, 1949-1950 (File) - Box 2
Letters from Paquita Mawson to her daughters Patricia and Jessica, 1926-1972 (File) - Box 3
Typescript draft of A vision of steel : the life of G.D. Delprat, C.B.E., General Manager of B.H.P. 1898-1921 by Paquita Mawson (published 1958) (File) - Box 3
Letters from Patricia Mawson to her grandmother, Henrietta Delprat, 1919 (File) - Box 3
Letters to Paquita Mawson from her sister, Carmen Teppema (1944-1959), together with the death notice of her brother-in-law Petrus Teppema (1960), 1944-1960 (File) - Box 3
Letters from Patricia Mawson to her parents, c1920s-1967, bulk 1954 (File) - Box 3
Letters to Paquita Mawson from her niece, Tania Teppema [daughter of her sister, Carmen Teppema] (File) - Box 3
Small group of letters to Patricia and Jessica from family and friends, 1927; 1994-1995 (File) - Box 3
Letter from Douglas Mawson to Amy Baesjou (photocopy), 1931 (File) - Box 3
Small group of letters to Patricia and Jessica from their Delprat grandparents, 1928-1929 (File) - Box 3
Letters to Douglas Mawson from his daughters, Patrice and Jessica, c1922-1933 (File) - Box 3
Miscellaneous Delprat family papers comprising mainly letters, some written in Dutch, mostly to Paquita Mawson (1878-1968); there is also is a letter written by Henrietta Delprat [Paquit'a mother](1865) together with her passport (1928) and a transcription of early letters written c1831, possibly used as research for Paquita Mawson's book A vision of steel, 1865-1968 (File) - Box 4
Letters from Paquita Mawson to her daughters, Patricia and Jessica, 1928-1967 (File) - Box 4
Miscellaneous papers relating to Patricia and Jessica Mawson. Includes dance cards (1933); school books and reports for Patricia (1927-1932); a school report for Jessica (nd), and a black and white photograph of an unidentified group of people, c1927-1933 (File) - Box 4
Small group of letters from Paquita Mawson to family members and others, c1917-1964 (File) - Box 4
Paquita Mawson - notes and drafts of talks - mostly reminiscences of Holland, nd (File) - Box 4
Letters to Paquita Mawson from Daniel and Jessie Delprat [Paquita's brother and sister-in-law], 1951-1966 (File) - Box 4
Letters to Paquita Mawson from family (mostly grandchildren) and friends, 1928-1973 (bulk 1960s-1970s) (File) - Box 4
Letters to Paquita Mawson from Daniel and Jessie Delprat [Paquita's brother and sister-in-law], 1951-1966 (File) - Box 4
Miscellaneous group of papers relating to Douglas Mawson. There is a small group of correspondence (1929-1947); ephemera relating to Douglas Mawson and organisations with which he was associated; a copy of the order of service for Mawson's funeral (1958), together with obituaries and tributes written about him; and a group of cuttings, mostly relating to Philip Law and Antarctic research (1953), 1929-1984 (File) - Box 5
Photocopies of business letters of Douglas Mawson, the originals of which are held at the Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research, Adelaide, 1917-1958 (File) - Box 5
Small group of undated letters from Paquita Mawson to her daughter Patricia; B W photo of Patricia and Jessica, nd but c1930s; scrapbook containing reviews of A vision of steel, by Paquita Mawson (1958), c1930s-1958 (File) - Box 5
Life Insurance papers relating to Ifor Thomas, husband of Patricia (Mawson), 1936-1941 (File) - Box 5
Notes by Patricia Thomas about trips undertaken, nd (File) - Box 5
Transcript of an interview of Patricia Thomas conducted by Averil Holt for the Brighton City Council, 1982 (File) - Box 5
Letters, mainly family, to/from Paquita Mawson (1911-1973), together with a small group of letters to Patricia Thomas (c1994-1997) and a copy of the Marriage Certificate of Paquita and Douglas Mawson (1914), 1911-1997 (File) - Box 5
Letters from Paquita Mawson, mostly to her daughter Patricia, together with a small group of personal letters written by others to both Paquita and Patricia (1959-1964); early B W photographs of Antarctic exploration - images of men and sleds on the ice and on board ship (no dates or annotations), 1959-1964 (File) - Box 6
Early typescript draft of A vision of steel by Paquita Mawson, inset with a letter from her father, Guillaume Delprat (1934), nd (File) - Box 6
Small group of letters from Jessica to her sister, Patricia, nd (File) - Box 6
Small group of letters from Paquita Mawson to her daughter Patricia, c1932-1959 (File) - Box 6
Small group of papers of Patricia Mawson - includes a typescript reminiscence of a trip to Canberra with her father in 1939 (File) - Box 6
Letters from Douglas Mawson to his daughter, Patricia, 1925-1931 (File) - Box 6
Business letters to Douglas Mawson (1955-1956); typescripts of an address by Paquita Mawson (nd); typescript about Macquarie Island [by Mawson?] (nd); fragment of a letter from Paquita Mawson to her daughter Patricia (1960), 1955-1960 (File) - Box 6
Papers relating to Patricia Thomas (daughter of Douglas and Paquita Mawson) being made a member of the Order of Australia 'for service to the science of zoology in both research and teaching and to the development of the Australian Helminthological Collection', 1994 (File) - Box 6
Obituary of Ifor M. Thomas (Patricia's husband) (1985); copy of a research paper of which Thomas was co-author (nd), 1985 (File) - Box 6
Letters from Barbara Cleland to Patricia Mawson, together with three letters from Patricia to Barbara, 1931-1950 (File) - Box 6
Letters to Patricia and Jessica Mawson from family, including 'Aunt Dally', Jeanne [daughter of William Mawson, Douglas Mawson's brother] and their Delprat grandmother (2 folders), 1940-1958 (File) - Box 6
Family tree and notes (File) - Box 6
Set of five architectural plans of a house for G.D. Delprat in Brighton, South Australia, 1909 (File) - Folio 7
Class MS Acc10.216. Second Consignment (added 20 December 2010)
Telegram from Douglas Mawson to his fiancee, Paquita Delprat, advising her that he was alive after having been missing in the Antarctic for some months.
Comprises 1 folder.