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Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], [Transcripts], National Library of Australia, MS 74, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
The transcripts were purchased from Miss Deane in 1921-30. Further transcripts and other family papers acquired from Miss Deane in 1958 are held at MS 60.
Mathilde Elizabeth Deane was the daughter of the notable engineer Henry Deane. In 1913 she moved with her father from Sydney to Melbourne and for some years worked for publishers, including Critchley Parker and Thomas Lothien. In May 1919 she was engaged by the Public Library of New South Wales to make typescript transcripts of the despatches of the Governor of Victoria for the period 1851-60, in the Public Library of Victoria. She completed the task in 1922 and then compiled an index to the despatches, as well as transcribing letters of Matthew Flinders. In 1926 Deane emigrated to England, where she remained permanently. She transcribed Victorian despatches and other papers not held in Melbourne or Sydney, at the Public Record Office in London, but gave up the work on account of ill-health in 1930.
Despatches from the Governor of Victoria to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1851-1860 (4764 pages)
Despatches from the Governor of Victoria to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1851-1860, not held in Melbourne,compiled in London 1926 (843 pages)