Guide to the Papers of the De Salis Family
MS 7989
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- De Salis Family
- Title
- Papers of the De Salis Family
- Date Range
- c. 1840-c.1930
- Collection Number
- MS 7989
- Extent
- 14 metres (52 ms boxes + 2 phase boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 3 Folio-packets + 1 non standard MS box + 1 map folio)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence between family members, friends and business associates; political notes; post cards; published material; press cuttings.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1988344).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 the De Salis Family, National Library of Australia, MS 7989, [series and/or file number]'.
Related Materials
See MS 2623 for the Family Tree.
See also MS 2656 for the Papers of Pierce Galliard Smith.
Biographical Note
Leopold Fabius Dietegan Fane de Salis (1816-1898) migrated to Australia in 1840 with his brother-in-law. He married Charlotte MacDonald in 1844 and had five children; Leopold William (1845-1930) who married Jeanette Caroline Armstrong in 1895; Rodolph (1841-1876); George Arthur Charles (1852-1932) who married Mary St Irving Galliard Smith in 1878; Henry Gubert (1858-1931); Nina who married William Farrer. Leopold acquired large pastoral interests including Darbalara Station which he bought in 1840 and which he sold in 1855 when he moved higher up the Murrumbidgee to Cuppacumbalong, Tharwa. He lost extensive holdings in Queensland in the 1892 crisis. He was Member of the Legislative Council 1874-1898 in the Queanbeyan District. Leopold William was MLA 1872-1874 and George Fane de Salis was MLA 1885-1885.
Item Descriptions
Series 1. Papers of Leopold Fane de Salis, 1816-1898
Land conveyance and indenture documents, including the following conveyance Documents: (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 1
1882 Bernard McTiernan to James McTiernan1881 Mary McTiernan to J.&B. McTiernan1872 William Roohan to Hugh McTiernan1870 Thomas Wilson to William Roohan1895 William Cosgrove and another, to William Lenane1865 William Lenehan Jr. to Thomas Wilson1860 Charles Bolt to William Lenane1859 W. O'Neill to C. Bolt1866 T. Kennedy to J. Maher1858 Land Purchase document. William O'Neill1901 Supplementary abstract of Title of William Lenane1862 Michael Commins to William Lenehan Jr.1879 Indemnity. George MacDonell to Hon. Leopold Fane de Salis M.L.C.; Indenture agreement. The Scottish Australian Investment Co. Ltd to Hon. Leopold Fane de Salis M.L.C. 18791883 James Gray to Leopold Fane de Salis1881 Thomas Long to Leopold Fane de Salis
Agreement between Pastoralists' Federal Council and the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia, 7 August 1891 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 1
Conveyance Documents (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 1
1886 Kurts to G. Fane de Salis
1887 T. Warner to L. Fane de Salis
1890 T. Gale to L. Fane de Salis
Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. DE SALIS, COUNT (de Salis) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 1
Bank books for Messrs de Salis and Smith 1860, 1871-1872, 1872, 1877-1884, 1884, 1885-1890, 1866-1871, 1838-1866, 1873-1876, 1866 and 1859-1893 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 2
Accounts, receipts and related letters, 1866-1897 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 3, Box 4
Some concern land and wool sales.
Notes referring to issues of a non-political nature on the subject of land purchase laws, meat and wheat exports and wool (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 5-11 (7 MS Boxes)
Papers created while a Member of the Legislative Assembly 1864-1869 and Legislative Council 1874-1898 (he was also a Magistrate from 1844) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 5-11 (7 MS Boxes)
Series 3. Papers of Mary Fane de Salis (nee Smith)
Series 8. Family Correspondence
Series 9. Miscellaneous
Series 12. Published Books
Kennedy's handbook of Scottish song with the melodies. Melbourne: Stillwell and Knight, 1872 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
The King Who Walked With God. Orange: Central Western Daily, 1939 (with inscription to Charlotte, Mary, Nina and Em, dated 1952) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Official programme, New South Wales National Regatta Anniversary Day, 26th January 1886 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Visitors' guide to Bath and District by electric car and motor bus issued by the Bath Electric Tramways Co. Ltd (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
New South Wales: her commerce and resources by G.W. Griffin. Sydney: Charles Potter, 1888 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
New South Wales: the Mother colony of the Australias. Sydney: Charles Potter, 1896 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
The soldiers' poems, The Dardanelles and other verses by C.N. Hutchinson. Sydney: The Central Press (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Australian Ballads: the Canterbury poets, edited by William Sharp. Walter Scott Publishing Co (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
The Charm of Whistler. London: T.C. AND E.C. Fack, (inscription to Charlotte) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
The little dream by John Galsworthy. London: Duckworth Co. (inscription to 'Dear Charlotte with best Xmas wishes from Una and Ros, Xmas 1911') (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Picturesque London. Marshall, Hamilton, Kent Co. (inscription to 'Miss de Salis ... 1911') (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Catalogue of publications by W.M. Power Westmister Victoria Gallery, 1908 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Fables and moral maxims in verse and prose, selected by Anne Parker. London: John W. Parker, 1835 (inscription to 'Emily Phillippa Davies ... 8th birthday') (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Sacred songs and solos and New hymns and solos, compiled and sung by Ira D. Sankey. London: Morgan Scott (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Narrative hymns for village schools. London: Joseph Masters, 1861 (inscription 'Emily E.G. Smith, St John's Parsonage, Canberra) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Records of the raids. London: Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1918 (inscription Charlotte de Salis from ...) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
History of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. London: Charles Skipper East, 1893 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
The nature lovers' note book by Eric Pochin. Leicester: The Brockhampton Book Company (belonged to M.F. de Salis) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Rafferty, king of Australia by Sandy McTavish. Melbourne, 1931 (inscription 'The Misses de Salis from ...') (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
The Pacific and you by R.C. Blumer and E.C. Rowland. Sydney: The Australian Board of Missions, 1943 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
By air to battle : the official account of the British Airborne Divisions. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1945 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
Tender grass for Christ's lambs by W. Weldon Champneys. London: Wertheim and MacIntosh, 1848 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 41
The letters of Rachel Henning with forty pen drawings by Norman Lindsay, introduction by David Adams. Sydney: Bulletin Newspaper Co (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
The coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, approved souvenir programme, 1952 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
Madame Tussaud's exhibition guide by GeoAugustus Sala. London: Baker Street Station (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
The harvest of the years Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927 (inscription 'Mrs Farrer from Angus Robertson') (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
The climbs of NormanNerunda by May NormanNerunda. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
Tent life in Tiger Land and sport and work on the Nepal frontier, by James James Inglis. Sydney: A. Hutchinson Son, 1888 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
The art of marine painting in oil colours by J.W. Carmichael. London: Windsor and Newton (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
In your hands Australian by C.E.W. Bean. London: Cassell Company, 1918 (inscribed "with kind regards from C.E.W. Bean") (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
Australian museums : hints for collectors of geological and mineralogical specimens by F. Rattle. Sydney: Charles Potter, 1887 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
Mrs Beeton's shilling cookery book with more than 600 recipes by Isabella Beeton. London: Ward Lock Co. (inscribed 'E.P. Smith July 1989') (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 42
Hutchinson's Popular and illustrated dog encyclopaedia, volume one, AFo edited by Walter Hutchinson. London: Hutchinson Co (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 43
The Canberran: the magazine of the Canberra Grammar School, Canberra. Vol.3, no.11 Sept. 1933; no.4, 1934; no.6, 1936; no.7, 1937 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 43
Tell us another, or funniest shooting and fishing stores ever told on earth or flying by Rowland Oliver S.M (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 43
The Works of Harrison Ainsworth III, Windsor Castle. London: George Routledge Sons (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 43
Covered in maroon cloth with school emblem. Inside cover has bookplate: given to E.G. De Salis June 1908 for a mathematic prize
On heroes, hero workship and the heroic in history by Thomas Carlyle. George Routledge Sons (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 43
Covered in maroon cloth with bookplate stating 'Prize for hard work E.G. de Salis Xmas 1907'
Ladies Treasury, Jan.-Nov. 1882; Jan., Feb., May, Aug. 1883; Apr., Oct., Nov., Dec. 1886; Jan.-June, Aug.-Dec. 1885 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 44
Ladies Treasury, Jan.-Feb. Apr.-July, Sept.-Dec. 1879; Jan.-Nov. 1877; Jan.-May, July-Dec. 1880; 1878 (plates for Aug., Sept. Nov. missing) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 46
Newspaper clippings (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 47, Box 48, Box 49, Box 50
Probably collected by George de Salis) dated early 1900s to 1950s on matters such as taxation, land and farming.
Some articles refer to William Farrer. There are also some handwritten notes.
Note: much of the material is in poor condition.
Complete guide to Tasmania, 1920 (very poor condition) (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 50
Pages from a book belonging to Leopold Fane de Salis, damaged at Darbalara during Gundagai flood in 1852.
Scrap Book with poems and press cuttings (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 50
Newspaper cuttings in large volume with some handwritten notes.
The Land Act, 1897; Engineering and Electrical Exhibition, 1897; A manual of the licensing law, 1883; Abstract - Meteorological Observations, 1871; Handbook of information for intending settlers of British New Guinea, 1892; The Crown Lands Alienation Act, 1861-1880; The Crown Lands Act of 1884; Impounding Law amendment Act, 1881 (File [Unnumbered]) - Box 51
Series 13. Folio items
Note: 1-6 are in very poor condition.