Guide to the Eedy Family papers (as filmed by AJCP)
M2049
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Eedy Family
- Title
- Papers of Eedy Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1841 - 1932
- Collection Number
- M2049
- Extent
- 9 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Includes: letters 1868-88 of Capt. John Eedy of Sydney to his sister Jane Eedy subjects include Sydney centennial celebrations, economic depression in colonies, and growth of Sydney; letters 1926-30 of Charles Eedy of Tanna, New Hebrides, to his cousin May Riley containing family news; family photographs 1866-1925.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Filmed at the private residence of Miss R.F. Cuskelly, England, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1987 (AJCP Reel: M2049). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
The papers were originally held by Miss R.F. Cuskelly. Sussex, England but were transfered to the National Library of Australia (collection reference: MS 7372) (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2602233).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2288250] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Australia: economic conditions; Eedy Family; Eedy, Charles; Eedy, Jane; Eedy, John, Capt.; New Hebrides; Photographs; Riley, May; Tanna, New Hebrides
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 157, p57.
Item Descriptions
Ann Eedy (London) to her daughter Jane Eedy (Stourbridge), November 1841 (File (1))
Family news; return of son John from China; refers to his visit to South Australia.
Capt. John Eedy (Sydney, Grafton) to his sister Jane (7 letters), 1868 - 1888 (File (2))
7 items
Sydney: recollections of last meeting at Stourbridge; visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Sydney; news of South Family at Geelong; photographs, 26 February 1868 (Item (2)/(i))
Grafton: acknowledges photograph; command of coastal steamer; bar of the Clarence River; visit of Walter Prothero to Australia; economic depression in colonies, 17 July 1868 (Item (2)/(ii))
Sydney: family news; differences in celebration of Christmas in England and Australia, 19 February 1871 (Item (2)/(iii))
Sydney: lack of letters from England; recommends emigration for workingmen; wages for women; plans to establish navigation school; birth of son; dispute about estate of relative, 19 April 1873 (Item (2)/(v))
Charles Eedy (Tanna, New Hebrides) to his cousin May Riley (6 letters and 4 documents), 1926 - 1932 (File (3))
10 items
Management of trading station; isolation; Presbyterian Mission; description of house; servants, 15 October 1927 (Item (3)/(ii))
Plans for visit to England; photographs; servants; Sir George Fuller; love of books; volcano, 3 February 1928 (Item (3)/(iii))