Guide to the Journals of Granville Stapylton (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Stapylton, Granville William Chetwynd

Title

Journals of Granville Stapylton (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1836 - 1838

Collection Number

M2014

Extent

5 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

Journals 1836 kept by Stapylton while on surveying expeditions under Sir Thomas Mitchell referring to encounters and relations with Indigenous Australians, survey of Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers, journey to Australia Felix, Grampian Mountains, Glenelg River, Stapylton's relations with Mitchell and other members of party.

At the end of the diary in Vol. 3 Stapylton wrote in pencil:

"I may cursorily remark that if a friend were to ask me my sincere statement of the matter I would simply tell him, that if he wished for a foretaste of Hell, I would recommend him to apply for permission to accompany the next Expedition of Discovery under the same Commander with his 24 convicts, and that after six months experience of the system as it relates to the position and comfort of the second in command and organised as this has been according to the peculiar fashion of the Devil himself, who is at present unquestionably walking New Holland in the person of --------------- I am confident he would be enabled to give a pretty correct account of what the Infernal regions present, in the shape of entertainment."

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 Mr H.P. Chetwynd-Stapylton, West Sussex, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1986 (AJCP Reel: M2014). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

The private residence of Mr H.P. Chetwynd-Stapylton, Chichester, West Sussex, England.

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-vn2288214] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Related Materials

Other versions of the journals of Stapylton are held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and the La Trobe Library, Melbourne. See A.E.J. Andrews, ed. Stapylton with Major Mitchell's Australia Felix expedition, 1836. (Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1986)

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.

Advisory Notice

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress, including names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.

Subjects

Exploration: maritime; Exploration: Victoria; Explorer; Glenelg River, Victoria; Goulburn River, Victoria; Grampian Mountains, Victoria; Indigenous Australians: New South Wales; Indigenous Australians: Victoria; Lachlan River, New South Wales; Mitchell, Sir Thomas L.; Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales; Stapylton, Granville; Surveyors

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 436, pp170-171.