Guide to the Papers of Sir Arthur Hodgson (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M675, M789-M790

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Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Creator: Hodgson, Arthur, Sir
Title: Papers of Sir Arthur Hodgson (as filmed by AJCP)
Date Range: 1838 - 1889
Collection Number: M675, M789-M790
Extent: 31 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

The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: Shipboard journals, noting details of navigation, weather, daily routine of passengers. The journals were kept during the following voyages: London-Sydney on the Royal George 1838; Sydney-West Indies aboard the Walmer Castle 1848; England-Australia on the Thomas Arbuthnot 1849-50; Account books 1853-73; records of financial transactions 1839-47; tallies kept on Queensland properties 1842-47 of killing, shearing and bales of wool produced, and provisions distributed to station workers; Addresses and articles describing various voyages; drafts for addresses on the mutiny on the Bounty, the 1878 Paris Exhibition and forests and historic trees of Great Britain; printed item Australia Revisited 1874-1889 (28 p.) with manuscript amendments and additions, giving Hodgson's impressions of the colony and its agricultural and economic prospects; Newspaper cuttings, mainly on agriculture; biographical notes on Hodgson by Mrs Spurway; map of holdings in the Eton Vale area, Queensland; four pages from a letter-journal of Rev. Edward Hodgson 1840, with several references to members of the Macarthur Family.

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 Mrs F.E. Spurway, Somerset, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1956-57, 1971 (AJCP Reels: M675, M789-M790). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

The private residence of Mrs F.E. Spurway. Somerset, 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-vn584671] 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 ; Politicians: Australia ; Australian Agricultural Company ; Bounty, HMS (ship) ; Darling Downs, Queensland ; Dowling, Eliza ; Emigrant voyages ; Eton Vale station, Queensland ; Hodgson, Edward, Rev. ; Hodgson, Eliza, Lady ; Hodgson, Sir Arthur ; Sydney, New South Wales: immigration to ; Macarthur Family ; Paris Exhibition (1878) ; Queensland: pastoral industry ; Queensland ; Maps, plans and charts: Queensland ; Royal George (ship) ; Spurway, Mrs F.E. ; Thomas Arbuthnot (ship) ; Trade: Australia ; Walmer Castle (ship) ; West Indies ; Wool and woolgrowing: Australia

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 225, p84.

Biographical / Historical

Sir Arthur Hodgson (1818-1902) was born at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, and educated at Eton. After serving in the Royal Navy, he emigrated to New South Wales in 1839. He leased a station in the New England district and in 1840, with his partner Gilbert Eliott, took up Eton Vale, the second run in the Darling Downs. He married Eliza Dowling, the daughter of Sir James Dowling in 1842. He struggled to make a living in the early years, but by the 1850s the property was on a secure footing and was the centre of Darling Downs society. He was the general superintendent of the Australian Agricultural Society in 1856-61.

Hodgson fought hard for the separation of Moreton Bay and the Northern District from New South Wales. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1868-69 and served in the ministries led by Robert Mackenzie and Charles Lilley. In 1870 he and his wife settled in England and in 1873 he acquired an estate near Stratford-upon-Avon. His income from Eton Vale rose steadily and he became a leading figure in Warwickshire society. He became deputy-lieutenant and high sheriff of Warwickshire in 1881. Hodgson visited Queensland several times and he represented Queensland at international exhibitions in London, Paris and Vienna. For these services he was knighted in 1886.

In Hodgson's later years Eton Vale was managed by his son Edward D. Hodgson (1857-1896). Another son, Francis H. Hodgson (1848-1930) was an Anglican priest in England. Selections from his papers were filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (reel M729).

Item Descriptions

Journal kept by Hodgson on the Royal George on a voyage from Portsmouth to Sydney, 31 October 1838 - 9 March 1839 (File 1)

The journal refers to his farewell by his family, fellow passengers (including James Macarthur), sightings of other ships, the Canary Islands and Madeira, winds, crossing the Equator, church services, reading, sightings of sharks, porpoises, whales and albatrosses, landing at Cape Town, impressions of the town and surrounding areas, a visit to Simon's Town where Hodgson stayed with the Elliot family (Admiral George Elliot was Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope), the journey across the Indian Ocean, and sightings of Cape Otway and the New South Wales coast.

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M675.

Table of shearing (39pp), 1843 - 1846 (File 2)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M675.

Table of wethers killed at Head station (2pp), July-August (File 3)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M675.

Victualling tallies (31pp), 1841 (File 4)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M675.

'Charles I', a play written by or acted by Hodgson. (22pp) (File 5)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M675.

Bale tallies (6pp), 1842 (File 6)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M675.

Financial transactions of Hodgson and Warne and Hodgson and Elliot, 1839 - 1847 (File 7)

Including payments made, account of money received, advances on wool, stores etc. sold, wages, bills paid.

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M675.

Diary of a voyage from Sydney to London on the Walmer Castle, 18 March 1848 - 30 June 1848 (File 8)

The diary records the voyage across the Pacific Ocean to Cape Horn and northward across the Atlantic Ocean. The entries refer to the weather, winds, storms, damage to the ship with all hands and passengers working the pumps, rounding Cape Horn, a debate about Napoleon, theatrical productions, dances, a sighting of Trinidad, and Hodgson's relations with the captain. At the end of the volume is a prologue and epilogue of a play.

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M675.

Account books: Bank of Australasia, Ipswich, December 1853 – October 1859 (File 9)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reels M789-M790.

Account books: Bank of New South Wales, June 1860 – December 1862 (File 10)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reels M789-M790.

Account books: Bank of New South Wales, October 1861 – November 1867 (File 11)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reels M789-M790.

Account books: With notes on December 1866, November 1867 – November 1869 (File 12)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M789.

Account books: Bank of Australasia, Brisbane, April 1868 – October 1869 (File 13)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M789.

Account books: With notes on 1870, May 1871 – October 1870 (File 14)

Account books, October 1872 - September 1873 (File)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M789.

Account books: Australian Joint Stock Bank, Sydney, August 1853 – January 1855 (File 15)

Account book of The Englishman newspaper (1853), Henry S. Russell (October 1853-January 1855), Leslie, Hodgson and Hood (November 1854-January 1855)

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M789.