Guide to the Collections held by the Derbyshire Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

James Dickson (Glasgow) to his sister [Mary Dickson], 4 June 1863 (Item M947)

He sails tomorrow.

James Dickson (Edinburgh) to his father Thomas Dickson [Buxton], 1 May 1863 (Item)

Posts in New Zealand still available; has received his testimonials and seen Crawford who has met John Auld the agent.

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 2 May 1863 (Item)

Has been offered an appointment; Mataura leaves Glasgow in 1 June; his mother's health has improved.

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 7 May 1863 (Item)

Has accepted the post as a road surveyor and formal matters are being completed; salary; clothing.

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 3 May 1863 (Item)

Will seek information from Otago Agent for Immigration; his mother seems cheerful.

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 8 May 1863 (Item)

Payment; encloses a list of goods required.

Pencilled note (Item)

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 9 May 1863 (Item)

Preparations. With note added by Mary Dickson.

Mary Dickson to Thomas Dickson (Item)

Sorry he has been alone since James's departure. (2 letters)

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 24 May 1863 (Item)

Arrival at Edinburgh; preparations.

James Dickson (Edinburgh) to Thomas Dickson, 26 May 1863 (Item)

Ship Mataura; vacant posts; preparations.

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 28 May 1863 (Item)

Packing; general news.

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 30 May 1863 (Item)

Arrangements for departure; general news.

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 1 June 1863 (Item)

General news.

James Dickson to Thomas Dickson, 2 June 1863 (Item)

Will go to Glasgow tomorrow; money.

James Dickson (on board Mataura) to his parents, 6 June 1863 (Item)

Sailing off the Irish coast; shares cabin with Leitch; reasons for not signing the pledge.

James Dickson (on board Mataura) to his parents, 24 June 1863 (Item)

Account of the voyage.

James Dickson (Port Chalmers) to his parents, 17 September 1863 (Item)

Arrival in New Zealand.

Newspaper cutting and letter, 14 October 1863 (Item)

Newspaper cutting on the quarantine of the Mataura due to smallpox and scarlet fever, n.d...

James Dickson (Dunedin) to his parents, 16 November 1863 (Item)

Arrival in Dunedin; his new post; people whom he has met.

Photograph of James Dickson's grave (Item)

James Hamilton (Dunedin) to Thomas Dickson, 17 December 1863 (Item)

Death of James Dickson; they had travelled together on the Mataura; interment at Dunedin New Cemetery.

Robert Burns (Dunedin) to Thomas Dickson, 18 December 1863 (Item)

Illness and death of James Dickson.

James Balfour (Dunedin) to Thomas Dickson, 15 December 1863 (Item)

Death of James Dickson after a few hours illness.

James Dickson (Dunedin) to his mother, 17 November 1863 (Item)

Glad she is better; sends views of Dunedin.

James Dickson to his brother, 17 November 1863 (Item)

Work as a road surveyor; possibility of a post in Works Department; description of Dunedin.

James Hamilton (Dunedin) to Frank Dickson (Buxton), 17 August 1865 (Item)

Care of grave of James Dickson; local affairs.

James Hamilton to Frank Dickson, 28 July 1866 (Item)

Exhumation of coffin which will be encased in lead and sent home.

James Hamilton (Dunedin) to Frank Dickson, 18 October 1864 (Item)

Sends an account of money he holds of James Dickson; the grave; cost of the burial.

Account from James Hamilton to William Jolly for opening the grave of James Dickson, 21 September 1864 (Item)

Account of money paid by James Hamilton for the grave rail, stone, work of gardener and photographs, 18 April 1865 (Item)

Account of money received and paid by James Hamilton under the late James Dickson's estate, 18 May 1865 (Item)

Account of James Balfour to Prendergast, Kenyon and Maddock regarding James Dickson's estate, 1864 (Item)

Road Engineers Department, Dunedin. Account of the representatives of James Dickson deceased with Provincial Government of Otago, 28 November 1874 (Item)

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 28 November 1874 (Item)

Voyage from England to Melbourne; will wait until winter to send possum skins.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 9 April 1875 (Item)

Business has been profitable and a branch is being opened in Brisbane; Mrs Hamilton has altered very little in ten years.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 2 September 1875 (Item)

Death of Dickson's father Thomas Dickson and of his own sister; possum rug for Mrs Thomas Dickson; has bought land for a cottage.

A.F. Steiglitz (Lewis Hill, Tasmania) to Robert Williamson, possum rug. With a covering note from Williamson to J.R. Hamilton, 23 December 1875 - 31 December 1875 (Item)

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 13 January 1876 (Item)

Sends possum rug; business is successful.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 11 May 1876 (Item)

Family news; instead of a possum rug suggests a broach of colonial gold with a pearl from the 'Straits North'.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 2 June 1876 (Item)

Sends a brooch and earrings from kangaroo claws; a possum rug.

Mrs M.E. Hamilton to Mrs F. Dickson, 2 June 1876 (Item)

Sends kangaroo claws.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 16 February 1877 (Item)

Has just returned from Victoria and New Zealand; hopes Dickson is well after recent operation.

Mrs M.E. Hamilton (Sydney) to Mrs F. Dickson, 18 February 1877 (Item)

Has received a ring from Mrs Dickson.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 23 March 1877 (Item)

Has sent a brooch for Mary Dickson and a locket for Isabella; has also sent a possum rug, Aboriginal seeds, a piece of Fijian cloth and other gifts.

J.R. Hamilton (Melbourne) to Mary Dickson, 3 August 1877 (Item)

Her illness; his family are coming out to Australia; his children.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 30 September 1878 (Item)

He now has 101 acres of land on which to forget his business worries; his father and mother have emigrated.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 26 February 1879 (Item)

His son Alick is in charge of the business in Christchurch; business has been good.

J.R. Hamilton (Sydney) to Frank Dickson, 25 March 1879 (Item)

Thanks for his offer to educate his son Dickson as a doctor but he has decided to go into business; the other children.

Mrs Hamilton to Mary Dickson, 25 March 1879 (Item)

Accepts offer to take Dickson to train him for medicine.

Unsigned draft of a letter to Mr and Mrs Hamilton (Item)

Dated 14 April: sorry about their business troubles; Dickson Hamilton is still sullen-tempered after six months; he says he did not want to come to England to study to be a doctor.

Frank Dickson (Buxton) to his sister Mary Dickson, 4 February 1881 (Item)

Sends all letters of James Dickson and James Hamilton; their father must have burnt a lot of letters after seeing Hamilton.

George Davies (Portland, New Zealand) to 'comrades', 10 July 1923 (Item)

Knows little about the Labor Party in Australia; advises them not to come to New Zealand; situation is bad on the land with high unemployment; best to work as a labourer before acquiring your own land; everything in New Zealand is opposite to home.

George Davies (Portland, New Zealand) to 'friend', 18 November 1934 - 3 December 1934 (Item)

Sends money for his policy; has had a finger amputated; Labour Party should do well in New Zealand as things are bad; anti-British prejudice.

George Levey (Melbourne, Victoria) to Rev. Joseph Deans, 24 June 1880 (Item 97)

Encloses articles that he submitted to Melbourne newspapers.

Newspaper cuttings from the Melbourne Age and Argus, 21 June 1880 - 23 June 1880 (Item 98-100)

George Levey to Editor, The Age (copy), 22 June 1880 (Item 101)

Forwards a letter that he received from Rev. Joseph Deans seeking financial assistance from the 'daughter Melbourne' for the 'mother Melbourne'.

J.S.J. to the editor of The Argus (copy), 22 June 1880 (Item 102)

Leading article in the Melbourne Argus (3pp, manuscript copy), 25 June 1880 (Item 103-4)