Guide to the Papers of William Huskisson (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1190
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Huskisson, Wlliam
- Title
- Papers of William Huskisson (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1797 - 1833
- Collection Number
- M1190
- Extent
- 14 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
Political papers comprising correspondence on naval, financial and colonial matters, including appointments, proposals for settlements in New Zealand, land grants, and activities of Henty Family in Van Diemen's Land. Correspondents include Lord Bathurst, R. Therry and Thomas Henty.
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
Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1981 (AJCP Reels: M1190). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London. Collection Reference: Add MSS 38734-38763; Add MSS 39948-39949. For more information see William Huskisson at the British Library (http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000012.0x0002cf).
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-vn727660] 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
Bathurst, Henry, 3rd Earl; Great Britain: Colonial Office; Henty Family; Henty, Thomas; Huskisson, William; Land; New Zealand; Politicians: Britain; Therry, Sir Roger
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 243, p91.
Biographical / Historical
Canningite Tory politician. President of the Board of Trade 1823-27; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1827-28.
Item Descriptions
Volume VII, 1796-[1797] (File Add MS 38734)
3 itemsVolume XVII, 14 August 1827 - 6 September 1827 (File Add MS 38750)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Volume XVII, 19 September 1827 - 18 October 1827 (File Add MS 38751)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
J. Pearse (Limerick) to Huskisson, 30 September 1827 (Item ff.90-91)
Wishes Irish priests could be sent to Botany Bay; encloses letter from Secretary of Van Diemen's Land Company; need for instructions to be sent to Lieutenant-Governor.
Volume XXIII, 3 April 1828 - 30 May 1828 (File Add MS 38756)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Lord Anglesey (Dublin) to Huskisson, 3 April 1828 (Item ff.9-12)
Recommends family of convict Kingston to be sent out; policy of judges on transportation.
Huskisson to Lord Anglesey, 15 April 1828 (Item ff.62-64)
Case of convict Kingston; N.S.W. not a place of terror for guilty; Irish trials. (copy)
Volume XXIV, 26 December 1828 - 25 March 1829 (File Add MS 38757)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Volume I, 20 February 1831 - 17 August 1833 (File Add MS 39948)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
R. Therry (Sydney) to E. Huskisson, 20 February 1831 (Item ff.133-34)
Sympathy on death of Huskisson; encloses newspaper containing memoir; requests engraving.
J. Henty (Launceston) to T. Humphry, 6 September 1832 (Item ff.139-40)
Shipment of shells, skins, native implements to W. Henty; difficulties arising from Land regulations.