Guide to the Letters of the Cooperative Union Ltd (as filmed by the AJCP)
M865
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Co-operative Union
- Title
- Letters of the Cooperative Union Ltd (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1830 - 1905
- Collection Number
- M865
- Extent
- 74 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
Papers 1830-55 of Robert Owen, referring to National Colonisation Society, transportation of Dorsetshire labourers in 1834, and other matters. Correspondents include Robert Gouger.
Papers of George Holyoake 1852-1905 referring to emigration, activities of relatives and friends in Australia, the case of Gerald Supple in Melbourne, politics in the colonies and the cooperative movement. Correspondents include Horatio Holyoake, Gerald Supple, Sir Henry Parkes and Emma Hornblower.
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, 1980 (AJCP Reel: M865). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Cooperative Union Ltd, Manchester, England. For further information see Cooperative Union Ltd (http://www.archive.coop/about-the-archive).
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-vn725645] 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: politics and government; Convicts; Co-operative Union Ltd; Emigration and immigration; Gouger, Robert; Holyoake, George J.; Holyoake, Horatio; Hornblower, Emma; National Colonisation Society; Owen, Robert; Parkes, Sir Henry; Supple, Gerald; Tolpuddle Martyrs
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 112, p41.
Biographical / Historical
The Cooperative Central Board, later the Cooperative Union, was set up in 1869, with its headquarters in Manchester, as an advisory body for cooperative societies in Britain. The businessman and socialist Robert Owen (1771-1858) was one of the founders of the cooperative movement. George Holyoake (1817-1906) became an Owenite in 1838, supported the Rochdale Cooperative Society in the 1840s, and was one of the leading propagandists of the cooperative movement.
Item Descriptions
Fonds. George Jacob Holyoake Collection, 1852 - 1905
57 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906), who was born in Birmingham, became interested in the ideas of Robert Owen in the 1830s. In 1839 he started lecturing for the Owenite Central Board in Worcester and later, as the editor of The Movement (1843-45) and The Reasoner (1846-61), he expounded his views on cooperation and secularism. He presided over the Cooperative Congress in 1887 and wrote The history of co-operation in England (1875) and Co-operation today (1891).
Two of Holyoake's brothers, Henry and Horatio, as well as his sister Eliza, migrated to Victoria in the 1850s.
Six letters of Henry and Horatio Holyoake held by the Co-operative Union were filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project as part of Collection: M392 Letters of Henry Thomas and Horatio Holyoake (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn584717). The same letters can be found in this collection.
William Hornblower (Birmingham) to Holyoake, 3 February 1852 (File 462)
Family news; John Hornblower now doing well in Australia.
W.J. Birch to Holyoake, 2 June 1852 (File 502)
Disgusted with article in Leader on Patagonian missionaries; Dr Birch is going to Australia; possibility of a branch in Australia.
W. MacCall (Woolwich) to Holyoake, 28 June 1853 (File 576)
Thanks for £5 advance on his 'Spinoza'; [Ebenezer] Syme's ship had a good voyage; suggests Reasoner and Holyoake's works should be advertised in Inquirer.
Pencil drawings of 147 Fleet Street. On the verso of the smaller drawing are details of shipping to Australia and New Zealand (File 627)
Horatio Holyoake to his mother Catherine Holyoake, November 1854 (File 713)
Has been in Australia for twelve months and has not struck rich; Mr Nicholls has dysentery; Henry has opened a store at Ballarat.
Henry, Horatio and Eliza Holyoake (Ballarat) to Catherine Holyoake, November 1854 (File 758)
Betsy's marriage to William Bottomley; he is a digger; his fight with the troops; life on the goldfields.
Robert Parkes (Beeston, Notts.) to Holyoake, 5 March 1857 (File 892)
Queries Holyoake's statements in The Times about emigration and Thomas Malthus on mothers.
Henry Holyoake (Melbourne) to Holyoake, 25 March 1863 (File 1477)
Has been married 14 days to Jane Phiddian of Woolwich; asks if their mother is alive; family news; is now a master saddler.
Horatio Holyoake (Blackwood, Victoria) to Holyoake, 26 November 1867 (File 1748)
Hopes they can keep in touch; description of Victorian parliamentarians; family news.
W. Morrison (Malham Tarn) to Holyoake, 10 August 1868 (File 1806)
Working of ballot in America and Australia; ballot is needed to simplify, not purify, voting.
Holyoake to John Bright, [1869?] (File 1863)
His plan to obtain details of working class conditions in foreign countries to aid emigration and supply knowledge so as to avoid strikes such as the one at Preston.
E.J. Williams (London) to Holyoake (File 1958)
Sends news from Melbourne on Supple's case and seeking support.
Holyoake to Lord Clarendon, 25 May 1870 (File 1960)
Suggestions for improving information in and layout of Blue Books on conditions abroad.
A.J. Otway (Foreign Office) to Holyoake, 2 June 1870 (File 1963)
Thanks for suggestions about Blue Books.
W. Morrison (London) to Holyoake, 6 July 1870 (File 1968)
Holyoake's wire-pulling to have additional information included in Blue Books.
Holyoake to A.J. Otway, 9 July 1870 (File 1969)
Further references to Blue Books, including a resolution of the Co-operative Congress at Manchester.
Colonial Office to Holyoake, 3 August 1870 (File 1974)
Acknowledges Holyoake's affidavit on Supple's mental health.
Lord Canterbury (Melbourne) to Lord Kimberley, 7 September 1870 (File 1979)
Mental health of G.H. Supple.
Gerald Supple (Melbourne) to Holyoake, 4 October 1870 (File 1982)
His emigration to Victoria; Ebenezer Syme; Australia and its gold; its lawlessness; his reprieve on a charge of murder; London days.
H.T. Holland (Colonial Office) to Holyoake, 17 November 1870 (File 1985)
Sends a despatch from Governor of Victoria.
H.T. Holland to Holyoake, 2 February 1871 (File 1999)
Lord Kimberley has read extract sent by Holyoake from Birmingham Evening Post.
A.J. Otway to Holyoake, 6 February 1871 (File 1992)
Acknowledges letter of 9 July; Spring Rice has spoken of Holyoake in generous terms.
H.T. Holland (Colonial Office) to Holyoake, 20 June 1871 (File 2011)
As no steps have been taken on Semple's appeal to Queen against Supreme Court of Victoria, appeal is dismissed.
G.H. Semple (Melbourne Gaol) to Holyoake, 11 August 1871 (File 2025)
Gratitude for reprieve on capital murder charge; forthcoming second trial; imprisonment.
Horatio Holyoake (Melbourne) to Holyoake, 4 October 1871 (File 2027)
News of their brother Henry; Horatio and his family; inquires after family at home.
G.H. Supple (Melbourne) to Holyoake, 21 March 1872 (File 2058)
Introduces Mr and Mrs Easton; refers to Blue Book which Holyoake secured.
Newspaper cutting of a letter to the Argus from Henry Holyoake defending the character of his brother, 27 February 1873 (File 2152)
Henry Holyoake (Melbourne) to Holyoake, 18 May 1873 (File 2162)
His defence of George Holyoake in the Argus; high esteem of Holyoake in Australia; details of his children; queries about home.
H. Clinton (Royston) to Holyoake, 10 October 1878 (File 2465)
Thanks reference in Brighton Guardian to Clinton's collection of letters; 'Peace with Honour'; William Cobbett and the Tichborne Case.
Gerald Supple (Auckland) to Holyoake, 3 February 1879 (File 2479)
Release from prison; thanks Holyoake for his kindnesses; description of Auckland and the Maoris.
Holyoake to J.E. Thorold Rogers, 6 March 1882 (File 2695)
History of the idea of an Emigrant's Guide; costs involved; seeks a government grant from Foreign Office.
Newspaper cutting on Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and G.H. Supple, 18 April 1884 (File 2932)
Annotated by Holyoake 'This shows my Affidavit was nearer the truth than I was aware'.
Sir Henry Parkes (Melbourne) to Holyoake, 4 May 1885 (File 2993)
News of J.C. Hornblower in Australia; his own reception; life in Parliament; the Egyptian affair.
Sir Henry Parkes (Sydney) to Holyoake, 20 August 1886 (File 3051)
Sends Australian publications; free trade debate in Australia and rejection of Customs Bill; he reads Holyoake's journal Present Day.
Report and balance sheet of half yearly meeting of Mutual Store Ltd., Melbourne, 16 March 1888 (File 3126)
Sir Henry Parkes (Sydney) to Holyoake, 19 August 1889 (File 3187)
Need for a change in attitude of Imperial Parliament towards Australia, especially over Western Australia Bill.
Sir Henry Parkes (Sydney) to Holyoake, 12 November 1889 (File 3194)
Prospects of creating a Federal Australia.
Emma Hornblower (Melbourne) to Holyoake, 5 August 1895 (File 3518)
Deaths of J.G. Hornblower and Lady Parkes.
Holyoake (Brighton) to Joseph Chamberlain, 26 July 1896 (File 3570)
Appeal on behalf of Gerald Supple and his two sisters, who are starving in Auckland.
H.F. Wilson (Colonial Office) to Holyoake, 8 August 1896 (File 3575)
Application on behalf of Misses Supple sent to Prime Minister.
Cutting from Westminster Gazette on action sought by Holyoake to relieve Gerald Supple and his sisters, 4 December 1897 (File 3635)
Goldwin Smith (Toronto) to Holyoake (File 3841)
Boer and Philippine wars, both supported by Christians; dismal result of British election.
Fonds. Robert Owen Collection, 1830 - 1855
17 itemsFilmed selectively.
Resolution of a meeting in London to consider formation of a society for affording relief to pauper labouring classes by means of systematic colonisation, 13 March 1830 (File 207)
Robert Gouger to Owen, 21 June 1830 (File 270)
Notice of a meeting of Committee of National Colonisation Society.
William Panton (Montpellier NSW) to Owen, (4pp), 2 January 1834 (File 673)
A convert to Owen's views.
Samuel Phillips (Home Office) to Owen, 27 February 1835 (File 725)
Owen's appeal on behalf of six prisoners convicted at Dorset Assizes of administering false oaths [Tolpuddle Martyrs]. With memorandum of Owen's reply.
Memorial of the Working Classes to King William IV for remission of penalties imposed on six Dorsetshire convicts, 23 June 1835 (File 740)
James Lindsay (Edinburgh) to Owen, 11 August 1839 (File 1140)
Suggests cooperation with for better colonisation of New Zealand.
Ernest Haug (London) to Owen, 27 February 1853 (File 2123)
Praises Owen; wishes to see him before Haug goes to Australia.
R.P. Hall (Sydney) to Owen, 25 January 1855 (File 2330)
Has written a reply to an article about Owen in Sydney Morning Herald.