Guide to the Papers of the Donnithorne Family (as filmed by AJCP)
M1713 - M1717
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
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Series DE/Cp/7/1. Business Records. James Donnithorne, 1836 - 1850
Subseries B1. Accounts and Miscellaneous Papers, 1836 - 1840
Correspondence from Charles H. Ebden to James Donnithorne, 1836 - 1840 (File 1)
Correspondence of Charles Ebden (Port Phillip) to James Donnithorne (Sydney), Oct 1836 – Dec. 183 concerning: his travels in the Port Phillip district; Mungabareena and Carlsruhe stations; the movement of stock; employment of shepherds;, financial transactions; business with Stuart Donaldson; winding up of the partnership with Donnithorne...
Accounts at the dissolution of the partnership between James Donnithorne and Charles H Ebden, 1839 - 1840 (File 2)
Papers include a statement of the total assets of Ebden and Donnithorne collected and divided, sales of stock during the partnership, a memorandum of the final adjustments between Ebden and Donnithorne, bills deposited in the Bank of Australasia, a memorandum of cattle returns, Ebden's account with Donaldson, and Ebden and Donnithorne's accounts with Richard Jones and Co. and Stuart Donaldson...
Accounts and correspondence, 1837 (File 3)
Account of sales of household furniture, carriage, horses etc. of Donnithorne sold at auction by A. Polack, Sydney, April 1837...
Accounts and Bills of Lading, 1836 - 1840 (File 4)
Accounts of Donnithorne with Richard Jones and Co. and Stuart Donaldson, 1837-40...
Subseries B3. Correspondence, 1843 - 1850
Correspondence from James Graham (Melbourne) to James Donnithorne (Sydney), February 1843 - December 1843 (File 1)
Concerning Donnithorne's sheep station, covering: sheep sales; fencing of Donnithorne's property; rents of cottages; Melbourne news; Charles La Trobe; Farquhar and Agnes McCrae; Graham's inspection of St Agnes station (Campapse River) and sale of Mount Alexander Station...
Correspondence from Alexander F. Mollison (Melbourne and Colliban) to James Donnithorne (Sydney), August 1843 - February 1847 (File 2)
Donnithorne's sheep station at St Agnes concerning: affairs of St Agnes Station; claims of James Graham; advantages of Donnithorne residing for short time at St Agnes; wool sales; bill in equity against William Ward; Donnithorne's account; increase in licences for depasturing on Crown lands; sheep losses and diseases at St Agnes; recruitment of farm labourers from Van Diemen's Land; judgment in case against Ward (1846); financial transactions; sheep shearing; death of a young shepherd at St Agnes...
Series DE/Cp/3/3. Family Papers. James Donnithorne and family, 1825 - 1881
Subseries F22. Miscellaneous personal accounts, vouchers and correspondence, 1825 - 1847
Correspondence from T Hyde Gardiner (Calcutta), August 1837 - August 1838 (File 1 [B])
Letter from t Hyde Gardiner, Secretary to the Australian Association of Bengal (Calcutta) to Donnithorne (Calcutta, Sydney) concerning: Australian Association and Donnithorne's passage to New South Wales; Bills of exchange, 1838 and printed documents concerning Australian Association of Bengal, including proceedings of the first meeting, July 1837.
Accounts - Current, May 1830 - August 1835 (File 1 [C])
Donnithorne with Cruttenden, Mackillop and Co, commission agents (Calcutta); Estate of Sarah Bampton with Cruttenden, Mackillop and Co. (Calcutta); Donnithorne with Macintyre and Co. (Calcutta), and letters and invoices from Calcutta merchants to Donnithorne.
Papers concerning annuity from Bengal Civil Service Annuity Fund, 1825 - 1842 (File 1 [D])
Including: regulations of Bengal Civil Service Annuity Fund, 1 Oct. 1825. (14pp); Balance sheets showing payments made from Annuity Fund to Donnithorne, 1829- ; J.P. Grant, secretary of Bengal Civil Service Annuity Fund, to Donnithorne, 1831-37; Power of attorney from Donnithorne (Sydney) to John Donnithorne Taylor and William Bampton (London), Feb. 1840 and miscellaneous legal documents, 1837-41.
Correspondence and accounts with various Indian merchants, 1825 - 1835 (File 2)
Contains several sub-bundles and includes: invoices and receipts from Calcutta merchants and other businesses and organisations, 1825-1835.
Vouchers, 1838 - 1839 (File 3)
Invoices and receipts from retailers and other businesses in Sydney and Melbourne, 1838-1839.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1835 - 1845 (File 5)
Including: Account of late Lieut. Donnithorne with Cox and Co. (London), 1833-35; Lists of plants sent to Donnithorne from Cape Town, 1835-37; James Graham (Melbourne) to Donnithorne, April 1840 – March 1842: reports on St Agnes Station; Alexander Mollison; sheep diseases; sale of sheep to James Simpson; arrival of large numbers of immigrants; Donnithorne's sheep in South Australia; Account of Donnithorne with James Graham, 1839-45; Account of Donnithorne with Donaldson, Dawes and Co. (Sydney), 1841-44; William Dawes (Sydney) to Donnithorne, March 1842 –April 1844: land at South Head; financial arrangements. C. and J. Morgan (Calcutta) to Donnithorne, May 1842 – Jan. 1846: shipment of goods; economic conditions in Calcutta; Donnithorne's properties in Calcutta; his house at Contai; creditors; bills of lading; Account of Donnithorne with C. and J. Morgan, 1841-45.Invoices of goods shipped to Sydney, 1842-46; Power of attorney from Donnithorne to Charles Morgan and John Morgan (Calcutta), 15 Aug. 1845.
Vouchers, 1840, 1842 (File 6)
Accounts, invoices, receipts, subscription payments and other vouchers issued by retailers and other suppliers, mainly in Sydney but also in Hobart, 1840-1842
Vouchers, 1840 - 1841 (File 7)
Accounts, invoices, receipts, subscription payments and other vouchers issued by retailers and other suppliers, mostly in Sydney but also in Melbourne, 1840-1841. The subscriptions refer to newspapers, such as the Sydney Herald, Sydney Monitor, The Australian and the Australasian Chronicle, the Sydney Subscription Library, and John Gould's Birds of Australia.
Vouchers, 1843 (File 8)
Accounts, invoices, receipts, subscription payments and other vouchers issued by retailers and other suppliers, mostly in Sydney but also in Melbourne, 1843.
Vouchers, 1844 (File 9)
Invoices from Melbourne suppliers addressed to Donnithorne at St Agnes Station, 1844 and Accounts, invoices, receipts, subscription payments and other vouchers issued by retailers and other suppliers in Sydney and Melbourne, 1844.
Correspondence and accounts from James Graham (Melbourne), 1844 - 1846 (File 10)
James Graham (Melbourne) to Donnithorne (St Agnes, Sydney), Feb. 1844 – Sept. 1846: financial transactions; Alexander Mollison; economic conditions; wool prices; mutual friends; Donnithorne's plans to return to Sydney; Graham's travels in Port Phillip district; social events; sale of land in Melbourne; public appointments in Melbourne; shares; Stuart Donaldson; bequests to Donnithorne's sons and daughter; family news...
Vouchers, 1845 (File 11)
Accounts, invoices, receipts, subscription payments and other vouchers issued by retailers and other suppliers, 1845
Subseries F23. Correspondence with Financial Agents mainly concerning East India Company pay, 1840 - 1847
Correspondence and accounts from S A Donaldson, 1844 - 1847 (File 2)
Stuart Donaldson (Sydney) to Donnithorne (St Agnes, Melbourne, Sydney), May 1844 – Feb. 1850: Donnithorne's debts; James Graham; William Ward; economic situation; need to live quietly and economically until prosperity returns; hopes Donnithorne will be spared from living in a bark hut; debts owing to Donaldson and Graham; Donnithorne's bills in Calcutta and England; receipt of funds...
Report on Proposed Overland Route to Port Essington, October 1843 (File F24)
Legislative Council of New South Wales. Report from the select committee on the proposed overland route to Port Essington with appendix and minutes of evidence, 1843. (20 pp)
Subseries F25. Letters received by Miss Eliza Donnithorne (Sydney), 1846 - 1881
Letters to Miss Donnithorne, Sydney, 1846 - 1864 (File 1)
Correspondence from John Chalmers (London) to Eliza Donnithorne, July 1846 – Oct. 1864 concerning: her voyage to Sydney (1846); financial matters; bequests of her uncle Major William Bampton; hopes she and her father will return to England; marriage of her brother (1850); death of Rev. Thomas Bevan; death of James Donnithorne; management of his property; her trustees; her plans to return to England (1855); Eliza's continuing poor health; litigation begun by her brother (1859); investments; shares in railway companies; his meetings with Mrs Daws; sadness that Eliza is so far from family and friends; her brother Edward's substantial fortune; thanks for gifts.
Letters to Miss Donnithorne, 1874 - 1881 (File 2)
Correspondence from J.B. Pratt (London) to Eiza Donnithorne concerning: transmits letters of credit; financial transactions; shares in railway companies; dividends; thanks for presents; Eliza's health; her difficulties with her lawyer; property matters.