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Fonds. Records of the House of Lords, 1790 - 1912
Series. House of Lords Main Papers, 1790 - 1912
State of the southern whale fishery in the years 1785, 1786, 1787,1788 and 1789, 10 May 1790 (File)
Message from the King on removing from Ireland persons in custody for treasonable practices, 3 April 1799 (File)
Message to the Commons for a copy of the report of the Committee of Secrecy, 1 May 1799 (File)
Reply from the Commons, 3 May 1799 (File)
Message from the Commons transmitting the report of the Committee of Secrecy, 3 May 1799 (File)
Report of the House of Lords Committee of Secrecy appointed to examine papers relative to a treasonable conspiracy in Ireland (manuscript and printed), 27 May 1799 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts at the River Thames, Medway and at Portsmouth, 4 February 1803 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 6 December 1803 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 11 February 1806 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 16 January 1807 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 6 July 1807 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 1 February 1808 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 9 February 1809 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 15 February 1810 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 22 February 1811 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 27 January 1812 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 11 February 1813 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 11 November 1813 (File)
Report of Aaron Graham, Inspector of Convicts, 29 November 1814 (File)
Colonial Clergy Bill, 26 May 1819 (File 292a)
Bill for an Act for the better administration of justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land and for the more effectual Government thereof (printed with manuscript amendments), 16 July 1823 (File 659)
Transportation Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 15 June 1824 (File 708)
Amendments to Transports in Colonies Bill, 7 June 1825 (File 718)
Amendments to New South Wales Administration of Justice Bill, 17 July 1828 (File 731)
Motion for an address respecting the Swan River settlement, 5 May 1829 (File 344)
Amendments to Transportation of Offenders Bill, 25 June 1830 (File 745)
Address for returns of the number of vessels cleared out for Swan River Settlement and the number of persons holding appointment there, 20 December 1830 (File 164)
Return of the number of vessels that have cleared out from the Port of London for the settlement formed on the Swan River, their tonnage, and the number of passengers; and Account of all persons appointed to place and to situations at the Swan River, their names, salaries, and dates of appointment, and if now resident there, 18 February 1831 (File 259)
Amendments to South Australian Colonisation Bill, 13 August 1834 (File 703)
Transportation for Life Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 29 June 1837 (File 714)
Transportation for Life Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 10 July 1837 (File 802)
Amendments to Transportation for Life Bill, 11 July 1837 (File 821)
Transportation for Life Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 13 July 1837 (File 854)
Amendments to South Australia Act Amendment Act, 20 July 1838 (File 910)
Bill for an Act for regulating survey and sales of land belonging to the Crown in the Australian colonies and New Zealand (printed with manuscript amendments), 3 June 1842 (File 565)
New South Wales Government Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 26 July 1844 (File 951)
Amendments to New South Wales Government Bill, 29 July 1844 (File 962)
Amendments made by Commons to New South Wales Government Bill, 2 August 1844 (File 991)
Waste Lands (Australia) Bill (manuscript and printed), 14 July 1845 (File 1054)
Waste Lands (Australia) Bill (manuscript and printed), 22 July 1845 (File 1168)
Waste Lands (Australia) Bill (manuscript and printed), 25 July 1845 (File 1216)
Amendments to Waste Lands (Australia) Bill, 2 August 1845 (File 1294)
Waste Lands (Australia) Bill (manuscript and printed), 25 June 1846 (File 1267)
Amendments to New Zealand Company Bill, 11 August 1846 (File 1906)
Order of Her Majesty in Council of 1 Aug. 1846 for appointing the Collector of Revenue of Western Australia to be a member of the Legislative Council of that settlement, 14 August 1846 (File 1944)
Waste Lands (Australia) Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 20 August 1846 (File 1972)
Amendments made by Commons to Waste Lands (Australia) Bill, 25 August 1846 (File 2004)
Order in Council of 11 Aug. 1848 for including in the settled districts of New South Wales certain lands in the townships of Belfast and Warnambool, 4 September 1848 (File 1476)
New Zealand Land Conveyances Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 9 July 1849 (File 910)
Australian Colonies Government Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 14 May 1850 (File 369)
Motion concerning Australian Colonies Government Bill, 10 June 1850 (File 495)
Amendments to Australian Colonies Government Bill, 28 June 1850 (File 623)
Bishopric of Christchurch (New Zealand) Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 11 May 1852 (File 542)
Amendments to Bishopric of Christchurch (New Zealand) Bill, 29 June 1852 (File 1028)
South Australia; Order in Council dated 13 June 1853 establishing regulations for demising waste lands supposed to contain minerals not auriferous and for working the same, 27 June 1853 (File 840A)
Transportation Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 30 June 1853 (File 874)
New Zealand; additional instructions relative to the terms of purchase and pasturage at Otago, 22 July 1853 (File 1063)
Letter from Lord Lyttleton to J.G. Shaw-Lefevre, 28 June 1854, requesting a motion for copies of any instructions from the Secretary of State to the Governor of New Zealand with reference to the regulation of the price of waste lands; also for a copy of the letter from the Secretary of State giving the Governor leave of absence; also to call the attention of the House to the proceedings of the Governor of New Zealand in giving effect to the Act for granting a representative constitution, 14 July 1854 (File 1005)
Order in Council of 8 Feb. 1855 for leasing Crown Lands in New South Wales supposed to contain minerals not auriferous, 1 March 1855 (File 150)
Order in Council of 28 Feb. 1855 empowering the Governor of Victoria to make certain provisions respecting rent in leases of land for pastoral purposes, 2 March 1855 (File 153)
Order in Council empowering the Governor of Victoria to issue mining leases of land not auriferous, 8 March 1855 (File 160)
Copy of a letter from the Earl of Clarendon to the Rt. Hon. Robert Vernon Smith, 6 Aug. 1855, concerning the position of Sir James Brooke in Borneo, 14 August 1855 (File 966)
Transportation and Penal Servitude Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 25 May 1857 (File 137)
New Zealand; account of sums issued out of the Consolidated Fund by virtue of the Act 20 & 21 Vict. Cap. 51 entitled 'An Act to guarantee a Loan for the Service of New Zealand', 26 February 1863 (File 130)
Colonial Acts Confirmation Bill, 13 July 1863 (File 821)
New Zealand; account of sums issued out of the Consolidated Fund by virtue of the Act 20 & 21 Vict. entitled 'An Act to guarantee a Loan for the Service of New Zealand', 22 February 1866 (File 110)
Straits Settlements Government Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 23 July 1866 (File 728)
Return of Regiments in New Zealand since 1 January 1865, and the dates of their embarkation, 15 July 1867 (File 870)
New Zealand Guaranteed Loan; account pursuant to Act 20 & 21 Vict. Cap. 51 of sums issued out of the Consolidated Fund to make good the deficiency on the part of New Zealand in the regular payment of the interest due upon the Loan…, 2 March 1869 (File 181)
Bill for the separation of the Straits Settlements from the Diocese of Calcutta, 27 July 1869 (File 637)
Pacific Islanders Protection Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 8 March 1875 (File 186)
Pacific Islanders Protection Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 4 May 1875 (File 406)
Van Diemen's Land Company Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 12 February 1877 (File 66)
Canterbury and New Zealand Land Companies Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 13 February 1877 (File 76)
Colonial Fortifications Act 1877, 5 February 1880 (File 18)
Representations of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for vesting in the Governor of Tasmania, by Order in Council, certain fortifications, works, buildings and land situate in that Colony, in trust for the defence of that Colony.
Colonial Fortifications Act 1877, 17 January 1881 (File 63)
Representations of the Lords of the Treasury and of the Secretary of State for the Colonies respectively dated 29th December 1880 and 13th January 1881 for vesting in the Governor of Queensland certain buildings and land situate in that Colony and held in trust for the defence of that Colony.
Federal Council of Australasia Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 16 April 1885 (File 346)
Borneo Company Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 17 February 1890 (File 86)
Colonial Acts Confirmation Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 12 February 1894 (File 801)
Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Ltd. Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 19 March 1894 (File 27)
English Scottish and Australian Bank Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 19 March 1894 (File 40)
Queensland Investment and Land Mortage Company Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 19 March 1894 (File 60)
Royal Commission for the Hobart International Exhibition for 1894, 7 May 1896 (File 368)
Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 24 February 1903 (File 91)
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Bill (printed with manuscript amendments), 2 August 1904 (File 132)
Colonial Office (New Zealand Company); schedule containing a list and particulars of classes of documents which have been removed from the Colonial Office and deposited in the Public Record Office, but are not considered of sufficient public value to justify their preservation therein (printed), 26 November 1908 (File 641)
Draft Order in Council under the Colonial Fortifications Act 1877 to vest in the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand certain fortifications, works, buildings and land situate in the said Dominion, 23 June 1909 (File 337)
Series. House of Lords Committee Books, 1824 - 1912
Proceedings of Committees on Private Bills and other matters, 1824 (File Vol. 74)
Pages 243, 245-46: Australian Company's Bill.
Proceedings of Select Committees and Committees on Estate Bills, 1837 - 1838 (File Vol. 99)
Pages 35-38, 42, 49-50; 54, 56, 58, 109-10. Select Committee on the Islands of New Zealand.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1846 (File Vol. 133)
Pages 853, 861-63: Australian Agricultural Company Bill...
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1847 (File Vol. 140)
Pages 304-5: Van Diemen's Land Company Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1853 (File Vol. 170)
Pages 118-21: Australian Agricultural Company Bill.
Proceedings before Standing Order Committee on Private Bills, 1857 (File Vol. 192)
Pages 39-40: Australian Agricultural Company Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1863 (File Vol. 212)
Pages 17-18: Van Diemen's Land Company Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1871 (File Vol. 242)
Page 87: Union Bank of Australia Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1873 (File Vol. 250)
Pages 35-37: Australian Agricultural Company Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1877 (File Vol. 266)
Page 26: Van Diemen's Land Company Bill...
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1881 (File Vol. 282)
Page 6: Australian Agricultural Company Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1884 (File Vol. 294)
Pages 233-34: Bank of South Australia Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1886 (File Vol. 302)
Page 180: Bank of South Australia Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1890 (File Vol. 318)
Pages 171-72: Borneo Company Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1894 (File Vol. 334)
Pages 4-5: Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Company Bill...
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1896 (File Vol. 342)
Pages 14-17: English, Scottish and Australian Bank Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1903 (File Vol. 370)
Page 1: Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Company Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1904 (File Vol. 374)
Page 9: New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Bill.
Proceedings of Committees on Unopposed Private Bills, 1912 (File Vol. 407)
Page 16: Australian Agricultural Company Bill.
Series. Reports of Committees On Public Petitions, 1834 - 1900
Filmed Selectively...
Reports of Committees, 1834 (File)
Children of John Leary (Item f.4)
His sentence of transportation for life (14)
Appendices, 1834 (File)
Appendix 9. Children of John Leary (14) (Item ff.8-10)
Reports of Committees, 1835 (File)
Thomas Boot, Hobart (Item ff.5-6)
Lieut. Governor Arthur and trial by jury (24)
Free inhabitants of N.S.W. (Item f.202)
Representative assembly (2684)
Robert Robison (Item f.207)
General Darling (2736)
Merchants and shipowners of London (Item f.259)
General Darling (3295)...
Robert, Earl of Castlestuart (Item f.264)
Capt. Robison (3355)
Robert Dawson, Birmingham (Item f.288)
Land grant claims in N.S.W. (3672)
Reports of Committees, 1836 (File)
William Bryan, formerly of Glenore, V.D.L. (Item f.270)
Conduct of V.D.L. Government (4817)
William Bryan (Item f.305)
Conduct of V.D.L. Government (5325)
British merchants, Singapore (Item f.334)
Establishment of Customs house at Singapore (5561-2)
Appendices, 1836 (File)
Appendix 1844. William Bryan (4817) (Item 870-71)
Appendix 2042. British merchants, Singapore (5661) (Item ff.982-83)
Reports of Committees, 1837 (File)
Andrew Bent, Hobart (Item f.392)
Loss sustained through ordinance of Lieut. Governor Arthur (8525)...
Appendices, 1837 (File)
Appendix 781. Andrew Bent (8525) (Item ff.376-78)
Appendix 782. William and Andrew Furlong (8526) (Item)
Reports of Committees, 1837 - 1838 (File)
Parties of interest include: Free inhabitants of N.S.W; Church Missionary Society; Wesleyan Missionary Society...
Appendices, 1837 - 1838 (File)
Parties of interest include: Lieut. Col. Thomas Bradley; Free inhabitants of N.S.W; Church Missionary Society; Wesleyan Missionary Society.
Reports of Committees, 1839 (File)
William H. Burnand, London (Item f.14)
Colonial Office's refusal to allow persons to purchase land near Portland Bay (121)
John Lorimer, Paisley (Item f.237)
Allotment of land to emigrants to S. Australia (4495)
Merchants of Greenock (Item f.399)
New Zealand Bill (7107)...
Bishop W.G. Broughton (Item f.816)
Sale of lands (13,702)
Appendices, 1839 (File)
Appendix 1125. Bishop W.G. Broughton (13,702) (Item ff.564-65)
Reports of Committees, 1840 (File)
Inhabitants of London (Item f.553)
Abolition of transportation (11,831)...
Merchants of London (Item f.716)
New Zealand (14,985)
Merchants of London (Item f.935)
Misapplication of funds in N.S.W. (17,917)
Merchants of Glasgow (Item f.959)
Establishment of British authority in New Zealand. (18,157)
Appendices, 1840 (File)
Appendix 633. Inhabitants of London (11,831) (Item ff.293-96)
Includes: Appendix 634. Free inhabitants of N.S.W. (11,832)
Appendix 1031. Merchants of Glasgow (18,157) (Item ff.488-89)
Reports of Committees, 1841 (File)
Proprietors of land, shippers etc. (Item f.271)
Emigration Fund of Colony of South Australia (3811)...
Proprietors of land, shippers etc. (Item f.296)
Emigration Fund of Colony of S. Australia (4212)
Proprietors of land, shippers etc. (Item f.313)
Emigration Fund of Colony of S. Australia (4456)
Residents of Launceston, Cornwall (Item f.338)
Emigration Fund of Colony of S. Australia (4853)
Residents of Derby (Item f.371)
Emigration Fund of Colony of S. Australia (5504)
Proprietors of land, shippers etc. (Item f.444)
Emigration Fund of Colony of S. Australia (7114)
Residents of Monmouth (Item f.562)
Emigration Fund of Colony of S. Australia (9954)
Society for Protection of Aborigines (Item f.791)
Sentence on natives in S. Australia (15,598)
Undersigned (Item f.856)
Emigration Fund of Colony of S. Australia (16,839)
Appendices, 1841 (File)
Appendix 381. Proprietors of land, shippers etc. (3811) (Item f.201)
Appendix 789. Society for Protection of Aborigines (15,598) (Item ff.400-1)
Reports of Committees, 1842 (File)
Residents of Port Phillip (Item f.388)
Separation of province from N.S.W. (7463)
Owners of whaling vessels (Item f.462)
Reduction of duty (8107)
Residents of N.S.W. (Item f.580)
Subdivision of territory of N.S.W. (8858)
Robert Torrens (Item f.618)
Inquiry concerning S. Australia (9040)
Appendices, 1842 (File)
Appendix 532. Residents of Port Phillip (7463) (Item ff.248-50)
Appendix 641. Owners of whaling vessels (8107) (Item ff.315-316)
Appendix 747. Residents of N.S.W. (8858) (Item f.388)
Appendix 773. Robert Torrens (9040) (Item f.405)
Reports of Committees, 1843 (File)
Friends of London Missionary Society, Brighton (Item f.719)
Independence of Queen of Tahiti (13,800)...
Wesleyan Missionary Society (Item f.979)
Independence of Queen of Tahiti (20,050)
Joseph P. Robinson, Sydney (Item f.1490)
Trial and execution of 4 convicts for piracy and attempted murder in N.S.W. (30,556)
New Zealand Society (Item f.1616)
Introduction of convicts (33,006)
Landholders in New Zealand (Item f.1669)
Introduction of convicts (33,417)
Appendices, 1843 (File)
Appendix 424. London Missionary Society (13,801) (Item ff.257-58)
Appendix 593. Wesleyan Missionary Society (20,050) (Item f.334)
Appendix 811. New Zealand Society (33,006) (Item ff.463-64)
Appendix 846. Landholders in New Zealand (33,417) (Item ff.489-90)
Reports of Committees, 1844 (File)
Residents of Wellington (Item f.24)
Inquiry and settlement in New Zealand (172)
South Australian Land Co. (Item f.35)
South Australian corn (400)
John Bisdee, Fosbury (Item f.104)
South Australian corn (1462)
Merchants, shipowners etc. (Item f.132)
South Australian corn (1829)...
Residents of New Plymouth, N.Z. (Item f.420)
Tax on absentee land proprietors (5441)
Col. Peter A. Lautour (Item f.569)
Inquiry concerning Western Australia (8224)
Residents of Port Phillip (Item f.646)
Judge Willis (9272)
Stewart Marjoribanks, James B.D. Elphinstone (Item f.888)
Petition of P.A. Lautour (12,119)
Friends of Protestant missions, Leeds (Item f.907)
Restoration of Queen Pomare (12,261)
Appendices, 1844 (File)
Appendix 41. Residents of Wellington (172) (Item f.24)
Appendix 54. South Australian Land Co. (400) (Item f.32)
Appendix 139. John Bisdee, Fosbury (1462) (Item f.80)
Appendix 180. Proprietors of land etc. (1830) (Item f.104)
Appendix 489. Residents of New Plymouth (5441) (Item ff.290-1)
Appendix 546. Col. Peter A. Lantour (8224) (Item ff.328-30)
Appendix 578. Residents of Port Phillip (9272) (Item f.349)
Appendix 768. Friends of Protestant missions, Leeds (12,261) (Item ff.470-71)
Reports of Committees, 1845 (File)
Parties of interest include: Legislative Council of N.S.W; Church Missionary Society; Aborigines Protection Society...
Appendices, 1845 (File)
Parties of interest include: Legislative Council of N.S.W; Church Missionary Society; Aborigines Protection Society.
Reports of Committees, 1846 (File)
Parties of interest include: Free colonists of Van Diemen's Land; Members of Council, inhabitants of N.S.W...
Appendices, 1846 (File)
Appendix 2. Free colonists of Van Diemen's Land (2) (Item ff.3-6)
Appendix 520. Inhabitants of Hunter River District (5863) (Item ff.259-64)
Includes:...
Appendix 523. Inhabitants of Dungog (5868) (Item ff.259-264)
Includes:...
Appendix 871. Merchants, agents, shipowners (8061) (Item f.461)
Appendix 874. Free colonists of Van Diemen's Land (8073) (Item ff.463-66)
Appendix 939. Inhabitants of Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, Wanganui (8485) (Item ff.519-52)
Reports of Committees, 1847 (File)
Colonists of South Australia (Item f.3)
Duty on Australian corn (3)
Legislative Council of N.S.W. (Item f.11)
Mr. Manning (109)
Landowners of Nelson (Item f.33)
Sale of land (249)
Mathias Gaunt, Windermere, V.D.L. (Item f.664)
Penal discipline (9092)
Inhabitants of Maitland (Item f.705)
Renewal of transportation (9529)...
Colonists of South Australia (Item f.812)
Waste lands (10,268)
Inhabitants of Dungog (Item f.827)
Renewal of transportation (10,350)
Inhabitants of South Australia (Item f.841)
State aid to religion (10,409)
Operatives of Sydney (Item f.866)
Renewal of transportation (10,446)
Appendices, 1847 (File)
Appendix 3. Colonists of South Australia (3) (Item ff.4-5)
Appendix 36. Legislative Council of N.S.W. (109) (Item f.19)
Appendix 85. Landowners of Nelson (249) (Item ff.45-46)
Appendix 741. Mathias Gaunt, Windermere, V.D.L. (9092) (Item ff.371-72)
Appendix 766. Inhabitants of Maitland (9529) (Item ff.387-88)
Includes:...
Appendix 855. Colonists of South Australia (10,268) (Item ff.443-46)
Appendix 865. Inhabitants of Dungog (10,350) (Item f.452)
Appendix 877. Inhabitants of South Australia (10,409) (Item ff.459-60)
Appendix 893. Operatives of Sydney (10,446) (Item ff.476-77)
Reports of Committees, 1847 - 1848 (File)
Parties of interest include: Woollen manufacturers in Britain; Free colonists of Van Diemen's Land; Lewisham Union; Hackney Union...
Appendices, 1847 - 1848 (File)
Appendix 14. Inhabitants of Goulburn (28) (Item ff.6-7)
Appendix 74. Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land (280) (Item ff.41-42)
Appendix 77. Inhabitants of Launceston (302) (Item f.47)
Appendix 103. Inhabitants of Windsor, Richmond, Wilberforce, Pitt Town (484) (Item ff.59-60)
Appendix 552. Legislative Council of N.S.W. (4144) (Item ff.294-95)
Appendix 1076. Woollen manufacturers of Britain (8222) (Item ff.566-71)
Includes:...
Appendix 1201. Merchants, bankers, shipowners, London (14,827) (Item f.634)
Appendix 1236. Lewisham Union (16,179) (Item ff.655-56)
Appendix 1335. Vestreymen of St. Marylebone (17,745) (Item ff.703-4)
Appendix 1389. Hackney Union (17,890) (Item ff.733-35)
Includes:...
Reports of Committees, 1849 (File)
Parties of interest include: Newcastle and Gateshead Religious Freedom Society; Australian Agricultural Company; Aborigines Protection Society...
Appendices, 1849 (File)
Parties of interest include: Aborigines Protection Society; New Zealand Company; Scottish Anti-State Church Association; Newcastle and Gateshead Religious Freedom Society.
Reports of Committees, 1850 (File)
Parties of interest include: Independent Chapels, Northhampton; Robert Ford, London; Inhabitants of Port Phillip...
Appendices, 1850 (File)
Appendix 48. Colonists of N.S.W. (212) (Item f.25)
Appendix 61. Inhabitants of Bathurst (310) (Item ff.31-32)
Appendix 203. Inhabitants of Brisbane (1481) (Item f.96)
Appendix 299. Newcastle and Gateshead Religious Freedom Society (2632) (Item f.139)
Appendix 355. Castle Hill Chapel, Northampton (3202) (Item f.167)
Appendix 382. Merchants etc. connected with Australian colonies (3582) (Item f.177)
Appendix 640. Congregation of Protestant Dissenters, Reading (5939) (Item f.292)
Appendix 697. Lessees of land, Port Phillip (6470) (Item f.320)
Appendix 1022. Synod of United Presbyterian Church in Scotland (9863) (Item f.468)
Appendix 1406. Inhabitants of Port Phillip (12,388) (Item f.651)
Appendix 1531. Colonists of Port Phillip (14,608) (Item ff.715-16)
Appendix 1604. Robert Ford, London (15,599) (Item f.745)
Appendix 1609. Landholders of N.S.W. (15,632) (Item ff.749-52)
Includes:...
Appendix 1635. Merchants, traders etc. (15,772) (Item ff.765-66)
Includes:...
Reports of Committees, 1851 (File)
Colonists of northern division of Van Diemen's Land (Item f.67)
Abolition of transportation (1603)
Robert Lowe and others (Item f.296)
Steam communication with Australian colonies (5917)
Merchants, shipowners etc., Aberdeen (Item f.336)
Steam communication with Australian colonies (6520)
Colonists of Van Diemen's Land (Item f.420)
Abolition of transportation (7301)
Merchants trading with Van Diemen's Land (Item f.641)
Abolotion of transportation (9412)
Colonial Missionary Society (Item f.658)
Abolition of transportation (9512)
Landholders, merchants etc., New Ulster, N.Z. (Item f.705)
Representative institutions (9779)...
Aborigines Protection Society (Item f.733)
Destruction of pirates at Borneo (9876)
Inhabitants of Huddersfield (Item f.806)
Transmission of mails to Australia via Panama (10,132)...
Manchester Commercial Association (Item f.900)
Steam communication with Australian colonies (10,461)
Merchants etc. (Item f.920)
Steam communication with Australian colonies (10,586)
Inhabitants of Boston, Lincoln (Item f.977)
Destruction of pirates at Borneo (11,084)
Manchester Chambers of Commerce and Manufactures (Item f.1001)
Steam communication with Australian colonies (11,267)
Colonists of New Zealand (Item f.1146)
New Zealand Settlements Bill (11,845)
Merchants, traders etc., Glasgow (Item f.1183)
Steam communication with Australian colonies (11,946)
Appendices, 1851 (File)
Appendix 156. Colonists of northern division of Van Diemen's Land (1603) (Item ff.73-74)
Appendix 490. Robert Lowe and others (5917) (Item ff.219-20)
Appendix 535. Merchants, shipowners etc., Aberdeen (6520) (Item f.243)
Appendix 661. Colonists of Van Diemen's Land (7301) (Item ff.297-298)
Appendix 1013. Merchants trading with Van Diemen's Land (9412) (Item ff.465-66)
Appendix 1035. Colonial Missionary Society (9512) (Item f.481)
Appendix 1075. Landholders, merchants etc., New Ulster, N.Z. (9779) (Item ff.500-3)
Includes:...
Appendix 1096. Aborigines Protection Society (9876) (Item ff.512-13)
Appendix 1171. Inhabitants of Huddersfield (10,132) (Item ff.551-52)
Includes:...
Appendix 1257. Manchester Commercial Association (10,461) (Item f.598)
Appendix 1272. Merchants, etc. (10,586) (Item ff.607-8)
Appendix 1322. Inhabitants of Boston, Lincoln (11,084) (Item f.640)
Appendix 1355. Manchester Chambers of Commerce and Manufacture (11,267) (Item f.655)
Reports of Committees, 1852 (File)
Parties of interest include: N.S.W. Association for Preventing the Revival of Transportation; Eastern Steam Navigation Co.; Canterbury Association...
Appendices, 1852 (File)
Parties of interest include: Australasian colonists; Eastern Steam Navigation Co.; N.S.W. Legislative Council.
Reports of Committees, 1852 - 1853 (File)
Weavers, flaxdressers, Dundee (Item f.4)
Reduction of rate of postage to Australian colonies (9)...
Charles Cowper, Sydney (Item f.11)
Abolition of transportation (32)
Inhabitants of New Ulster (Item f.35)
Losses of New Zealand Company (109)
Inhabitants of Canterbury (Item f.71)
Losses of New Zealand Company (332)
Council of Auckland (Item f.84)
Expenses of pensioner force (428)
Newcastle and Gateshead Commercial Association (Item f.103)
Reduction of rate of postage to Australian colonies (516)...
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (Item f.602)
Abolition of transportation (5119)
41 petitions on abolition of transportation to Australia (5638-5678) (Item ff.701-4)
Provincial Council of New Ulster (Item f.1434)
Losses of New Zealand Company (10,778)
Passengers on barque Strathfieldsaye (Item f.1610)
Treatment on voyage to Port Phillip (11,153)
Appendices, 1852 - 1853 (File)
Appendix 7. Weavers, flaxdressers, Dundee (9) (Item ff.5-6)
Includes: Appendix 8: Council of Auckland (10)
Appendix 28. Charles Cowper, Sydney (32) (Item ff.20-23)
Appendix 66. Inhabitants of New Ulster (109) (Item ff.42-43)
Appendix 156. Inhabitants of Canterbury (332) (Item ff.85-86)
Appendix 216. Council of Auckland (428) (Item ff.104-5)
Appendix 246. Newcastle and Gateshead Commercial Association (516) (Item f.120)
Appendix 250. Burgesses of Auckland (520) (Item ff.124-25)
Appendix 970. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (5119) (Item f.513)
Appendix 1095. St. Matthew's Church, New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land (5638) (Item f.569)
Appendix 1735. Provincial Council of New Ulster (10,778) (Item ff.911-14)
Appendix 1835. Passengers on barque Strathfieldsaye (11,153) (Item ff.978-79)
Reports of Committees, 1854 (File)
Merchants of London (Item f.34)
Steam communication with Australia (210)
Australian Agricultural Company (Item f.53)
Steam communication with Australia (340)
Peel River Land and Mineral Co. (Item f.122)
Steam communication with Australia (984)...
Bankers, merchants etc., Liverpool (Item f.161)
Steam communication with Australia (1361)
Magistrates and Town Council, Aberdeen (Item f.189)
Steam communication with Australia (1604)
Inhabitants of Auckland (Item f.304)
Interference of military in provincial elections (3006)
Provincial Council of Auckland (Item f.560)
Charges of New Zealand Company (6445)
Provincial Council of Auckland (Item f.678)
Separation of Northern Province as new colony (7472)
Colonists of N.S.W. (Item f.699)
Constitution proposed by Legislative Council (7598)
Inhabitants of Maitland (Item f.932)
Alteration of N.S.W. Constituion Act (9544)
Colonists of South Australia (Item f.1131)
Alterations in proposed Constitution (10,297)
Appendices, 1854 (File)
Appendix 94. Merchants of London (210) (Item f.44)
Appendix 139. Australian Agricultural Company (340) (Item ff.64-65)
Appendix 276. Merchants, bankers etc., Bristol (985) (Item ff.121-22)
Appendix 342. Bankers, merchants etc., Liverpool (1361) (Item ff.153-54)
Appendix 389. Magistrates and Town Council, Aberdeen (1604) (Item ff.172-73)
Appendix 673. Inhabitants of Auckland (3006) (Item f.293)
Appendix 1070. Provincial Council of Auckland (6445) (Item f.479)
Appendix 1202. Provincial Council of Auckland (7472) (Item ff.539-40)
Appendix 1229. Colonists of N.S.W. (7598) (Item f.551)
Appendix 1426. Inhabitants of Maitland (9544) (Item ff.649-50)
Reports of Committees, 1854 - 1855 (File)
Inhabitants of Scone and Murrurrundi (Item f.7)
Alteration of N.S.W. Constitution (15)...
New Zealand House of Representatives (Item f.27)
New Zealand debt (150)
Inhabitants of Sydney (Item f.190)
Constitution for Australian colonies (1315)
Australian Postal Association (Item f.351)
Suspended postal communications (3082)
Inhabitants of Parramatta (Item f.543)
Constitution for Australian colonies (5816)...
Nelson Provincial Council (Item f.658)
New Zealand debt (7063)
Inhabitants of Kiama (Item f.684)
Constitution for Australian colonies (7300)
Appendices, 1854 - 1855 (File)
Appendix 5. Inhabitants of Scone and Murrurrundi (15) (Item ff.5-7)
Includes:...
Appendix 51. New Zealand House of Representatives (150) (Item ff.27-28)
Appendix 304. Inhabitants of Sydney (1315) (Item ff.163-64)
Appendix 536. Australian Postal Association (3082) (Item ff.250-251)
Appendix 731. Inhabitants of Upper Hunter (5817) (Item ff.338-39)
Appendix 867. Nelson Provincial Council (7063) (Item f.391)
Reports of Committees, 1856 (File)
Auckland Provincial Council (Item f.280)
Alteration of New Zealand Constition Act (5490)
Van Diemen's Land Company (Item f.393)
Postal communications with Australia (6830)
General Association for Australian Colonies, London (Item f.450)
Postal communication with Australia (7977)
Merchants, bankers etc., London (Item f.597)
Postal communication with Australia (9490)...
Appendices, 1856 (File)
Appendix 276. Auckland Provincial Council (5490) (Item ff.137-39)
Appendix 368. Van Diemen's Land Company (6830) (Item f.182)
Appendix 414. General Association for Australian Colonies, London (7977) (Item ff.202-4)
Appendix 598. Merchants, bankers etc., London (9490) (Item ff.290-91)
Includes:...
Reports of Committees, 1857 (File)
N.S.W. Legislative Council (Item f.632)
Alteration of N.S.W. boundaries (4127)
Appendices, 1857 (File)
Appendix 420. N.S.W. Legislative Council (4127) (Item ff.375-76)
Reports of Committees, 1857 - 1858 (File)
Bankers, merchants etc., Manchester (Item f.385)
Control of north-west coast of Borneo by Colonial Office (3470)
Merchants, shipowners, etc., London (Item f.858)
Protection of Sarawak (6796)
Appendices, 1857 - 1858 (File)
Appendix 264. Bankers, merchants etc., Manchester (3470) (Item f.155)
Appendix 575. Merchants, shipowners etc., London (6796) (Item ff.324-25)
Reports of Committees, 1859 (File)
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce (Item f.177)
Protection of Sarawak (2013)
Auckland Provincial Council (Item f.322)
Better government of New Zealand (3614)
Appendices, 1859 (File)
Appendix 278. Birmingham Chamber of Commerce (2013) (Item ff.114-15)
Appendix 447. Auckland Provincial Council (3614) (Item ff.190-91)
Reports of Committees, 1860 (File)
Colonists of N.Z. resident in England (Item f.1790)
New Zealand Bill (24236)
Appendices, 1860 (File)
Appendix 1173. Colonists of N.Z. resident in England (24,236) (Item ff.557-58)
Reports of Committees, 1861 (File)
General Association for Australian Colonies (Item f.508)
Discontinuance of transportation (10,003)
Inhabitants of Southampton (Item f.697)
New Zealand War (11,998)
Colonists, landowners etc. connected with W. Australia (Item f.728)
Discontinuance of transportation (12,225)
Inhabitants of Brighton (Item ff.777-78)
New Zealand War (12,553)...
Aborigines Protection Society (Item f.800)
New Zealand War (12,660)
Inhabitants of Coalbrookdale (Item f.845)
New Zealand War (12,990)
Inhabitants of Stourport (Item f.979)
New Zealand War (14,279)
Appendices, 1861 (File)
Appendix 463. General Association for Australian Colonies (10,003) (Item ff.213-14)
Appendix 660. Inhabitants of Southampton (11,998) (Item f.303)
Appendix 752. Inhabitants of Brighton (12,553) (Item ff.353-54)
Includes:...
Appendix 764. Aborigines Protection Society (12,660) (Item ff.359-60)
Appendix 778. Inhabitants of Coalbrookdale (12,990) (Item f.371)
Reports of Committees, 1862 (File)
Inhabitants of Clarence and Richmond Rivers (Item f.187)
Incorporation of district in Queensland (2406)
Auckland Provincial Council (Item f.702)
Constitution modelled on British Constitution (7936)
Appendices, 1862 (File)
Appendix 257. Inhabitants of Clarence and Richmond Rivers (2406) (Item f.117)
Appendix 791. Auckland Provincial Council (7936) (Item f.382)
Reports of Committees, 1863 (File)
Parties of interest include: Merchants, bankers etc., Singapore; Inhabitants of Hamilton, Heywood, Bridgewater and Portland...
Appendices, 1863 (File)
Appendix 11. Merchants, bankers etc., Singapore (24) (Item ff.7-8)
Includes:...
Appendix 701. Inhabitants of Taranaki (11,468) (Item ff.325-26)
Appendix 862. Abel Heywood (12,496) (Item ff.415-18)
Includes:...
Reports of Committees, 1864 (File)
17 petitions on rate of postage to Australia (10,064-10,080) (Item ff.843-44)
Inhabitants of Melbourne (Item f.849)
Suppression of slave trade in Pacific (10,133)
3 petitions on rate of postage to Australia (10,146-10,148) (Item f.852)
5 petitions on rate of postage to Australia (10,172-10,176) (Item f.868)
Appendices, 1864 (File)
Parties of interest include: Leeds Working Men's Club; Persons engaged in trade with Australia.
Reports of Committees, 1865 (File)
9 petitions on discontinuance of transportation to Australia (11-19) (Item f.4)
15 petitions on discontinuance of transportation to Australia (575-589) (Item f.61)
Inhabitants of Mt. Rouse (Item f.216)
Discontinuance of transportation to Australia (3091)
Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee (Item f.308)
Protection of natives' rights in N.Z. (4571)
James Busby, Waitangi (Item f.652)
Seeking redress (7659)...
Aborigines Protection Society (Item f.712)
New Zealand War (8060)
Appendices, 1865 (File)
Parties of interest include: Inhabitants of Prahran, Woodend, Taradale, Victoria; Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee; Aborigines Protection Society.
Reports of Committees, 1866 (File)
Auckland Provincial Council (Item f.369)
Self-government for northern island of N.Z. (5323)
Appendices, 1866 (File)
Appendix 457. Auckland Provincial Council (5323), 1866 (Item ff.187-188)
Reports of Committees, 1867 - 1868 (File)
Otago Provincial Council (Item f.132)
Establishment of two colonies in N.Z. (2709)
Appendices, 1867 - 1868 (File)
Appendix 141. Otago Provincial Council (2709) (Item f.67)
Reports of Committees, 1872 (File)
Parties of interest include: Presbyterian missionaries in New Hebrides; Missionary College of St. Augustine, Canterbury...
Appendices, 1872 (File)
Parties of interest include: Presbyterian missionaries in New Hebrides; Synod of Presbyterian Church of Lower Provinces of Canada; Missionary College of St. Augustine, Canterbury.
Reports of Committees, 1873 (File)
Ladies' Negroes' Friend Society, Birmingham (Item f.1099)
Protection of Polynesian Islanders (21,139)
Appendices, 1873 (File)
Appendix 753. Ladies' Negroes' Friend Society, Birmingham (21,139) (Item f.556)
Reports of Committees, 1882 (File)
Wi Remu Re Weti Parare and Sidney Tairdhanga (Item f.918)
N.Z. land laws (18,182)
Appendices, 1882 (File)
Appendix 397. Wi Remu Re Weti Parare and Sidney Tairdhanga (18,182) (Item f.173)
Supplement, 1886 (File)
Parties of interest include: Federated Seamen's Union of N.S.W; Trades and Labor Council of N.S.W; Democratic Alliance, Sydney...
Reports of Committees, 1890 (File)
Nottinghamshire and Midlands Merchants' and Traders' Association (Item f.452)
Reduction of postage to India and Australia (6053)
Appendices, 1890 (File)
Appendix 171. Nottinghamshire and Midlands Merchants' and Traders Association (6053), 1890 (Item f.82)
Reports of Committees, 1892 (File)
General Assembly of Free Church of Scotland (Item f.384)
Kanaka slave traffic (5875)
Reports of Committees, 1900 (File)
Bank of New South Wales and others (Item f.132)
Commonwealth Constitution and right of appeal to Privy Council (1715)
Protestant Church of England Union of N.S.W. (Item f.257)
Form of Intercession issued by Archbishops of Canterbury and York (3243)
Appendices, 1900 (File)
Appendix 42. Bank of New South Wales and others (1715) (Item ff.33-35)
Appendix 82. Protestant Church of England Union of N.S.W. (3243) (Item f.60)
Series. House of Commons Select Committee on Private Bills Evidence, 1857
Australian Agricultural Company Bill, 1857 (File Group E)
Fonds. Baden-Powell Papers (Hist. Coll. 258), 1872 - 1898
Series 1. New homes for the old country
Reprinted reviews of Baden-Powell's book New homes for the old country: A personal experience of the political and domestic life, the industries and the natural history of Australia and New Zealand. (London, Bentley, 1872)
Series 2. Australian writings, 1872 - 1879
Items of interest include:...
Series 3. French Interests in the Pacific
Letters from Robert Murray Smith (Agent-General for Victoria), F.D. Bell (Agent-General for New Zealand) and others, February 1886 - March 1886 (File)
Relating to questions by Baden-Powell in the House of Commons on the independence of the New Hebrides.
Newspaper cuttings on French ambitions in the Pacific (File)
Notes by Baden-Powell on New Guinea (File)
Series 4. Canadian-Pacific Shipping Line and Cable Service
Letters by Baden-Powell to The Times, June 1887 (File)
Advocating the establishment of shipping lines between Vancouver and China and Australia.
Resolutions of the London Chamber of Commerce supporting the Canadian Pacific Railway's proposals for a new mail service to China and Australia, June 1887 (File)
Letter from Baden-Powell to Lord Salisbury, 2 August 1887 (File)
Urging a subsidy to enable a mail service to be opened between Canada and the East.
Draft by Baden-Powell of a submission to the Government entitled 'Proposed new mail lines to China and Australia via Canada', 25 June 1887 (File)
Letter from Baden-Powell to G.J. Goschen, 15 June 1887 (File)
Seeking interview.
Letter from Baden-Powell to Lord Salisbury, 11 July 1887 (File)
Warning that Canadian Government might be forced to accept the tenders of subsidized German shipping lines.
Letters from Lord George Hamilton, Carson Woods (Sydney), Lord Salisbury, Sir John Thurston, Charles Short (Melbourne), July 1887 - October 1887 (File)
On Canadian-Eastern mail line.
Letters from Charles Hosner (Canadian Pacific Railway), Sir John Thurston, Edward Buchanan, Matthew Gray, H. Gibbs (Union Steamship Company of New Zealand), John Pender (Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company), and others, November 1890 - May 1895 (File)
On proposal for cable from Canada to Japan and Australia via Hawaii.
Memorandum by Baden-Powell entitled 'C.P.R. and Steamship lines on Atlantic and Pacific', November 1891 (File)
Memorandum of the Union Steamship Company on the establishment of a line of steamers between Vancouver and Honolulu, New Zealand and Australia, October 1891 (File)
Draft of a letter by Lord Brassey, 3 September 1891 (File)
On shipping services to Canada.
Explanatory statement on a new route from Britain to Australia via Canada and Honolulu inaugurated in 1893 by the New Zealand and Australasian Steamship Company (File)
Pacific Cable controversy (printed), April 1894 - June 1894 (File)
Newspaper cuttings on the Pacific mail route and cable (File)
Series 5. Double Taxation and Colonial Taxation
Correspondence between Baden-Powell and W. Campbell, J. S. O'Halloran, A. Chapman and others on double taxation, March 1887 - June 1898 (File)
Notes by Baden-Powell on colonial income tax and crown lands (File)
Memorial and correspondence from the Royal Colonial Institute (File)
Speech by Baden-Powell in the House of Commons, 2 July 1894, on double taxation (File)
Newspaper cuttings (File)
Series 6. Miscellaneous
Letters from F.A. Weld (Singapore) 1 Oct. 1881 and S. Mason (English and Australian Mortgage Bank) 24 Oct. 1889
Fonds. Blumenfeld Papers (Hist. Coll. 185), 1907 - 1935
S.M. Bruce to Blumenfeld, 14 February 1933 (File)
Accepts invitation to Company of Newspaper Makers lunch.
S.M. Bruce to Sir Evelyn Wrench, 5 April 1935 (File)
Declines invitation to lunch.
Sir Joseph Cook to Blumenfeld, 4 October 1926 (File)
Invites Blumenfeld to lunch in honour of S.M. Bruce.
Alfred Deakin to Blumenfeld, 18 May 1907 (File)
Thanks for note of warning.
Alfred Deakin to Blumenfeld, 12 July 1909 (File)
Thanks for congratulations; hopes his Government will follow more Imperial policy than predecessors.
Sir George Reid to Blumenfeld, 10 September 1913 (File)
Thanks Blumenfeld for cooperation with Barrett over British Press luncheon.
Fonds. Cadogan Papers (Hist. Coll. 163), 1879 - 1894
Prince of Wales to Cadogan, 24 March 1879 (File 232)
Invites Cadogan to serve on Royal Commission for promoting British interests in International Exhibition in Australia.
G.C. Levey to Cadogan, 9 May 1881 (File 258)
Award of silver medal by Commissioners of Melbourne International Exhibition.
A. Morris to Cadogan, 24 October 1881 (File 262)
Sends official record of 1879 International Exhibition.
T.A. Wright to Cadogan, 2 January 1882 (File 264)
Will enquire about medal.
T.A. Wright to Cadogan, 21 February 1882 (File 265)
Sends record of Sydney Exhibition.
J.C. Hoey to Cadogan, 13 May 1882 (File 266)
Encloses silver medal.
Lord Hardwicke to Cadogan, 18 November 1891 (File 504)
Seeks support to gain appointment as Governor of New Zealand; his financial difficulties.
Lord Knutsford to Cadogan, 21 November 1891 (File 505)
Hardwicke cannot succeed Onslow.
Gerry Cadogan, Townsville, to Lady Cadogan, 12 May 1894 (File 615)
Visit to Brisbane; floods; meat freezing works; Charters Towers; goldfields; Lady Hopetoun.
Gerry Cadogan, Kangaroo Hills, to Cadogan, 13 May 1894 (File 616)
Journey from Townsville to Kangaroo Hills near Ingham; countryside; Dick Ramsden.
Gerry Gadogan, Kangaroo Hills, to Lady Cadogan, 1 June 1894 (File 628 618)
Life on cattle station; mustering; intended visit to sugar plantation at Cairns; horses.
Fonds. Hannon Papers (Hist. Coll. 189), 1913 - 1933
M.F. Wren, Nagpore, to Navy League, 26 May 1913 (File)
Position of British Navy in Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Hannon to M.F. Wren, 27 June 1913 (File)
British naval strength in Pacific Ocean.
S. Eardley Wilmot (Launceston) to Hannon, 24 March 1916 (File)
W.M. Hughes; Andrew Fisher; problems of trade unions in Australia.
Hannon to S. Eardley Wilmot, 2 May 1916 (File)
Hughes' visit to England; Australia's problems.
H.C. Cameron (New Zealand Relief Commissioner) to Navy League, 8 September 1916 (File)
Transmits £570.19.0 from sources in New Zealand for relief of dependents of men of British Navy.
Hannon to R.P. Vincent (Perth), 11 March 1918 (File)
Urges formation of branch of Navy League in Western Australia.
R. Darroch to Hannon, 5 May 1922 (File)
Encloses annual report of Wellington (N.Z.) Navy League.
P.R. Nightingale to Hannon, 19 May 1933 (File)
Encloses copy of letter from Imperial Ex-Service Settlers' Association of Victoria to Empire Industries Association on Empire settlement.
Fonds. Pringle Papers (Hist. Coll. 226), 1914
Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson to Pringle, 15 February 1914 (File)
Is quite glad to go to Australia; never cared much for House of Commons; sessions have been impossible for anyone with outside interests.
Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson to Pringle, 10 July 1914 (File)
Voyage to Australia; solidarity between Britain and Australia; constitutional problems; Ulster crisis.
Fonds. Samuel Papers, 1892 - 1945
Series A/32. Papers relating to the erection of a statue of Captain James Cook at Admiralty Arch, London, in July 1914
The statue was erected following a suggestion made by Sir Joseph Carruthers in November 1908. Samuel was Chairman of the Executive of a National Committee set up in 1909 to implement the suggestion...
Series A/38. Papers relating to the Imperial Wireless Chain, 9 August 1911 - January 1915
W.G. Greene to Secretary, Post Office, 7 June 1913 (File f.169)
Admiralty is unwilling to erect or administer Imperial Wireless Chain.
Admiralty memorandum on Imperial Wireless Chain (File ff.170-174)
Samuel to J.E.B. Seely, 5 August 1913 (File f.177a)
Strategic grounds for erecting Imperial Wireless Chain.
J.E. Masterton Smith to Sambrook, 7 August 1913 (File ff.179-81)
Encloses Admiralty memo on Imperial Wireless Chain.
Extract from minutes of Imperial Wireless Committee, 9 August 1911 (File f.194)
Concerning a station in Australia.
Memorandum on apportionment of cost of Imperial Wireless Chain, June 1914 (File ff.196-200)
Copy of Cabinet paper, signed C.H., 30 December 1914 (File f.207)
On termination of contract with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. for Imperial Wireless Chain.
Copies of correspondence with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. on decision not to proceed with Imperial Wireless Chain, December 1914 - January 1915 (File ff.208-12)
Copies of correspondence between Admiralty and Treasury on a new scheme for wireless stations abroad, December 1914 - January 1915 (File ff.213-25)
M. Bonham Carter to Samuel, 15 January 1915 (File ff.226-27)
Asquith requests a report on the Marconi contract.
Samuel to H. Asquith, 18 January 1915 (File ff.228-29)
Suggests a conference of ministers on Imperial Wireless Chain.
M. Bonham Carter to Samuel, 19 January 1915 (File f.231)
Asquith agrees with suggestion.
G.L. Borstow to Samuel, 19 January 1915 (File f.232)
Encloses Post Office papers on wireless contract.
Series A/40. Correspondence with Sir John Henniken Heaton, 11 September 1912 - 1 May 1913
Heaton to Samuel, 11 September 1912 (File ff.7-8)
Postage stamps; Irish Home Rule; Heaton's long residence in Australia had given him a correct judgment on Home Rule.
Heaton to Samuel, 18 December 1912 (File ff.13-15)
Heaton's great knowledge of British Empire; governments of Empire support Home Rule; Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and his meeting with Sir Edward Carson; Heaton's family ties with Ireland.
Heaton to Samuel, 9 January 1913 (File ff.17-18)
Marconi enquiry; Heaton's inspection of stations in Australia and their cost.
Heaton to Samuel, 19 January 1913 (File f.f.20)
Visit of Sir Joseph Ward; suggests Samuel meets Ward.
Heaton to Samuel, 29 January 1913 (File ff.24-25)
Urges Samuel to meet Ward and discuss his political future.
Heaton to Samuel, 1 May 1913 (File ff.28-29)
Heaton's departure for Australia; asks Samuel to remember his friend [Ward ?].
Series A/57. The Organisation of the Empire
Article by Samuel (File)
Entitled 'The organization of the Empire; a suggestion' published in the Nineteenth Century, March 1917, and letters of thanks from Lord Bryce, Sir Robert Borden, W.F. Massey, A. Bonar Law, Andrew Fisher and Sir Joseph Ward, Jan.-March 1917.
Series A/121. Proposal for Joint Select Committee on Colonial Affairs, 17 December 1942 - 27 February 1945
Lord Lugard to Samuel, 17 December 1942 (File ff.1-5)
Views on Joint Standing Committee on Colonial Affairs.
Samuel to Lord Lugard, 29 December 1942 (File ff.6- 7)
Joint Standing Committee on Colonial Affairs.
Lord Lugard to Samuel, 4 January 1943 (File ff.8-10)
Further comments on Joint Standing Committee on Colonial Affairs.
Draft memorandum proposing Joint Select Committee on Colonial Affairs (File ff.41-42)
Lord Bledisloe to Samuel, 29 January 1944 (File ff.78-81)
Thanks for memorandum; Canberra discussions between Curtin and Fraser; Southern Pacific question was nightmare when he was in New Zealand; new agreement should enhance Empire solidarity; mandatory system did not work satisfactorily in Western Samoa.
Samuel to W.S. Churchill, 3 February 1944 (File ff.86-88)
Encloses memorandum and asks Churchill to receive deputation.
W.S. Churchill to Samuel, 5 February 1944 (File f.90)
Cannot see deputation; is sending memorandum to O. Stanley.
W.S. Churchill to Samuel, 2 April 1944 (File f.92)
Has consulted Stanley; believes disadvantages of scheme would outweigh advantages.
Samuel to O. Stanley, 15 February 1945 (File ff.159-61)
Encloses revised memorandum and asks Stanley to receive deputation.
O. Stanley to Samuel, 27 February 1945 (File f.162)
Agrees to see deputation.
Typescript entitled 'The colonies at Westminster' (File ff.189-92)
Series A/155 (I). General correspondence, 1892
W. Pember Reeves, London, to Samuel, 13 Sept. [1892] (File f.27)
European travels; agrees to write for Empire League's paper but for a fee.
W. Pember Reeves to Samuel, 17 September 1892 (File f.28)
Willing to write for Britannia; journeys round London.
W. Pember Reeves to Samuel, 13 Nov. [1892] (File f.29)
Sends Samuel New Zealand jade paper-weight.
Series A/155 (II). General correspondence, 16 August 1899 - 16 June 1900
W. Pember Reeves, London, to Samuel, 16 August 1899 (File ff.127-28)
Reeves' illness; New Zealand Government wishes him to go to Philadelphia.
W. Pember Reeves to Samuel, n.d. (File ff.156-57)
Will be glad to meet Samuel; New Zealand Premier had notified him Arbitration Act had settled another industrial dispute.
W. Pember Reeves to Samuel, 16 June 1900 (File ff.158-59)
Sends Samuel copy of Utopia.
Fonds. Shaw-Lefevre Papers, 1835 - 1841
Series. Papers relating to the South Australian Colonisation Commission, April 1835 - December 1841
Robert Torrens to Shaw-Lefevre, n.d. (File 1)
Has returned from Colonial Office; everything is settled in satisfactory manner.
Robert Torrens to Shaw-Lefevre, n.d. (File 2)
Lord Glenelg requires more time to consider question of protection of Australian Aboriginals; Torrens spoke of row which would be caused by not implementing Act.
Robert Torrens to Shaw-Lefevre, n.d. (File 3)
Requires letter of introduction to Brand at Treasury.
Daniel Wakefield to Shaw-Lefevre, 20 April 1835 (File 4)
Wishes to be introduced to C. Grant; hopes Australian affair will be pushed forward under Whig Government.
Daniel Wakefield to Shaw-Lefevre, 22 June 1835 (File 5)
Anxious to obtain appointment as judge in South Australia; his contribution to passing of South Australian Act; his refusal to have anything to do with Tory Government.
Daniel Wakefield to Shaw-Lefevre, 27 July 1835 (File 6)
Wakefield's role in negotiations between Whig Government and South Australian Association in 1834; his work in promoting return to Parliament of friends of Whig Government; Spring Rice had intimated he would be judge in South Australia.
Daniel Wakefield to J. Parker, 26 July 1835 (File 7)
Believes less experienced barrister who opposed whole plan for new colony has been recommended as judge in South Australia; E.G. Wakefield's role and his own work in drawing up Charter and Act and its progress through Parliament; Spring Rice all but promised him appointment.
Shaw-Lefevre to John Blunt, W. Brougham, L. Duckworth, 29 July 1835 (File 8-10)
(copies): Requests opinion of D. Wakefield; he contributed to founding of colony.
L. Duckworth to Shaw-Lefevre, 30 July 1835 (File 11)
Knows nothing of Wakefield but rumours say nothing good for him; praises Henry Parker.
John Blunt to Shaw-Lefevre, 31 July 1835 (File 12)
Blunt does not know Wakefield, believes he does not stand well with Bar.
W.C. to Shaw-Lefevre, n.d. (File 13)
Knows very little about Wake field; is surprised he wishes to carry King's Commission to colonies; his experience must be very limited.
[unknown] to Shaw-Lefevre, n.d. (File 14)
Knows nothing good or bad about Wakefield; his connections ought to make Glenelg pause.
Shaw-Lefevre to Lord Glenelg (draft) (File 15)
Has consulted five legal friends but has little information about Wakefield; only knows one man on Oxford Circuit who thinks unfavourably of him; Wakefield is clever man who did good work in preparing South Australian Act.
Robert Torrens to Shaw-Lefevre, April 1837 (File 16)
Capt. Robertson is anxious to have interview with Glenelg to explain objects of Irish South Australian Protestant community.
Thomas Paynter to Shaw-Lefevre, 5 March 1838 (File 17)
At request of writer sends enclosed to Shaw-Lefevre rather than to Office.
Thomas Paynter to Shaw-Lefevre, 31 May 1838 (File 18)
Is considering applying for Chief Justiceship of South Australia; has spoken to Col. Gawler.
Thomas Paynter to Shaw-Lefevre, 3 July 1838 (File 19)
Has given up idea of obtaining Australian appointment; suggests instead of distinction between real and personal estate all grants of land should be in form of a perpetual chattel interest.
B.P. Wing to Shaw-Lefevre, 22 March 1838 (File 20)
Introduces Mr Johnson who intends to settle in South Australia.
J. Winter to Shaw-Lefevre, n.d. (File 21)
Seeks position as solicitor in South Australia.
H. Wickham to J.S.W, 17 Aug.[?] (File 22)
Requests assistance for friend who wishes to go to South Australia as assistant barrister.
Testimonial for Edward Whately, barrister, March 1838 (File 23)
W. Wheeler to Shaw-Lefevre, 17 February 1838 (File 24)
Seeks a position; is a schoolteacher.
Verbeke to Shaw-Lefevre, n.d. (File 25)
Complaints by Mrs Younghusband; emigrants on Coromandel were well treated.
George F. Angus to Shaw-Lefevre, 14 October 1841 (File 26)
His success as businessman; had £100,000 when he became Commissioner for South Australia; paid £30,000 to Land Fund but does not have 100 acres of land; he established South Australian Company with promise by Glenelg of charter; if charters were given to South Australian Company and Bank of South Australia difficulties would be speedily removed and his own position restored.
Shaw-Lefevre to George F. Angus (File 27)
(copy): Cannot expect charter for South Australian Banking Company until Governor has reported on general state of colony.
W. Brougham to Shaw-Lefevre, 22 December 1841 (File 28)
Needs advice for brother on whether he should emigrate to New Zealand rather than Australia.
T.F. Elliott to Shaw-Lefevre, 29 Dec. [1841] (File 29)
Believes New Zealand will prove fine colony but there is less certainty than with Australia.
Fonds. Strachey Papers (Hist. Coll. 196), 1903 - 1922
Box 5. Folder 7, 22 February 1915 (File)
A.V. Dicey to Strachey, 22 February 1915 (Item 17)
Dominions and federal union with Britain.
Box 7. Folder 8, 24 January 1914 (File)
Strachey to Sir Edward Grey, 24 January 1914 (Item 24)
Dominion scheme; Grey's visit to Australia and New Zealand.
Box 8. Folder 10, 25 September 1918 (File)
W.M. Hughes to Strachey, 25 September 1918 (Item 1)
Invites Strachey to join party to visit Australian Front in France.
Box 13. Folder 16, 25 September 1903 (File)
W.H. Fitchett to Strachey, 25 September 1903 (Item 7)
Difficulty of editing Australian Review of Reviews for Stead.
Box 17. Folder 1, 23 April 1910 (File)
Sir Cyprian Bridge to Strachey, 23 April 1910 (Item 14)
Admiralty and Colonial Navies.
Box 18. Folder 3, 19 July 1916 (File)
Strachey to W.H. Fitchett, 19 July 1916 (Item 25)
Suggests he write book on Deeds that saved Empire.
Box 18. Folder 4, 8 February 1917 - April 1917 (File)
Strachey to W. Pember Reeves, 8 February 1917 (Item 11)
Article on Greeks for Spectator.
Frank Fox to Strachey, April 1917 (Item 23)
Education scheme in France.
Strachey to Frank Fox, 20 April 1917 (Item)
Notes his views on Australian affairs; conscription referendum.
Box 19. Folder 3, 6 August 1921 - 20 September 1921 (File)
W.G. St. Clair to Strachey, 6 August 1921 (Item 8)
Lim Boon Keng, leader of Chinese community in Straits Settlements, his attitude to Germany and relationship with Sun Yat Sen and Southern Republic of China.
Strachey to W.G. St. Clair, 20 September 1921 (Item)
Japanese Alliance and Pacific defence.
Box 19. Folder 4, 28 January 1922 - 1 May 1922 (File)
Sir Neil Malcolm to Strachey, 28 January 1922 (Item 5)
Chinese claims to Malay peninsula.
H. Gardner to Strachey, 24 April 1922 (Item 13)
Introduces member of Legislative Council in Penang; life in colony.
H. Gardner to Strachey, 1 May 1922 (Item)
Adventures of member of Legislative Council.
Box 22. Folder 2, February 1922 - March 1922 (File)
Correspondence between Sir Michael O'Dwyer and Strachey on General L. Wood's report on progress of Philippines, February 1922 - March 1922 (Item 17)
Fonds. Wakehurst Papers (Hist. Coll. 224), 1924 - 1965
Series 1. Typescript copies of Loder's letters to his parents written during a trip which he and his wife made in 1923-1924 to South America, Australia, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Canada
Series 2. Typescript of Lord Wakehurst's memoirs entitled 'A look at the century'
Governor of New South Wales (i) in peace, (1937-1939) (File 17)
Governor of New South Wales (ii) in war, (1939-1945) (File 18)
Governor of New South Wales (iii) looking ahead (File 19)
