Guide to the collection of the Hove Central Library (as filmed by the AJCP)
M820
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Hove Central Library
- Title
- Collections held by the Hove Central Library (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1805 - 1901
- Collection Number
- M820
- Extent
- 32 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
Autograph collection: letter 1891 concerning Frank Carlton of Newcastle; five letters 1892-1901 to Edward Horace Man (Deputy Superintendent of the Andaman Islands 1891-1901); Henry H. Giglioni concerning Perak stone implements and his diggings in Andaman Islands; photographs of Andamese and Nicobar natives; letter 1892 from Baron Anatole von Hugel, Curator, Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge requesting photographs of Andamese; letter 1818 from Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, to the Duke of Wellington concerning the cases of Corporals John Wilkinson and John Whalley and Privates Robert Mantle and Giles Seddon transported to New South Wales.
Papers of Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley: correspondence 1839-91 concerning defence of the Straits Settlements and Sydney and other military matters, including appointments. Correspondents include Sir George Bowen, Sir Henry Parkes, Sir James Knight and Sir Harry Rawson. Other items include The New South Wales Contingents to South Africa, October 1899-June 1900 (1900) and Suggestions for the Improvement of the Military Force of the British Empire by Brigadier-General Stewart (1805); letter 1886, with reply from Lord Dunraven, concerning the proposal to extend the services of the Canadian Pacific Co to Hong Kong; tables 1886 showing the state of the British Army at home, in India and in the colonies.
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
Filmed at Hove Central Library, Sussex, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1971 (AJCP Reel: M820). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Hove Central Library. Church Road, Hove, Sussex, England.
For further information see Hove Central Library (http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/leisure-and-libraries/libraries).
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-vn584760] 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
Andaman Islands, India; Andaman Islands: photographs; Army and defence: New South Wales; Army and Defence: Straits Settlements; Army officers; Boer War, South Africa (1899–1902); Bowen, Sir George F. ; Cambridge Museum of Archaeology, England; Canadian Pacific Company; Convicts: New South Wales; Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany; Giglioni, Henry H.; Hong Kong; Knight, Sir James; Man, Edward H.; Mantle, Robert; Museums; Newcastle, New South Wales; Nicobar Islands; Parkes, Sir Henry; Perak, Malaysia; Rawson, Sir Harry H.; Seddon, Giles; Stewart, Brig. Gen.; Straits Settlements; Sydney, New South Wales: defence; Von Hugel, Anatole, Baron; Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington; Whalley, John; Wilkinson, John; Wolseley, Sir Garnet J., 1st Viscount; Wyndham-Quin, Sir Windham T., 4th Earl of Dunraven
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 237, p89.
Item Descriptions
Fonds. Papers of Edward Horace Man, 1892 - 1901
5 itemsFonds. Autograph Letters, 1818
1 itemFonds. Papers of Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, 1805 - 1900
25 itemsSir Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833-1913), 1st Viscount Wolseley (created 1885). He enlisted in the Army in 1852 and served in Burma, Crimea, India, China, Canada, South Africa and Egypt. He became a major-general in 1877, general in 1885 and field marshal in 1894. He was Adjutant-General to the Forces (1882-90), Commander-in-Chief, Ireland (1890-95), and Commander-in-Chief to the Forces (1895-1901).
Series. Autograph Collection, February 1839 - October 1899
17 items
Sir George Bowen (London) to Wolseley, 9 June 1886 (File)
Invitation to attend dinner at Royal Colonial Institute; Bowen will read paper on proposed federation of the Empire.
Duke of Cambridge (Sandringham) to Wolseley, 30 November 1883 (File)
Will write to Lord Hartington about additional artillery battery for Straits Settlements.
Lord Hartington (Chatsworth) to Wolseley, 2 December 1883 (File)
Seeks advice on proposal to send two battalions of Royal Garrison Artillery to Straits Settlements.
General Sir Gerald Graham (London) to Wolseley, 31 August 1885 (File)
Congratulations on honours; recommends clasp should be added to Tamai 1885 instead of for Tofrits so Australians can be included among recipients.
King Kalakaua (Honolulu) to Robert F. Synger (Foreign Office), 21 October 1882 (File)
Gifts arrived safely by Portuguese ship Hansa; Queen sends her thanks for articles given for the bazaar; remembers Wolseley and Lady Wolseley; high opinion of Wolseley's military skills; hopes British Government will respond favourably to announcement of his coronation.
Sir James Knight (Florence) to Lord Mar, 19 February 1839 (File)
Thanks for letter; comments on resignation of Lord Glenelg as Secretary of State for the Colonies and on his attitude to politics; hopes Lord Normanby will not allow Secretary at War [Lord Howick] to break through all the customary forms as he has lately done.
Sir Henry Parkes to Wolseley, 12 March 1884 (File)
Sends two photographs and some publications on Australia, including a selection of his speeches.
Sir Harry Rawson (Alexandria) to Wolseley, 30 September [n.y.] (File)
Death of his brother; thanks Wolseley for his kindness and for taking him as his naval ADC.
Philip Robinson (London) to Wolseley, 25 February 1891 (File)
Thanks for Wolseley's reply on behalf of his friend Charles Arnold; Robinson has seen a preliminary prospectus advertising the 'Australian sheep shearing shed.'
Series. Personal and Military Papers, 1805 - 1900
8 items
Subseries. Scrapbook No. 19: The New South Wales Contingents to South Africa, October 1899 – June 1900, Sydney, Turner & Henderson, 1900.
Subseries W/MEM/2. Bound volume of memoranda by Wolseley, January 1886 - November 1886
3 items
Lord Dunraven to Wolseley, 8 November 1886 (File 2/9)
Requests Wolseley's opinion for committee considering strategic implications of proposal to extend Canadian Pacific Company from Vancouver to Hong Kong.