Guide to the Collections held by the London Guildhall Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

London Guildhall Library

Title

Collections held by the London Guildhall Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1834 - 1902

Collection Number

M1336

Extent

6 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

Diary 1841-42 of William Fanning, agent of Dent & Co, kept at Macao and on voyage to Manila and Hobart on Lord Amherst and to Sydney on John Byng.

Risk books 1834, 1854 of Marine Department of London Assurance Co referring to voyages to Australia, New Zealand, East Indies and Singapore.

Australian share certificates 1893-1902 of William C. Phillips of London.

Letter of instructions 18 January 1878 to G.W. Binney, agent of Sun Fire Office in Province of Auckland.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the London Metropolitan Archives. For more information contact London Metropolitan Archives Enquiry service [https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/visitor-information/Pages/enquiry-service.aspx].

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the London Metropolitan Archives and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the London Metropolitan Archives and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: Western Australasian Trade Section Minute Book. 22 April 1895- 12 October 1904, London Metropolitan Archives. MS 16512 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-798920226).

Archival History

Filmed at the Guildhall Library as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1981 (AJCP Reels: M1336). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

As the Guildhall Library did not allow selective filming, only those manuscripts relating entirely or substantially to Australia have been filmed.

Existence and Location of Originals

Guildhall Library, London, England.

Currently held at the London Metropolitan Archives, London. For more information see: London Metropolitan Archives (https://search.lma.gov.uk).

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-vn730773] 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.

Pieces that were not filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project have not been included in this Finding Aid.

Subjects

Auckland, New Zealand; Australia; Binney, G.W.; Business records; Dent and Company; Fanning, William; John Byng (ship); London Assurance Company; London, England; Lord Amherst (ship); Macao; Manila, Philippines; New Zealand; Phillips, William C.; Singapore; Sun Fire Office; Hobart, Tasmania: visits to; Dutch East Indies: visits to

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 289, p108.