Guide to the Papers of Sir Cyprian Bridge (as filmed by the AJCP)
M3061-M3067
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Online Items
Series. Letterbooks, 11 October 1881 - 16 April 1898
Letterbook, 1881-10-11 - 1881-11-23; 1884-09-06 (File 5)
Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Devonport, Plymouth, Queenstown) to Commander in Chief...
Letterbook, 26 November 1881 - 20 November 1882 (File 6)
Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Queenstown, St Vincent, Simon's Bay, Fremantle, Albany, Adelaide, Sydney, Levuka, Suva, Penticost Island, Mallicolo, Havannah Harbour, New Hebrides, Noumea, Sydney, Ugi, York Group) to Admiralty, Commander in Chief and others reporting the proceedings of the ship...
Letterbook, 19 November 1882 - 24 May 1883 (File 7)
Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Duke of York Island, Cooktown, Moreton Bay, Sydney, Hobart, Wellington, Sydney, Suva) to Commander in Chief and others reporting the proceedings of the ship...
Letterbook, 11 May 1883 - 2 November 1883 (File 8)
Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Gilbert, Ellice Islands, Peru Island, Sydney) to Commander in Chief and others reporting the proceedings of the ship...
Letterbook, 12 November 1883 - 18 February 1885 (File 9)
Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Sydney, Russell, Auckland, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, Sydney, Norfolk Island, Suva, Samoa, Sydney, Brisbane, New Guinea, Cooktown, Sydney) to Commander in Chief and others reporting the proceedings of the ship...
Letterbook, 17 February 1885 - 14 September 1885 (File 10)
Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Sydney, Thursday Island, Singapore, Aden, Malta, Devonport) to Commander in Chief and others reporting the proceedings of the ship...
Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Orlando, Albany, Singapore, Perim; Malta) to Admiralty and others. (Some in code), 10 January 1898 - 16 April 1898 (File 12)
Subjects include: books transferred to Rear Admiral H. Pearson on gving up command of Australian Station; visit to Batavia; movements of other ships; visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to Singapore...
Series. Letters received, 1 September 1894 - 22 June 1904
Miscellaneous A-Z. (c700p.), 1 September 1894 - 1 March 1899 (File 16)
Correspondents include: Lord Brassey; H.S. Berkeley; Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton; J.W. Combe; Wilfred Collet; Lord and Lady Glasgow; Eroni Loganimoce the RoloTui of Lau; Sir William MacGregor; Lord Lamington; Sir Gerald Smith; John B. Thurston; Chief Justice Samuel Way; Sir William J. Wharton; Biship Cecil Wilson...
A-F, 27 February 1895 - 3 December 1903 (File 18)
Filmed selectively.
Lewis Beaumont (Admiralty House, Sydney) ack. KCMG; suitability of coal from mines south of Sydney for R.N. ships; Federation (8p.), 30 November 1901 (Item)
Walter Bridges (Trawalla) re Sir George Clarke; visit of Japanese squadron (4p.), 24 May 1903 (Item)
Sir George Clarke, (Melbourne). (70p.), 4 December 1902 - 3 December 1903 (Item)
Subjects include: Fisher's entry scheme for naval engineers; visit of Japanese squadron; tour of Eastern District; 'Federation is not working well, partly because of the limitations of the politicians who are trying to run the Federal government and partly also because…the country was not ripe for the change'; strike by engine drivers; white labour clause; naval agreement; his recall to serve on committee to reorganise War Office.
Charles Cust (Sandringham and London) re pictures of Duke and Duchess of York for Admiralty House, Sydney (7p.), 13 February; 3 March [n.y.] (Item)
S-Z, 22 April 1903 - 22 June 1904 (File 19)
Filmed selectively.
Sir Samuel J. Way (Adelaide). (42p.), 22 April 1903 - 22 June 1904 (Item)
Subjects include: Position of state Governors vis a vis Governor General; strike by railway men in Victoria 'it is a contest between the Executive and railway employees as to which shall govern the country'; [Irvine] is the man of the hour in Australia'; swearing in of Sir George Le Hunte; visit from Sultan of Johore; precedence of Chief Justices; precedence of the Admiral, Governors and Lieutenant Governors; Kingston's resignation; 'Sir George Le Hunte has taken captive all hearts'; visit from Japenese squadron; constitutional relations; advises Bridge to take a State Governorship at end of duty on China Station 'a man is not altogether shelved when he comes out to the colonies'; socialism in Australia; land hunger; Japanese manpower.