Guide to the Collections held by Glasgow Mitchell Library (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2847- M2849, M2912 - M2923
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Created: 2019
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Fonds MS 77. Glasgow Miscellaneous Documents, 1948
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Series 20. Letters from various persons to R.H. Small, April 1948 - May 1948
Re Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman (1836-1908) for a special number of Glasgow High School Magazine (June 1948)
Dr Charles Duguid (Adelaide) to Small, 4 May 1948 (File 22)
Re his school memories of Campbell Bannerman, his work with Indigenous Australians and his surgical practice in Adelaide. (2p.)
Fonds MS 123. Joseph Coates, 1897 - 1898
[Papers are part of 313188 Bain Collection.]...
Fonds MS 204. James Moir Papers, 1844 - 1849
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Benjamin Moir (Maitland) to James, 20 November 1844 (File 54)
Re hardships suffered; economic problems in Colony - low wages; 'if you know of any person desirous of emigrating advise them not to come'.
Fonds 308872-308873. David Irving Papers, 1841 - 1859
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Series DI FIII. Correspondence, July 1841 - March 1859
John Moffat (Midknock) to Irving, 27 July 1841 (File 67)
Did not have enough capital to send John Irving out to Sydney to be a sheep farmer. That William Maxwell and his son have gone out. (3p.)
Fonds 596848 and 596848A. Journal of a Voyage to Australia in the Ship Artimisia, 1848
Daily journal by un-named traveller in Artimisia from Deptford to Moreton Bay (63p. and 137p.), 22 July 1848 - 13 December 1848 (File)
Details of: Journey from Glasgow to London; preparations at Bank of England in anticipation of Chartist riots; at Deptford Lord Ashley comes on board to see the children going out from the ragged schools; details of the voyage - weather, death of child, brawl in kitchen 'the warm weather seems to shorten tempers', ceremonies of crossing the line, meeting other ships, sighting whales and cape pigeons, albatross shot by doctor, water becomes scarce, births, five young women locked up for 'irregularity of conduct'; navigation of Bass Strait by Chief Mate due to indisposition of Captain; entered Sydney Harbour; voyage to Moreton Bay...
Fonds 706419. R.W. McKellar. Journal of a Voyage from Greenock to Sydney, New South Wales, 1854
Daily journal of R.W. McKellar on John Bell from Greenock to Sydney (133p.), 26 July 1854 - 14 November 1854 (File)
Details of: Voyage - other passengers, sea sickness, entertainments, complaints about the food, drunkenness among passengers, holding of prayer meeting, speaking with other ships, catching a shark, heat melting the pitch between the deck planks, 19 ships becalmed, deputation to Captain to complain about food and water, ceremonies of crossing the line which ends in brawls, death and burial of child, called in at Cape Town to take on provisions, visit to Wynberg, saw Kaffir Chief prisoner in Wynberg Prison, took on extra passengers for Australia, gales, compasses go out of order, catching birds, description of first sight of land off Cape Otway, docking at Port Philip, 'don't like Melbourne at all … a barrel of herrings was sold the other day for one shilling!'; sailed for Sydney on Governor General, arrived 14 November.
Fonds 891077. John Edward Steggall Journal of Holidays, 1914
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Journal of Professor Steggall's trip to Australia to attend B.A.A.S. Meeting (225p., pagination erratic), 3 July 1914 - 16 October 1914 (File)
Voyage to Adelaide, other passengers 'the party are getting duller and duller'; Port Said; journey through Suez Canal; Colombo; learned War had been declared on docking at Fremantle; visit to Perth; on to Adelaide; Premier's reception 'the streets are wide and well made'; trip to Angastown; trip to Mount Lofty; in Melbourne, reception at Government House by Munro Fergusson 'all his Raeburns are stored in Edinburgh on account of the suffragettes except a few which are here'; attended B.A.A.S. lectures and receptions; visit to South Yarra; by train to Sydney, changing onto narrow gauge; arrangements of sleeping berths; comparison with Melbourne; attendance at Governor's garden party 'grounds are very pretty'; Hawkesbury Bridge guarded by soldiers 'it seems that there are more German spies all through the country and that naturalised Germans are in constant communication with the enemy'; by train to Brisbane,'the city is very clean and many of the buildings are beautiful'; visit to Gympie; Glasshouse Mountains; visit to gold fields; return to Sydney; visit to station of Mr Balfour at Culcairn - rabbit menace, visit to wool stores, visit to other homesteads; return to Melbourne; embarked for Adelaide, Fremantle and home; hearing War news en route 'German outrages in Belgium'; defence activities in Gibraltar.
Fonds 891121. Scottish Licensed Trade Veto Defence Fund Papers, 1920 - 1938
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Series. Box 3, 1920 - 1938
New Zealand Campaign, 1928 (File File 7)
Newspaper Advertisements. Posters and handbills [placed in New Zealand newspapers?] to stop passage of Licensing Reform Bill...
New Zealand Campaign Newspaper Advertisements, 1925 (File File 12)
Posters, handbills and stickers by Continuance Campaign. (51p.)
New Zealand Campaign Newspaper Advertisements, 1925 (File File 13)
Posters, handbills and stickers issued by Continuance Campaign. (47p.)
New Zealand Correspondence, 27 October 1920 - 16 December 1938 (File File 14)
Correspondents include: Percy Coyle (National Council of the Licensed Trade of New Zealand, Wellington); Harry Earnshaw (Anti-Prohibition Campaign Council, Edinburgh); Rupert A. Armstrong (New Zealand Licensing Reform Association, Wellington); W. Reid (Dunedin)...
New Zealand Campaign Newspaper Advertisements, 1935 (File File 15)
Handbills, cuttings of newspaper advertisements and photographs of posters issued by Continuance Campaign. (55p.)
Fonds. Guy Aldred Papers, 1946 - 1962
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Series. Aldred Collection, Non-British, 1954 - 1961
Subseries Bundle 33. Correspondence and Papers re Beeville Community New Zealand, October 1954 - April 1960
Letters, photographs and papers from Ray Hansen Beeville Community, Taupiri, New Zealand. (19p.), 6 October 1954 - 5 April 1960 (File)
Subjects include: Photograph of Community taken by Photo-Flight Ltd. of Cambridge; poems by Hansen 'Peril of Marriage', 'Domestic Tragedy', 'The Flame and the Perfume'; acknowledgment of receipt of Word; philosophy of Beeville Community.
Subseries Bundle 40. Ray Hansen, April 1959 - January 1961
Ray Hansen (Beeville Community, Taupiri and Madras) to Aldred. (51p.), 4 April 1959 - 8 January 1961 (File)
Subjects include: His work keeping 450 hives of bees; bad honey season due to excessive rainfall, sale of produce at roadside shop; properties of Manuka honey; philosophy of the Community; Reserve Bank refuses to let them send £100.00 to Aldred - money misappropriated by J.C.H. de Mey who had undertaken to get it to Aldred; urges Aldred to settle Strickland Press at Beeville; trip to India to attend 10th Triennial Conference of War Registers International and Annual International Convention of Theosophical Society.
Series. Green Box, 1946 - 1951
Subseries Bundle 249. Ray Hansen, May 1946 - May 1951
Letters and papers from Ray Hansen (Beeville Community, Taupiri) to Aldred. (52p.), 26 May 1946 - 15 May 1951 (File)
Subjects include: Return of Harold and Owen Hansen, imprisoned conscientious objectors; development of the Community; his interest in India; misrepresentation of the Community in article written by Alan Sayers in Pix; his arrest and imprisonment; problems over taxation; attendance at First National Peace Congress in Auckland; discussions with Tom Spiller of Waterside Workers' Union...
Fonds G 34941079. List of cases for trial at Glasgow circuit, 1827 - 1845
Details of: name, crime, date of trial, indictment, list of witnesses. Verdict and sentence, including transportation, have been written in. Assizes for Lanarkshire, Dumbartonshire, and Renfrewshire. All volumes are indexed at the front...