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Doll's chest of drawers

Doll's chest of drawers made by Thomas Clarke in 1844. Clarke used a pocket knife to create the chest, and stones for smoothing the surface. The timber is cedar, with the decorations carved from sheep bones. The glue was mostly likely made from boiled sheep hooves.

Clarke, Thomas

Emma Mordaunt and Calypso

  • F3882
  • Item
  • 1844

Two short stories bound, in boards, into one volume. First story is titled 'Emma Mordaunt the predestinate : a tale of circumstantial evidence'. Second is titled 'Calypso : a coruscation of 1798'. The first narrative is about a young woman on trial for murder, set approximately 1814 in Scotland, with an interlude in Sydney around 1830. References the real-life nineteenth century Scottish murder trials of Mary McKinnon and Madeleine Smith. Second story is about a naval frigate. 'Emma Mordaunt' is formed from ten printed chapters clipped from a newspaper and pasted on backing paper. 'Calypso' is similarly treated. Handwritten title page that includes a handwritten epigraph that reads 'If truly writ, how much of passion, pain, and mortal sin these pages may unclose!'. Pencil annotations and incomplete leaf numbering throughout.

Burn, David, 1798-1875

Log book of H.M.S. Warspite,

  • F431
  • Item
  • 1843-1845.

Book contains 2 segments : first is log book (1843 Jan.1 - 1844 Feb.3); begins in Madeira and ends in Malta. Second is diary of a Mediterranean cruise (1845 Feb.11 - 1845 Dec.24). Diary records visits to Beirut, Istanbul, Damascus, etc., and includes a drawing.

Graham, Thomas, 1818-1850

Journal of our voyage to Port Phillip,

  • F901
  • Item
  • 1848

Journal of a voyage to Port Phillip on the sailing ship Hooghly, 29 July to 27 Dec 1848.
Janet Richardson came to join her father at Camperdown with her brother James and sister Anne. Accompanied by notes (2 l.) about the family who later settled at Burrumbeep which adjoined Gorrinn in Ararat.

Wright, Janet

Letters of Patrick Leslie

  • F1715
  • Item
  • 1835-1848.

Volume of letters, from duplicates in the possession of the John Oxley Library, Brisbane.

Leslie, Patrick, 1815-1881

Album, 1849-1883

  • F968
  • Item
  • 1849-1851.

Handwritten album containing photographs, cards, sketches, and verse.

Smith, Catherine

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