Memories of William Coventry, a native aged 85_William_memories_RS... · The memories of William...

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TASMANIAN MUSEUM R.S.131 / Small items presented to the Tasmanian Museum and transferred to the Royal Society on indefinite Loan. MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS Bishop of Tasmania (Henry Hutchinson Montgomery) - notes of Imemories collected by H.H.Tasmania at Waratah, Oct. 1899' (memories of William Coventry, a native aged 85) (paper) Passport of Henry Fils Cook, travelling from AlexandriaI R.S.13l/1

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Small items presented to the Tasmanian Museum and transferred to the Royal Society on indefinite Loan.

MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS

Bishop of Tasmania (Henry Hutchinson Montgomery) - notes of Imemories collected by H.H.Tasmania at Waratah, Oct. 1899' (memories of William Coventry, a native aged 85) (paper)

Passport of Henry Fils Cook, travelling from AlexandriaI (Egypt) to London 17 March 1859

Letter from Royal Soc. to H.F.Cook acknowledging gift . of documents, inc. facsimile of warrant for execution 0:J Mary Queen of Scots. 1869 (2 papers)

Copy of Dr. George F. Story's letter to the Principal Medical Officer, requesting an increase of salary owing to the hazards of his district (60 mile strip from Great Swanport) and the 'ferocious aborigines' at Oyster Bay. 6th March 1838 (ms. copy)

Steams Association 25 Jan. 1837 Letter from J.A.Gibson, New Norfolk, to G. Swanston,

Derwent Bank on a proposal to establish steam communication between New Norfolk and Hobart. (I paper)

Licence to cut timber in unimproved Crown land at Quorn Tier, Dysart, Monmouth 19 Apr. 1850 (I doc.)

Transportation - 1847 Circular letter from Governor Denison's private secretary asking for views of the Colonists on transportation, addressed to Frederick A. Downing, with draft reply. (2 papers)

Receipt for fees received by Frederick Roper as pol ice magistrate, Brighton, and paid to the Internal Revenue Office. 19 Jan. 1832 (I paper)

Warrant for allowances for coroner's inquests 25 Mar. 1854 (I paper)

Warrant for payment of salaries of police at Port Sorell, South Huon, Launceston, 16 March 1854 (l paper)

Letter from J. Lightfoot, Hobarton, to George Frankland (Surveyor General) requesting an allotment on the New Town Road, between Mrs. McTavish and Mr. Abbott, 21 Sept. 1829

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