File 3: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 703-1164, 1825-1867

Hassall family papers, 1793-2000

CONTENTS:

Correspondence and associated papers of Thomas Hassall and James S. Hassall, being mainly manuscript letters received, along with a small number of letters received by Ann Hassall and by Miss Elizabeth Marsden.

Correspondence of Thomas Hassall, 1825-1829. Correspondents include: missionaries William Henry (3) and J. M. Orsmond at Eimeo (Moorea); George Clarke (5) at New Zealand; Thomas Blossom (2) and William Pascoe Crook (2) at Tahiti; John Williams at Raiatea; Hassall's brother-in-law Reverend Walter Lawry (9) at Cornwall; Samuel Marsden; the Benevolent Society of New South Wales, asking colonial chaplains to preach charity sermons for the benefit of its funds, 1826; Robert Hoddle, 1827; and Reverend Richard Hill (3). Also letters received by Ann Hassall (3) from her father Samuel Marsden, 1826-1835; and a letter received by Miss Elizabeth Marsden from George Bennet at Mauritius, 1827.

Thomas Hassall, papers, 1825-1828. Includes a fragment of a journal from 1 Feb 1825 to May 1827, with short entries recording Thomas Hassall's activities, pp. 725-736, 1825-1827; a signed address on parchment by the 'Principal Inhabitants, Settlers and others' of Bathurst in appreciation of Thomas Hassall's ministry, 1827; and papers concerning an 'Inquisition held at the General Hospital Windsor on Tuesday the tenth day of June 1828 on the Body of Dennis Maloney a Prisoner of the Crown', 1828.

James S Hassall, letters received, 1832-1867, being mainly letters from clergymen concerning the ministry and church. Correspondents include: Robert Allwood (2), 1845-1850; Reverend Robert Forrest, 1848; William Grant Broughton (20), in his capacity as Archdeacon and later Bishop of Australia, 1832-1852; Frederic Barker, (14), in his capacity as Bishop of Sydney, 1856-1867; Reverend William Cowper, 1853; and William Woolls (2), concerning botanical specimens he collected on a visit to James Hassall at Berrima which he forwarded to Ferdinand von Mueller for identification, pp. 1099-1106, and then requesting Hassall to collect further botanical specimens, pp. 1113-1116, 1864.

James S. Hassall, papers, 1845-1865. Includes printed notices concerning St Paul's Church, Cobbitty and St Peter's Church, Cooks River; a notice of permission given to Charles Throsby to disinter the body of William Throsby from the burial ground at St Peter's Church, Cooks River, under the supervision of James S. Hassall, and remove it to Bong Bong, being a manuscript signed under seal by Bishop W.G. Broughton, 1848; and printed circulars from Bishop W. G. Broughton and Bishop F. Barker to the clergy, concerning various matters including proposals to establish Provincial and Diocesan Synods in Australia and other matters of Church governance, 1847-1865.

File 3: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 703-1164, 1825-1867

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