Volume 86: Macarthur family papers relating to National Schools, Camden and district, 1849-1871

Macarthur family papers, 1789-1936 [First Collection]

Camden National School:

Minute book, 1849-1850, and statement of accounts, 1849-1852. Text begins from both ends of the volume, inverted.
Includes printed pamphlet: Regulations and directions to be attended to in making application to the Commissioners of National Education for aid towards the building of school houses or for the support of schools ([Sydney] : Published for the National Education Board by J. Moore, 1849). 18 pages
Correspondence and papers re establishment of school, appointment of schoolmaster, etc., 1849-1851. Includes specification for desks and classrooms, with measured diagram of desk and seat and plan of a country school house adapted to the system of National Education; lists of schoolbooks used; plans and specifications for proposed school.
Correspondence with National School Board re payments, etc., 1849-1851
Subscription list etc. for cost of building, 1850-1851. Includes "Particulars of work required in building a school part in brick & part weather boarded in Camden Village ...", [Dec 1849]; specification of carpenters' and painters' work to be done at the National School House, Camden [1849?].
Further correspondence, 1849-1866. Includes papers of Richard Basden, builder, June 1850-May 1852; correspondence of the school patrons.

Menangle School:

Correspondence, 1867-1871. Includes correspondence with Council of Education relative to establishment of a public school

Mount Hunter National School:

Correspondence, 1856-1859. Includes correspondence with National Education Office relative to establishment of a national school

Westbrook National School:

Correspondence, 1859

Volume 86: Macarthur family papers relating to National Schools, Camden and district, 1849-1871

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