File 4: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 1165-1708, 1814-ca. 1885

Hassall family papers, 1793-2000

CONTENTS:

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by Thomas Hassall and James S. Hassall, papers of Thomas Hassall and James S. Hassall, and including letters received by Frances Hassall (3) and Miss Elizabeth Marsden (1).

Thomas Hassall, letters received, ca. 1818-ca. 1829 (being mainly undated letters received). Correspondents include Samuel Marsden; Richard Hill; William Lawson; Ann Hassall (sister) (15), ca. 1818-1826; Ann Hassall (wife) (50), 1825-n.d.; Marianne Hassall; Catherine Hassall; and Elizabeth Marsden (d. 1835), 1829.

Thomas Hassall, papers, ca. 1817-n.d. Includes an unsigned draft manuscript report by Thomas Hassall on the settlement at Port Macquarie, n.d.; an unsigned draft manuscript report by Thomas Hassall on Aboriginal people at Bathurst, n.d.; draft copy of letter sent from Batavia including details to date of Thomas Hassall's journey to England, ca. 1817.

James S. Hassall, letters received, 1868-1877. Correspondents include William M. Cowper; Earl of Belmore, concerning tree ferns which James Hassall is collecting for him and which he intends to send to Ireland, 1869; Frederic Barker (2), 1870-1873; Ann Hassall (mother), 184?-1875; Matthew Hale (4), 1876-1877; and the Brisbane Diocesan Council, 1875.

James S. Hassall, papers, ca. 1868-ca. 1885. Papers include a paper concerning stamp duty on the estate of Thomas Hassall, ca. 1868; a printed notice concerning the formation of a committee to re-open The King's School, including a list of committee members, 1868; a printed leaflet 'Two Letters to the Rev. George F. Macarthur, Head Master of The King's School, Parramatta, on his attacks upon the Wesleyan Methodists. By the Rev. Ralph Mansfield', 1870; 'The Parish Intelligencer for Berrima, Nattai and surrounding districts', No 1, November 1874;  an unsigned draft report to the Bishop of Brisbane on the practicality of establishing a Church of England mission in the agricultural districts surrounding Brisbane, 1873; a notice from the Brisbane Diocesan Council, 1876; manuscript accounts of the Church fund, Ipswich, n.d.; a printed circular letter from Frederic Barker, Bishop of Sydney, concerning the resignation of the Bishop of Brisbane, 1877; and a printed notice of welcome to William Thornhill Webber as Bishop of Brisbane, n.d.

Drawings include reproduction of black and white portrait of Reverend Samuel Marsden signed 'W.A.H.L' n.d, and reproduction of black and white scene of 'Reverend Samuel Marsden landing at the Bay of Islands' signed J. R. Ashton, n.d.

File 4: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 2, pp. 1165-1708, 1814-ca. 1885

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