Volume 21: Sir Edward Macarthur letters received, 1808-1866, with some enclosures and draft replies

Macarthur family papers, 1789-1936 [First Collection]

Letters to Sir Edward Macarthur, 1808-1866. Authors include: Duc de Bassano, J. T. Bigge, Rev F. P. Bouverie, Henry Buckle, James Byrnes, George Horatio Cholmondeley, Anna Maria Coles (Mrs Charles Coles), Nicholas Jean de Dieu Soult (duc de Dalmatie), W. S. Davidson, Richard Hart Davis, Sir Ulysses de Burgh Downes, P. S. Easton, J. G. Egerton, J. H. Everett, British Home Office, W. U. Guinness, Mr & Mrs Walter S. and Katharine Halliday, Henry Hanmer, Robert William Hay, Joseph Henry Kay, Rev Thomas H. Kingdon, Charles Leslie, Robert Lethbridge, Robert Vernon Lyvedon, Miss Elizabeth Macarthur, Emily Macarthur, James Macarthur, Elizabeth Macarthur-Onslow, Donald Macdonald, T. P. Macqueen, Captain Charles Mallard, Sir Ralph Mansfield, Andrew Murray, Henry Pelham Clinton (Duke of Newcastle), Sir Charles Nicholson, George Warde Norman, H. J. Perry, Eliza Plummer, M. M. Von Rader, Fitzroy Somerset (Lord Raglan), H. Schutze, H. H. Seymour, Ashley Cooper (Earl of Shaftesbury), J. T. Simes, H. P. B. Sligo, Charles Stoddart, Watkin Tench, James Badham Thornhill, Francesca Traversi, J. Vaughan, Thomas Young.

Includes letter from Watkin Tench re overthrow of Governor Bligh, 22 Sep 1808 (pp. 5-8); quotation from H. Arnaldi to make a pair of medallion dies, after Ludwig Becker's design, 12 June 1856, also signed by Becker; design drawings for medal signed by Becker, accompanying Sir E. Macarthur's description (pp. 258-259); notice from Duc de Bassano, for an audience with Emperor Napoleon III; correspondence re subscriptions for stained-glass windows for University of Sydney Great Hall; copies of addresses by Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council on the retirement of EM, with his response; correspondence re leases of EM's property at Parramatta; EM to receive land near Burrah Burrah Lake, NSW.

Also includes coat of arms and cabinet card portrait of Sir E. Macarthur; notebook containing extracts and copies of letters in French, ca. 1828; miscellaneous biographical material, 1837-1866.

Volume 21: Sir Edward Macarthur letters received, 1808-1866, with some enclosures and draft replies

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