George Ernest Morrison collection, 1738-1935
George Ernest Morrison collection, 1738-1935
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Date
1738-1935
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Manuscripts and Pictures
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Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
The arrangement of the papers, pictures and realia in this collection follows the arrangement and description in Guide to the Papers of George Ernest Morrison in the Mitchell Library, 1977, by Mrs Sybil Blanton of the Manuscripts Section.¶¶Series 01 has been divided into Parts 01-27 which correspond to the numbered containers in which the individual diaries are housed.
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Contents
SERIES 01
George Ernest Morrison diaries 1878-1883, 1887, 1889-1890, 1899-1920, with 2 diaries of his wife Jennie Wark Morrison, 1919-1920
Series 01 Part 01: Guide to the papers of George Ernest Morrison in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, 1977
Series 01 Part 02: George Ernest Morrison diaries, 1878-1890
Series 01 Part 03: Ge...
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George Ernest Morrison collection, 1738-1935
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Notes
General note
A bound typescript copy of the Guide to the papers of George Ernest Morrison in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Sydney : The Library Council of New South Wales, 1977 (includes Index to Correspondents) is available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.
Another copy is located at MLMSS 312/1.
Published information
Molixun yan li de jin dai Zhongguo = Old China through G.E. Morrison's eyes / Shen Jiawei bian zhuan ; Dou Kun deng yi. Fuzhou : Fujian jiao yu chu ban she, 2007. Edition Di 2 ban. ¶This publication uses Mitchell Library's collection of Morrison's photographs.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by the Morrison Family in 1946
Administrative / Biographical history
George Ernest Morrison, also known as 'Chinese Morrison' and 'Morrison of Peking', was born in Geelong in 1862. By the age of 21 he had walked around the coast to Adelaide and canoed down the Murray from Wodonga to the sea selling his diaries of both trips to The Leader, failed his medical studies at Melbourne University, sailed on a blackbirding s...
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9PQ8Dgln
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Reference code
457265
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