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Typescript copies. With annotations by his daughter Barbara Knox

1. 'Rambling recollections'
2. 'Sundries'
3. 'War memories'
4. 'Holidays'
5. 'Casual employment'
6. 'Sickness and health'
7. Sir 'Edward Knox and Edward William Knox. Business experiences'

A microfilm of the originals with additional chapters 7-'History of Rona' and 8-Sir 'Edward Knox' is at MAV/FM3/188

Autobiographical notes by Edward William Knox, no date [written between 1847-1933]

PXE 1022
Collection comprises a presentation album, photograph, and printed material.

ITEM 1 
A presentation album (20 pages), ca. 1914, of brown suede embossed with the letters "EWK" on front cover, containing an illuminated address, the signatures of staff of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd., and an album of views showing the company's operations.  The inside covers and edges and back of pages are of Moire silk.

Illustrative title page features a watercolour and ink sketch of a tropical scene, with an inset of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. Head Office at 1 O'Connell Street, Sydney.
All items in album (except Item no. 1) are photographs surrounded on pages by watercolour and ink sketches of scenes including water views, landscapes, tropical scenery, sugar cane plantations, canecutters, sugar cane or flora.

Address reads:
"Dear Sir, 
In a few weeks you will complete the long period of fifty years service with this Company, the greater part of it in the position of General Manager.  
We had hoped to meet you on the occasion to offer our congratulations, but as you are about to depart on a visit to Europe, we take this earlier opportunity of expressing our gratification that you have been able to continue so long to discharge the onerous duties of your position.
The success and development of the Company's business under your direction have been remarkable, and in the achievement of this result it may give you pleasure to know that you have had the high esteem and loyalty of your Staff.
We ask you to accept the accompanying Album of Views, illustrative of the Company's extensive operations, and would request that to commemorate your Jubilee of Service you will also accept from us a portrait of yourself to be executed by some eminent artist in England.
We wish you a pleasant voyage and a safe return, and trust that you may be spared to enjoy many years of health and happiness.
We are, Yours sincerely"

Album of views:
1. Harbour view with inset of Old Refinery, Sydney [Colonial Sugar Company, Chippendale], watercolour and ink drawing
2. S.S. "Fiona"
3. Pyrmont Refinery, Sydney
4. Raw Sugar Store, Yarraville
5. Yarraville
6. Chelsea, Auckland
7. Water Supply [Auckland]
8. New Farm Refinery
9. Glanville Refinery, Adelaide
10. Freemantle [i.e. Fremantle?] Offices
11. Harwood Mill
12. Launch with cane
13. Cane Cutters
14. Broadwater Mill
15. Cane Grab
16. Condong Mill
17. Condong Mill, Caneflume
18. Isis Scrub, Childers Mill, Q. [Queensland]
19. Crushing Engine, Childers
20. Cane Carrier, Childers Mill
21. Sugar Floor [Childers]
22. Homebush Mill, Mackay, Q. [Queensland]
23. Managers House, Victoria Mill, Q. [Queensland]
24. Victoria Mill
25. Macknade Mill, Herbert River, Q. [Queensland]
26. Scrub-land, Macknade Mill, Herbert River, Q. [Queensland]
27. Goondi Mill, Johnstone River, Q. [Queensland]
28. Load of cane, Johnstone River, Q. [Queensland]
29. Mulgrave River, Cairns, N. Queensland
30. Canefields, Hambledon Mills, Cairns
31. Hambledon Mills, Cairns, Q. [Queensland]
32. Nausori Mill, Fiji
33. Cutting Cane, Rarawai, Fiji
34. Rarawai Mill, Ba River, Fiji
35. Labasa Mill, Fiji
36. Lautoka Mill, Fiji
37. Crushing Station, Lautoka Mill, Fiji
38. Vacuum Pans, Lautoka Mill, Fiji
39. Sigatoka Bridge
40. Na Roro Bluff, Sigatoka, Fiji

Presentation album originally housed in wooden presentation box at call number XR 72.

ITEM 2
Photograph of Sir Edward Knox Golden Wedding presentation plate, 1844-1894

ITEM 3
Printed booklet of the Presentation to Mr and Mrs E.W. Knox to commemorate their Golden Wedding, 1928 (8 pages).
Contains an account of the presentation and images of 1 O'Connell Street, Sydney, the Company's Offices in 1905, portraits of Mr and Mrs E.W. Knox, and presentation of the portraits to Mr and Mrs Knox in 1928.

ITEM 4
Photocopies of Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd. correspondence relating to the acquisition and display of the illuminated address, 1956 (3 pages)

XR 72
Rectangular wooden presentation box of silky oak (Grevillea robusta) with hinged lid and four feet fashioned from wood-carved gumnuts. Wooden carved waratahs are applied on each corner of the box. An inscribed metal plaque is on on top of the box.  The interior base of the box is finished in a blue velvet.  Key to box attached to a keyring engraved with "C.S.R. TL [Technical Library] 19". Presentation album at PXE 1022 originally housed in this box.

Illuminated address presented to Edward W. Knox, Esq., the General Manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited, for fifty years service, 1864 to 1914; photograph and printed material; and wooden box, 1894-1928, 1956

Guide and index to correspondents compiled in the Mitchell Library, 56ff (Call No.: MLMSS 98/1)
  
I.  SIR EDWARD KNOX. 1831-1901
A. Personal correspondence, 1835-c.1900 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/2-13)
B. General business correspondence, 1839-ca.1900 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/14-22)
C. Letterbooks, 1857-1880 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/23-24 ;  CY 1064)
D. Business diary, 1878 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/23-24)
Maps filed at M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 98 Maps 1-3
E. Papers re business interests, 1838-1899. Including i.a. Colonial Sugar Refining Company;  Commercial Banking Company of Sydney;  Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company;  Coonambula, station, Gayndah, Queensland;  Cania, station, Mount Perry, Queensland;  Whiteside, station, Moreton Bay district, Queensland (Call No.: MLMSS 98/25-32)
Maps filed at M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 98 Maps 4-5
F. Papers re various institutions and organizations, 1841-1901, including i.a. the Union Club;  the Queen's Jubilee Fund;  the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital;  Carrington Centennial Hospital;  St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney;  St. Mark's, Darling Point, N.S.W.;  All Saints, Woollahra, N.S.W.;  Clergy Widows'and Orphans'Fund;  Church Society;  Berrima Parsonage, N.S.W.;  Sydney Grammar School. Includes i.a. letters from Robert Campbell junior to W.G. Broughton (Call No.: MLMSS 98/33-43)
G. Papers re parliamentary career, 1856-c.1894 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/44-45)
H. Papers re various trusts and estates, 1851-1900  (Call No.: MLMSS 98/46-84)
 i) 'Severin Kanute Salting', 1858-1900
Includes correspondence with Severin Kanute Salting, William Severin Salting, George Salting, material re Cunningham Plains station, near Galong, N.S.W., and material re Bonyeo station, near Galong, N.S.W.
Maps filed at M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 98 Maps 6-12 
 ii) 'William Rutledge', 1858-1901
Includes correspondence with William Rutledge, Thomas Rutledge, William Forster Rutledge, Thomas Forster Rutledge, William Rupert Rutledge
iii) 'William Bradley', 1863-1898
Includes material re Bibbenluke station, Bibbenluke, N.S.W.
iv) 'Ada Bransby', 1870-1900
Includes correspondence with Ada Bransby, also addressed as Ada Stuart and correspondence of A. Stanger Leathes
v) 'Louisa Australia Blaxland', 1869-1907
Includes birth certificate of William Blaxland and notebooks of Elizabeth A. Mapledoram
[3 letters regarding the estate of Louisa Australia Blaxland (pages 1, 79 and 231) and a letter addressed to E.T. Blaxland, Grafton, removed from Vol.65 and placed at Safe 2 / 11]
vi) 'Emily Crawley', 1854-1898
Includes correspondence with Emily Crawley
vii) 'Robert Towns', 1874-1900 viii 'Louis Sentis', 1879-19OO
Includes correspondence with Louis Sentis, Marie Sentis, Ernestine Desiree Sentis, Paul Phillippe Sentis and Madame Joubert
viii) 'Louis Sentis', 1879-1900
Includes correspondence with Louis Sentis, Marie Sentis, Ernestine Desiree Sentis, Paul Phillippe Sentis and Madame Joubert
ix) 'Reginald Perkins', 1853-1889
Includes correspondence with Richard Netterfield, Reginald Perkins, Jane Perkins, Herbert Perkins, Henrietta Perkins, Sydney Perkins, E.M. Perkins, Lucy Perkins, material re Mundubbera, station, Gayndah, Queensland
x) 'Herbert Stiles', 1878-1900
Includes correspondence with Herbert Stiles and correspondence between Henry Deloitte and Henry and Mary Stiles
xi) 'Edward John Wall', 1863-1900
Includes correspondence with Robert Henry Woodward, Charles Woodforde, Charles Neal McKenny, Letitia Wan
xii) 'Margaret Campbell', 1851-1891 
xiii) 'John D. Brown', 1847-c.1889
Includes assignment and release of Charlotte Brown 
 xiv) 'Augusta Sams', 1881-C.1889
Augusta Sams married Sir George Macleay in 1890 
xv) 'Robert Tooth', 1859-1861 
xvi) 'Grace Frances Rusden', 1890-1900 
xvii) 'Edwin Campbell', 1850-1859
I. Financial papers, 1849-c.1900 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/85-91)
J. Miscellaneous papers, 1846-1901. Includes invitations (Call No.: ML MSS 98/92-93)
Maps filed at M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 98 Maps 13-15
K. Newscuttings, 1856-c.1900 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/94-96)
L. Printed material, 1878-c.1900
  
II.  EDWARD WILLIAM KNOX, 1854-1928 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/99-100)
  
III. THOMAS FORSTER KNOX, 1862-1897 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/101)
  
IV.  MARTHA KNOX nee RUTLEDGE, 1847-1901 
1847-1901;  Letters received (Call No.: MLMSS 98/102)
  
V.  GEORGE KNOX. c.1871-1887
ca.1871-1887;  Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 98/102)
  
VI.  MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 1836-1901
1836,1860-1899;  Include letters by Jane Knox senior, 1836, and Jessie Knox, 1860-1899  (Call No.: MLMSS 98/102)
  
VII. INCIDENTAL PAPERS. 1851-1898
A. Papers of Joseph Grafton Ross, 1854-1894, mainly re the estates of the Samuel Bennett and William Alien families (Call No.: MLMSS 98/103-106)
B. Correspondence of Sir Thomas A. Dibbs, 1888-1898  (Call No.: ML MSS 98/107)
C.  Miscellaneous papers, 1851-1889 (Call No.: MLMSS 98/107)
  
VIII  MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, date unknown (Call No.: MLMSS 98/108-117)

This collection includes pictorial material. For location and description of this see Pic.Acc.4763 in Pic. Source File.

AUTHOR ENTRIES:
Abbott, Joseph Palmer, Sir, 1842-1901
Barker, Frederic, 1808-1882
Carrington, Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, Baron, 1843-1928
Cowper, Charles, Sir, 1807-1875
Cowper, William Macquarie, 1810-1902
Cox, George Henry, 1824-1901
Darley, Frederick Matthew, Sir, 1830-1910
Dibbs, George R. (George Richard), 1834-1904
Dibbs,T A.(Thomas Allwright), 1832-1923
Fairfax, James Reading, Sir, 1834-1919
Fairfax, John, 1804-1877
Faithfull, William Pitt, 1806-1896
Hale, Mathew B. (Mathew Blagden), 1811-1895
Halloran, Henry, 1811-1893
Harris, Matthew, Sir, 1841-1917
Hodgson, Arthur, Sir, 1818-1902
Hunt, John Horbury, 1838-1904 
Jersey, Victor Albert George Child-Villiers, Earl of, 1845-1915
Knox, Adrian, Sir, 1863-1932
Knox, Edward, Sir, 1819-1901
Knox, Edward William, 1847-1933
Knox, George, 1845-1888
Knox, Thomas Forster, 1849-1919
MacLaurin, Henry, Sir, 1835-1914
Manning, William Montagu, Sir, 1811-1895
Marsden, Samuel Edward, 1832-1912
Nicholson, Charles, Sir, 1808-1903
Parkes, Henry, Sir, 1815-1896
Rusden, G. W. (George William), 1819-1903
Towns, Robert, 1794-1873

Knox family - Papers, 1835-1928, with incidental papers, 1851-1898, including papers of Joseph Grafton Ross, 1854-1894

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