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File 1: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 1, pp. 1-690, 1796-1854

Correspondence, being mainly letters received including: Rowland Hassall, letters received (2), 1796, from Reverend George Burder; Thomas Hassall, letters received, 1818-1833, correspondents include William Ellis, Reverend W. Jones, Reverend George Burder, George Cox, Samuel O. Hassall, Reverend Thomas Redall; Anne Hassall, letters received (2); James S. Hassall, letters received, 1837-1854.

Correspondents include: Thomas Hassall, Anne Hassall, James Hassall (1802-1862), Catherine Elizabeth Hassall (Kate), Charles Rowland Hassall, Frances Hassall, Thomas Hancox Hassall, Marianne Hassall, George Thomas Hassall, Eliza Marsden Hassall, Frederic King, John Oxley, George F. Macarthur, William Shelley and Francis Cox.

Letters received by James S. Hassall form the main body of letters in this volume and include letters received from the age of 14 when he was a student through to 1854 when he was at Berrima. Early correspondence includes letters received from his parents, brothers and sisters and cousins while he was a student. He later received letters from younger family members while they were students at The King's School, Parramatta, and at Mr Woolls' school at Parramatta. Later correspondence includes many letters received from family members, along with letters received from friends.
 

File 2: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 1, pp. 691-1800, 1855-1874

Correspondence, being mainly letters received by James S. Hassall during the period he lived at Berrima and including his move to Queensland in 1873. Correspondence includes letters received: from family concerning family and family business matters; from friends; letters concerning Hassall's work as chaplain of Berrima Gaol, mainly from family of inmates; and letters from parents of young ladies enrolled at a school for young ladies run by Hassall, ca. 1868-1872. Correspondents include Thomas Hassall, George Hassall, John Futter, Charles Betts, Frances Hassall, Anne Hassall, Marianne Hassall, John Oxley, Henry Lumsdaine, Ingram Loft, James Chisholm, William Cowper, George F. Macarthur, James Betts, Robert Hope, Catherine Hassall, Eliza Hassall, Emily Hassall, Augustine Betts, Alfred Huntley, Robert Hassall, Samuel Edward Marsden (1832-1912), Mary Hassall, James Charles Hassall, and Bishop Frederick Barker.
 

File 3: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 1, pp. 1801-8095, ca. 1830-ca. 1900

Correspondence, being mainly undated letters received, some incomplete letters, and various papers.

Correspondence of Thomas Hassall, being a small number of undated letters received, correspondents include Maria Wood Street and George Cox. 

Correspondence and papers of James Hassall, being undated letters received and various papers, ca. 1838-ca. 1899.

Includes letters received from family and friends; letters received concerning a school operated by James Hassall at Berrima; letters received concerning Hassall's work at Berrima Gaol; a report sent to Bishop Mathew Hale in Brisbane, 1880; a list of candidates for confirmation at St Matthews Church, Sherwood, Brisbane, 1897; and a printed order of service for the installation of William Webber as Bishop of Brisbane, 1885.

Correspondents include Bishop Mathew Hale, William Henry Hassall, Thomas Frederic Hassall, Catherine Hassall, Marianne Hassall, Harriet Hassall, Thomas Hassall, Anne Hassall, Frances Hassall, Fred Betts, Robert Francis Hassall, Emily Hassall, Harriet King, Robert Lethbridge King, Frederic King, Charles Macarthur King, Francis Marsden Betts, George Thomas Hassall, Charles Betts, Charles Hassall, William Sowerby, and Robert Hope.

An undated letter from Robert Lethbridge King describes in some detail a fishing and camping trip at Port Stephens with King, four of his brothers and two others. The letter includes a sketch, 'Plan of the Fishing Ground Port Stephens' and descriptions of the waterways, fishing trips, and of Aboriginal women diving for lobsters.


File 4: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 1, pp. 8096-8750, ca. 1825-ca. 1900

Correspondence and papers, beings mainly manuscript papers.

Papers include: Thomas Hassall, sermons, 1825-1855, pp. 8096-8686. Sermons, originally in small notebooks, are bound into small volumes, being manuscript with annotations and corrections, and including on the first page the text of the sermon, as well as the name of the location or church and the date it was preached, eg. Bathurst 21/1/27, St Pauls 6/11/42, most sermons having been preached on more than one occasion.

James Hassall, papers and correspondence, ca. 1850-ca. 1900. Papers being manuscript, notes, fragments and letters received (2). Papers include 'Early Historical Memoranda of New South Wales', n.d., pp. 8707-8735; 'Trip in the Upper South Pine', n.d., pp. 8737-8742, probably written by James Hassall in Queensland during the 1870s; 'Parsonage, Berrima, Ode', n.d., pp. 8743-8744; and letters received from Charles Rowland Hassall, ca.1850, and Bessie Unwin, n.d.

Sub-series 1: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 1, 1796-ca. 1900

1. Hand-painted coloured ambrotype portrait of Thomas Cooper Makinson. Freeman & Co. Ltd., 318 George St. Sydney.

2. Portrait photograph of Johannes Brahms.

Transcript on verso of photograph:

"Andrew James Doak of Urara, Kurraba Road, Neutral Bay. Died about 1914. His wife Lucy Ellen nee Wiseman died age 54, about 1895. 
They had 9 children, Madge (Mrs. Robert Bryce, Melbourne), Frank (Dr. Doak of Mosman), Rhoda (lived Neutral Bay), Kathleen (lived Neutral Bay), Jim (engineer, of Brisbane), Beryl (of Leura), Nora (died age 24), Doddie (Irene of Leura), Eileen (Mrs A.M. Makinson)".

3. Portrait of Ellen Doak nee Wiseman. My mother's mother (M.E.H.).

Photographer: Creeman & Co. Burlington Galleries Sydney Arcade. Ordering no. 17540.

4. Portrait daguerreotype of possibly Joseph Makinson, the father of Thomas Cooper Makinson. (before 1850). 

5. Photograph of Arthur Massey Makinson as a school-boy. Photograph is torn and pasted to paper.

Surrounded by border, lined in red velvet, in leather case. Engraved inscription, Photographic Portrait Gallery, Ducie Place, Manchester. 

Forms part of MLMSS 4334

Makinson and Doak families, pictorial material, ca. 1845-1910 / compiled by the Makinson family

No. 9

19. C. G. Heydon

20. C. G. Heydon

Photographic portraits from the Makinson and Heydon family papers, ca. 1870-1958

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