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Autograph letter signed by Stanley Owen, written on board H.M.S. Britomart, Singapore, to Henry Watson Parker, relating to progress of the settlement at Port Essington, 6 November 1841

Volume 1: 
Voyage of H.M.S. Britomart from 1837 to 1843 / drawn by Owen Stanley

Volume 3: 
Voyage of H.M.S. Britomart from 1837 to 1843, volume 3 / drawn by Owen Stanley

Drawings from the voyage of H.M.S. Britomart, 1837-1843 / drawn by Owen Stanley

Inside front cover. [Envelope containing] Correspondence [3 letters], related to the expedition by Mrs. Chas. E. Stanley, London of 3 vols. sketches by Commander Owen Stanley, R.N. Dec. 1900. ...
i. The National Art Gallery of N.S.W. Ex Libris [bookplate]
1. H.M. Ships Alligator and Britomart off Plymouth breakwater
2. H.M.S. Britomart, sunset in the Channel Feby 1838
3a. Shipping a heavy sea in the Bay of Biscay March 1838
3b. First fair wind and last view of the shores of Europe March 8. 1838
4. Setting the rigging up at sea. March 9 1838
5a. Hidalgo Point Teneriffe March 15 1837
5b. Sunset running down the Trades
6. Interior of the Cathedral at Teneriffe where the flags taken during Nelsons attack are displayed 
7. Sketch from the Commandant of Marines garden Teneriffe where the Magnetic Observations are made.
8. Crossing the Line
9a. Rio Janeiro
9b. Wreck of a Brazilian Man of war Schooner off the Fort of Santa Cruz Rio Janeiro. She was taken aback by a sudden squall off the point, her bowsprit carried away her crew became confused she got stern way and tailed upon the rocks where she soon filled. Several lives were lost and the boats of an American Frigate sent to her assistance hauled her off into deep water where she went down before they could save any thing out of her.
10. Simon's Bay  Cape of Good Hope May 26 1838
11a. Farmer Peck's Simon's Bay June 2 1838
11b. Turnpike near farmer Pecks
12. Cape Town and Table Mountain June 1 1838
13a. Market place Cape Town June 1838
13b. George Street Cape Town
14. [Flying fish] found in the lee Quarter Boat June 8th.  Lat. 36 17' S   Long. 31 20' E. [Signed lower right] Owen Stanley
15. This fish struck the Look-out man on the Forecastle in the face June 17. 1838. 2/3 Natural size. [Signed lower right] Owen Stanley
16. Quarter Boat washed away off St. Paul's June 13 1838
17a. Sydney North Head with a squall brewing
17b. Sketch in North Harbour Sydney  Aug 15. 1838
18a. Sydney. Middle and Entrance of North Harbour August 15, 1838
18b. Specimen of a Country Church near Dunheved Capt. Kings Farm.
19. Captn. King's farm Dunheved
20. H.M.S. Britomart in a heavy Squall off Port Mc.Quarrie
21a. [Fish] Caught off Port Macquarie Sep. 29/38 in 20 fms. [Signed lower right] Owen Stanley
21b. Skull of same fish 1/2 nat size. [Signed lower right] Owen Stanley
22. Torres Straits
23. Water Spout near Breaksea Spit.
24a. Prows at Dobbo 
24b. Trading boat Dobbo
25. Ship Orontes running on shore to avoid sinking after striking on a reef that now bears her name off the Entrance of Port Essington, from description
26. Orontes December 21, 1838
27. Situation of Orontes when abandoned by her Master & Crew.  Decr.28/38
28. Garden Victoria Jan 12/39. [Titled on mount below image:] Government Garden Port Essington
29. Grass trees Victoria.  [Titled on mount below image:] Grass trees Port Essington [In pencil:] Pandanus sp.
30. Middle Head Victoria
31. Rock fish Port Essington
32. Rock fish Port Essington [In pencil] Lophus sp.
33. [Blank]
34. Middle Head shoal
35. Banda from the Westward
36. Prows off Port Essington February 13 1840
37. Landing place Oliliet
38. The Town of Olliliet in Timor Laut
39. Birds eye sketch of a Trading Proa Arrou Islands
40. [unfinished sketch of huts]
41. Dobbo Arou Islands. [On mount under sketch:] Drying Trepang or Sea Slug for the Chinese market
42. Prow Ki Doula
43. Interview with the Natives of Vordate
44. Middle Head Victor
45. [Port Essington from the Battery.]
46. Government House from the Battery on the Queen's Birthday.  Shall the troops advance?
47. Regatta Victoria
48. Theatre Royal Victoria [i.e. Port Essington]
49. Lieut Priest's house Port Essington. [In pencil:] 1839
50. Ruins of the Church Victoria
51. Victoria November 27. 1839
52. Govt. House Victoria after the Hurricane Novr. 25 1839 
53. Barrack Square Port Essington after the Hurricane showing the rotatory nature of the Storm by the different directions in which the trees and houses were blown down.  [On top edge of drawing:] Barrack Square Victoria.
54. Ruins of Church and Peloru's peoples tents Victoria Jany./40
55. Situation of H.M.S. Pelorus the morning after the Hurricane, 8 of her crew  were drowned some when she upset and some in trying to reach the land, most of them were landed in the Britomart's Whale boat
56. H.M.S  Pelorus at low water
57. H.M.S. Pelorus at half tide
58. H.M.S. Pelorus from the mud outside her Decr/39. 
59. H.M.S. Pelorus half tide
60. H.M.S. Pelorus tents and stores
61. Sketch of the situation of H.M.S. Pelorus when partly righted showing the purchases. Half tide.
62. H.M.S. Pelorus the last time we hove upon her Feby/40
63a. [Port Essington] 
63b. Storehouse Port Essington
64a. Burying Place Port Essington
64b. Landing place Port Essington

Volume 1: Voyage of H.M.S. Britomart from 1837 to 1843 / drawn by Owen Stanley

Fair copy manuscript account written in a notebook. The diary starts with the departure of HMS Britomart from London for Sydney on 8 August 1821. The writer records the death of Dr Helenus Scott and his burial at the Cape of Good Hope. He describes life on board and the ship’s arrival in Hobart and Sydney. He then writes of two trips inland from Sydney undertaken with Robert Scott. The first account, undated, concerns a journey to the Bathurst area and return to Sydney. On the second journey a party left Sydney on 24 May 1823 and, after reaching the Hunter River by boat, selected a site to establish the farm which Scott named Glendon. The last part of the journal describes the servant’s departure for England on 6 Feb. 1824 and events in New Zealand to March 1824. The opposite end of the notebook contains copies of verse and notes of dates in 1832. A pencil sketch of Tippahee [Te Pahi] is pasted onto page 69.
      
There are few dates mentioned; some of those which are cited do not agree with the dates given in Robert Scott’s diaries (A 2266). The servant’s diary includes many descriptions of encounters with Aboriginal people. These encounters are much more frequent than those in Scott’s diaries, and may have been added from the wider experience of the writer or others. The diary seems to have been written out after 1825, possibly with a view to publication.

Anonymous diary by a servant of the Scott family, 8 Aug. 1821-Mar. 1824 (written after 1825), with notes, 1832

Diary by a servant of the Scott family, 8 Aug. 1821-Mar. 1824 (written after 1825), with notes, 1832 / attributed to John Brown

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Autograph letter signed by Stanley Owen, written on board H.M.S. Britomart, Singapore, to Henry Watson Parker, relating to progress of the settlement at Port Essington, 6 November 1841

Drawings from the voyage of H.M.S. Britomart, 1837-1843 / drawn by Owen Stanley

Volume 1: Voyage of H.M.S. Britomart from 1837 to 1843 / drawn by Owen Stanley

Diary by a servant of the Scott family, 8 Aug. 1821-Mar. 1824 (written after 1825), with notes, 1832 / attributed to John Brown

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