Collection 03: King family further papers, 1811-1901, with related notes, 1984

MLMSS 4309 ADD-ON 1711 (Safe 1/228)

sub-fonds

1811-1901, 1984

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings

457402

0.04 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript

SERIES 1: King family letters

PHILLIP PARKER KING
Letter received from his mother Anna Josepha King, 3 Aug. 1836; letter received from P. Edley, postmarked 10 Nov. 1843 (incomplete); letter received from Donaldson Lambert & Co., 27 Aug. 1853; letter written on behalf of his mother, undated

HARRIET KING, wife of Phillip Parker King
Letters received from her daughter Elizabeth Prior, undated [after 1849]; 9 Sept. 1856; 16 Sept. [no year, written as a child]

PHILIP GIDLEY KING, son of Phillip Parker King
Letters received from his father Phillip Parker King, 2 Feb. 1841, 7 July 1853, 20 Aug. 1853
Letters received from his mother Harriet King, 16 July 1853-30 July 1859, undated
Letter received from J.S. Brownrigg, 12 Apr. 1853
'Reminiscences of Mr. Charles Darwin, by the Hon. Philip Gidley King, M.L.C. Oct. 1892' Typescript. Includes manuscript notes by Bruce Gidley Abbott, 15 Feb. 1984

ELIZABETH ('Libby') KING, wife of Philip Gidley King
Letters received from : Phillip Parker King, 17 Dec. 1852; her mother Anna Maria Macarthur, 26 July 1851; her father Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, 2 May 1853; her mother-in-law Harriet King, 1 Oct.? 1853, others with no year stated

PHILIP GIDLEY KING and ELIZABETH KING
Letters received from Harriet King, 6 July 1853, 29 Feb. 1856, undated

JOHN KING and ANTOINETTE ('Nettie') KING
Letters received from Elizabeth Prior (John's sister), 9 June-2 Sept. 1872, undated; critique of her unpublished novel, returned to John by P.G. King, postmarked 19 Mar. 1890

ANNA MARIA MACARTHUR, daughter of Gov. P.G. King, wife of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur
Book labelled 'Miss King's Essays', containing poems copied out by Anna Maria King. Inscribed on inside cover : 'Anna Maria King 1811, Kate McArthur Jany. 2nd 1840'. Many pages have been cut out.

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS
Letter from Harriet King to her niece Libby, 18 Mar. 1856; note from Phillip Parker King to Captain Vyner, undated
Small notes, made by B.G. Abbott in 1984, originally attached to some of the letters in the collection.

SERIES 2:
MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS
'Old Prince', poem by Lethbridge Templer, with note by Philip Gidley King, 17 Apr. 1901
Power of attorney from Phillip Parker King to Robert Copland Lethbridge and Philip Gidley King, 3 Feb. 1849
Agreement between family members to contribute financial support to Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur and Jane Macarthur, 1 July 1857, together with a list of family properties

SERIES 3:
The Bruce Gidley Abbott collection of King family drawings, ca. 1833-1870