A. Bernard Littlewood - 'A Voyage around the world: a diary of a voyage to Australia, out by the Cape and home by the Horn', in the sailing ship 'Macquarie', 22 Sept. 1893-25 May 1894

MLMSS 7634/Box 1X

fonds

1893-1894

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Ephemera

447305

Microfilm : CY 4617, frames 1-145 (MLMSS 7634/1).
Microfilm : CY 4617, frames 146-266 (MLMSS 7634/2).

0.16 metres of textual (2 volumes in outsize box) includes photographs
Textual Records - (typescript manuscript)
Drawings
Ephemera

The Rev. A. Bernard Littlewood was a clergyman at Christ Church, Watney Street, St George's in the East, London. He was a saloon passenger on the sailing ship 'Macquarie', owned by Devitt and Moore Australian Line, which left London on 19 September 1893 under the command of William Goddard. The ship arrived in Sydney on 19 December. The 'Macquarie' left Sydney on 9 September 1893 and reached England, via Cape Horn, on 25 May 1894.

A typescript diary, in 2 volumes, including photographs, watercolours, black and white sketches, menus, concert programmes, list of passengers and newscuttings.
Littlewood describes his fellow passengers and life at sea, including reading, games and entertainment. Australian passengers on the outward voyage included S. Bosanquet and the Rev. F.J. Mitchell (also referred to in the text as the Rev. C.A. Mitchell and the Rev. E.S. Mitchell). Littlewood also writes about the crew and the working of the ship. The well written diary concentrates almost exclusively on shipboard life, with little mention of his time in Sydney. Of the passengers who joined the ship in Sydney to go to England he writes: 'they are distinctly and unutterably and almost unbearably Colonial' (11 Feb. 1894).
Watercolours, by Littlewood and some probably by other passengers, include a portrait of Littlewood and views of the ship. The black and white pencil sketches are mainly of cabin interiors. Photographs include portraits of passengers and crew, and a studio portrait by The Falk Studios, Sydney, of Littlewood and four other men.