W. R. Copeland diary on board the 'Scotland', together with typed transcript and photocopy of diary, 1882

MLMSS 3442

fonds

1882

888876

0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder) - photocopy
0.16 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript

William Raeburn Copeland was born in approximately 1852 and in 1882 migrated from Glasgow to Australia onboard the steamer ‘Scotland’. He died in Katoomba in 1928.

Reference:
Library correspondence file
Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985

ITEM 01
1 leather-bound, hand-written diary. Entries are written in ink, with the dates written above each entry in pencil. Author describes his journey sailing from Glasgow to Queensland onboard the Scotland. Entries written in pencil and gone over in ink.

ITEM 02
1 postcard, displaying a colour drawing of a flower fairy dressed in pink and green, with a petal hat and a leaf umbrella.

ITEM 03
Photocopy of Item 01. Loose A4-sized pages capturing the written content as well as the shape of the leather binding. The text written in pencil is visible on some of the pages.

ITEM 04
Typed transcript of the content of item 01.

Copyright status:: In copyright
Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010