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The Australian joint copying project
Government Publications Review, Vol. 13, pp. 349-353, 1986 Printed in the USA. All rights reserved.
0277-9390/86 $3.00 + .OO Copyright Q 1986 Pergamon Journals Ltd
THE AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT MARY-ANN PATTISON AJCP Officer, National Library of Australia, Canberra A.C.T. 2600, Australia
Abstract-The Australian Joint Copying Project, a project initiated in 1945 by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales, aims to microfilm manuscript material in Great Britain relating to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific area, Southeast Asia (to a limited degree), and Antarctica. The bulk of the filming has been early administrative records in the Public Record Office (PRO). particularly the ColonialOffice, Home Office, Admiralty, War Office, and @ore& Office documents. Outside the PRO filming has been conducted on papers in large British institutions, county record offices, missionary societies, land companies, business archives, professional societies and in private hands.
With the bicentenary of the establishment of European settlement in Australia imminent in 1988 attention is being drawn more than ever to records that document this early period and monitor the growth of the nation. Britain has played a major role in this development as colonizer and “mother country.” During the formative years, in the period from 1788 to the granting of responsible government for the first four states in 1855, Britain held absolute power over the colony. Britain’s influence on Australian society, institutions, culture and attitudes, however, has continued. The importance of British records documenting England’s involvement in the development of Australia was recognized by Australian historians as far back as the 1880s but no systematic copying was done until James Bonwick was appointed government archivist for New South Wales in 1887 as part of the plan to produce the series Historical Records of New South Wales [ 11. Bonwick transcribed 125,000 pages from records held in the Public Record Office relating to New South Wales and Tasmania, the sites of the earliest settlements. Criticism of the resulting seven volumes published was directed at their chronological arrangement, the absence of archival references and their basis on Bonwick’s arbitrary selection for copying. Bonwick’s selectivity, amongst other things, excluded items that reflected in an unflattering manner on the morality of government officials, the military or free settlers, or gave too explicit details of convict origins. Following the federation of the Australian states in 1901 the responsibility for copying early Australian documents located in Britain was passed on the Commonwealth Government. The series Historical Records of Australia was published in 33 volumes between 1914 After completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at the Australian National University in 1976 and gaining a graduate diploma in Librarianship at the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1977, Mary-Ann Pattison commenced employment at the National Library of Australia. She worked in several sections of the Library before becoming the Australian based AJCP Officer in 1981. In this position she has been responsible for liaison between the AJCP Officer in London and the partner libraries, the evaluation of priorities for collections being considered for copying, monitoring the financial operations of the Project, preparing and editing the AJCP Handbooks, supplying film to purchasers and answering reference enquiries on the microfilm. 349
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and 1925 under the editorship of Dr. Frederick Watson [2], This publication was still incomplete in its coverage with not even Series 1 reaching the period of responsible government. The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) has distinct advantages over the schemes it replaced. Other than the obvious advantages of microfilm over manual copying in terms of economy of labor and speed of copying, the Project has been undertaken on a comprehensive basis, so that dispatches, reports and enclosures have all been copied. The microfilm is free from much of the censorship like that exercised by Bonwick in his transcripts for Historical Records of New South Wales. By filming all the enclosures, including those relating to convicts that were still to a lesser extent omitted from Historical Records of ~~~r~a~~a,the Project reflected the diminishing sensitivity of Australians towards their origins. Whereas, previously, Australian researchers would have had to travel to Britain to use these unique records, they can now consult the AJCP microfilm more conveniently in Australia. Although the Project concentrates on microfilming manuscript material it has also copied pictorial and cartographic material that are an integral part of collections being copied. An agreement drawn up in October 1945 between the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales established the AJCP. Under this agreement the two libraries agreed to share the task of microfilming material of Australian and Pacific interest held in the United Kingdom. The added participation of various institutions and State Libraries has ~uctuated over the years with the State Library of Victoria and the New Zealand government currently taking part as full partners, sharing the costs in all filming undertaken. The scope of the Project is defined in geographical rather than thematic terms with filming covering records related to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific area, Southeast Asia (to a limited degree), and Antarctica. The growth of historical scholarship in Australia during this century has been stimulated by a burgeoning national identity that is keen to promote all aspects of Australian national development, including science, education, religion, and law. As Britain had a profound influence on all aspects of early Australian development, no historical research on any of these topics is complete without consulting the primary records held in Great Britain. After the agreement between the National Library and the State Library of New South Wales was signed in 1945 filming commenced in 1948 in the Public Record Office and is still continuing. First to be filmed were records in the Colonial Office, the section of the Public Record Office where the bulk of the British colonial administrative records are held. Before self-government the governor of each colony had supreme power in the territory but was subject to direction from the Colonial Office to whom he had to report on the colony’s affairs. A governor’s reports or dispatches detailed virtually every aspect of the administration of the colony. These reports have been filmed by the AJCP with enclosures and minutes, departmental registers and indexes, general material relating to the colonies as a whole plus early volumes of the Blue Books of statistics that were never published [3]. Whilst the initial emphasis of the Project has been on filming nineteenth-century official records, there has been a recent shift to twentieth-century records, particularly in regard to the successor to the Colonial Office, the Dominions Office. Several classes of Dominions Office records that document Commonwealth relations in the correspondence with the Australian and New Zealand governments on a wide range of subjects such as constitutional matters, migration, and race relations, have been filmed up to 1951. Although the Colonial Office records are the most substantial group filmed by the Project, records from other sections in the Public Record Office have also been filmed, including Admiralty records of log books, surgeons’ journals for ships on voyages to Australia, as well
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as Admiral’s reports and Station records. In the War Office, muster books and pay lists for the British regiments stationed in Australia from 1788 to the 1860s have been filmed together with other papers including letters sent by military commanders in London to various commands in Australia. The Home Office, as the department responsible for the administration of convicts, has had early convict musters, transportation registers, and some trial records copied by the Project. Other departments that contain records of Australian interest have been the focus for AJCP filming, namely the Foreign Office, Audit Office, Privy Council, Treasury and Board of Trade. AJCP filming of the Public Record Office classes aims to be comprehensive, but this is rarely possible considering the broad geographical scope and limited financial resources. In order to maximize the utilization of these financial resources it is necessary to film only those pieces in a class that relate to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific area. A full-time AJCP Officer and an assistant, based in the Australian Wigh Commission in London, are responsible for the selecting and listing of records to be filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project. After the AJCP Officer’s report on a group of records under consideration is approved by the major AJCP partners he arranges for the filming to be carried out. Graeme Powell, the current AJCP Officer, works to maintain the harmonious relationship with the Public Record Office that has developed over 40 years of filming there. The Project has the distinction of having one of the PRO cameras designated the “Australian camera” and used exclusively by the Project. The close relationship with Public Record Office has led to the AJCP becoming a central point for requests for official records from researchers and historians in Australia and New Zealand. These requests are considered by the Project on merit and then allocated a position with the AJCP’s list of filming priorities. The two principal partners in the Project, the National Library and the State Library of New South Wales, together decide the AJCP filming priorities by weighing such things as budgetary considerations, searching and listing time, potential use of the microfilmed records, urgency of the requestor and whether alternate sources of the information are available more readily. Not only Australian institutions have taken advantage of the AJCP’s good associations with the Public Record Office, but the AJCP has recently administered a joint filming venture with the Public Archives of Canada. This joint venture involved the sharing of the filming costs for Colonial Office emigration records that related to both Australia and Canada. Whilst three-quarters of the 8,000 AJCP microfilm reels (or nearly 3 million pages of documents) have been filmed in the Public Record Office, filming was also instigated at institutions outside the PRO. The publication of Phyllis Mander Jones’ Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, sponsored by the National Library and the Australian National University, emphasized the wealth of material in other British institutions [4]. This publication was used as the basis for the AJCP Miscellaneous series filming of records in large British institutions, county record offices, missionary societies, land companies, business archives, professional societies, and in private hands. To date, over half the institutions surveyed by Mander-Jones have been visited by the AJCP and relevant records filmed. The records filmed in the Miscellaneous series are not official government records but many do hold a strong interest for researchers concerned with matters of government, In this series, the AJCP has microfilmed the private papers of many British government officials who held positions of power related to colonial matters. Examples of Miscellaneous series records copied are selections from the papers of Henry Pelham Clinton, fifth Duke of Newcastle (held in the Library of the University of Nottingham), whose political appointments included two periods as the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the papers of George
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Villiers, fourth Earl of Clarendon (in Bodleian Library, University of Oxford), who held the Office of Foreign Secretary several times; and selected papers of W.D. Gladstone (held in British Library) whose public career included the posts of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, President of the Board of Trade, as well as Prime Minister. Collections of letters from colonists to their relatives in Britain also may reflect the effect of certain government policies on their lives and are likewise of interest to the AJCP. In order to provide access to the microfilm an eight-part Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook has been compiled to list and describe the records filmed [S]. Six of these Handbooks relate to records filmed in various sections of the Public Record Office. They list the piece numbers from each Public Record Office class copied, the date of the record, and a general description of the type of record. The National Library of Australia acts as the administrator of the AJCP and central coordinator for the AJCP partners. Negative copies of the microfilm are housed by the National Library and all orders for copies of the films are processed through the Library. The current prices for the microfilm are A$27.00 for 35mm silver halide reels and A$17.00 for 35mm diazo reels, A$21.00 for 16mm silver halide reels and A$14.00 for 16mm diazo reels. It should be noted that the majority of the AJCP microfilm is on 35mm reels with only a few selected groups of records on the i6mm size microfilm. Orders for reels or inquiries about the AJCP should be addressed to the Principal Librarian, Australian Reference, National Library of Australia, Canberra Act 2600, The value of the Project to Australian and Pacific researchers is considerable. Copies of unique primary source material previously held only in Great Britain is now readily accessible to them in an uncensored form. The availability of such manuscripts has faciIitated the growth of courses on Australian history and literature at universities in Australia and world wide. Publications documenting the early history of the country are now able to be written following consultation of the original archival material without having to make a pilgrimage to Great Britain. The recent explosive growth in genealogical research being experienced in Australia has led to heavy use of many of the Home Office, War Office, and Admiralty records filmed by the AJCP. Information on ancestors’ early life in Great Britain, their travel and settlement in the Australian colonies can be gleaned from these microfilm reels. Sometimes the AJCP has been only able to identify and list Australasian records in a British repository. Filming can be limited by holding institutions’ varying adherence to the Copyright Act, which restricts copying of manuscripts less than 100 years old. Occasionally a repository has flatly refused to have any of its records copied. The lists compiled, however, still help researchers locate relevant records and to determine whether a visit to the institution is warranted. The Australian Joint Copying Project looks to a future of continued filming in Great Britain where many repositories have yet to be visited. Within the Public Record Office there also remain many records requiring searching and listing for filming. A long-term aim of the Project is the expansion of filming activities onto the European continent. The multicultur~ nature of the Australian society means that government records from many European countries need to be copied to enable study of the migration to Australia following World War II. NOTES 1. Historical Records of New South Wales, ~01s.l-7 (Sydney: Government Printer, 1893-1901). 2. Historical Records of Australia, Series 1, ~01s. l-26, Series 3 ~01s. l-6, Series 4, vol. 1 (Library Committee of Commonwealth Parliament, 1914-1925).
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3. Given a different name in each colony, e.g. N.S.W. Returns of the Colony and South Australian Blue Book. 4. Phyllis Mander Jones, Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1972). 5. Part I General Introduction: Shelf List of Copying in the Publit Record Office. Shelf List of Miscellaneous Copying, 2nd ed. (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, t985). Part 2 Colonial Office, Reprinted with Addenda (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1984). Part 3 Home Office, Reprinted with Addenda (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1984). Part 4 War Office (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1974). Part 5 Foreign Office, Reprinted with Addenda (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1984). Part 6 Exchequer and Audit Department. Privy Council Office. Board of Trade. Treasury (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1975). Part IAdmiralty (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1976). Pm-t 8 M~~l~aneo~ Series, 2nd ed. (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1984).
0277-9390/86 $3.00 + .OO Copyright Q 1986 Pergamon Journals Ltd
THE AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT MARY-ANN PATTISON AJCP Officer, National Library of Australia, Canberra A.C.T. 2600, Australia
Abstract-The Australian Joint Copying Project, a project initiated in 1945 by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales, aims to microfilm manuscript material in Great Britain relating to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific area, Southeast Asia (to a limited degree), and Antarctica. The bulk of the filming has been early administrative records in the Public Record Office (PRO). particularly the ColonialOffice, Home Office, Admiralty, War Office, and @ore& Office documents. Outside the PRO filming has been conducted on papers in large British institutions, county record offices, missionary societies, land companies, business archives, professional societies and in private hands.
With the bicentenary of the establishment of European settlement in Australia imminent in 1988 attention is being drawn more than ever to records that document this early period and monitor the growth of the nation. Britain has played a major role in this development as colonizer and “mother country.” During the formative years, in the period from 1788 to the granting of responsible government for the first four states in 1855, Britain held absolute power over the colony. Britain’s influence on Australian society, institutions, culture and attitudes, however, has continued. The importance of British records documenting England’s involvement in the development of Australia was recognized by Australian historians as far back as the 1880s but no systematic copying was done until James Bonwick was appointed government archivist for New South Wales in 1887 as part of the plan to produce the series Historical Records of New South Wales [ 11. Bonwick transcribed 125,000 pages from records held in the Public Record Office relating to New South Wales and Tasmania, the sites of the earliest settlements. Criticism of the resulting seven volumes published was directed at their chronological arrangement, the absence of archival references and their basis on Bonwick’s arbitrary selection for copying. Bonwick’s selectivity, amongst other things, excluded items that reflected in an unflattering manner on the morality of government officials, the military or free settlers, or gave too explicit details of convict origins. Following the federation of the Australian states in 1901 the responsibility for copying early Australian documents located in Britain was passed on the Commonwealth Government. The series Historical Records of Australia was published in 33 volumes between 1914 After completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at the Australian National University in 1976 and gaining a graduate diploma in Librarianship at the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1977, Mary-Ann Pattison commenced employment at the National Library of Australia. She worked in several sections of the Library before becoming the Australian based AJCP Officer in 1981. In this position she has been responsible for liaison between the AJCP Officer in London and the partner libraries, the evaluation of priorities for collections being considered for copying, monitoring the financial operations of the Project, preparing and editing the AJCP Handbooks, supplying film to purchasers and answering reference enquiries on the microfilm. 349
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and 1925 under the editorship of Dr. Frederick Watson [2], This publication was still incomplete in its coverage with not even Series 1 reaching the period of responsible government. The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) has distinct advantages over the schemes it replaced. Other than the obvious advantages of microfilm over manual copying in terms of economy of labor and speed of copying, the Project has been undertaken on a comprehensive basis, so that dispatches, reports and enclosures have all been copied. The microfilm is free from much of the censorship like that exercised by Bonwick in his transcripts for Historical Records of New South Wales. By filming all the enclosures, including those relating to convicts that were still to a lesser extent omitted from Historical Records of ~~~r~a~~a,the Project reflected the diminishing sensitivity of Australians towards their origins. Whereas, previously, Australian researchers would have had to travel to Britain to use these unique records, they can now consult the AJCP microfilm more conveniently in Australia. Although the Project concentrates on microfilming manuscript material it has also copied pictorial and cartographic material that are an integral part of collections being copied. An agreement drawn up in October 1945 between the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales established the AJCP. Under this agreement the two libraries agreed to share the task of microfilming material of Australian and Pacific interest held in the United Kingdom. The added participation of various institutions and State Libraries has ~uctuated over the years with the State Library of Victoria and the New Zealand government currently taking part as full partners, sharing the costs in all filming undertaken. The scope of the Project is defined in geographical rather than thematic terms with filming covering records related to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific area, Southeast Asia (to a limited degree), and Antarctica. The growth of historical scholarship in Australia during this century has been stimulated by a burgeoning national identity that is keen to promote all aspects of Australian national development, including science, education, religion, and law. As Britain had a profound influence on all aspects of early Australian development, no historical research on any of these topics is complete without consulting the primary records held in Great Britain. After the agreement between the National Library and the State Library of New South Wales was signed in 1945 filming commenced in 1948 in the Public Record Office and is still continuing. First to be filmed were records in the Colonial Office, the section of the Public Record Office where the bulk of the British colonial administrative records are held. Before self-government the governor of each colony had supreme power in the territory but was subject to direction from the Colonial Office to whom he had to report on the colony’s affairs. A governor’s reports or dispatches detailed virtually every aspect of the administration of the colony. These reports have been filmed by the AJCP with enclosures and minutes, departmental registers and indexes, general material relating to the colonies as a whole plus early volumes of the Blue Books of statistics that were never published [3]. Whilst the initial emphasis of the Project has been on filming nineteenth-century official records, there has been a recent shift to twentieth-century records, particularly in regard to the successor to the Colonial Office, the Dominions Office. Several classes of Dominions Office records that document Commonwealth relations in the correspondence with the Australian and New Zealand governments on a wide range of subjects such as constitutional matters, migration, and race relations, have been filmed up to 1951. Although the Colonial Office records are the most substantial group filmed by the Project, records from other sections in the Public Record Office have also been filmed, including Admiralty records of log books, surgeons’ journals for ships on voyages to Australia, as well
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as Admiral’s reports and Station records. In the War Office, muster books and pay lists for the British regiments stationed in Australia from 1788 to the 1860s have been filmed together with other papers including letters sent by military commanders in London to various commands in Australia. The Home Office, as the department responsible for the administration of convicts, has had early convict musters, transportation registers, and some trial records copied by the Project. Other departments that contain records of Australian interest have been the focus for AJCP filming, namely the Foreign Office, Audit Office, Privy Council, Treasury and Board of Trade. AJCP filming of the Public Record Office classes aims to be comprehensive, but this is rarely possible considering the broad geographical scope and limited financial resources. In order to maximize the utilization of these financial resources it is necessary to film only those pieces in a class that relate to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific area. A full-time AJCP Officer and an assistant, based in the Australian Wigh Commission in London, are responsible for the selecting and listing of records to be filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project. After the AJCP Officer’s report on a group of records under consideration is approved by the major AJCP partners he arranges for the filming to be carried out. Graeme Powell, the current AJCP Officer, works to maintain the harmonious relationship with the Public Record Office that has developed over 40 years of filming there. The Project has the distinction of having one of the PRO cameras designated the “Australian camera” and used exclusively by the Project. The close relationship with Public Record Office has led to the AJCP becoming a central point for requests for official records from researchers and historians in Australia and New Zealand. These requests are considered by the Project on merit and then allocated a position with the AJCP’s list of filming priorities. The two principal partners in the Project, the National Library and the State Library of New South Wales, together decide the AJCP filming priorities by weighing such things as budgetary considerations, searching and listing time, potential use of the microfilmed records, urgency of the requestor and whether alternate sources of the information are available more readily. Not only Australian institutions have taken advantage of the AJCP’s good associations with the Public Record Office, but the AJCP has recently administered a joint filming venture with the Public Archives of Canada. This joint venture involved the sharing of the filming costs for Colonial Office emigration records that related to both Australia and Canada. Whilst three-quarters of the 8,000 AJCP microfilm reels (or nearly 3 million pages of documents) have been filmed in the Public Record Office, filming was also instigated at institutions outside the PRO. The publication of Phyllis Mander Jones’ Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, sponsored by the National Library and the Australian National University, emphasized the wealth of material in other British institutions [4]. This publication was used as the basis for the AJCP Miscellaneous series filming of records in large British institutions, county record offices, missionary societies, land companies, business archives, professional societies, and in private hands. To date, over half the institutions surveyed by Mander-Jones have been visited by the AJCP and relevant records filmed. The records filmed in the Miscellaneous series are not official government records but many do hold a strong interest for researchers concerned with matters of government, In this series, the AJCP has microfilmed the private papers of many British government officials who held positions of power related to colonial matters. Examples of Miscellaneous series records copied are selections from the papers of Henry Pelham Clinton, fifth Duke of Newcastle (held in the Library of the University of Nottingham), whose political appointments included two periods as the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the papers of George
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Villiers, fourth Earl of Clarendon (in Bodleian Library, University of Oxford), who held the Office of Foreign Secretary several times; and selected papers of W.D. Gladstone (held in British Library) whose public career included the posts of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, President of the Board of Trade, as well as Prime Minister. Collections of letters from colonists to their relatives in Britain also may reflect the effect of certain government policies on their lives and are likewise of interest to the AJCP. In order to provide access to the microfilm an eight-part Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook has been compiled to list and describe the records filmed [S]. Six of these Handbooks relate to records filmed in various sections of the Public Record Office. They list the piece numbers from each Public Record Office class copied, the date of the record, and a general description of the type of record. The National Library of Australia acts as the administrator of the AJCP and central coordinator for the AJCP partners. Negative copies of the microfilm are housed by the National Library and all orders for copies of the films are processed through the Library. The current prices for the microfilm are A$27.00 for 35mm silver halide reels and A$17.00 for 35mm diazo reels, A$21.00 for 16mm silver halide reels and A$14.00 for 16mm diazo reels. It should be noted that the majority of the AJCP microfilm is on 35mm reels with only a few selected groups of records on the i6mm size microfilm. Orders for reels or inquiries about the AJCP should be addressed to the Principal Librarian, Australian Reference, National Library of Australia, Canberra Act 2600, The value of the Project to Australian and Pacific researchers is considerable. Copies of unique primary source material previously held only in Great Britain is now readily accessible to them in an uncensored form. The availability of such manuscripts has faciIitated the growth of courses on Australian history and literature at universities in Australia and world wide. Publications documenting the early history of the country are now able to be written following consultation of the original archival material without having to make a pilgrimage to Great Britain. The recent explosive growth in genealogical research being experienced in Australia has led to heavy use of many of the Home Office, War Office, and Admiralty records filmed by the AJCP. Information on ancestors’ early life in Great Britain, their travel and settlement in the Australian colonies can be gleaned from these microfilm reels. Sometimes the AJCP has been only able to identify and list Australasian records in a British repository. Filming can be limited by holding institutions’ varying adherence to the Copyright Act, which restricts copying of manuscripts less than 100 years old. Occasionally a repository has flatly refused to have any of its records copied. The lists compiled, however, still help researchers locate relevant records and to determine whether a visit to the institution is warranted. The Australian Joint Copying Project looks to a future of continued filming in Great Britain where many repositories have yet to be visited. Within the Public Record Office there also remain many records requiring searching and listing for filming. A long-term aim of the Project is the expansion of filming activities onto the European continent. The multicultur~ nature of the Australian society means that government records from many European countries need to be copied to enable study of the migration to Australia following World War II. NOTES 1. Historical Records of New South Wales, ~01s.l-7 (Sydney: Government Printer, 1893-1901). 2. Historical Records of Australia, Series 1, ~01s. l-26, Series 3 ~01s. l-6, Series 4, vol. 1 (Library Committee of Commonwealth Parliament, 1914-1925).
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3. Given a different name in each colony, e.g. N.S.W. Returns of the Colony and South Australian Blue Book. 4. Phyllis Mander Jones, Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1972). 5. Part I General Introduction: Shelf List of Copying in the Publit Record Office. Shelf List of Miscellaneous Copying, 2nd ed. (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, t985). Part 2 Colonial Office, Reprinted with Addenda (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1984). Part 3 Home Office, Reprinted with Addenda (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1984). Part 4 War Office (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1974). Part 5 Foreign Office, Reprinted with Addenda (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1984). Part 6 Exchequer and Audit Department. Privy Council Office. Board of Trade. Treasury (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1975). Part IAdmiralty (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1976). Pm-t 8 M~~l~aneo~ Series, 2nd ed. (Canberra: National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales, 1984).