Guide to the Collection of promissory notes from remote areas of Australia, 1863-1925

 

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 3611
Extent:
0.03 metres and (1 folder)
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

56 promissory notes and IOUs from remote parts of Australia, mostly put out by storekeepers, hotel keepers and commission agents in country areas. Several of the notes are signed and dated, mostly from 1922.

Issuers include: Amedulah Khan, a camel hawker at Farina, South Australia (notes reinforced with cloth); George Watson, Rankine River, S.A.; G.A. Edwards, Mayne Junction, Queensland; Hudson’s Federal Hotel, Urandangie, New South Wales; M.C.P. Biondi, Anthony’s Lagoon, Northern Territory; R. Smith of Hall’s Creek, Kimberley, Western Australia; Alick B. Scott, Fitzroy, W.A.; the Lee Brothers of Boulia, Qld.; and, storekeepers Scott and Harrington of Fitzroy, W.A. There is also a one pound note from the Colony of Victoria (no date could be discerned) and an IOU for the sum of ten shillings signed by Stephen Spencer on 23 November, 1863.

There are also 13 covering letters addressed to John Ferguson from various outback merchants enclosing examples of shinplasters (1922-1923).

Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquired from bibliographer and judge, Sir John Ferguson in 1936.

Access and use

Conditions governing access:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1311819).
Conditions governing use:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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