#manuscript maps

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Anna Josepha King - miniature map 'A Plan of Port Famine 1827' drawn by Philip Gidley King (the younger) when nine years old, received from Phillip Parker King, 1829, together with explanatory note by Anna Josepha King.

Description: 0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder) : Manuscript map; 4.8 x 4.4 cm.  Mitchell Library Location: MLMSS 7787 ; filed at Safe 1 / 271

Philip Gidley King (1817-1904), pastoralist, was born at Parramatta, eldest son of Captain Phillip Parker King and Harriet King, and grandson of Governor Philip Gidley King (1758-1808) and Anna Josepha King. As a young boy, he sailed in the HMS Adventure under the command of his father on an expedition to survey the southern coast of South America in 1826-1830. The ship entered Port Famine in January 1827 and anchored there until May 1827 while surveys were made of the surrounding area.

Miniature pen and ink manuscript map 'A Plan of Port Famine 1827' in the hand of Philip Gidley King, neatly pasted onto paper bearing manuscript notes on both sides. On one side is written: 'A plan of Port Famine done by P.G. King only 9 years old received the 18th of Febry 1829'. On the other side in the same hand: 'Memo from his Father Capt P.P. King "The enclosed I found on Philips Desk it is exactly like the place of Port Famine and a much better plan than I have seen Done by older people"'. A different hand has added: 'written by Mrs Gov King'. The map is quite detailed with various landmarks such as the River Sedger clearly labelled in ink. It also indicates the position of the party's tent.

Possibly Philip Gidley King's earliest map. Sent by his father, Phillip Parker King, to his grandmother, Anna Josepha King, while still on the surveying expedition. His father's comments as to the quality and standard of his young son's cartographic skills are noteworthy as Phillip Parker King is often described as the greatest of the early Australian marine surveyors. A zoomable version of the map may be seen here.  A description of the surveying voyage of HMS Adventure 1826-1830 is found in Volume 1 of 'Narrative of the surveying voyages of his Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe' London: Henry Colburn, 1839 (located at 508.3/7A5 in the Mitchell Library Printed Books Collection).

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[Kosciuszko fishing map for Douglas Stewart] [cartographic material] by Margaret Coen, ca. 1960.

Scale [ca. 1:79 200]. 1 1/4 in. = 1 mile (E 148°14ʹ35"--E 148°38ʹ22"/S 36°24ʹ05"--S 36°33ʹ01") . 1 ms. map : col., silk ; on sheet 56 x 80 cm.

Manuscript map drawn on Japanese silk created by Margaret Coen for Douglas Stewart in approx. 1960 showing fishing spots around the "The Creel" fishing lodge in the Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales. Shows the town of Jindabyne prior to being moved as part of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme in the late 1960s.

Area: covers from approx. Mt. Kosciusko [ie Kosciuszko] to Jindabyne and from "The Creel at Thredbo" to the Moonbah or Mowamba River. Shows ten fishing spots, places of interest, roads, rivers and creeks, building outlines including "the Creel". Also has the poem, "The snow-gum", by Douglas Stewart. Cartographic detail and illustrations in water colour and ink. A zoomable version is here. 

This map was created from an original manuscript map titled, "Fishing from the Creel", drawn by Colin Oswald Healey. The map came as part of a collection donated by Meg Stewart. Along with the map are the Stewart family collection photographs of trout fishing holidays in the Snowy Mountains area, ca. 1935-1984. For a remembrance of her parents and more on the map, see an article by Meg Stewart here. 

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Manuscript map page from  Henry Wellings Journal, 1858 May 27 - Sept. 30

This page shows the route of Wellings from voyage to New South Wales on the Ship David McIver. Henry Wellings an artist and contractor, came to Sydney as an assisted emigrant. He was one of the founders of the Balmain Working Men's Institute. His journal includes and newspaper cuttings, advice to emigrants, sketches, and other pictorial material.