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Mother would only drive with “Dot”

Mitchell, Sarah and Mitchell, Catherine 1874 , Mother would only drive with “Dot” , University of Tasmania Special and Rare Collections and The Royal Society of Tasmania, Australia.

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Abstract

Sketch from the scrapbook of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania 1874.

Sketch 38, by Catherine Mitchell, taken 1874, depicting party riding out for a picnic.

Picnic on Christmas Island part of a grant from Government to Sir Thomas Buxton. A Governor called at Mayfield & said anyone who made such good butter was worthy of a further grant of land, and gave them Boomer Creek, land on Little Swanport River.

This picnic Mr Bernard Shaw was engaged to Miss Louisa Davis, & they are sitting together. One of us drove the old gig, bought at Richmond, Inverquharity, sale of Captain Ogilvie’s & was built for him for £60 (?) for father, for mother, price £10. We had no vehicle to drive before. Two rode or three. He said he supposed we liked picnics. Caleb dog is there. Mother would not drive except with “Dot” a quiet horse but it was awkward, so one day I brought “Fairey”, a bay we were breaking in, & asked her to drive on the beach. She came but it began to be figity. Mother said, my dear it is not “Dot” let me get out, so she did and walked home.

The sketches by Catherine Penwarne (Kate), eldest daughter of John and Catherine Mitchell (of Cornwall, England, who settled at Lisdillon, East Coast Tasmania in 1852) were made between 1860 and 1876, and portray aspects of 19th Century social and domestic life. Catherine’s sketches were compiled by her sister Sarah. E.E.Mitchell. Derived from her own collection, from those of friends and relations, and from John Ball, Kate's husband, they were compiled sometime between 1928 and 1933. The sketches are mounted in an album, together with: locks of Kate's hair on red silk; a pressed fern arrangement; a coloured photograph of John and Catherine Ball; and coloured views of Buckland Churchyard in 1850, showing the grave of Paul Thomas Mitchell, aged 3 days, and in 1879 showing the grave of Catherine Penwarne Ball. The scrapbook was bequeathed to The Royal Society of Tasmania in 1946.
RS 32/4

Item Type: Other
Authors/Creators:Mitchell, Sarah and Mitchell, Catherine
Keywords: Sarah E.E. Mitchell, Catherine Mitchell, Tasmania, Australia, social history, 19th Century, Lisdillon, East Coast Tasmania, The Royal Society of Tasmania, picnic, Christmas Island, Government grant, Sir Thomas Buxton, Mayfield, Boomer Creek, Little Swanport River, Mr Bernard Shaw, Miss Louisa Davis, gig, Richmond, Inverquharity, Captain Ogilvie, Caleb, dog, Dot, horses.
Publisher: University of Tasmania Special and Rare Collections and The Royal Society of Tasmania
Copyright Information:

This is an unpublished literary work created in the late 19th century. Copyright subsists in this item.

Collections: Royal Society Collection > Mitchell Collection > Sketchbook Collection
Royal Society Collection
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This material may be requested from the Library for research and study purposes as provided for in the Copyright Act 1968. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au

When reusing this material, please provide the following acknowledgement: “Courtesy of the UTAS Library Special & Rare Collections, The Royal Society of Tasmania, The Mitchell Family and The Plomley Foundation. From The Royal Society of Tasmania Collection RS 32/4”

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