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Abstract

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

Sketch 81 - Taken Sept. 11th 1869 - by Catherine Mitchell.
Mr Wm J. Lyne, called at Lisdillon, for father to decide where Little Swanport Bridge should be. Kate rode on the wrong side of her saddle because other had hurt her horses back, so that put the sore place free of rubbing. I rode that side, on Edwin’s saddle, for that reason, & my saddle tree was away to be mended. Amy M J M, Miss Fosebrook, all road nearly to Radfords, L.S.Port & we picnicked there. Father went to Sandy Creek with W.J. Lyne, as he returned to Swansea, that bridge was built & washed away almost the first big flood as Mr Peter Mitchelman said it would be, when trees came down against it.

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, riding, John Mitchell, Mr W J Lyne, Little Swanport Bridge, Miss Fosebrook, Radfords, picnic, Sandy Creek, Mr Peter Mitchelman, flood
Publisher:	University of Tasmania Special and Rare Collections and The Royal Society of Tasmania
Copyright Information:	This is an unpublished literary work created between 1860 and 1875. Copyright subsists in this item.
Collections:	Royal Society Collection > Mitchell Collection > Sketchbook Collection Royal Society Collection
Additional Information:	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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