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Abstract

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

Sketch 84 - Taken February 1872 - by Catherine Mitchell.
Father had a message for the Pykes of Ram Island in Little Swanport River, & has 90 acres of land. The crossing place was almost 100yds wide & muddy – It was hard to see the shells track between thick “Swan grass” weed. At high water she had to put both feet over the horses neck & the water would be nearly up to the saddle. She was on Garribaldi, my tall horse, so went alone for I was on “Job- Trotter” that was young & small, so I waited for her. The young man Pyke came down to see her safe over from their Island. Mr Minshall who rented Trehawke from father, went to see old Mr Pyke there & returning at night, something frightened his horse & it threw him & kicked him dead. His widow took his debts & carried on for years, but was worried with her son George & his wife, the men she employed & took laudanum & was found dead – She told me gentlefolks were easier to cook for, than working men.

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, Pykes, Ram Island, Mr Minsall, Mrs Minshall, Trehawke, horses, death, George Pyke, crossing, Little Swanport River
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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