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Abstract

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

Sketch 111 - Taken 6th June 1874 - by Catherine Mitchell.
Kate P. Mitchell, and S.E.E.M., going to see Mrs Dodge at Saltworks, Lisdillon. Mr J Radcliffe long ago set up boilers to get salt, when a duty was on it, & gave up when it was taken off. It was too close to the mouth of Little Swanport River, & therefore too fresh sea water. He had large stone buildings there. Part of the iron work was broken one day & the men did not go out next morn. Mr Radcliffe rode to Swansea, had it mended & put it back. Called his men to go & see if it was broken. They did & found it mended!!
James, & Mrs Sarah Dodge paid a rent for the fields, about 50 acres – three sons James, Fred, Alfred & Arthur& they had three daughters Sarah, Emma, & Mary. Mrs Dodge helped nurse my father, & mother at their last illness & was very kind.

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, James Dodge, Sarah Dodge , Mr J Radcliffe, saltworks, salt boilers, salt duty, Little Swanport River, rent, John Mitchell, father, mother, sickness
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Copyright Information:	This is an unpublished literary work created between 1860 and 1875.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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