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

Sketch 23 - Taken 6.4.1872 - by Catherine Mitchell.
Hop feast at Lisdillon. Sitting at the table Mr William John Lyne there? Father & Mr Smith of Swansea School carving, Kate, self, Amy, Fred Shaw & Mark M ., & others waiting at table. Romer Meadows from England who came out to Mayor Dumbleton of the North Coast & was not wanted, & father heard of it and asked him for a month & then he went for two years to the Lynes and with them to N.S.Wales, where he married, & settled down – a cask of beer was bought, & Romer was to see that no one got too much. Some did have rather too much.

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, hop feast, Mr William J Lyne, Mr John Mitchell, father, Mark S Mitchell, Mr Smith, Swansea School, Frederick Shaw, Amy M J Mitchell, Romer Meadows, England, Mayor Dumbleton, North Coast, marriage, New South Wales, beer
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Copyright Information:	This is an unpublished literary work created between 1860 and 1875.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:	The University of Tasmania Library is communicating this material under Section 52 of the Copyright Act 1968. This section of the Act gives Libraries, under very specific circumstances, the ability to make public such material as this. Because the University does not own copyright, permission cannot be provided for re-use of this material. Re-use of this material may infringe copyright. Please seek copyright advice and proceed at your own risk. When reusing this material, please provide the following acknowledgement: “Courtesy of the UTAS Library Special & Rare Collections, The Royal Society of Tasmania and The Plomley Foundation”. Please be advised that using this acknowledgement is not an endorsement, authorisation or recommendation by the University of Tasmania. From The Royal Society of Tasmania Collection RS 32/4
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