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Abstract

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

Sketch 25 - Taken 1.1.1875 - by Catherine Mitchell.
Swansea Regatta. The old jetty with a barrier to show it was not safe beyond. The Roman Catholic “Star of the Sea” on Waterloo Point, that was the Government Commissariat building – The first Church of England with trees next it. The Bay View Hotel, Pier Hotel, - Being windy the sailing was put off till next day – Mark S Mitchell, Captain Glover, & two others in one boat when one pulled in the sail more, & over it went – Had not the stones for ballast fallen on the seats & kept the boat straight for them to cling on, they would have been drowned before help came. Our mother was afraid of sailing boats. She was home at Lisdillon & felt Mark was in danger, & went to her room & prayed for him at the time of the accident. I was at Kennedia, or Green Banks then with the clergyman’s family, Maysons – when Arthur Giblin rode over saying they were safe. Thank God.
1,1925 Miss Louisa Amos says she was looking on, & so dangerous, this was her last Regatta.

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, Swansea, jetty, Regatta, Roman Catholic Church, commissariat, Star of the Sea, Waterloo Point, Church of England, Bay View Hotel, Pier Hotel, Mark S Mitchell, Captain Glover, sailing, mother, Kennedia, Green Banks, Maysons, visit, Arthur Giblin, Miss Louisa Amos
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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