Angas family – letters 1836-1877 Aa 11/1

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Letter from to Capt. Morgan, 17 Feb. 1836 Draft agreement between Capt. Morgan and the South Australian Company Letter from George French Angas to William Hogarth, 30 July 1851 Letter from George French Angas to William Hogarth, 30 Sept. 1851 Letter from George French Angas to William Hogarth, 11 Oct. 1852 Letter from George French Angas to an unknown recipient, 8 March 1877 Letter from George French Angas to S.W. Silver, 9 June 1877 Memo by George French Angas listing proposed illustrations for a publication on Fiji, undated Letter from George French Angas to Dr Bennett, 22 Nov. 1878]

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Green Dragon 2 A.M. Tuesday London Feb.17. 1836

My dear Sir,

I send you the rough draft of the Agreement between the Owners of the Duke of York & you as Master – Also the letter to you as Master - & likewise my own letter to you (private) which I think does embrace every point of our previous arrangement. – I think it best to send you these rough Drafts that if in any one point you think I am not correct, that you will name it, that it may be altered before they are fairly written out. My chief Clerk, Mr. Flanman [?], will take them to you for examination & if correct we shall have them ready to be signed on Thursday morning on Board your vessel at 10 o’clock.

With much esteem I remain My dear Sir Yours truly

G. F. Angas

Chairman of the South Australian Company London.

To Capt. Morgan Of the Duke of York London Docks.

P.S. What advance and monthly money you may require you can have on stating your wishes.

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Private

Capt. Morgan Of the Duke of York

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London Docks G.F.Angas

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It is proposed & agreed upon between Captn. Morgan & the Company

1. That Captn. Morgan shall immediately be appointed to the command of the Barque Duke of York now in the London Docks & complete the outfit Provisions Stores & Crew of the said vessel as fast as possible so as to set sail from London in all the first week of February if practicable

2. That the Company shall send out as many of their Officers & Servants as can be conveintly accomodated in that vessel with such stock as may be necessary but that such Passengers shall not be any impediment in the way of detention in case opportunity offers of taking Whales on the passage out

3. That the vessel will be employed in the Gulfs, Bays Islands & around the Coasts of the new Colony & its neighbourhood in fishing for the Black & other Whales during the Season supposed to be from June to November, after that season is over

[page 4] then the proceeds of its success shall be shipped on Freight to the London Market.

4. After that the Ship will take in a fresh supply of Casks & Provisions and proceed in pursuit of the Sperm Whale at such places and Seas as Captn. Morgan shall judge best & having got a full Ship shall either return with the same direct to London or put into the Company’s Station in South Australia where he can unship his cargo & send it to London then get new Casks &c if the black Whale season answers the time can fish the Bays & Gulfs therein until it ends & then after unshipping a part of his Crew to be left in the Colony under the direction of the Company’s Manager to fish from the shore either Whale or White Fish for salting Captn. M. can proceed at once to London with his Cargo Thereby occupying about two Years of time

5. That Captn. Morgan shall receive one twelfth share of the proceeds of Sale

[page 5] of all the produce in the London Market which shall have been procureing from the several adventures aforesaid.

6. That Captn. M shall have the selection of his Mates & Crew.

7. That on Captn. Morgan’s return from South Australia G.F. Angas is willing to purchase a Vessel of 250 Tons of which Captn. M shall hold 1/4 share of her & the rest to be held by G.F. Angas he agreeing to advance the Capital for Captn. M & to receive for the use of it the interest of 5 P.Cent Pr. Annum untill paid off out of the Profits of the Vessel in the South Sea Whaleing trade

That on Captn. M’s return to England as aforesaid with his Ship he will proceed out again in command if a Whaler to the Colony & take his Wife & Family with him & on his arrival in the Colony will place his Mate in command of the said Ship & he Captn. M. himself will reside in the Colony & take charge of the Company’s Whaleing Establishment, Superintend the outfit of

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[page 6] their Vessels & regulate such matters as relate to their Shipping Department for which he shall receive such remuneration in the way of an annual salary & a percentage upon the proceeds of the Fishing or as may be agreed upon between the parties on Captn. Morgan’s return to England.

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Sydney July 30th. 1851.

W. Hogarth Esq My dear Sir,

I have just sent off to you Pr “Gambia” mail via Calcutta a packet containing 5 original sketches I have made from the spot of the Australian Gold field at “Ophir” - for publication, & dividing profits - I think them very likely to have an immense sale – they must be got up in the first style of art, & I give you the London Copywright; so that no one else may bring out spurious copies from those lithographed here -

I think Harding is the man for them - you should loose no time in getting them out – I now enclose you duplicate tracings in case the originals might miscarry. These go by way of Valparaiso, so that the two packets, one going East & the other West, will circumnavigate the Globe and meet each other, maybe, on your London counter, in due season – I wrote you more fully by way of India so I will only now add

[page 8] that it would afford me some considerable degree of pleasure to receive a remittance of profits from sale of African work & also accts. of the sale of sketches left in your hands - Please write me to , South Australia, & send me out a copy or two of the Ophir views through Messrs. Bell Baddin & Co 2 Jeffrey Square St. Mary Axe

With kind regards I am my dear Sir Yours very truly

George French Angas Kind regards to your family & all old friends.

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Sydney Sept. 30th. 1851. My dear Sir,

I have the pleasure of introducing to you my Sydney Publishers, Messrs. Woolcott & Clarke who are sending home a view of Sydney to be lithographed under your superintendence, and they request me to give you a few instructions concerning it. It must be executed in the very best style of tinted lithography I think Mr. Needham would do it very well – The sky may be altered according to the judgment of the lithographer. The Coloring must be delicate & judicious -

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The writing for the Plate, (which must be exactly the size of the original drawing) must be as follows – Title - The City & Harbour of Sydney from near Vaucluse – Artist’s name – George French Angas – underneath the title in small neat lettering, as follows – “This view shews the approach to Sydney on entering the Harbour from the Sea – In the distance are the Blue Mts. – to the right of the city is seen the entrance to Parramatta River. Government House, St. James’ Church & the Catholic Cathedral are prominent objects; with Garden Isd. Pinchgut, Shark Isd & Clarke’s Isd. diversifying the harbour. To the left are the windmills & jail at Wooloomooloo, with Rose Bay beneath. In the foreground are in a group of natives, with the “Banksia”, “Warratah” & other native shrubs peculiar to the soil.

I am Dear sir Yours faithfully George French Angas

W. Hogarth Esq.

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Angas G.F. 30 Sep. 1851

Wm. Hogarth Esq Printseller & Publisher 5 Haymarket London

G.F.Angas

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Sydney Oct. 11th. 1852.

Mr. Hogarth My dear Sir,

I wrote you last August twelvemonths and sent you drawings & tracings of my 6 sketches of the first Gold Diggings discovered in New South Wales to be lithographed & published by you in London feeling sure that as they were the first & only faithful representations of those Diggings they would prove highly remunerative in the sale – I offered you half the proceeds & requested you to forward any share of profit to me through the Union Bank of Australia to Sydney, together with what profit is accruing to me from the sale of my ”Kafirs” & the 30 water color drawings left in your hands for Sale.

Also I requested you to

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[page 14] inform me of the same by letter addressed care of Messrs. Woolcott & Clarke, Stationers, George St. Sydney. I also wrote you in July last informing you that I was without a line of communication from you since I left England, and I am still anxiously waiting to hear from you on these matters – I requested you to send me a dozen sets of the London lithographs of my Ophir Diggings Views which you have published. – I am glad to see they are so highly noticed by the papers &c. All parcels had better be sent to me Pr Mail Steamer, addressed care

[page 15] of Woolcott & Clarke – as I am now settled in Sydney following my profession here, unless indeed, I should take it into my head to return to England with another work in which case I would duly inform you.

Pray write to me at once on receipt of this, I fear you quite forgot even to acknowledge the receipt of the last Diggings Views – address my letters to me Post Office Sydney, N.S.Wales. Woolcott & Clarke are hoping to hear from you by the next Steamer from England & to receive by it the lithographs of Sydney from the Drawing they sent home October 1851. We are going ahead a little here

[page 16] in the arts – Claxton is here painting; & W. Howitt & Horne have arrived to swell the literary circles. Melbourne is in an awful State – a perfect Pandemonium - while our beautiful City of Sydney remains orderly & quiet as ever, but every thing has become excessively dear owing to the Gold fields & the numbers of people daily arriving in the Colonies. – I had a deal of trouble with that Mr. Montefiore in Adelaide, & when he failed I employed a Solicitor to endeavor to obtain the 7 copies of our “Kafir Work” which were in his hands – I could not however obtain them, he refusing to know me in the affair & I having no document to shew from you of for any authority to act in the affair. – The 7

[page 17] copies were, however, I am informed by my Solicitor, sold to defray expenses for the benefit of the Shippers, & I think realized only about £3 a copy; as they were put into an auction without any attempt to sell them. If I had had them in Sydney, as I stated in a letter to Montifiore, I could have obtained the full price for every copy and sold them immediately. I consider that Montifiore behaved very badly in this matter.

I have made a pilgrimage to the far famed Gold Diggings of Mount Alexander & Bendigo in Victoria, & now send you two exact water color sketches taken on the spot by myself

[page 18] one, of Mt. Alexander diggings from Adelaide hill, Forest Creek – the other of the celebrated Eagle-Hawk Gully at Bendigo, which has turned out more gold than any other gully in the world. Every tent, & store with its flag, is exactly as it stood when I was on the ground, & all the figures are sketched from life, the coloring &c is true, but more distance may be observed in the lithographing - I am sure these views will be extremely valuable in England & I loose no time in sending them to you to be lithographed – I have lithographed them here for Colonial Sale, but we can only pint 3 or 400 here from one stone on account of the warm climate – I will dispose of

Angas family - letters, 1836-1877 Aa 11 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW these drawings & the entire copyright of them to you if you will remit me £50, as I am sure they will command

[page 19] an enormous sale in Great Britain now that the gold excitement is so great, especially when it is known that they are the only views taken of these two famed diggings the richest in the world. If you think it better for me you can divide the profits equally, but I really think I ought to be well paid for them as they are of such extreme interest and I had to undergo innumerable hardships & great expense to obtain them, beside a journey of 250 miles on foot, & sea voyages to and from Sydney.

Hoping shortly to hear from you I am My dear Sir Yours very truly

George French Angas over [page 20]

I have enclosed a third view of the Commissioners Camps at head Quarters of the Melbourne Diggings at Barker’s creek – which I took on the spot during my visit to the diggings. This has never been copied, nor even seen out of my portfolio, I had not time to make a colored sketch of it, I will however so mark directions on it, that it can easily be understood without & will form a most interesting companion to the other two – this of course will be included in the Copyright with the 2 of Mt. Alexander & Bendigo.

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48 Norland Square March 8th 77.

Dear Sir,

I beg leave to acknowledge receipt of cheque for £6.1/9 for “Colonies” Nos. 233. – 237. Inclusive. I enclose corrected proof of my last article for press. I saw Mr. Gould, who shewed me a couple of shells from Australia, for which I gave him the names. I fear I cannot help with the Enquiries of last week as they are out of my range of information. I shall be very glad to review my old friend Baines’ work & I will call at yr. office for it tomorrow, unless I receive a post card to the contrary.

Yours very truly G. French Angas.

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48. Norland Square W. June 9. 77. My dear Sir,

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You will be pleased to learn that I shall be able to produce the pictures in the Supplement without photolithographing them; which will effect a saving of £2.10.

I have been making an experimental drawing, and with a new method of transfer, and it prints so well that I see my way clear to proceed. I send you a proof. In haste Yours very truly

Geo. French Angas S.W. Silver Esqr. compare Brooks first estimate (for photographing) with one for transfer – G.F.A.

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Proposed Illustrations for Fiji.

1. Levuka, the English Capital. 2. Bau, the capital of the native Kings. 6. Landing of Governor at Nasova. 7. Hoisting the British Flag in the presence of King Cacambau 8. Drilling native troops. 9. The great river in Viti Levu 10. Valley in interior of Viti Levu. 11. King Cacambau 12. Fijians in their war costumes. 13. Fijian heathen temple. 14. Former Human slaughter place. 15. Fijian canoes. 16. Boiling springs at Savu Savu 14 Mission Station at Lakemba &c

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48 Norland Square Holland Park W. Nov. 22. 78.

Mr dear Dr Bennett,

I have nothing in the way of sketches or photographs of Adelaide, I regret to say, of anything like a recent date – I have a large number of bits of scenery, natives, &c taken many years ago, any of which are at your service with the greatest pleasure. Could you favor me with a call at any time you like to name as being convenient, when I would shew them to you & you could select any may you might require.

I think it likely that at the Agent General’s Offices at Westminster they have a number of photographs

[page 25] of Adelaide & other places in South Australia, and if you do not happen to know Sir Arthur Blyth, I shall be happy to give you an introduction to him. I shall be most happy to call and see you any

Angas family - letters, 1836-1877 Aa 11 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW time next week if you will let me know what time you are at 27 Euston Road. In mean time let me know if you will come and see the sketches I have.

With kind regards to yourself & Mrs. Bennett in which Mrs. Angas joins I remain Yours sincerely

George French Angas.

[Transcribed by Maryanne Larkin for the State Library of New South Wales]

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