Provenance note 

Documents 1-2, 4 and 6 in this series, previously located at ML MSS 743/2, were acquired for the Mitchell Library from Maggs Brothers in London, in December 1946. 

Document 3, previously located at ML A80-1, and document 5, previously located at ML A80-2, were purchased in 1884 from Lord Brabourne by Sir Saul Samuel, the Agent-General for New South Wales. They were transferred to the Mitchell Library in 1910 and were part of the accession which became known as the Brabourne collection.