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[SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybooks of the Highland Society of New South Wales (1881-86). by HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

by HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

[SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybooks of the Highland Society of New South Wales (1881-86). by HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

[SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybooks of the Highland Society of New South Wales (1881-86).

by HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

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[Sydney : Highland Society of New South Wales, Bell's Chambers, Pitt Street, 1881-86]. Three letter copybooks produced by Sydney stationery firm John Sands. Uniform quarto (270 x 220 mm), half leather over cloth or marbled papered boards (mild rubbing and some wear to extremities), spines stamped in gilt 'Letter Book'; alphabetical tab dividers; containing a large number of copies on onion-skin paper of outgoing local and overseas correspondence, most signed by Hon. Secretary John Macdonald; includes an appended letter on the Society letterhead signed by inaugural President, Sir John Hay; several leaves at front of one book excised (probably at the time), occasional foxing, but generally very well preserved. A unique manuscript record of an institution dedicated to the fostering of Scottish culture in New South Wales in the 1880s. The Highland Society of New South Wales was inaugurated in Sydney in June 1878, with politician Sir John Hay as its first president. The Society was a charitable and cultural institution intended to fill the gap left by its predecessor the St. Andrew's Society, which had become defunct by the end of 1875. It was formed through the amalgamation of two interim entities, the Caledonian Society and the Gaelic Society.
Minute book of the Burns Club.
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Minute book of the Burns Club.

by HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

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[Sydney:] , 1880-85. Rabbie Burns in Australia A unique manuscript, recording the meetings of the first six years of the Sydney Burns Club, together with a scarce facsimile printing of Burns's original manuscript for the poem "Scots Wha' Hae", presented to the Highland Society of New South Wales in the 1890s. Together, these items offer a fascinating insight into the preservation and promotion of Scottish culture in late 19th-century Australia. The minute book is written across 50 pages, with several additional manuscript pages loosely inserted. Following the club's foundation in 1880, the club hosted Burns Night celebrations, arranged concerts of Scottish songs, and campaigned for a memorial statue to the poet in Sydney, which was unveiled in 1905. The first entry records the club's inaugural meeting on 10 September 1880: "This evening, a number of gentlemen... members of the Highland Society of N.S.W. met at the Rooms, Waterloo Chambers to take into consideration the desirability of forming a Burns… Read More
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