- Entry type: Resource
- Entry ID: AWH001860
British Women’s Emigration Association – Records, 1862-1949 [M 468]
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Repository
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
State Library of New South Wales - Reference MAV/FM4/2130
- Date Range 1862 - 1901
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Description
(1) Letterbooks 1862-1882, containing letters from women emigrants to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and letters from Harriet Herbert. (2) Cuttings 1880-1895, from English and Canadian journals and newspapers, re women’s emigration. (3) Minutes of the Finance Committee of the United Englishwomen’s Emigration Association, 1885-1886. (4) Correspondence, 1949 with G.F. Plant re the history of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society and the Colonial Intelligence League. (5) Minutes of the Council and some sub-committees of the United British Women’s Emigration Association, 1896-1901. (6) Addresses: Maria S. Rye, Emigration of Educated Women (1861) and Jane E. Lewin, Female Middle Class Emigration (1863). (7) Annual report of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, 1861-72, 1874-79 and 1883-85. Originals in the possession of the Women’ Migration and Overseas Appointment Society, London.
- Formats Textual records, microfilms