Archive of notes, letters and manuscripts relating to Governor Arthur's proclamation to the Aborigines of Tasmania and the publication of 'True Patriots All' by INGLETON, Geoffrey

Two hardcover notebooks with diverse typescript, manuscript and printed material tipped in; all well preserved; from Ingleton's Parramatta library with his bookplates to both volumes. Archive of original signed letters, annotated manuscripts and notes preserved by Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Ingleton, many of which directly relate to the publication of True Patriots All. This book reproduced impossibly rare early Australian broadsides in facsimile and furthered public interest in early colonial society.The archive principally concerns the 1829 Van Diemen's Land broadside ordered by Governor Arthur depicting government policy to the Aborigines. One of the most haunting of Australian colonial images, the broadside pictographically represents settlers, soldiers and indigenous figures - with both native and European figures executed by hanging as punishment for homicide. The broadside was reproduced lithographically later in the nineteenth century with the misleading title "Governor Davey's proclamation to the Aborigines 1816".The first volume of the archive documents the process of printing the frontispiece for True Patriots All. The frontispiece is a colour reproduction of the abovementioned Van Diemen's Land broadside. This volume is primarily a correspondence of some twenty letters between Ingleton and the owner of an extant broadside, Mr Phillip Brown of Allanvale. Other correspondents include the Mitchell Librarian Phyllis Mander Jones and George Ferguson, the managing director of Angus and Robertson (and son of bibliographer John Alexander Ferguson). The letters are dated 1951-1952.The second volume of the archive was compiled considerably later and the material it contains is dated 1984-1986. It is principally a correspondence between Ingleton and Mr John Morris of Balmain who issued a limited edition facsimile of the broadside in 1984. Indeed, Morris writes that he inherited a copy of the broadside from his father who bought it long ago in Hobart. The second volume includes ten letters between the two scholars, four tipped plates of the broadside, four draft typescript copies of an essay composed by Morris (one of which is annotated and corrected by hand) along with newspaper cuttings and related snippets.