368 CATHERINE McINTOSH HAD A DRINKING PROBLEM: The single page manuscript record of transported convict, Catherine McIntosh, who had arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in September 1842 aboard "Royal Admiral", transported for 10 Years following her conviction at Edinburgh Court of Justiciary for Theft. In the years after her arrival, the document records episodes of "absconding", "period of transportation extended three months", "drunk", "solitary confinement", "drunk and out after hours", "drunk and fined", "drunk and hard labour". Despite all this, she was married in 1844 and granted a Conditional Pardon in August 1848. $500–750 369 BARBER, William Henry The Case of W.H. Barber: containing, Copies of all the Documents recently submitted to the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., Secretary of State for the Home Department; A Letter from Norfolk Island, showing the revolting cruelties to which Mr. Barber was there subjected. And a Narrative of the Steps by which his Innocence has been established and his Deliverence effected. To which are now added the Observations of the Legal and Public Press. [London; Effingham Wilson, 1849] Seventh Edition. Octavo, 148pp; some dusting early and late; bound in more recent brown morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt, gilt decorations, marbled endpapers. Rare, as are all editions of this work, which went through at least seven editions in the first few months of 1849 and ten by 1866. "William Barber, a highly respected solicitor, spent seven terrifying years as a convict on Norfolk Island until his innocence was finally proved. Barber’s experience was a terrible one, and a disgrace to an allegedly civilised society. His exposure of the horrors of Norfolk Island was instrumental in the reform of the convict system which led ultimately to the abandonment of the penal settlement there." [The Davidson Collection - Second Sale, February 2006. Lot 305]. With Davidson Collection bookplate. $600–900 ❖ 370 WHERE IS MY CLERK OF WORKS & WHY ISN’T HE AT HIS POST? 22 Oct.1850 mss letter to Samuel SMITH (Foreman Clerk-of-Works in the Royal Engineers Dep’t) at Port Arthur, complaining that "the works carrying forward at Port Arthur have been in part at a stand still owing to your non attendance at that station to issue the requisite stores......you will afford a full explanation....". Smith’s reply, dated 25th October from "Cascades" explains that he had not been "at that place for some days past in consequence of a very severe cold which has attacked me frequently since I have been stationed on this peninsula where the weather during the past winter has been more severe......I have been as diligent as my health (hitherto unimpaired) has permitted. My fidelity to my legitimate duties has never been questioned and if your informant at Port Arthur were less ready with his pen, much annoyance might be averted."The controversy rages on for another page. $400–600 ❖ 371 BARTHOLEMEW KENNEDY STOLE A QUILT - 7 YEARS: The partially printed, partially hand-completed Convict Record of Kennedy, who had been found guilty of larceny at County Clare in October 1848 and was Transported for 7 years aboard "Blenheim" along with 309 other male convicts, all of them from Ireland. A sawyer by profession, he is described as being able to "read a little." His record is punctuated with entries regarding drunkenness, solitary confinement, labouring in chains, assault and a period in the Cascades Prison Barracks. $500–750 372 MELVILLE, Henry Australasia and Prison Discipline [Charles Cox & J. Effingham Wilson, London, 1851] 392pp, Octavo, frontispiece map, original crimson cloth with gilt title to (split) spine. Lacks pale yellow free front endpaper. Henry Melville (1799-1873) arrived in Hobart Town in late 1827 or early 1828. In March 1830 he bought the Colonial Times and later that year he printed and published Henry Savery’s Quintus Servinton, the first Australian novel published in Australia. From 1833 to August 1834 he published the Hobart Town Magazine. $200–300 ❖ 373 VAN DIEMEN’S LAND 1852 CLEARANCE PERMIT May 1852 printed form (No.74 - Clearance Permit) issued at Launceston Police Station in favour of William BAMBURY, who is described as having arrived in the Colony as a convict aboard "Emily". This very rare form gives Bambury permission to travel to Melbourne aboard the ship "Sphynx" and his physical characteristics are recorded on the reverse. A Clearance Permit had to be issued to any ex-convict seeking to leave Van Diemen’s Land. These are very scarce, probably because they were destroyed on arrival in Victoria (or elsewhere), where Vandemonians were not welcome. Bambury is described as a native of Cork however no one of that name is recorded on either journey of the "Emily" nor on any other convict ship; however a William Bamber arrived aboard "Eden" in 1842. From another source we find that a William Bambury, convict, came on the "Bengal Merchant" in 1838; was assigned to TB Alexander and was granted a ticket-of-leave in 1842. [This may also be William Thomas Banbury]. More research needed. $500–750 368 371 373 56