Biographical entry: Taylor, Rachel Biddulph (1826 - 1914)
- Born
- 1826
- Died
- 1914
Summary
Papers and correspondence, 1853-1890.
A. Letters, 28 December 1853-31 March 1890. Include letters to her sisters Henrietta Boyce, called Etta, Annie, Amelia, called Amy, to her brother Biddulph and brother-in-law Reverend Thomas Whyte Boyce, describing her daily life in England, on board ships the Calcutta and the Great Britain and from I.A. Appin, Sydney, Bathurst, Exmoor, Myall River, Stroud and Fig Tree, N.S.W. Includes a letter from Annie Hegeland to Amy, 1890.
B. Miscellaneous handbills and plans, 1854-1861. Includes printed leaflets on board ships the Calcutta 1854, and the Great Britain 1861, and annotated cabin plans of the Great Britain, with receipt of passage.
This collection includes pictorial material, for location and description of this see PIC.ACC.3752 in Pie. Source File and MIN.118. MITCHELL: ML.MSS.342, Letters also on microfilm FM.4/3653. Edited versions of a large selection of the letters were first published in the Bulletin 1951-1952, and in book form, Sydney Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1952, held at QA.920.7/H.517/1A1.