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ACC 104AD/1: Copy of letter from Colonial Secretary to Surveyor General, 21 Dec. 1865, re John Forrest's appointment as temporary surveyor
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ACC 104AD/2: Copy of letter from Colonial Secretary to Surveyor General, 25 July 1866, re John Forrest's appointment as temporary surveyor
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ACC 532AD/52: Letter to John Forrest from Conservative Club, 25 May 1911
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ACC 532AD/70: Telegram from Lord Lonsdale to John Forrest, 21 July 1911
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ACC 532AD/100: Letter to John Forrest from the Royal Geographical Society, 4 March 1915
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ACC 532A/103: Letter to John Forrest from Lewis Harcourt, 14 July 1915
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ACC 532AD/157.1: Plan of burial plots, Karrakatta Cemetery
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ACC 532AD/157.2: Receipt issued to John Forrest from Karrakatta Cemetery Board, 7 June 1918
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ACC 532AD/157.3: Grant of right of burial to John Forrest issued by Karrakatta General Cemetery, 7 June 1918
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ACC 532AD/157.4: Receipt for fees paid by John Forrest to Karrakatta General Cemetery, 31 May 1918
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ACC 532AD/157.5: Letter to John Forrest from Karrakatta Cemetery Board, 4 April 1918
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ACC 532AD/224.1: Great Western Railway pass issued to Lady Forrest, June/July 1897
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ACC 532AD/224.1: Reverse of Great Western Railway pass issued to Lady Forrest, June/July 1897
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ACC 532AD/224.2: Great Western Railway pass issued to John Forrest, June/July 1897
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ACC 532AD/224.2: Reverse of Great Western Railway pass issued to John Forrest, June/July 1897
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ACC 532AD/224.3: London & North Western Railway Company pass issued to John Forrest, June/July 1897
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ACC 532AD/224.3: Reverse of London & North Western Railway Company pass issued to John Forrest, 1897
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ACC 532AD/224.4: London & North Western Railway Company pass issued to Lady Forrest, 1897
Item Detail
Summary
Diary of a trip from Fremantle to Cambridge Gulf (1886); correspondence, cuttings, files, illuminated addresses, scrapbooks and other material relating to his personal life as well as his political career and elevation to the peerage. Includes papers relating to the Western Australian exploring expedition through the centre of Australia, from Champion Bay, on the west coast, to the Overland Telegraph Line between Adelaide and Port Darwin, commanded by John Forrest in 1874. It was the first west-to-east expedition through the western centre of Australia.
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Title devised by cataloguer. In part, microfilm. See also MN 145, Forrest and Company records.
Subjects
- Statesmen -- Western Australia -- Archives.
- Explorers -- Australia -- Archives.
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central.
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