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Miscellaneous papers and photographs relating mainly to the family of Joseph Benson Mather

Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph Benson Mather, brother-in-law dated 1877, 1881, and 1882. Regarding Isaac Sharp's visit, Melbourne Annual Meeting (1877); sending a certificate by San Francisco mail as J.B.C. had his stolen with his clothes (29.9.81 ), his return to Kelvedon, death of mother.

The bulk of the correspondence consists of Francis Cotton's letters to Joseph Benson Mather, and some other correspondence from members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), family and a few business correspondents also a few letters addressed to Joseph Benson Mather’s children.