Item 104 - Sarah Westall Meredith to Miss Evans

Identity area

Reference code

AU TAS UTAS SPARC G4-A-104

Title

Sarah Westall Meredith to Miss Evans

Date(s)

  • 1818 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 document

Context area

Name of creator

(1788-1820)

Biographical history

First wife of George Meredith married in 1805 and died suddenly in 1820. They had five children: George (1806-1836), Sarah Westall (1807-1869), Louisa (1808-1890), Sabina (1810-1877), Charles (1811-1880).

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited by Mrs W V G Johnson Queensland 1962 & 1964 .
Also donated separately in May 2006 by Ian and Caroline Mackersey of Auckland New Zealand, photocopy of 'Memoir
of the late George Meredith' by his son, Edwin Meredith

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Letters from George Meredith's first wife, Sarah Westall Meredith , to governess Mary Ann Evans (later Mary Ann Meredith) dated 1818 . Letter from Sarah, to Mary Ann Evans, governess: the family, proposal to bring children to new home "here" ... »

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Available for research

Conditions governing reproduction

This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.... »

Finding aids

Original inventory and descriptive notes can be found at :https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22693/1/G4-meredith-papers.pdf

Existence and location of originals

Other Meredith papers which remained at Cambria until it was sold were deposited in the Archives Office of Tasmania (State Archves) by Miss Violet Mace in 1965 (including some which had previously been lent to the University). The Meredith (Mace) papers ... »

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Dates of creation revision deletion

HE Jan 2018

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