• Title
  William Stanley Jevons - Letters (8) from W.S. Jevons, mainly to his father and brothers in England, 25 Jan. 1855 - 18 Jan. 1857
• Creator
  William Stanley Jevons, 1835-1882
• Call number
  B 1610
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1855-1857
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  421566
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 1045, frames 48-93 (B 1610)
  
• Physical Description
  1 folder - 0.01 Meters
  Textual Records
  Textual Records - (typescript)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Stanley Jevons arrived in Sydney in October 1854 to take up a position as assayer at the new Sydney Mint. In his private capacity, he became a pioneer in scientific meteorology, publishing his observations in Sydney newspapers. In 1857 Jevons took up wet-plate photography, producing portraits, interiors and landcapes. In 1858 he undertook a 'social survey' of Sydney. Jevons left Sydney in 1859, returning to England where he went on to publish studies in logic, economics and scientific method.
• Scope and Content
  Jevons' letters describe Sydney and its surroundings, his work at the Mint and life in the colony. The letters are accompanied by typescript transcriptions of most of the letters.
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a337.html
• General note
  
  Also on the preservation microfilm reel CY 1045 you will find copied: (A) Jevons' 'A Social Survey of Australian Cities', 1858 (B 864); (B) Jevons' 'List of Trades and Professions in Sydney and Numbers of firms or persons, 1857' (MLDOC 2641).
  Transcriptions of most of the letters in this collection are included in Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons, volume 2, edited by R.D. Collison Black, located in the Mitchell Library at 923.3/J58.2/3
  Digital order no: Album ID : 823916
• Name
  Mint (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Subject
  Economists--Australia.
  Meteorologists--New South Wales.
  Photographers--New South Wales.
  Social scientists--Australia.
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social life and customs--1851-1891
  
• Place
  Mint (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3195012

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