| Description | Minute book of the weekly visitation committee, noting daily details of life at the institution, including outings, departures and arrivals, gas leaks, repairs, fires, drawing examinations, deaths and illnesses, donations, visit by the Mayor of Melbourne (19 May 1873); starting to take day pupils, 25 September 1876; rare case of indiscipline, 4 December 1876; etc. Directors' quarterly meetings are also included. Many, but not all, pupils are named and sometimes family details are given. |