Letter from Sir George Stephen on board the Oliver Lang to his brother James Stephen, 03 July 1855-August 1855

 
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Describing the voyage and including a comment on fellow passenger, [unknown] Roberts, Solicitor General for Van Diemen's Land; bad state of the ship on arrival in Melbourne (31 July); descriptions of Melbourne, the neighbourhood (the house rented for him was in St. Kilda) and the surrounding bush; rent and prices ('It amounts to this - that £1,500 per ann. here is equal to about £300 per ann. in England') (20p.)
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