Outward colonial correspondence, April 1879-April 1939

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The 1879-80 letters were written by W.S. Davidson and James Ellis and were sent to the Dunedin office of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company and its Australian agent, Alford Co. in Melbourne. The 1912-39 letters written by the general managers (W.S. Davidson, William Bonnar, Samuel McCall-McCowan and T. Dangerfield), the secretaries (William Bonnar, J. Norman Bonnar and Eric Burnet) and the colonial inspector (J.C. Thierens). The letters were sent to the Sydney office of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, the Dunedin office of the Company and, from 1917 onwards, the National Mortgage and Agency Company in Dunedin. The letters were often addressed to particular individuals, such as Samuel McCall-McCowan and R.C. Botterill in Sydney, R.H. Botterill in Perth, and John Angus in Dunedin.

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