Letterbook no. 2, July 1835-October 1867

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Most of the letters were written by Backhouse. The recipients include Sir Richard Bourke, Thomas F. Buxton, Sir George Grey, Captain Alexander Maconochie, Sir George Napier, Thomas Pierce and E. Deas Thomson.

In addition, there are reports on a visits to the penal settlements at Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay and the mission station at Lake Macquarie, a report on various subjects connected with New South Wales, and a comparison of prisoners in Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. There are also various reports on Mauritius and South Africa and correspondence concerning the Friends burial ground at Sydney (1867). (282pp)

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