CARBONI, Raffaello October 18th 1854

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Item 14
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Balaarat Gold Fields, Eureka

W.H. Archer Esq. Acting Registrar General...Melbourne.

(A.L.S. 18pp 20cm)

"As an eye-witness, camping within five minutes walk of the Eureka Hotel, I intend to give you a positive account of what I did see, did hear, do know ... I shall recollect all my life that fearful spectacle of destruction..." This letter begins with an account of the ill-treatment of Rev. R. Smyth's servant, about the beginning of October and ends with the burning of Bentley's Hotel. It is not printed in Raffaello's book, as apparently Archer did not return it when R. subsequently requested it. In general, the two accounts agree, but this letter contains far more details, especially of the burning of the Hotel.

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