Handwritten transcripts, photocopies of press cuttings and of historical documents about early Australian settlement

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Containers:
Box 11
Component identifier:
File 3_4
Content Summary:
Includes information about crimes and transportation, livestock and plants on the First Fleet, Aborigines, landscape at Port Arthur, the Rum Corps, D'Arcy Wentworth, Governor King, Governor Macquarie and John Macarthur.
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were purchased by the Library from Alan Seymour in three consignments dated 17 May 1993, 18 July 1996 and 9 September 1996. Further material was received from Alan Seymour in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2004.

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Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn457326).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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