Manila folder labelled 'Pulpit Hill'

Containers:

Box 4 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 58

Content Summary:

Pulpit Hill is located west of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. It has long been associated with stories of convict graves. In Dumont d'Urville's personal Coquille journal, Edward Duyker found a record of the grave of a young convict Edgar Church buried there in 1822. He followed up with research Church's conviction and death. The folder contains the typescript (with footnotes) of an article Edward Duyker co-authored with former Blue Mountains Local Studies Librarian, John Low, on Pulpit Hill. This was first published in the journal Doryanthes, in August 2009. The folder also contains a copy of the same article published (without footnotes) in The University of Sydney News, October 2009. Finally, the folder contains a print-out of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey with details of Edgar Church's conviction for grand larceny (the theft of a trunk valued at 16s) on 4 December 1816. Brongniart, A., 'Note sur quelques Euphorbiacées de la Nouvelle­-Hollande', Annales des Sciences Naturelles, série 1, tome 29, 1833, pp. 382–7. It also contains a copy of a news article by Shane Desiatnik entitled 'Grave Concerns' and published in the Blue Mountains Gazette, September/October 2009, p. 19

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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