Letter from Jane Cannan in Melbourne to Mary Cannan

Component identifier:

Item 9

Content Summary:

Jane Cannan writes to Mary Cannan expressing the excitement of receiving a batch of letters from family members abroad. Dicusses her feelings after living two months in the new country. Refers to the "tainted population" and the stories they hear about the goings-on in the lower class population. Discusses the Pollocks, and other friends and neighbours and the day-to-day gossip and goings-on of colonial life including robberies, cost of transportation, weather. Offers up her judgements of people's situations, and tells stories of people in the Colony. Dicusses her anxieties about receiving news from home intermittently.

Names:

Johnson, Margaret Dorothea

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