Letter from Robert Walpole to his father, August 29 1874

 
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Item 13
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Written from HMS Pearl, Farm Cove, Sydney. Writes to his father expressing his bad run of luck with letters and mail since changing from the Blanche to the Pearl. Details the ships travels from when they left Fiji to Sydney, Melbourne, Launceston. The problem of 'no heiresses to marry out here'; when he might come home; other people's marriages; further discussion about the annexation of Fiji.

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