Letters from Henry Ashford to William Sanford, December 1851-March 1855

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Series 2

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The letters were mostly written from Port Gregory, but include some from Fremantle and Toodyay. They refer to financial matters, Captain Edmund Henderson, the Comptroller General of Convicts, the assignment of convicts, the opposition of old convicts to the arrival of convicts, news from home, ship arrivals and departures at Port Gregory, his business activities, debts, the Geraldine lead mines, stores, the shipment of wool and oil, whaling, a trip to the Abrolhos Islands, and his relations with C. Gregory, William Burges and J. Brockman. Some of the letters are crossed.

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