Eight letters written by Holmes to his parents in Cambridge from Rockhampton, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, 1881-1884
- Component identifier:
- File 2
- Content Summary:
- The letters deal with Holmes' arrival in Australia, prices, travels in bush, work as ship's steward and with Brisbane Newspapers Company, temperance movement, climate, Indigenous Australians, music, illness (consumption) and hospitalization in Melbourne, breakup of marriage, unemployment, work as street minstrel, Test cricket, and family news.
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- M1860
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- Available for Access.
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- Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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