Letters of Leonard Vessey to his father Thomas Vessey and mother Sarah Vessey, September 1869 - August 1879

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Written from Sydney, Bathurst, Kurrajong, Moruya, Cobargo, Bega, Braidwood, Bungendore, Hill End and Goulburn.

The letters describe the voyage to Australia, Vessey's health, financial matters, rents, 1870 Australia Day regatta, mutual friends, N.S.W. politics, impressions of Bathurst, arrival of Bishop S. Marsden in Bathurst in 1870, roads in Blue Mountains, capture of Captain Thunderbolt, attempted assassination of Duke of Edinburgh, lodgings in Macquarie Street, Sydney Harbour, sailing, search for a job, work in the Surveyor-General's Department, surveying trip to Moruya and South Coast in 1871, floods, impressions of Bega, books, medical reports, impressions of Hill End in 1872, work on survey in Lake George area in 1873-74, appointment as assistant draughtsman in 1874, and purchase of house at Hunter's Hill, Sydney. Most of the letters were written in 1870-73. There is also a letter and a reference for Vessey written by A. Park, the surveyor at Hill End in 1872-73.

(56 letters)

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