Letter-diary of David Webster (Photocopy), June 1873-September 1873

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The diary, sent to his family in England in instalments, describes the voyage from Gravesend to Brisbane on the Great Queensland, weather, meals, games, Church services, reading, magic lanterns, birds, assessment of officers and crew, constables, matron, relations among passengers, arrival at Brisbane (3 September), treatment of passengers by Emigration Commissioners, impressions of Brisbane, search for work, lodgings, employment as shoemaker, racial diversity of Queenslanders.(70 ff.)

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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