Correspondence, 11 June 1839-17 March 1840

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File MS 430
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The selectively filmed material includes letters from William Griffin, Daniel O'Connell, Caleb Powell and Thomas Drummond, mainly on politics. (items 570-719)

Items of interest pertaining to Australia:

654. Sir Wilmot Horton to O'Brien, 11 June 1839: E.G. Wakefield's work England and America; Wakefield's allegations against O'Brien.

656. Sir Wilmot Horton to O'Brien, 15 [June 1839]: requests rebuttal.

657. Sir Wilmot Horton to O'Brien, 15 [June 1839]: seeks answers.

658. Sir Wilmot Horton to O'Brien, 18 June 1839: Wakefield's allegations; value of South Australian principle for removal of surplus population from Ireland.

659. O'Brien to Sir Wilmot Horton, 18 June 1839: views on emigration; reaction of Irish landlords to being charged cost of emigration for evicted tenants; success of NSW and South Australian systems.

661. Sir Wilmot Horton to O'Brien, 29 June 1839: emigration; South Australian principle and Canada.

662. Sir Wilmot Horton to O'Brien, 30 June 1839: O'Brien's opposition to publication of letter.

706. Capt. C.H. Bagot to O'Brien, 8 Feb. 1840: capitalists willing to take out labourers to Australia should be paid bounty.

710. R. Torrens to O'Brien, 22 Feb. 1840: objects of Society for Promoting Emigration; false information given to labourers by emigration agents; weakness of system selling land in Australia.

718. W. Hutt to O'Brien, 17 March 1840: O'Brien's emigration motion; E.G. Wakefield's publication on emigration.

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