Miscellaneous manuscript and printed items, [c. 1852-09 - 1897-02-01]

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The newspapers and newspaper cuttings include issues of the Inquirer and Commercial News (10 March 1858, 28 January 1863), an article from an English newspaper entitled 'Celebrities at home: Colonel Henderson at Scotland Yard', an article by Henderson entitled 'Lost in the backwoods', Murray's Magazine, March 1887, pp 354-362, and his obituary in the Royal Engineers Journal, 1 February 1897 (10pp). There is also a booklet containing addresses presented to Henderson on his departure from Western Australia in January 1863.

The manuscript items consist of three accounts of the wreck of the Eglinton off the coast of Western Australia in September 1852. One is a letter from John E. Henderson, who was a passenger on the ship, to his father Admiral Henderson (1 October 1852) describing the wreck in great detail and also his arduous journey on foot to Fremantle (12pp). The second is a copy of a letter from Mrs James Walcott, who was also a passenger, to her children at Cape Town, 4 December 1852 (7pp). The third is an account by Edmund Henderson (7pp), transcribed by his father.

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