Correspondence, 01 January 1869-24 October 1872

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Subjects include: Family news; arrival in England; paying off debts; money orders; organisation of voyage of wife and children from New Zealand to England; sale or letting of Mount Eden property; social news; instructions on what to bring to England including plants, curios and books; subscription to the Weekly Hearld; family to travel on Percy with domestic help; cost of goods in England; comments on gentle folk in England; goldfields; financial matters; Christmas news and wishes; Hunter's bankruptcy; presumed sinking of S.S. Taurang; sending of seeds from England; difficulty of agriculture – failure of crops and increased price of cattle; birth of daughter; mining machinery; death of Dr. Stratford.

Correspondents include: Mary Ann V. Baines, J.W. Dixon, B. Laurie, W.P. Fooks, R. Hunter, P.V. Dixon, W.C. Wilson, Katherine Baines, Rose Baines, E.W. Dixon, G.B. Owen, W.D. Hunter, Sarah Dixon, W.K. Graham, Richard Eaton, A. Hunter, S. Stratford and J. James. (142 letters)

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