Correspondence relating to Rowland Childers, 1878-1886

Component identifier:

Subseries 18/1-115

Extent:

9 items

Content Summary:

Includes:

Correspondence between R. Childers and H.C.E. and Childers. Voyage to Australia; stay in Adelaide; Sir George Verdon; travels into interior; C. Heneage; move to Melbourne; Sir George Bowen; Victorian politics; interest in squatting; debts; life on stations at Jerilerse and Wananella, N.S.W.; move to Queensland; drought; plans to return to England. [September 1878-May 1886]

Sir George Bowen to H.C.E. Childers. R. Childers and C. Heneage; constitutional reform; impending departures from Melbourne. (2 letters) [November 1878]

Correspondence between C. Heneage and H.C.E. Childers. Association between R. Childers and Heneage; refusal of Melbourne club to accept Childers as member; victorian politics; book written by Heneage on colonies. [1878-1880]

Correspondence between E. Heneage and H.C.E. Childers; Association between R. Childers and C. Heneage. [1879]

J.C. Tyler (Melbourne) to H.C.E. Childers. R. Childers; Victorian politics. [1879-1880]

J.B. Were (Melbourne) to Emily Hammond; Behaviour of R. Childers. [31 January 1879]

Correspondence between Emily Hammond (Melbourne) and H.C.E. Childers. Letter from J.B. Were; sends letters from R.Childers in N.S.W. and Queensland; family news; return of R. Childers to Melbourne in 1886; financial trouble; return of R. Childers to England. [February 1879-October 1886]

Correspondence between B. Jowett and H.C.E. Childers; Includes allegations that Rowland Childers cheated at cards while undergraduate at Balliol. [March 1879]

Correspondence between Spencer Childers and H.C.E. Childers; Relates to debts of Rowland. Childers and his return to England. [January-July 1886]

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