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Papers of John Smith (as filmed by the AJCP), 1809-1838

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Items filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project include: the Diary kept by John Smith, the surgeon on the barque Clyde, which transported 215 male convicts from Kingston, Ireland, to Sydney, 24 April – 15 September 1838, and correspondence of John Smith and certificates of appointment, 1811-1834.

Letters of Jane and David Cannan, 1853-1856

0.06 metres (1 folder + 1 packet)
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MS 401 comprises letters from Jane and David Cannan to relatives in England relating their journey to Australia, social engagements and life in the new colony of Victoria and a trip to Tasmania.

Letter of Thomas Birkby, May 31, 1836

(2 folders + 2 volumes)
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Letter, 31st May, 1836, to his father, written for Birkby by William Hutchinson - re (a) Voyage to Port Jackson, 1834. (b) His work with the Surveyor-General, as overseer at the Surveyor's farm at Cataract and Nepean Rivers, and as overseer of a farm in Sydney (c) Description of conditions of employment in the Colony, wages, the price of provisions, tobacco, clothing and livestock. He describes the country, its insects, birds and reptiles. He devotes several paragraphs to the treatment of the convicts and lists their allowances of clothing and food.
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Letter of Thomas Birkby, May 31, 1836 (2 folders + 2 volumes)

 

Letters, 1853-1880

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Fifteen autographed signed letters written by Hampton from the Victorian goldfields, 1853-1880. They deal mainly with the technicalities of alluvial mining.
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Letters, 1853-1880 0.03 metres (1 folder)

 

Letters of Rose Paterson., 1873-1888

(2 security binders)
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39 letters from Rose Paterson to her younger sister, Nora Murray-Prior, discussing, among other subjects, the young A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson and the Yass district.
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Letter of Reverend Stephen Rabone

(1 packet)
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One letter from Wesleyan missionary Reverend Stephen Rabone to his parents, written 3 October 1835 at Hobart, Van Diemens Land. The letter includes a description of convict chain gangs, their dress, their punishment and Rabone's compassionate horror at their treatment; a description of agriculture in the Hobart region; discussion of fellow missionary Reverend Nathaniel Turner's offer to teach Rabone some Tongan prior to Rabone taking up a mission at Tonga; a description of Governor George Arthur and how he visited Turner and Rabone's chapel several times; and mention of his wife, Eliza's, pregnancy.
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Letter of Reverend Stephen Rabone (1 packet)

 

Letters and poems of Kenneth MacKenzie, 1940-1944

0.14 metres (1 box)
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The collection comprises approximately 477 letters and 60 poems written by Kenneth MacKenzie to Jane Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay and Rose Lindsay, from Sydney (1940-1944), Dubbo and Liverpool (April-May 1943) and Cowra (1943-1944).
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Letters of Joseph Paul Gaimard and Jean Rene Constant Quoy to Louis de Freycinet, 1826-1831

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Group of thirteen letters written between 15 February 1826 and 11 November 1831 sent from a range of locations by the two scientists to Louis de Freycinet, predominantly during the first Pacific voyage of Dumont d'Urville on the Astrolabe. Of note in the correspondence is a description of the discovery of the fate of the La Perouse voyage of 1788. Correspondence mostly written by Gaimard with the active participation of Quoy.
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Letters of the Lord family, 1830-1844

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Consists of seven letters (one incomplete) chiefly written to Charlotte Lord. Four of these letters are from Charlotte's brother William S. Noyes, writing from Tasmania, and commenting on conditions in Tasmania and New Zealand. Also included in the collection is a letter from John Lord (Charlotte's husband) to Mrs Papineau, governess of their two children, in London, 1830.
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