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Letter relates to the Kanaka trade.

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, 1847 Dec. 27, Grampians from Mrs Mary Muirhead to her brother, William, describing life in Australia ; Letter, 1849 Nov. 28, London, from Dr. G. H. Adams to Tho(ma)s describing a voyage to and from Australia ; Letter 1849 Dec. 29, London from Dr. G. H. Adams to Tho(ma)s describing his stay in Australia.

Series of 8 letters from Richard Bowler of Brill, a transportee to Tasmania, 1st June 1835 to 24th April 1843, to his brother (John Bowler) in Brill, Bucks., England.

Letter 1840 from Campbell Co to Henry Dangar, Neotsfield, Hunter River, New South Wales, concerning his account and usual charges on transactions in the colony, also mentioning that his arrangement with Campbell Co about his wool was satisfactory.

Autobiography based on diaries kept on Chatterton's visit to Australia and letters he wrote to his family in England 1835-1855.

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.

Fifteen autographed signed letters written by Hampton from the Victorian goldfields, 1853-1880. They deal mainly with the technicalities of alluvial mining.

The letters were written by Willian Sandover to his relatives in Adelaide during his journey to Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Launceston, Hobart Town and Sydney. They give an interesting description of these cities in 1876.

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.