ID

County

Date

Source

Lot No.

Text

Surnames

1

Australia

19th century

Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002

831

Good group of documents relating to Australia, mid 19th c, including a letter of Patrick Maloney from Melbourne enclosing a bill of exchange on the Bank of Australia (still present),a letter from Thomas Feldwick in Greenwich to his son in India commenting on shipping movements in Australia, a letter of 1850 making interesting comments on local plant life in the Glenmona area and a letter of Sir George Strickland Kingston to a Reading (England) bookseller dated 1835 trying to persuade him to become a land agent in England - this was part of Kingston's attempt to promote settlement in South Australia and two letters from Government House in Brisbane dated 1898, mentioning a political spat taking place at the time

Maloney

Feldwick

Kingston