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National Library of Australia

Letters written from NSW goldfields 1850-1870

  • Note The "NSW goldfields" referred to the Port Phillip District of NSW as well as NSW as we now know it, so that there may be items of interest in this manuscript collection of NLA. The Colony of Victoria separated from NSW in July 1851, but much of the administration was still referred to Sydney NSW. For example, there was no Supreme Court in Victoria in 1851, so that cases (Like that of murderer Patrick Kennedy) had to be referred to a higher Judge in Sydney.


Letter from Ivor Crowther, Bathurst to A. Hanger Leathes 18 September 1851 (MS 1469/3)


Letters from Hugh Hamilton, Assistant Gold Commissioner, Ophir, to Anna Maria Broke, 26 January and 26 March 1852 (AJCP M942 - originals held by the Suffolk County Record Office, Ipswich Branch)


Four letters from Thomas Mate, Tarcutta to M.W.B. Evans 1852-53 (MS2073)


Letter from John Rose, Lochinvar, to his mother, 8 March 1858 (MS 1210)


Transcript of letter from Sam Hillyard, Braidwood, to his father 15 March 1861 (MS5609)


Letters from Charles Fletcher, Kiandra, to his brother and sister, 8 May and 15 December 1861 (MS 5609)


Two letters from Joel Croxford, Ironbark, to his brother nad niece, 1864 (MS 1263 - originals held by the Bedford County Record Office UK)