Lot 78
Australia.- Letter Book written by a sheep farmer, 1846; and another (2).
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Australia.- [Letters from Australia], No. 2 only of several vol., manuscript, 286pp., in a neat hand ?prepared for publication, a few ff. loose, slightly browned, pencil marks throughout, original half morocco, rubbed, 1846-49; and another Letter Book, 8vo & 4to (2).
⁂ First mentioned an emigrant sheep farmer from England, living in Avoca Forest, Victoria and writing to his mother and sister, Arabella. "Many a narrow escape do travellers in the winter meet in crossing the creeks; the current is so strong that the horse can sometimes hardly swim them. In my last journeys to and from Melbourne I had each time to cross a ford... deep holes on either side & crooked ford and a furioujs stream... We have already shorn 6176 sheep and have 4484 more to shear of which 1800 are young lambs... . Altogether we shear this year 10,660... ."
Description
Australia.- [Letters from Australia], No. 2 only of several vol., manuscript, 286pp., in a neat hand ?prepared for publication, a few ff. loose, slightly browned, pencil marks throughout, original half morocco, rubbed, 1846-49; and another Letter Book, 8vo & 4to (2).
⁂ First mentioned an emigrant sheep farmer from England, living in Avoca Forest, Victoria and writing to his mother and sister, Arabella. "Many a narrow escape do travellers in the winter meet in crossing the creeks; the current is so strong that the horse can sometimes hardly swim them. In my last journeys to and from Melbourne I had each time to cross a ford... deep holes on either side & crooked ford and a furioujs stream... We have already shorn 6176 sheep and have 4484 more to shear of which 1800 are young lambs... . Altogether we shear this year 10,660... ."
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