Guide to the Letters of Sir Edmund Frederick Du Cane (as filmed by the AJCP)
M835
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
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Du Cane (off Cape Verde Islands) to Eliza Du Cane, 30 September 1851 (File)
Account of the voyage since leaving England; fellow-passengers including Bishop Brady; drawings.
Du Cane (Fremantle) to Arthur Du Cane, 7 January 1852 (File)
Arrival at Fremantle; the Swan River; impressions of Fremantle and the bush; absence of shops; Captain E. Henderson; unlimited money for public works. Includes an extract from a letter from Captain Henderson to General Sir John Burgoyne.
Du Cane (Guildford) to the family, 20 February 1852 (File)
Journey to the north with Governor C. Fitzgerald; inspection of Champion Bay; Indigenous Australians, 'settlers shoot them down like dogs'; fires lit by Indigenous Australians; attractions of Guildford; building works; requests books.
Du Cane (Guildford) to Eliza Du Cane, 18 April 1852 (File)
Receipt of newspapers and letters; weather; construction of his house; monthly visits to York and Toodyay; isolation of settlements; property investments in Adelaide.
Du Cane (Guildford) to Eliza Du Cane, 5 July 1852 (File)
Tour of convict establishments; condition of inns; Aboriginal trackers; plans of house and garden; food prices; country cannot support a large population.
Du Cane (Guildford) to Eliza Du Cane, 12 September 1852 (File)
Wreck of Eglinton; sends sketches; advice on sending mails; his garden; Captain Henderson; 'many gentlemen emigrants have lived in huts for years and only now are making some money'.
Du Cane (Guildford) to Arthur Du Cane, 1 March 1853 (File)
Rumours of cessation of transportation; requests items of clothing and other goods, including beer; arrival of HMS Torch; social events; Captain Henderson's home the best in the colony; investments.
Du Cane (Guildford) to Arthur Du Cane, 29 May 1853 (File)
Public works; lack of warders; bridge over the Swan and road being constructed across Darling Range to Toodyay; cessation of transportation would destroy the colony; possibility of importing goods; requests books.
Du Cane (Guildford) to Dick Du Cane, 21 August 1853 (File)
Investments; economic conditions in the colony; continuance of convict transportation; criticisms of the British Government; convict accommodation ; lack of security in inland prisons.
Du Cane (Guildford) to Arthur Du Cane, 15 December 1853 (File)
Construction of Du Cane's house; the Governor's envy; problem of flies; Catholic bishops J. Brady and J. Serra; only three Anglican clergy in the colony.
Du Cane (Guildford) to Arthur Du Cane, 15 October 1854 (File)
Receipt of letters and newspapers; W.A. Sandford, the Colonial Secretary; Governor C. Fitzgerald; Du Cane's garden; sketch of house and garden.
Du Cane (Guildford) to a brother, n.d. (File)
His garden; possibility of famine, almost out of flour; possibility of war. (incomplete)