Guide to the Letters of Sir Edmund Frederick Du Cane (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M835

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Created: 2018

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Du Cane to Eliza Du Cane, 13 September 1851 (File)

Departure from England on the Anna Robertson.

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 Eliza Du Cane, 30 September 1851 (File)

Arrival at Fremantle; quarantine.

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)

Du Cane (Fremantle) to Arthur Du Cane, 7 January 1856 (File)

Imminent departure on Esmeralda; tired of continual heat; Lieut. H. Wray, Capt. Henderson; death of Mary Henderson; decision to leave Western Australia.

Testimonial of Governor Arthur Kennedy on good conduct of Lieut. Du Cane in all his duties, 23 July 1856 (File)


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