Guide to the letters of James Roberts (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M856

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

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[James Roberts] (Adelaide) to his family and friends, n.d. (File)

Discusses: voyage from England; impressions of Adelaide; prices of fruit; search for employment; most of houses made of wood; high cost of living; mutual friends.

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James Roberts (Adelaide) to his father [William Roberts], November 1850 (File)

Includes: thanks for letter; mutual friends in the colony; plenty of work with good wages; hopes to return in three or four years; unhealthy climate; dust of Adelaide; Adelaide races.

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James Roberts [Adelaide] to [unknown], January 1851 (File)

Includes: illness; unhealthy climate of Adelaide; deaths due to heat; has only received two letters from home; repayment of loan.

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James Roberts (Port Lincoln) to his parents, n.d. (File)

Includes: move from Adelaide to Port Lincoln; savagery of Indigenous Australians; Australian landscape, birds, animals; very respectable people braking stones on roads; mutual friends.

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James Roberts (Sydney) to his parents, 8 January 1852 (File)

Includes: about to move from the gold diggings at Turon to those at Port Phillip; if successful will come home; lack of success at his trade; fall from a scaffold; Australia a far better country than England.


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