Guide to the Guide to paper of the Vessey Family (as filmed by AJCP)

Letters of Rev. George Vessey (Melbourne) to his brother, sister and nephew (10 letters), 1861 - 1868 (File 1)

The letters refer to Church services, the distribution of tracts, the opening of the Baptist Chapel in Collins Street, the progress of Melbourne, drought, and the 1865 constitutional crisis.

Leonard A. Vessey. Diary of a voyage to Australia on the Canaan, 1869 (File 2)

(In pencil, some pages very faint).

Letters of Leonard Vessey to his father Thomas Vessey and mother Sarah Vessey, September 1869 - August 1879 (File 3)

Written from Sydney, Bathurst, Kurrajong, Moruya, Cobargo, Bega, Braidwood, Bungendore, Hill End and Goulburn...

Photograph of surveyors at Hill End, September 1872 (File 4 (i))

Photograph of L.A. Vessey, c. 1875 (File 4 (ii))