Correspondence and accounts [manuscript].

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Correspondence and accounts [manuscript].

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Letters received by James Backhouse while in Australia, mainly about his visit: arrangements for travel, offers of hospitality, religious matters, and some observations of natural history. Also account book of expenses of Backhouse and G. W. Walker. Also some letters on natural history received by John Gould, 1831-1844.

37 letters, 1 microfilm.

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Backhouse, James, 1794-1869

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Gould, John, 1804-1881

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Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859

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