Letter. 1804.

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Letter. 1804.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225826026

Ms letter (3rd person) to Cadell and Davis, publishers, asking them to send her a copy of her abridgement of her husbands's "Account of the English Colony in New South Wales."

2 p.

Libraries Australia

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Libraries Australia

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Collins, Maria D. D.

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Capt. David Collins was the first Lieut.-Governor of Tasmania. From the description of Letter. 1804. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225826026 ...

Collins, David, 1756-1810

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Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins was ordered to establish a settlement on Port Phillip Bay to secure the strategic Bass Strait for the British. However, he was unhappy with that locality and decided to transfer the settlement to the Derwent River. On 15 February 1804, Collins, with the first detachment from Port Phillip in the Ocean and Lady Nelson, anchored off the new settlement at Risdon. A quick inspection satisfied him that the site was quite unsuitable and he made his own reconnaissance, e...