Letters and transcriptions [manuscript]. 1818-1962.

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Letters and transcriptions [manuscript]. 1818-1962.

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Thirty-eight letters written by members of the Nicholson family arranged in Series A to E, and numbered within each series. There are copies of four additional letters from institutional collections elsewhere in Australia. There are many manuscript copies, additional to the originals. There is only one letter of Ludwig Leichhardt and only one letter from a Nicholson son in Australia: Mark, Mount Macedon, to Robert (Lowther) and wife, E(a)2. The letters combine personal and family detail (sometimes rather trivial) with some interesting facts, as well as offering some precise and personal details about the life and character of Ludwig Leichhardt. There is also a bound typed transcript of forty-two letters, prepared by Mr R.M. Jukes in 1962 (a descendant through his mother of the Nicholson family). The volume includes useful editorial comment, summaries of the letters and some appendices. A family tree is also inserted in the volume. Also includes a photograph of memorial plaque dedicated to Rev. Mark Nicholson. nary N.

12 cm. (1 v., 3 folders)

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Libraries Australia

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Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848

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F. W. L. Leichhardt, explorer, was born in Prussia. He emigrated to Sydney in 1842 and the following year embarked on the first of series of explorations into Northern New South Wales and Queensland. In 1848 during his expedition to cross the continent from Brisbane to Perth he and his companions were lost without trace. From the description of Letter [manuscript]. 1844 July 15. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225717476 Between 1834 and 1836 Leichhardt studied at ...

Nicholson, Mark Rev.

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Nicholson family.

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The letters are small part of the voluminous correspondence of the family of Reverend Mark Nicholson and his wife Lucy. Their youngest child, also Mark, was the recipient of most of them and their elder son William is the writer of a great many. The Reverend Mark Nicholson was appointed Principal of Codrington College, Barbados, in 1801. In the 1830s his sons, John and William were studying at German universities and came to know Ludwig Leichhardt. Mark Junior emigrated to Australia in 1840. Lei...