Reference
AD1191
Title
Letter from Australia
Date free text
20 Jan 1844
Production date
From: 1844 To: 1844
Scope and Content
Letter from John Feazey, at Port Philip, Melbourne,
Australia, to his mother at Wilden. The writer
has evidently been sent to Australia after some
trouble at home. 'I hope my other brothers will
not be so much trouble to you as I have been, but
it is the best thing that fathers could do with
troublesome sons to send them across the sea to
some foreign country amongst a land of strangers.
That will bring them to their thoughts very soon.'
He is working on a sheep station. 'Mr. Staughton
is very very kind to me and he is quite pleased
with my management. Sheep-farming is a profitable
business if well attended to. It is a very easy
life. I never wish for a more comfortable home
than I have got now.' He wishes to be married
and plans to come to England to fetch (apparently)
one Miss Clarissa Dane or Dean.
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