SM/E28

Letter from Oscar to his mother while detained by contrary winds in the Downs while on his way to Australia. Descriptions of the voyage '...I was not wrong in deciding that I did not like only one woman on board and that one the captain's wife for my Opinion was right it devides the passengers from the Captain...there is a young child on board and it is such a nuisance...'

14 January 1837

From: 1837 To: 1837

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Kingston, Jane,
Lines, Oscar John

family correspondence, Australia, travel