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  • Two of the convicts whose letters are examinined are half-brothers Richard Taylor and Simon Brown. Taylor was sentenced to ten years transporation on 6 April 1840 for receiving stolen goods and departed England on 10 July 1840 aboard the Eden. Brown was given a similar sentence in July 1849 for burglary. He was transported to the colonies the following year aboard the the David Clarke. Brown is known to have married in 1854 and spent some time in the Victorian goldfields. Taylor died in New South Wales on 7 January 1855.

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    y separately published work icon Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives Lucy Frost (editor), Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (editor), Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2001 Z974308 2001 anthology criticism correspondence

    'This is the first book to apply new academic understandings of the convict transportation system to explore the lives of individual convicts. In searching for the convict voice, each chapter is a detective story in miniature, either an exercise in discovering the identity behind a particular account or a piecing together of a convict life from the scattered fragments of a tale. Many issues of great contemporary interest arise from these stories, including the multicultural nature of Australian colonial society and, above all, the importance of love and hope.' (Publication summary)

         Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2001     pg. 165-176
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