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Issue Details:
First known date:
1848...
vol.
1
no.
26
23 December
1848
of
The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser
est. 1848
The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes: two extracts from Walter Scott's epic poem 'Marmion' and an unattributed extract from Rousseau's 'Ode a la Fortune'.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1848 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Versesi"Wilt thou seek then with me, love, some far mountain home",
single work
poetry
(p. 4)'Love poem' (Webby).
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Epitaphi"[first word illegible] the debt we all must pay,",
single work
poetry
(p. 4)The poem is an epitaph for John Kennedy Hume killed by the notorious Whitton gang in the Yass area in 1840. At Thomas Whitton's trial the Attorney-General 'put on the file an information charging the prisoner with the wilful murder of John Kennedy Hume, but it was not his intention to prosecute it. He had also several charges of robbery and other outrages against the prisoner'. Source: Sydney Gazette 27 February, 1840 (p.2).
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