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[Letter to Mrs Cobbold, Including a Letter to Dr George Stebbin],
single work
correspondence
Catchpole first letter from New South Wales, written to her former employer and patron Elizabeth Cobbold a month after landing, describes the country, the productions of the colony, and the varying forms of convict life and penal discipline. She longed to send her patron one of the local parrots "for they are very Buttefull But i see so maney dy on Board it mak me so verry unwilling to send you one But if i should Contiuneu Long in this Countrey i suarteneley will send you sumethg out of this wicked Countrey for i must say this is the wickedes places i ever was in all my Life." The attached letter to Dr [George] Stebbin is a series of short correspondences headed "Dear Sir," or "Sir," on different topics. The first details a gruesome encounter where "the Blackes the natives of this places kild and wounded 8 men and women and children." The second details Catchpole's journey, her landing at Sydney, the Aborigines, and other Suffolk women convicts. The third mainly details commodity prices in the colony, and the fourth a wish that Dr Stebbin might address her a letter at an address in the Brickfields, Sydney.
Note: "The language has been modernised, because the contents are too interesting to risk their being obscured by the difficulty of making out the text" (23).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Pioneers Who Survived
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 March 1986; (p. 12)
— Review of Dear Fanny : Women's Letters To and From New South Wales, 1788-1857 1985 anthology correspondence -
He Waved His Night Cap - Then Expired
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 March 1986; (p. 47)
— Review of Dear Fanny : Women's Letters To and From New South Wales, 1788-1857 1985 anthology correspondence -
Faithful Mirror of Founding Mothers
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 February 1986; (p. 14)
— Review of Dear Fanny : Women's Letters To and From New South Wales, 1788-1857 1985 anthology correspondence -
The Other Half of Our History
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 June 1986; (p. B4)
— Review of Dear Fanny : Women's Letters To and From New South Wales, 1788-1857 1985 anthology correspondence
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The Other Half of Our History
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 June 1986; (p. B4)
— Review of Dear Fanny : Women's Letters To and From New South Wales, 1788-1857 1985 anthology correspondence -
Faithful Mirror of Founding Mothers
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 February 1986; (p. 14)
— Review of Dear Fanny : Women's Letters To and From New South Wales, 1788-1857 1985 anthology correspondence -
He Waved His Night Cap - Then Expired
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 March 1986; (p. 47)
— Review of Dear Fanny : Women's Letters To and From New South Wales, 1788-1857 1985 anthology correspondence -
Pioneers Who Survived
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 March 1986; (p. 12)
— Review of Dear Fanny : Women's Letters To and From New South Wales, 1788-1857 1985 anthology correspondence