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W. Foster Rogers - Man's Inhumanity, Being a Chaplain's Chronicles of Norfolk Island in the Forties, based upon the journal, records and writings of Rev. Thos. Rogers, undated [ca. 1912-1914]

Full text of title page: 'Man's Inhumanity, Being a Chaplain's Chronicles of Norfolk Island in the 'Forties, based upon the journal, records, & writings of Rev. Thos. Rogers (original of the Rev. John North in "His Natural Life");  counter-statements of John Price (original of Captain Maurice Frere);  correspondence between them and others;  & personal narrative by the Chaplain. Done into consecutive narrative form by W. Foster Rogers (Illustrations by F. Frankland Godfrey)'. Typescript manuscript, edited and marked up for printing, but never published. Includes pen drawings by F. Frankland Godfrey. The manuscript includes biographical information about Thomas Rogers and reproduces the text of letters and documents from the 1840s and 1850s. Includes the autobiography of the convict and bushranger William Westwood known as "Jacky Jacky" and a few notes by historian G.C. Henderson.
W. Foster Rogers offered the manuscript to Angus & Robertson in 1914 (see correspondence in the Angus & Robertson collection, MLMSS 314/71), together with the illustrations. An illustration on page 13 is dated 1912.

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