King Family - Letters concerning Phillip Parker King, 1828, 1856
King Family - Letters concerning Phillip Parker King, 1828, 1856
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1828, 1856
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MLMSS 7736
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1 folder - 0.02 Meters
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Microfilm : CY 4683, frames 20-32 (MLMSS 7736)
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16 May 1828; Letter (4 pp.) from Harriet King to Phillip Parker King. Harriet King advises her husband of an alarming discrepancy in the Dunheved farm accounts, her doubts about the reliability of the farm manager W. Hayes and her difficulties with his wife. She concludes with the news that John Oxley is dying.
27 February 1856; Letter (4 pp.)...
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King Family - Letters concerning Phillip Parker King, 1828, 1856
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Acquired from Jack Bradstreet, Bookseller, 2007
Administrative / Biographical history
Phillip Parker King was the third son of Philip Gidley King, third governor of N.S.W. He was born on Norfolk Island in 1791 and entered the Royal Navy in 1807. He married Harriet Lethbridge in 1817 and between that year and 1822 he made four surveying voyages whose aim was to explore and chart those parts of the Australian coast not surveyed by Mat...
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MLMSS 7736
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YezdqqK9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YezdqqK9
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456514
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