Letter from Clement Lawless to his brother John of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, 26 April 1846
Letter from Clement Lawless to his brother John of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, 26 April 1846
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26 April 1846
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MLMSS 10129
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0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
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A three-and-a-half page letter, from Clement Lawless to his brother, the Reverend John Paul Lawless Pyne, in Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, 26 April 1846. The letter is crossed throughout on woven paper with fragments of original red wax seal and address panel with postal stamps.
The letter provides an insight into the world of a mid-ninetee...
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Letter from Clement Lawless to his brother John of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, 26 April 1846
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Purchased from Matthew Fishburn, March 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
Clement Francis Lawless (1815-1877), pastoralist, was born at Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland. Clement and his brother Paul sailed for Australia from Liverpool in June 1840. After a while sheep farming on the Hunter River, the brothers bought cattle and drove them 600 miles (966 km) to the Albert River in the Moreton Bay District, where, in 1842, they...
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MLMSS 10129
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Yr8MMbZn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr8MMbZn
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9604913
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