- Title
- A letter home to Scotland from Warrenheip in April 1857 : Insights into life in a railway survey camp
- Creator
- Clark, Ian; Kicinski, Beth
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/160631
- Identifier
- vital:12207
- Identifier
- ISBN:1030-7710
- Abstract
- This paper is concerned to publish a letter sent from a railway survey camp at Warrenheip in April 1857 by an assistant surveyor named John C Macdonald to his sister in Scotland. The letter was sent on an issue of the News Letter of Australasia. The letter provides insights into the living conditions of survey camps; the perils of travelling in the bush; nascent goldfields tourism, with its practice of taking visitors down into mines to see how they operated; and the difficulty of maintaining communication between families at home and their kin who had migrated to Australia. The letter was found in a suitcase of miscellaneous papers in an auction in Scotland in October 2012 and is published here for the first time.
- Publisher
- Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Relation
- Victorian Historical Journal Vol. 86, no. 2 (2015), p. 363-380
- Rights
- Copyright © 2017 Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies; Camps; Railroads; Letters
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