• Title
  File 3: David Blackburn letters received from his sister Margaret Blackburn, 1785 and 1789
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 6937/1/3 (Safe 1/207)
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1785, 1789
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  403620
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Textual Records - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  3 & 5 Apr. 1785; Norwich. Autograph letter signed by Margaret Blackburn to her brother David while he was serving as Master of HMS Flora in Jamaica. She writes of her dissatisfaction with their brother Thomas' behaviour and her financial difficulties, and discusses hot-air balloons. 3 pp.
  
  9 Sept. 1789; Norwich. Autograph letter signed by Margaret Blackburn to her brother David at Port Jackson, New South Wales, sent via Captain Riou of H.M.S. Guardian. Margaret reports that their Mother, sister Eliza and herself are in perfect health, and that they have heard that their brother John is well in New York. Their brother Thomas died on 1 August 1787 and his wife died in November 1788, leaving one surviving child, Betsy, who is now living with Margaret. Their Aunt Finch's mental infirmities have increased and she is being cared for by Eliza. Margaret also reports on David's friend Richard Knight and his family. 4 pp.
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D36385/a590.html
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY4084, frames 60-71
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824059
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Blackburn, Margaret
  
• Name
  Blackburn, Betsy
  Blackburn, David, 1753-1795
  Blackburn, John
  Blackburn, Thomas
  Burrows, Eliza
  Flora (Ship)
  Guardian (Ship)
  Knight, Richard
  Riou, Edward, 1762-1801
  
• Subject
  ballooning
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1133257

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