• Title
  Letters by the bushranger John Dunn and his godmother Tabitha Pickard sent to Michael Dunn
• Creator
  Michael Dunn
• Call number
  MLMSS 5518
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1866
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  414040
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 2 letters photographed one on top of the other
  
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript - 31.6 x 20.6 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Dunn was born 14 December 1846 near Yass, NSW, the eldest of nine children, to convict parents Michael and Margaret Dunn. In 1864 he joined Ben Hall's gang of bushrangers and embarked on a short but infamous career - raiding stations, inns, stores and mail coaches. In January 1865, Dunn shot dead Constable Samuel Nelson in the bungled robbery of Kimberley's Inn at Collector, near Goulburn. This was the crime for which he was hung on 19 March 1866. He was just 19 years of age.
• Collection history
  By descent to donor. Donor's grandfather, who was in possession of the letters, ran a saddlery in Canowindra, New South Wales. Reference: Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  2 Feb 1866; Tabitha Pickard to Mr & Mrs Michael Dunn
  13 Feb 1866; John Dunn to Michael Dunn
  2 Mar 1866; John Dunn to Michael Dunn
  6 Mar 1866; Tabitha Pickard to Mr & Mrs Michael Dunn
  12 Mar 1866; John Dunn to Michael Dunn
  18 Mar 1866; John Dunn's `Dying Prayer' to parents, relatives & friends
  2 May 1866; Tabitha Pickard to Mr & Mrs Michael Dunn
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Transcript available online (partial transcript) - archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a126020.html
• General note
  
  Letters by John Dunn to his father were written while he was awaiting execution in Darlinghurst Gaol.
  Digital order no:a126020
  Microfilm copy available at CY 2431, frames 305-321.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Dunn, John, 1846-1866
  Pickard, Tabitha
  
• Subject
  Bushrangers--New South Wales.
  
• Place
  Darlinghurst Gaol (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2001 - 3 February, 2002)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3153107

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