• Title
  John William Croker - letter received from Marshall Waller Clifton, 19 July 1841
• Creator
  John Wilson Croker, 1780-1857
• Call number
  MLDOC 891
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1841
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  423902
• Physical Description
  1 folder - 0.01 Meters
  Textual Records - (manuscript)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1840 Marshall Waller Clifton was appointed chief commissioner of the Western Australian Land Company's planned settlement at Australind, now a suburb of Bunbury.The company virtually ceased operations in 1843 and Clifton was retrenched. He was a member of the W.A. Legislative Council from 1851 to 1858.
• Scope and Content
  Autograph letter signed by Marshall Waller Clifton to J.W. Croker from Australind, Western Australia, 19 July 1841. Clifton gives an account of conditions at Australind and his progress in founding a colony there under the auspices of the Western Australian Land Company. Also included is a copy of an advertisement for Hemming's patent improved portable houses, with manuscript annotations.
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a462.html
• Description source
  
  Information upgraded from Manuscripts MLDOCs (5-251B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Digital order no: Album ID : 824006
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Clifton, Marshall Waller (1787-1861)
  
• Name
  Western Australian Company
  
• Subject
  Buildings, portable.
  Western Australia--Emigration and immigration.
  Western Australia--History--1829-1851.
  
• Place
  Australind (W.A.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1132655

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