James Pettet - Diary [M972], 1882 June-Dec

M 972

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432539

Microfilm : M 972

microfilm reel 35 mm

Entries record voyages on the Maudon from Melbourne to Western Australia, and to the camp at Yeeda, near Derby on the Fitzroy River. Comments on employment labouring and shearing for the Murray Squatting Company and the Kimberley Pastoral Company; vegetation, Aborigines; climate and a journey along the Fitzroy River. Among the entries for the period 9-18 Dec. 1882 is a brief note recording the killing of Anthony Cornish by an Aborigine. Interspersed among the diary entries are jottings, including financial accounts, poems and aboriginal vocabulary

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 126, p. 60-61
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M972
Microfilm copy of originals held in private ownership
Descriptive list available (1 p.). Also appear at the beginning of the reel