The Cornhill Magazine - two anonymously written short stories, A specimen of the bush & My pistols, ca. 1860, 1861

MLMSS 7665

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ca. 1860, 1861

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Textual Records - (manuscript)

Both these short stories written by unknown authors were submitted to William Makepeace Thackeray, first editor of The Cornhill Magazine. They were not published.

ca. 1860; A specimen of the bush was written by "B.W.". It is supposedly related to the author by a young Englishman who has returned to England from Australia. The story is about the leader of an expedition into the bush who is ambushed and tracked by Aborigines. He engages them in combat and eventually makes his perilous way back to the expedition (24 pp.)
1861; My pistols is set in Melbourne and Bendigo during the gold rush of the 1850s. It tells the story of a merchant from Bendigo and involves embezzlement, a shoot-out in a gambling den, attempted murder, a daring rescue from bushrangers and a trial (29 pp.)