• Title
  Letter from Thomas Francis O'Meagher to Thomas Mason, 3 January 1852
• Creator
  Thomas Mason, 1800 - 1888
• Call number
  DLADD 289
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  3 January 1852
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  448898
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 folder - 0.02 Meters
  Textual Records - (manuscript)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1848 Thomas Francis O'Meagher (more commonly spelt Meagher), a member of the Young Ireland Movement, was convicted of treason and sentenced to transportation. He arrived in Hobart in 1849. He was soon granted a ticket-of-leave and permitted to live on parole in the Campbell Town district. In January 1852 he began planning his escape. He withdrew his parole and made his way to the north coast where he was picked up in Bass Strait by the Elizabeth Thompson. He sailed to Pernambuco in Brazil and then on to New York where he arrived in May.
• Scope and Content
  In this letter, addressed to Thomas Mason, Police Magistrate of of Campbell Town, Meagher withdraws his parole prior to his escape (3.pp).
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a1674.html
• General note
  
  Watermark 1848
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823752
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1897
  
• Subject
  Convicts--Tasmania.
  Convicts--Tasmania--Correspondence.
  Escapes--Tasmania.
  Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes - State Library of New South Wales (6 November, 2006 - 9 February, 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3326585

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