• Title
  Letter from Jane Penelope Atkinson (nee Reibey) to David Hope, 7 February 1823 / Jane Reibey
• Creator
  David Hope, 1786-1857
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 7790 (Safe 1/274)
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  7 February 1823
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  457929
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4778 (MLMSS 7790; filed at Safe 1/274)
  
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript - 21.6 x 28.0 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Jane Penelope Reibey (1807-1854) was the daughter of Mary and Thomas Reibey. She married John Atkinson in 1824. David Hope (1786-1857) was Mary Reibey's cousin. He was a member of the firm of Messrs Fleming and Hope, brokers, of Glasgow, Scotland.
• Scope and Content
  Jane Penelope Reibey was only 15 years old when she wrote this letter to David Hope. She thanks Hope for his kindness to her mother and sisters on their recent visit to Britain and for the very pretty presents sent to her by his housekeeper. She looks forward to the possibility that she might be taken to Britain to go to school. She writes that her family's favourable reports of 'auld Caledonia' have 'excited in me an anxiety to see it, and I think it would be a long long time before I should wish to see my native country, as the aversion I bear to Sydney increases'. She explains this remark: 'the people lately from different parts of the globe, render it extremely unpleasant - they all think themselves above any one else, and as long as that persists, it will be impossible to have any pleasant society... so you see it is not so much the place as the inhabitants'. It seems that David Hope may have proposed to Jane after receiving this letter (see 'Dear Cousin: the Reibey Letters' by Nance Irvine). In her next letter to him, 9 Feb. 1825, she informed him that she had married John Atkinson. Hope died unmarried in 1857.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: ? metres of textual material
• General note
  
  Miniature portraits of Jane Penelope Atkinson are located at MIN 54 and MIN 427.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Atkinson, Jane Penelope, 1807-1854
  
• Subject
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions--1788-1851
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19697946

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