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942568
  • Title
    Extracts from letters by Deputy Assistant Commissary General, George Thomas William Blamey Boyes, from Sydney to his wife in England, 31 January 1824 - 15 September 1824
  • Creator
  • Call number
    DLMSQ 33
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    31 January 1824 - 15 September 1824
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    942568
  • Physical Description
    1 volume of textual material (17 p.) - typescript, with manuscript notes - 28 cm.
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Boyes was appointed Deputy Assistant Commissary General in New South Wales in 1823 and arrived in Sydney the following January. He afterwards held several other government positions in Tasmania.
  • Scope and Content
    Description of social life in Sydney 1824, countryside around Nepean River and of people he met including De Arrietta, Carl Ruemker, Sir James Jamison, Captain John Piper, Alexander Bacombe the Colonial Treasurer and William Lithgow, the Assistant Commissary General of New South Wales.

    Bookplates of Henry L. White, Belltrees Scone, New South Wales and Sir William Dixson.
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
  • General note

    Transferred from DLSPENCER 314
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