239. Phillip Parker King, travelling with the Governor … from the diary of Phillip Parker King, 3 March 1837. HRV Vol. 1.
240. But you return a week later, seething with anger … Morgan; letter from Lonsdale to Bourke. HRV Vol. 1.
241. But your horse needs to rest … The attack on Buckley’s horse has never been fully explained. This description is drawn from Life and Adventures and ‘William Buckley’s horse injured, apparently maliciously’ in HRV Vol. 2A, p.279.
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242. Fifty lashes? A man was only warming up … Conversation between Fyans and the two Quaker missionaries – George Walker and James Backhouse – from Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore. Hughes also has a detailed account of the Norfolk Island convict uprising and the central role played by Fyans.
243. Fyans is an Irishman who survived … Brown, P. L. ‘Foster Fyans 1790–1870’. ADB.
244. ‘The men were very keen after these ruffians …’ Hughes.
245. The recriminations went on for months … Ibid.
246. Fyans will forge a decent reputation for himself … Official appointment of Fyans contained in a letter from Sir Richard Bourke to Lord Glenelg, 11 September 1837. HRV Vol. 1.
247. ‘I stared when I saw the monster of a man …’ ‘Fyans leaves Melbourne for Geelong’. HRV Vol. 1; ‘Reminiscences of Foster Fyans’. Manuscript, State Library of Victoria.
248. ‘I could not calculate on one hour’s personal safety …’ Morgan.
249. ‘Someone – probably Batman or Wedge …’ Buckley resignation letter to William Lonsdale, HRV Vol. 1.
250. A petition is sent to Governor Bourke … Ibid.
251. After months of inquiries and testimony … Select Committee on Aborigines (British Settlements); House of Commons, 26 June 1837. HRV Vol. 2A.
252. ‘It’s a difficult thing to apprehend natives …’ Fyans’ letter to Charles La Trobe, 20 September 1840; Papers Relative to the Massacre of Australian Aborigines, House of Commons, London, 1839, pp.88–9. www.archive.org/details/MassacreOfAustralianAborigines.
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253. The Theatre Royal is a majestic building … Drawn from various sources including www.theatreroyal.com.au/history-of-the-theatre-royal.
254. Mean streets, these … Sharman, R. C. ‘Solomon, Isaac (Ikey) (1787–1850)’. ADB.
255. Charles Dickens’ latest novel, Oliver Twist … The novel was first published as a serial with the pseudonym ‘Boz’ in Bentley’s Miscellany in 1837–9. A three-volume work appeared in 1838. www.britannica.com/topic/Oliver-Twist-novel-by-Dickens.
256. There you were, loping down the street … Morgan.
257. You can’t blame John Moses for trying … Descriptions of the play Wood Demon drawn from The Austral-Asiatic Review, Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser, 16 January 1838, p.3 and p.7; ‘Domestic Intelligence’, Colonial Times, 16 January 1838, p.7.
258. Staging the play in Hobart is a coup … Levis, John.
259. You have woken this morning at … Morgan.
260. ‘… exhibited as the huge Anglo-Australian giant …’ Ibid.
261. The Colonial Times no longer has any sympathy for … ‘Hobart Town Police Report’, Colonial Times, 6 March 1838.
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262. The Bussorah Merchant, a 530-ton teak vessel … Government notice, No.2, Colonial Secretary John Montague, Hobart Town Courier, 5 January 1838.
263. So Price was taking no chances … General regulations, Price, Morgan. The Bussorah Merchant. Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.
264. ‘… an example of ignorance of hygiene …’ The Journey – by Sailing Ship. Maritime Museum of Tasmania. www.maritimetas.org.
265. The passenger list, a grim register … Government notice, No.2, Colonial secretary John Montague, Hobart Town Courier, 5 January 1838.
266. This little island they have come to … Drawn from Schultz, Robert J. The Assisted Immigrants: a Study of Some Aspects of the Characteristics and Origins of the Immigrants Assisted to New South Wales and the Port Phillip District, 1837–1850. Thesis. Australian National University. December 1971; Pearce, Ian. Immigration to Tasmania 1803–1946, Guide to the public records of Tasmania.
267. But it is the old ones you enjoy meeting most … Morgan; Tipping.
268. The lieutenant governor is another of those men … Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. ‘Franklin, Sir John (1786–1847)’. ADB. Beattie, Owen and Geiger, John. Frozen in Time: the Fate of the Franklin Expedition. 2004. Potter, Russell, A. Finding Franklin: the Untold Story of a 165-Year Search. 2016.
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269. ‘He is placed as it were in the very gorge of sin …’ Goodridge, Charles. Statistical View of Van Diemen’s Land … Hamilton and Adams. 1832.
270. Charles Goodridge is another Robinson Crusoe … Goodridge, Charles. Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas … 1841.
271. ‘The great work of reformation …’ Goodridge. Statistical View of Van Diemen’s Land …
272. Waterfield is a devout and private man … Hanslow, Jan. Report on Ada Ackerly’s Address at the General Meeting. Port Phillip Pioneers Group. www.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au/pppg5ad.htm.
273. On 28 April the Reverend … extract from Diary of the Reverend William Waterfield, Victorian Historical Magazine, 1914. Issue 11. Vol. 3.
274. An eccentric Polish explorer … Whitley, G. P. ‘Lhotsky, John (1796–1866)’. ADB.
275. ‘Here he assumed the rank of Gentleman …’ The Tasmanian, 3 May 1839.
276. ‘Buckley must have been a splendid young man …’ Lhotsky, John. ‘My Conference with Buckley’. The Tasmanian, Hobart Town. 26 January 1838, p.5.
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277. The Immigrants’ Home is being closed … Morgan.
278. It is late May 1838, and the government is under pressure … Descriptions of the Cascades Female Factory drawn from Convict Lives: Women at Cascades Female Factory …; Kippen, Rebecca. The Convict Nursery at the Cascades Female Factory, Hobart. Chainletter, No.3, December 2009.
279. ‘Miserable place … the most unfitting place in the whole colony …’ True Colonist, 9 March 1838.
280. But as the Reverend Thomas Ewing … ‘Marriages in the District of Hobart’, 27 January 1840. Tasmanian Archives.
281. The Reverend Ewing … Hagger, A. J. ‘Ewing, Thomas James (1813–1882)’. ADB.
282. Within a year Ewing’s name will be associated … From a presentation by Purtscher, Joyce, ‘Suffer Little Children’, about the lives of children at the Orphan Schools in the 19th century. www.orphanschool.org.au/suffer.php.
283. Good thing you married Julia … Morgan.
284. Your absence from work because of illness … From correspondence in the Archives Office of Tasmania, 4 August–3 September 1841.
285. By the end of 1842 … Colonial Times, 6 December 1842.
286. In 1848 the papers will carry … The Britannia and Trades’ Advocate, 15 June 1848.
287. It will not be until late 1851 … The Courier, Hobart Town, 26 July 1851.
288. By all accounts it is a success … In 1855 Morgan claimed that more than 1000 copies of the first edition had been sold in Van Diemen’s Land and began looking for investors to fund the printing of a second edition. The Tasmanian Daily News, 27 October 1855, p.7.
289. Accompanying the book is a sketch of you … Ludwig Becker spent two years in Van Diemen’s Land and was a regular attendee at Government House with Sir John Franklin. The historian Marjorie Tipping has said the life-sized portrait of Buckley, which is now on display at the State Library of Victoria, served as the original likeness for the lithograph that was used as a frontispiece to Life and Adventures. It was also used as the basis for a wood engraving by Nicholas Chevalier that appeared in The Australian Newsletter in 1857. According to Tipping, ‘… known historical facts, the age of the painting, the technical structure, the materials used and the style, confirm that Ludwig Becker was the artist.’ Tipping, Marjorie. ‘Portrait of Wil
liam Buckley, Attributed to Ludwig Becker’. The La Trobe Journal. No.1. April 1968.
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290. Perhaps you are hesitant. Nervous … ‘Marriages in the District of Hobart, 1853’, Tasmanian Archives; Launceston Examiner, 15 September 1853.
291. It’s the sort of slur you have let stand in the past … The Argus, 28 June 1853, p.5.
292. In 1855 the Council … Colonial Times, 10 April 1855; The Argus, 4 May 1855.
293. According to press reports … Ibid.
294. Acclaimed as the great old man … According to a report in the Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers on 11 October 1869, the funeral procession for Fawkner ‘was fully two miles long. At the cemetery the living torrent of persons desirous of playing a last tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased set in shortly after three o’clock and continued pouring in in an unbroken stream until long after the funeral ceremony had concluded.’
295. Four days before Christmas in 1855 … The People’s Advocate or True Friend of Tasmania (Launceston), 31 December 1855.
296. The daily fee at St Mary’s is six shillings … Admissions and Discharges book for St Mary’s Hospital. Library of the University of Tasmania, Special and Rare Collections.
297. They bury you the following Saturday … The Tasmanian Daily News, 4 February 1856.
298. Just a couple of months after the funeral … The Argus, 14 March 1856.
299. It is a move that incenses John Morgan … The Tasmanian Daily News, 19 April 1856.
300. Six months after the funeral … The Courier (Hobart), 25 July 1856.
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