Letter from Henui near New Plymouth
Production date
1853
Description
The collection consists of a covering letter from Mr J. P. Webster of Devonport, Auckland, Feb 16 1969 to Herb Mullon, New Plymouth regarding a letter the writer located in a book called 'Three Years Cruise in the Australian Colonies' by R E Malone. He includes a typescript of the letter concerned which was written from the Henui Oct 14 1853. The unidentified writer gives their first impressions of the settlement having just arrived on the ship Joseph Fletcher.
Object detail
Part 1
Copy of letter to Mr Mullon from J.P. Webster. 16 February 1969
Typescript. Copy of letter found in Three Years Cruise in the Australian Colonies' by R E Malone. Published 1854
Photocopy of letter within the book Three Years Cruise in the Australian Colonies' by R E Malone.
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