Transcript of original letter from Joseph Tice Gellibrand, Derwent Park, to Joseph Ball enclosed with letter from Joseph Ball, Cotham near Bristol, to George Mercer, Dryden House, Edinburgh, 9 July 1836 Digital

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Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria
Papers of George Mercer
Series VI: Letters from Joseph Tice Gellibrand to Joseph Ball, and from Joseph Ball to George Mercer, 4 March 1836 - 23 March 1837
Transcript of original letter from Joseph Tice Gellibrand, Derwent Park, to Joseph Ball enclosed with letter from Joseph Ball, Cotham near Bristol, to George Mercer, Dryden House, Edinburgh, 9 July 1836

Transcript of original letter from Joseph Tice Gellibrand, Derwent Park, to Joseph Ball enclosed with letter from Joseph Ball, Cotham near Bristol, to George Mercer, Dryden House, Edinburgh

Scope and contents

(a). Begins with transcript of original letter from Joseph Tice Gellibrand, Derwent Park, to Joseph Ball, 4 March 1836. Refers to how people of Van Diemen's Land are all mad for emigration, sheep, Gellibrand selling part of his estates to pay for his shares, and Simpson and Wedge. (b). Ends with letter from Joseph Ball, Cotham near Bristol, to George Mercer, Dryden House, Edinburgh, 9 July 1836. Refers to Port Phillip Association, Lord Glenelg, and land.