Series 2: Letters of Captain Richard Hanmer Bunbury to his father Sir Henry Bunbury, 1840 - 1850

These letters deal with the voyage to Australia in 1841, impressions of Melbourne, Charles Joseph La Trobe, purchases of land and stock, family news, explorations in Victoria, conflict with Aboriginal people, financial matters, flora and fauna, property at Mount William, Sir George Gipps, farming, appointment as Superintendent of Water Police at Williamstown in 1842, B. Boyd, servants, crime, sale of shipping at Port Phillip, prices, bushrangers, closure of banks, Bishop W.G. Broughton, kangaroos, appointment as Harbour Master in 1844, land regulations, proposed separation of Port Phillip from new South Wales, explorations in the Grampians, horse races, balls, plans for returning to England, gold discoveries, Rev. R.K. Sconce, migration of labourers from Van Diemen’s Land, Bishop Charles Perry, and the Great Exhibition of 1851.