Series 6: Letters of Sarah Susanna Bunbury to her father Robert Clement Sconce, 1840 - 1846

These letters deal with the voyage to Australia, Charles Joseph La Trobe, family news, Rev. R.K. Sconce, Bishop W.G. Broughton, prices, economic conditions in Melbourne, farming, bushrangers, landscape, sharks, flora and fauna, shipping, Hanmer’s appointment as Superintendent of Water Police at Williamstown, Georgiana McCrae, Sir George and Lady Gipps, plan of house at Williamstown, the Oxford Movement, the visit of H.M.S. Beagle and Fly, conflict with Aboriginal people, social events, dismissal of Judge J. Willis in 1843, visits of Lady Franklin, thoughts of returning to England, shipwrecks, travels in Victoria, servants, land regulations, and her visit to Sydney in 1846.