• Title
  Letter from Joseph Whitehead to his uncle Samuel Whitehead, 1 March 1838
• Creator
  Joseph Whitehead
• Call number
  MLMSS 9895
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1 March 1838
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1001562
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Joseph Whitehead was evidently a sometime wool trader, having placed an advertisement in ‘The Sydney Herald’ of 15 January 1838, announcing that he ‘will purchase wool of this season’s clip’.
• Scope and Content
  Manuscript letter from Joseph Whitehead, of Macquarie Place, Sydney, to his uncle Samuel Whitehead, in England. The four page letter is written in ink, folded (and originally sealed) for posting, with a Sydney 1838 postmark. It includes a description of the wool trade in colonial New South Wales and an unfavourable assessment of the city of Sydney and the morals of its inhabitants.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Research & study copies allowed
• Name
  Whitehead, Samuel
  
• Subject
  Australian letters--19th century.
  Wool industry--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social life and customs--1788-1851
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE7628258

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