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From: "Valda Dedman" <>
Subject: Re: [AVG] "GIPPS' LAND", as reported in 1842!
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:15:37 +1100

How do we get a copy please?
valda

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Subject: [AVG] "GIPPS' LAND", as reported in 1842!


> Dear Listers,
> Some time back I sought info. on Dr. George WITT and his brother-in-law,
Dr.
> George Dixon HEDLEY, who both settled in Oz round about 1849, the former
at
> Sydney, the latter in Gippsland. Several people were very helpful indeed.
I
> have recently acquired a photo-copied scrapbook kept by Dr. WITT up till
the
> time he left for Australia, and in it is a newspaper cutting from the
> (London) Morning Post dated August 27th 1842 containing contemporary
> observations on both the Sydney area and "Gipps' Land". Now transcribed,
it
> runs to about four and a half A4 pages and is in MS Word format. It's very
> descriptive and available to anyone who wants a copy.
> Yours, etc.
> Geoffrey in Cambridgeshire, England.
>
>
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