Letter from Percy Fortescue to Charles Leslie Barrett 25 September 1907
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Document Details
Date
25-Sep-07
Letter From
Fortescue, Percy
Letter To
Barrett, Charles Leslie
Author
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Country
Australia
Colony/State
New South Wales
Holding Institution
Museums Victoria
Collection Name
Alfred W. Howitt Collection
Registration Number
XM 164
Medium
Letter
Region
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Locality
Wentworth
Summary
Includes a list of names and ages of nine Aboriginal people and five children residing in the Wentworth District Number. The reverse is headed 'Report from Pooncarie Police', and provides population numbers for adults, their gender and children. Surname of one man is possibly Dan Limbery. Berndt and Berndt [Berndt (1993: 216)] note a cultural informant named Dan Limberry. Limberry came originally from the Murray River and arrived at Poonindie in the 1860s. In 1869 he accompanied Superintendent Holden on a recruitment drive along the Murray from Wentworth in New South Wales to Blanchetown in South Australia. The respect Limberry commanded among the people they met impressed Holden (see Brock, P. in Aboriginal History, Vol. 11 1987).
Physical Description
Letter, handwritten in ink. One sheet, two pages. On lined paper. Condition: small tear along one crease; pin-holes top left.
