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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigrants' Letters: Being Recent Communications from Settlers in the British Colonies. With a Map and Abstract of Wages and Prices |
| Date | 1850 |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Publisher Information | Trelawney Saunders |
| Reference | 10491.c.22 |
| Library / Archive | British Library |
| Collection Name | General Reference Collection |
| Description | A collection of letters from emigrants in Canada, Australia, the United States and New Zealand. These letters detail their experiences on board emigrant ships, their early impressions and descriptions of the colonies and their plans for settlement, as well as detailing their success and hardships. |
| Theme(s) | Journey Conditions; Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences; Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations |
| Country (from) | Great Britain; Ireland; Germany; India; United States of America |
| Country (to) | Australia; New Zealand; Canada; South Africa; Falkland Islands; United States of America |
| Places | London, England; Sydney, New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Adelaide, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; California, United States |
| Ports | Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | English |
| Ships | Whitby; Stebonheath; Agenoria; Sir George Seymour |
| Keywords | wages, prices, journey conditions, surgeon, health and sickness, skilled migration, agriculture, livestock, nature, geography, resources, penal colony |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | British Library |
