Letter to Henry Jellicoe Esq at Macquarie River, Hobart Town…
Hobart Town: 24 December, 1824.
ALS single sheet, folded to letter size with early "Hobart Town, VDL" oval handstamp.
Colonial purchases on Christmas eve
Short letter penned on Christmas Eve from a Hobart Town merchant enclosing an account (not present) to Henry Jellicoe of Campbell Town in Van Diemen's Land. Jellicoe served as a Justice of the Peace in the Campbell Town district from 1824-1836. He was a prominent (and grandiose) landowner and in the 1830s his property improvements included the addition of a 30 foot ballroom. He left the Colony in 1837 for England, and the wishes for his good health penned in this letter, were to no avail: Jellicoe died of smallpox in 1839. An ephemeral example of early Tasmanian postal history.
Short letter penned on Christmas Eve from a Hobart Town merchant enclosing an account (not present) to Henry Jellicoe of Campbell Town in Van Diemen's Land. Jellicoe served as a Justice of the Peace in the Campbell Town district from 1824-1836. He was a prominent (and grandiose) landowner and in the 1830s his property improvements included the addition of a 30 foot ballroom. He left the Colony in 1837 for England, and the wishes for his good health penned in this letter, were to no avail: Jellicoe died of smallpox in 1839. An ephemeral example of early Tasmanian postal history.
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