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Letter from Joseph Whitehead to his uncle Samuel Whitehead, 1 March 1838
Ink on
paper
ML MSS
9895
Purchased
2016
Joseph Whitehead was a wool trader based in Macquarie Place, Sydney. Writing to his uncle in England, he describes the level of crime in the city:
Sydney is without exception one of the most wicked places under the sun murders, suicides, robberies, innumerable pride, hypocrisy, lying, back biting, drunkeness, and debauchery without end …