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Biography of Sir George Arthur, administrator of the colonies of the British Empire. Relations between colonists and Aboriginal people discussed pp. 123-134. Reference to Batman's treaty p. 143.
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Typescript (carbon) of an article on the Indian papers of Sir George Arthur for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, Archives lectures, 1937-1938. Typescript of notes, etc. including: Supplement. Arthur letterbook 1842, extracts (Arthur-Ellenborough correspondence); Willoughby letters, Oct. 1843-Apr. 1844; Supplementary material for article taken from letterbook 1843-1844 (containing copies of letters sent by Arthur and chiefly concerning the Outram-Napier controversy); Biographical notes on Sir Charles Napier; Letterbook, 1844-1846. Arthur-Hardinge correspondence; Schedule of Sir George Arthur's Indian papers; Also Proclamation by Arthur 1 Nov. 1828 and correspondence between NLA and Crisp & Wright, 1935.
This book reveals the ways in which those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century empire sought to make colonization compatible with humanitarianism.
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Description: Letters from George Arthur to various people including Sir John Franklin who succeeded Arthur as governor of Van Diemen's Land. Letters concern land in Van Diemen's Land mainly, minutes and statements relating to court cases, and correspondence concerning the publication of the newspaper "Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser late Hobart Town Gazette" (f.168). Arthur wrote many of these letters from London.
Brilliantly imagined and irresistibly readable, Arthur & George is a major new novel from Julian Barnes, a wonderful combination of playfulness, pathos and wisdom. Searching for clues, no one would ever guess that the lives of Arthur and George might intersect. Growing up in shabby-genteel nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Arthur is saddled with a dad who is a disgrace and a mum he wishes to protect, and is propelled into a life of action. To his astonishment, his career as a self-made man of letters brings him riches and fame and, in the world at large, he becomes the perfect picture of the honourable English gentlemen. George is irredeemably an outsider, and has no hope of becoming such a pict...