Letters from John Travis Leake to his father John in Van Diemen's Land 1828-1855

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Letters from John Travis Leake to his father John, 1828, 1831, 1833-1835, 1836, 1841, 1847-48, 1855. He wrote from Hull and Dublin concerning his medical and pharmacy studies, weather, the poor, sending grass seeds, Uncle Edward losing another boy by croup (1828), intolerant Irish Catholics, doing water colour views and portraits (1831), Launceston druggist shop, supplies etc (1833-5), rival chemist Evan's mistake (1835), South Australia: a visit to brothers at Gkencoe South Australia, proposal to practise in more populated area (1848), gold digging at Bendigo (1855).