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Abstract

Thanks for post office order of one pound. Dave has found a favourable position with a legal firm in Melbourne. Mr Andrew Burns the noted Victorian chess player to visit Tasmania, has given him a letter of introduction, a very likeable fellow. Didn't go to Cup day but instead went to Queenscliff with Walter. Letters between Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania and Joseph G. Witton, Melbourne, 13 Sept 1882 - 9 Dec 1885 regarding his work as a law clerk in Melbourne, his friends, especially Walter Gill, religion, the Unitarian Church, George Walters, Mrs Webster, visit of Moncure Conway in 1883, family, health, Miss Witton's estate in England, books, chess and the foundation of the Chess Club 1883-4, visit to Ballarat, U.S. Independence Day 1883.
C4/C348

Item Type:	Other
Authors/Creators:	Witton, JG
Keywords:	Tasmania, social history, Australia, Van Diemen's Land, Andrew Inglis Clark, Hobart, Federation, Australian Federation
Publisher:	University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection
Collections:	Andrew Inglis Clark Collection
Additional Information:	Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Australia (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/
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