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3-002 (Text)

Item metadata
Speaker:
addressee,family author,male,Shegog, Robert,36
ns1:discourse_type
Letter
Related Document :
3-002 (Text), Text 3-002 (Original), Original 3-002 (Raw), Raw
Word Count :
76
Plaint Text :
3-002 (Text), Text
ns1:register
Private Written
ns1:texttype
Private Correspondence
ns1:localityName
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Victoria
Created:
1851
Identifier
3-002
part of:
Corpus of Oz Early English
Source
Niall, 1998
pages
53-54
Document metadata
Extent:
383
Identifier
3-002-plain.txt
Title
3-002#Text
Type
Text

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DEAR MOTHER, BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
We are quite well, hoping this will find ye all likewise. Dear Mother we are now 70 miles from home at the Goldmines, there is about 800 men at the diggings. I am getting at the very least £12 per week to my own Share, there is the three in our party and we all dig the hole first and then we wash, one rocks the cradle and the other heals

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