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4-064 (Text)

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addressee,family author,male,Maxwell, John,23

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Letter

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170

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Private Written

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Private Correspondence

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http://dbpedia.org/resource/Queensland

Created:

1884

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4-064

part of:

Corpus of Oz Early English

Source

O'Farrell, 1984

pages

128-29
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829

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4-064-plain.txt

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4-064#Text

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Text

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Mr George Reid is going to try and get me on as a coach driver between Beechworth and Yackandandah.  The situation will be worth a pound or 25s. per week. Each driver has only to drive a few hours every day and wash his coach twice a week (I will have my board too). If I do not get this crib I will likely get on a sheep station after a little.
There is a Mr Finlay who I got an introduction to by the Rev. Robinson who said he would try and get me a crib on a station but he advised me to take a month or six weeks before commencing work. I went to Dr. Bird of Melbourne before coming up here and he examined my chest and give me a recipe. He also weighed me, I was only 1st 3lbs without coat and vest. My light weight was owing to my having diarrhoea for a week which greatly weakened me. However I have not it since.

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