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  • Dearest Mother

    Letters from the Australian Gold Rush and Beyond
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    “I have often wished that some of you were here to see the strange things I see.” —Walter Bentley Woodbury, 1853 In 1852, eighteen-year-old Walter Bentley Woodbury set sail from England to Australia in search of gold. What he found instead,...