This is the typescript of a book written and self-published by Joyce Collins Ph.D in 2008. It is included in the 'Letter in the Attic' collection because it contains the complete transcripts of many letters from people who emigrated from Brighton to Australia in the 1850s. The letters were originally published in the local press, notably the Brighton Gazette.
During the 1850s, the Brighton Gazette and other local newspapers published regular items of Emigration News which included letters received by families and friends of two large parties which left the town for Australia in 1849 and 1852.
The first of these - the "Juniper and Wood Party" - sailed together on the Harpley, arriving at Port Phillip for Melbourne in January 1850. A much larger number of emigrants (probably around 200) left in 1852 on board the Statesman and several other ships.
The book is based on the letters sent home by these groups and published in the Brighton Gazette. One letter was published in the Brighton Herald.
1 typescript of a book of 117 pages (Word document)
A digital copy of the typescript of the book has been donated to the East Sussex Record Office and is listed here; the original document remains with Joyce Collins.
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