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Letter from Major Logue

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Major Logue

1865

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand written letter on paper (with a Satin watermark).

Historical information

Major Logue (1826-1900) was the son of Joseph Keys Logue. He arrived with his parents on the "Hero" on 28/08/1837. He came to the Victoria District with Thomas Brown and other pastoralists in late 1849, eventually taking up a pastoral property on the Greenough River which he named "Ellendale." He married Lucy Ellen Shaw at Middle Swan on 03/04/1856. The couple had 9 children. As well as a pastoral run, Logue also established a citrus orchard and a vineyard. In 1870 he was elected the first member for Geraldton.
Scott & Gale, Gray and Crowther were the major store owners in Geraldton.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GM)B1390

Item type

Letters

Themes

Agriculture

Material

Writing Paper

Width

114 mm

Height or length

177 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Ellendale July 4th 1865
Dear Sir
Will you let your cart bring out some things from the Bay for me and ask the carter to enquire at Scott & gales for a bag seed potatoes and at gray’s for some calico the rest of the things are at crowthers
I will send down for them on Friday & send you some vines
? ? M Logue

Contextual Information

This is one of only three notes in the Maley Mill & Store Archives written by Major Logue.

Place made

Greenough
Western Australia
Australia

Year

1865

Primary significance criteria

Scientific or research significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced