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Letter re lime transactions between Logue & Marchetti

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Major Logue

1877

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

Hand written letter on grey paper.

Historical information

Major Logue was a pastoralist at Ellendale, east of the Greenough Flats.
Giovanni Marchetti was a former convict who ended up farming on the Back Flats at Greenough and supplemented his income by making lime.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB2116

Item type

Letters

Themes

Communication

Material

Paper

Width

202 mm

Height or length

148 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Mr Marchetti
Please send me 4 bags lime per bearer as new & quick as possible
M Logue
Received from J S Maley the sum of 12/- for 4 bags of lime on a/c of Major Logue
7 November 1877 Gion Marchetti

Contextual information

This note is interesting in that we have written an order by one person and a response by another. It also provides evidence that Marchetti was making lime at Greenough.

Keywords

Logue, Major

Place made

Greenough, Western Australia, Australia

Year

1877

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