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Letter to John Maley from John Walker

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John Walker

1865

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand written letter in ink on paper that has two small holes.

Historical information

John Morrison Walker was a farmer at Greenough.
Walter Padbury was a merchant who purchased farm land at Greenough.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1335

Item type

Documents

Themes

Communication

Material

Paper

Width

114 mm

Height or length

180 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Greenough Flats April 28th/65
Mr JS Maley
Please to send me two pounds of tobacco and one check shirt and six pounds of oat-meal and one shillings worth of black sewing cotton and place the same to my act.
John Walker
PS I enclose Mr Padbury’s order for what corn I delivered to your mill in a mistake will you please to send me it in fine flour by my team and you will greatly oblige
Yours ever
John Walker

Contextual information

This letter provides evidence of the complexity of record keeping at Greenough at that time.

Keywords

Greenough

Place made

Greenough, Western Australia, Australia

Year

1865

Primary significance criteria

Scientific or research significance

Comparative significance criteria

Well provenanced