Letters from J C Parkinson

Comprises transcriptions by F McCormick of letters written by Parkinson to his family in Ireland between 1862 and 1866 while a sailor in Australasian waters. His letters were written from Melbourne, Lyttelton, Invercargill, Hobartown, Rockhampton, Newcastle, Manukau, Auckland and Ningpo and Saigon on the Cochin China coast. He writes of life on board ship, other people on board, food, the ports they visited and the countryside nearby, his revived observance of God, wages and conditions, the Maori and other matters. He sailed on the `Prairie', the `Bella May', the `Dispatch', the `Dart' and possibly others.

Parkinson was a merchant sailor from Ireland who made several trips to Australasia before settling in Tasmania

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