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From: "Bob Cunning" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-MELB] RE: AUS-MELB Immigration depots
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:14:33 +1100
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Thans Lenore, I shall look into those publications.

Cheers, Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lenore Frost" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:57 PM
Subject: [AUS-MELB] RE: AUS-MELB Immigration depots

> HI Bob,
>
> There are two very good books on the subject of emigration/immigration by
> Keith Pescod:
>
> "Good food, bright fires & civility : British emigrant depots of the
> nineteenth century". Kew, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2001.
>
> "A place to lay my head : immigrant shelters of nineteenth century
> Victoria". Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, c2003.
>
>
> They have just about everything you ever wanted to know about
> emigrant/immigrant depots. If your local library doesn't have a copy,
make
> a point of asking them to get copies, because they are books every good
> library should have.
>
> Lenore Frost
> Essendon, Vic

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