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2-090 (Text)

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author,male,Bentley, Richard,un addressee

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Narrative Discourse

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98

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Public Written

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Memoirs

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http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_South_Wales

Created:

1833

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2-090

part of:

Corpus of Oz Early English

Source

Ward, 1969

pages

130-31
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542

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2-090-plain.txt

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2-090#Text

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Text

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In order to show the opinions entertained by some of the convicts, as regards the colony, I will give an extract from one of sundry letters which I have read, written by them to their friends in England, using the writer's own language and punctuation, but altering the spelling. He requests that his wife will come out, and bring their children with her, and then proceeds as follows:
'I am perfectly well satisfied with my situation thanks be to God that has placed me under those that does not despise a prisoner. No, my love, I am

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