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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D4734/10/5
Title	Letters from William Adlington Howitt during his voyage to Australia, his stay there with relatives (mainly Anderson family) and his return voyage, mainly to parents, brothers and sisters
Date	1885-1886
Description	Including: Voyage out (D4734/10/5/1-7) including references to life on board, Gibraltar (D4734/10/5/3), Malta and concert on board (D4734/10/5/4), Cairo and the Pyramids (Egypt), meteor shower (D4734/10/5/5-6), Colombo (Sri Lanka) (D4734/10/5/7), many containing a log of daily events Nov-Dec 1885; time spent with relatives in Melbourne, Barragunda, Sale etc (Australia) (D4734/10/5/8-21) including references to unseasonable Christmas weather (D4734/10/5/11), killing shark (D4734/10/1/14), koala bears and visit to Lake Wellington (D4734/10/1/18) Dec 1885 - Mar 1886; return voyage May 1886 (D4734/10/5/22), passenger tag (D4734/10/5/23), illustrated card for Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo (D4734/10/5/24)
Extent	24 items
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Howitt family of Heanor, Derbyshire and Nottingham
Privacy Notice	Data Subjects in Archives Privacy Notice
Term	Travel abroad
	Ocean travel
	Letters (documents)
	British Empire
	Colonialism
	Travel

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Place (click for further details)	Type
Egypt	Country
Australia
Sri Lanka
Malta	Country

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