[COMLETE] Letters from Victorian Pioneers - ans

Post by **annise** » October 16th, 2016, 4:22 am

Thank both . I'll need to ask Katherine about the PL status of Beth's

Anne

Elizabby · Post by **Elizabby** » October 16th, 2016, 4:28 am

According to my notes, they hadn't been PLed yet.

Elizabby · Post by **Elizabby** » October 16th, 2016, 4:30 am

barbara2 wrote:
I had volunteered for two other sections (but which?). So I'll wait till all the other readers have checked in before asking for any more.

Best,

Barbara

I had you down for 29 and 30, and Kalynda as Sections 6-8 inclusive.

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » October 16th, 2016, 4:33 am

Elizabby wrote:
barbara2 wrote:
I had volunteered for two other sections (but which?). So I'll wait till all the other readers have checked in before asking for any more.

Best,

Barbara
I had you down for 29 and 30, and Kalynda as Sections 6-8 inclusive.

Good onya. I'll get onto recording them this week.

Best,

Barbara

Post by **annise** » October 16th, 2016, 4:38 am

Thank Beth
I'd have been right about the 29, 30 but I couldn't remember who else had volunteered. Doesn't help I was away for most of the last 3 weeks.

Anne

Post by **MaryAnnSpiegel** » October 16th, 2016, 5:11 am

Beth,
0 and 1 are PL OK. I'm getting a 404 not found for 2 - could you upload that one again? Was this where the "_128kb" bit kicked in?

MaryAnn

Elizabby · Post by **Elizabby** » October 16th, 2016, 5:27 am

Oh yes, I think it was. Try this:

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/lettersfromvictorianpioneers_02_various_128kb.mp3

Post by **MaryAnnSpiegel** » October 16th, 2016, 5:31 am

Elizabby wrote:Oh yes, I think it was. Try this:

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/lettersfromvictorianpioneers_02_various_128kb.mp3

Thanks Beth, that's it and it was PL OK.
MaryAnn

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » October 20th, 2016, 3:28 am

Hi MaryAnn,

Here is Section 29:

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/lettersfromvictorianpioneers_29_various.mp3
M:S
4:11

Best,

Barbara

Post by **annise** » October 20th, 2016, 3:34 am

Thanks Barbara

Anne

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » October 20th, 2016, 3:52 am

Ooops. I have just uploaded a correction version of Section 29:
M:S is now 4:15.

I had forgotten to say in the introduction who the letter was from.

Best,

Barbara

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » October 26th, 2016, 5:54 am

And now, Section 30:

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/lettersfromvictorianpioneers_30_various.mp3
M:S
5:11

Best,

Barbara

Please put me down for Sections 31, 32 and 33

Post by **annise** » October 26th, 2016, 1:10 pm

Thank you for the correction, new file and claims

Anne

Post by **MaryAnnSpiegel** » October 29th, 2016, 5:55 am

Letters 29 and 30 are PL OK! Letter writing back then was a bit different . . . very formal it would seem.
MaryAnn

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » October 29th, 2016, 5:44 pm

MaryAnnSpiegel wrote:...! Letter writing back then was a bit different . . . very formal it would seem.
MaryAnn

They were reporting to Lieutenant-Governor Latrobe so I guess they did their best to sound official.

The Victorians, like Anne and Elizabby, would know more (I'm from another state). The letters I've read so far were written by well-off "squatters" - pastoralists who settled themselves and their stock where they liked (as long as they didn't infringe on another squatter's boundaries) and paid mingy licenses for their "runs".

At the time the letters were written I'm guessing they were almost of historic interest because, a couple of years before, people with dangerous levelling notions began pouring into the brand new colony from all over the world and heading to its fabulous gold diggings.

Best,

Barbara