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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial
• Sale Date:
  24 Nov 2019 ~ 12noon (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  156
• Lot Description:
  Thomas MUIR (1765 - 1799) and George HAMILTON (1783 - 1830) “The TELEGRAPH; a CONSOLATORY EPISTLE from Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay....”
  Quarto, disbound, pp 11, [1], front with mss note in pencil dated 1820, referring to Muir’s handwriting and Hunter’s Hill. One of three variant quarto editions, this being the issue with signature “B” at the foot of page 5. Ferguson 242.
• Notes:
  Thomas Muir, a Glasgow lawyer, was one of a group of five radicals known as the Scottish Martyrs, sentenced in 1794 to 14 years transportation for sedition. As one of New South Wales earliest political prisoners, Muir was permitted two convict servants and purchased a brick house at Sydney Cove as well as a farm “across the water”, two miles distant. Muir escaped from Botany Bay in 1796 and managed to reach France, where he died in 1799. This poem, addressed to Henry Erskine, a fellow radical, was actually written by Rev. George Hamilton. It describes the condition of the convicts and satirises Muir’s political ideas.
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 600
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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