Description
SECONDHAND BOOK – EX-LIBRARY
The Graham papers are one of the best-known and most extensive collections of merchant’s papers in Australia. This book makes available to the general reader for the first time a representative selection of his letters. The author has chosen letters from the years 1839-54 covering social, political and commercial aspects of Melbourne’s early years and added a connecting narrative to put them into context.
The pre-Gold Rush era in Victoria has to some extent been neglected by modern historians. In this book a man who was a key contributor to Melbourne’s growth and an acute observer tells of its fortunes during the 1840s and 50s. James Graham was twenty when he arrived in Melbourne in 1839 and by his death in 1898 he had become a very successful merchant, one of the few to survive the economic upheavals of the first sixty years.
These letters give us a rare continuity of insight into the problems and successes of a growing town from the point of view of a man who was prominent in its affairs for nearly sixty years.
Specifications:
Condition: Good – ex-library, plastic wrapped with library labels, slight warping to dust jacket.
Publisher: Hyland House Publishing
Year: 1985
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Pages: 261pp
ISBN: 0908090854
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