Anne Drysdale (3 results)

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Large Print. Type: Ex-Library Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Octavo Size. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with black & white plates. xv, 331pp. In 1839 Miss Anne Drysdale sailed from Scotland to Port Phillip. She was 47 years old and determined to be a sheep farmer. She soon took up land near Geelong and formed a partnership with another enterprising woman, Caroline Newcomb. They established a successful pastoral business and for 13 years lived and worked together on their properties. Their daily life was recorded in Anne's diaries providing a rare, detailed account of domestic and farming life in 1840's. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

2pp., 12mo. 33 lines of text, written in a close, neat hand. Good, on lightly-aged paper. She begins with a five-line 'encomium', before assuring Mrs Drysdale that she is 'pretty safe': 'I have been considered By People of the Highest Rank to whom I was known merely as a private teacher &c &c of moral virtues To possess of for the highest talents & the purest Virtues I have been familiar I need not say why. None of these I ever flattered. I should Consider it degrading myself & insulting them.' There follows a reference to 'that Angeli being who has been so long hovering on the brink of that eternity where her serene & happy spirit will escape from the feeble frame that has so long incumbered it'. She has received 'wonderful tidings from America'. There is a reference to her last surviving child John, who is 'at Seacliff with his Wife'. She ends 'It is odd enough that the pigeons I sent you should fly back to me with Feathers on after this long ab[s]ence. I suppose you understand my Bright wit you would be sorry [to] lose so good a Joke perhaps the last from yours | Sincerely [signed] Anne Grant'.…