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Letter from Charles Woss to family and friends

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Date	1848-05-18
Subject	Australia--Emigration and immigration—History Aboriginal Australians--Australia Aboriginal Australians--History Missionary settlements Settler colonialism South Australia Austria German language--Writing Correspondence
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Woss, Charles
Current holder	State Library of South Australia
Link	https://catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:443/record=b2922012~S1
Series number	D 8693(L)
Item number	b2922012
Access rights	Request at location
Rights	Undetermined. Normal copyright conditions for unpublished manuscripts apply.
Country of origin	Australia
Language	German
Description from source	0.5 cm, manuscript (handwritten) A letter written by Charles Woss, a German speaking immigrant from Austria, to his family and friends. The letter 'makes explicit mention of the brutality that characterised the earliest encounters between the indigenous Buandik people and the few white settlers in the Rivoli Bay area', including the murder of Aborigines on Rivoli Bay Station in 1848, where Woss was working.
Physical format	Letters