When 20 pages of Australia’s first governor’s journal turned up, it was something of a must-have for the State Library of NSW.
It is not often that any of Governor Arthur Phillip’s material comes up for auction. The last was a letter 20 years ago and before that was 70 years earlier still.
Senior curator Sally Hone said when Phillip died in Bath in 1814 his house was cleared and nobody knows where his papers went. In January 1792 Phillip writes: “Like all the rest he appeared to think he had enjoyed every good this world affords before we came amongst them, and what we had to give except the hatchets was received with indifference. He past the night with Bannelong and those who live amongst us at Tubugulha where they had a dance, and left them early the next morning to return to the banks of the Hawkesbury.
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