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Hobart Town General
Post Office datestamp
1840-1858

Hobart Town, Tasmania 23 July, 1853-98 days

1/4 unpaid Ship Letter Hobart to Glasgow. 3d ship fee paid at Hobart, and rnanuscript
8d ocean crossing Ship Letter fee paid, per Cleopatra. Liverpool rated 1/4 rnanuscript
to Glasgow. 25 October Liverpool transit, 29 October Glasgow.
Letter from fellow Scotto J.W. Campbell, massive dry goods mercantile exporter in Glasgow,
regarding shipment damaged by sait water, "rendering quite unsaleable."

Scots migrated extensively to Australasian commonwealth countries, setting up communities where they have remained to this day.