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The letters of Rachel Henning: Have we been conned?

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| Edmund Biddulph Henning 1834-1928 | Rachel Henning's letters | Contents Introductions Edited letters IHS articles References ---------------- 1. Introduction One of the most famous books of early Australian writing is The Letters of Rachel Henning published in 1951-2 by the Bulletin magazine and subsequently republished in book form. Within those publications the available letters were heavily edited. Rachel Henning ,(1826-1914) arrived in Australia from England in 1854, and her letters cover the period 1853-1882. The following is some material from the Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin which refers to Rachel Henning's writings and her period of residence in the Illawarra region of coastal New South Wales. An article (linked above) by the present writer outlines aspects of her brother Edmund Biddulph Henning (1834-1928)and his time in the northern part of the district, near Bulli. ------------------ 2. The edited Letters of Rach...
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The Bunan Ceremony of New South Wales

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Shoalhaven: | Amootoo | Aunty Julie Freeman | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Bunan ceremony | Byamee's Hands, Shoalhaven River | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | First Nations research | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Timbery | Ulladulla Mission | Words | Yams | R.H. Mathews. Contents Introduction Article Location Words Discussion  References ---------------------- 1. Introduction The month of February 1896 saw Australian anthropologist Robert Hamilton "R.H." Mathews (1841-1918) meeting with local elder George Nipple Bandicoot (born 1823) and other Shoalhaven Aboriginal natives to obtain information about the local bunan ground which he had visited the previous year (1895) and went on to describe in the following academic paper published in The American Anthropologist during October 1896 (Mat...
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Arthur Cousins - a biography

Arthur Cousins 1866-1960  Michael Organ  3 March 1994 [This book chapter was originally published as Arthur Cousins: A Biography, in Illawarra: The Garden of New South Wales , Illawarra Historical Society, November 1994, 360p. ] Abstract  He was that "rara avis" in Australian historiography, the devoted local historian who has a realisation of the broader implications of regional development. So wrote Sydney University Archivist D.S. Macmillan in an obituary notice published in the October 1960 number of the Union Recorder, commemorating the death of Arthur Cousins on Wednesday, 17 August, at his Cremone residence, aged 94 years. Though having known him for only a brief period at the end of a long life, Macmillan had developed a degree of admiration and respect for this elderly gentleman, who, along with G.E. Hall and others, had worked towards the creation of the Sydney University Archives, where Macmillan was appointed first full-time archivist in 1954...
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