Lorna's extended family tree - The Australian Letters

Letters from assorted Devon relations, mainly to their siblings and cousins in New Zealand

A few of Marion's letters are from the Australian DAWE relations.

Clicking on the thumbnails will open a larger image of the letters concerned.

Not all are perfectly legible (sorry, I'm not a professional photographer, and couldn't check my work as I was doing it), but at least most can be easily read.

1894 Gladstone, TAS (pg 1): from Emily DAWE to "My dear Sister" (acutally sister-in-law, Honour in NZ)

1894 Gladstone, TAS (pg 2): from Emily DAWE to "My dear Sister" (acutally sister-in-law, Honour in NZ)

1894 Gladstone, TAS (pg 3): from Emily DAWE to "My dear Sister" (acutally sister-in-law, Honour in NZ)

1894 Gladstone, TAS (pg 4): from Emily DAWE to "My dear Sister" (acutally sister-in-law, Honour in NZ)

1894 Gladstone, TAS (pg 5): from Emily DAWE to "My dear Sister" (acutally sister-in-law, Honour in NZ)

1894 Gladstone, TAS (pg 6): from Emily DAWE to "My dear Sister" (acutally sister-in-law, Honour in NZ)

1894 Gladstone, TAS (pg 7): from Emily DAWE to "My dear Sister" (acutally sister-in-law, Honour in NZ)

1894 Gladstone, TAS (pg 8): from Emily DAWE to "My dear Sister" (acutally sister-in-law, Honour in NZ)

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

— Abraham Lincoln
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

— Cary Grant
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

— e. e. cummings
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

— Saint Augustine
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

— Mark Twain
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

— Henry David Thoreau
If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

— John Cardinal
In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

— Anonymous
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

— John Adams
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

— Abraham Lincoln
History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

— ?Santayana?
What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

— Last of the Summer Wine
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

— Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

— Terry Pratchett
.. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

— Petronius (210 BC)
The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

— Proust
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

— William J. H. Boetcker
Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

— Lorna 1992
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw
A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

— Anon
Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

— Anon