Record

Document Reference	Os C 461
Title	Letter from H. Denison, to J.E. Denison; 1 June 1850
Date	1 June 1850
Extent	4 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Sends regards to family; refers to Stephen [Denison]'s article and [Robert] Peel's letter; believes revenue duties should be voted in next session; refers to drainage statistics as 'wonderful' and asks if benefits last; informs him that he has written to Sidney Herbert about plans for selecting emigrants; believes certain women are of little use in colony and should be willing to work as domestic servants; discusses merits of general emigration; states that he has heard from William T. Denison; refers to removal of Cape and New South Wales as convict colonies; comments on convicts as cheap labour source; states that he has heard reports from [Charles] Latrobe at Port Phillip; comments that he is looking at land for sheep; discusses nature of Australian land.
Term	animals, sheep
	colonial affairs, labour
	colonial affairs, convicts
	women, attitudes towards
	colonies
	agriculture, drainage
	agricultural improvements
	emigration
	governments, Whig Government 1846-52

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA8661	Denison; Stephen C. (1811-1871); Mr; barrister brother of J.E. Denison	1811-1871
NA1860	Peel; Robert (1788-1850); 2nd Baronet; Prime Minister 1841-1846	1788-1850
NA9900	Herbert; Sidney (1810-1861); 1st Baron Herbert of Lea; statesman	1810-1861
NA207	Denison; William T. (1804-1871); Sir; colonial governor brother of J.E. Denison knighted 1846	1804-1871
NA10051	Latrobe; Charles J. (1801-1875); Mr; Governor Victoria 1851-4	1801-1875
NA8650	Denison; Henry (1810-1858); Mr; barrister brother of J.E. Denison	1810-1858
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873