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Old Melbourne Memories

Rolf Boldrewood (1826–1915)

Memoir · first published 1884 · Melbourne: George Robertson (this text from the 1896 second edition, revised)

Recollections of the Port Phillip District in the 1840s: squatting runs, early Melbourne and the people of the frontier.

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Rolf Boldrewood (author) died in 1915. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1965. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1884. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. OLD MELBOURNE MEMORIES
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. CHAPTER I A.D. 1840
  5. CHAPTER II THE FAR WEST
  6. CHAPTER III THE DEATH OF VIOLET
  7. CHAPTER IV DUNMORE
  8. CHAPTER V SQUATTLESEA MERE
  9. CHAPTER VI THE EUMERALLA WAR
  10. CHAPTER VII THE CHILDREN OF THE ROCKS
  11. CHAPTER VIII THE NATIVE POLICE
  12. CHAPTER IX KILFERA
  13. CHAPTER X OLD PORT FAIRY
  14. CHAPTER XI PORTLAND BAY
  15. CHAPTER XII GRASMERE
  16. CHAPTER XIII SUPERIOR FATTENING COUNTRY
  17. CHAPTER XIV BURCHETT OF "THE GUMS"
  18. CHAPTER XV WORK AND PLAY
  19. CHAPTER XVI THE ROMANCE OF A FREEHOLD
  20. CHAPTER XVII LE CHEVALIER BAYARD
  21. CHAPTER XVIII THE CHRISTENING OF HEIDELBERG
  22. CHAPTER XIX THE WOODLANDS STEEPLECHASE
  23. CHAPTER XX YERING
  24. CHAPTER XXI TALES OF A "TRAVELLER"
  25. CHAPTER XXII YAMBUK
  26. POEMS
  27. BALLAARAT
  28. THE DEATH OF WELFORD [1]
  29. SUNSET IN THE SOUTH
  30. "BALACLAVA"
  31. Captain Martinet ( loquitur ).
  32. THE BUSHMAN'S LULLABY
  33. MORNING
  34. WANTED
  35. PERDITA
  36. "PRIEZ POUR ELLE"

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