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Thomas Fyshe Palmer Thomas Fyshe Palmer i(6008624 works by)
Born: Established: 1747 Bedfordshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1802
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Guam,
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North Pacific, Pacific Region,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1794 Departed from Australia: 1801
Heritage: English
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2 1 y separately published work icon A Narrative of the Sufferings of T. F. Palmer, and W. Skirving, During a Voyage to New South Wales, 1794, On Board the Surprise Transport Thomas Fyshe Palmer , Cambridge : G. G. J. and J. Robinson Benjamin Flower , 1797 6008698 1797 single work correspondence prose travel
1 [Letter from Sydney dated December 15, 1794] Thomas Fyshe Palmer , 1795 single work prose travel
— Appears in: Walker's Hibernian Magazine, or Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge , August 1795;

A published letter of Thomas Fyshe Palmer from Sydney addressed to the Reverend Jeremiah Joyce, a unitarian minister and member of the London Corresponding Society. Palmer began by noting that he was writing from the house of Thomas Muir, and that his, Muir’s and William Skirving’s three houses were “contiguous.” He reassured Joyce that they were all in good health and wrote that the soil and climate of Australia were “capital” and “delicious”. He reported that Governor Grose had given land to convicts and predicted that owing to this and the amenable climate, “transportation here will become a blessing.” He requested that Joyce send him “the seed of the early York cabbage, onions and the everlasting pea.”
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