Cirrus@Austlit

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.”