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Margaret Catchpole Margaret Catchpole i(A61465 works by)
Born: Established: 1762 Suffolk,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1819 Richmond, Hawkesbury area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1801
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1 Margaret Catchpole Margaret Catchpole , 1995 single work correspondence
— Appears in: With Fond Regards : Private Lives through Letters 1995; (p. 22-25)
1 [Letter to Uncle and Aunt Howes] Margaret Catchpole , 1988 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing 1988; (p. 4-5)
1 y separately published work icon [Letter to Mrs Cobbold, Including a Letter to Dr George Stebbin] Margaret Catchpole , 1802 (Manuscript version)6672855 6672857 1802 single work correspondence

Catchpole first letter from New South Wales, written to her former employer and patron Elizabeth Cobbold a month after landing, describes the country, the productions of the colony, and the varying forms of convict life and penal discipline. She longed to send her patron one of the local parrots "for they are very Buttefull But i see so maney dy on Board it mak me so verry unwilling to send you one But if i should Contiuneu Long in this Countrey i suarteneley will send you sumethg out of this wicked Countrey for i must say this is the wickedes places i ever was in all my Life." The attached letter to Dr [George] Stebbin is a series of short correspondences headed "Dear Sir," or "Sir," on different topics. The first details a gruesome encounter where "the Blackes the natives of this places kild and wounded 8 men and women and children." The second details Catchpole's journey, her landing at Sydney, the Aborigines, and other Suffolk women convicts. The third mainly details commodity prices in the colony, and the fourth a wish that Dr Stebbin might address her a letter at an address in the Brickfields, Sydney.
1 y separately published work icon Letters Margaret Catchpole , 1801-1811 (Manuscript version)5980872 5980873 1801 correspondence

Between 1801 and 1811, Margaret Catchpole wrote a series of letters to her connections in England, including her former employer, Elizabeth Cobbold, in Ipswich. The letters constitute one of the earliest surviving, and most extensive, collections of correspondence written by an Australian convict.
1 y separately published work icon [Letter to Mrs Cobbold] Margaret Catchpole , 1801 (Manuscript version)6672640 6672421 1801 single work correspondence
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