Gender:
Unknown
The author of 'Home Dispatch', published in the Colonial Observer, 21 June, 1843, reads as Robin Rees while the author of 'Home Despatch No. 3', published in the Colonial Observer, 2 August, 1843, reads as Robin Rus.
Elizabeth Webby in Early Australian Poetry : An Annotated Bibliography of Original Poems Published in Australian Newspapers, Magazines and Almanacks Before 1850 (1982) lists the author of both poems as Robin Rus.