Edward Gibbon Wakefield Edward Gibbon Wakefield i(A95172 works by)
Born: Established: 20 Mar 1796 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 16 May 1862 Wellington, Wellington (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
Gender: Male
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1 3 y separately published work icon A Letter From Sydney The Principal Town of Australasia : & Other Writings on Colonization Edward Gibbon Wakefield , London Toronto New York (City) : J. M. Dent E. P. Dutton and Company , 1929 Z1267216 1929 collected work correspondence

This work was first published as a series of letters in London by the Morning Chronicle. Wakefield falsely claimed to be a disgruntled settler writing from Sydney when in fact he was in prison for the kidnapping of a school girl.

Wakefield proposed the sale of crown lands in small units at a "sufficient price" (fixed and modest), rather than the granting of large tracts free. The proceeds would pay for sending emigrants from Great Britain, who were to be equally divided by sex and to represent a cross-section of English society.
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