A Convict's Tour to Hell single work   poetry   satire   "You prisoners of New South Wales,"
First known date: 1839 Issue Details: First known date: 1839... 1839 A Convict's Tour to Hell
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      ca. 1832-1839 .
      Link: U2145Digitised copy of original Sighted: 24/09/2023
      (Manuscript) assertion

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      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Local Id: C967
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         Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009     pg. 83-89
Alternative title: A Tour to Hell
First line of verse: "Ye prisoners of New South Wales" First known date: ca. 1857
Notes:
This version entitled 'A Tour to Hell' is a reprint from the Cumberland Times, December 27, 1900 in which the poem is prefaced by an editorial comment indicating that this was the first time the poem had ever been published. A second note at the end of the poem discusses the authorship of the poem. It was posthumously copied by a Mr Thomas Holdstock from the dictation of an assigned servant who had worked with the author and memorised the poem. The manuscript was lent to the editor of the Cumberland Times, J. Whitley, in 1857. Whitley's note is dated April, 1885.
Notes:
This version of the poem has no author's note or epigraph.
Alternative title: A Convict's Tour of Hell
First line of verse: "Come all you prisoners of New South Wales,"
Subjects:
  • New South Wales,
Settings:
  • 1830s
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