Subject	Australia–Social life and customs
	German letters
	Ship letters
	Melbourne (Vic.)
	Adelaide (S.A.)
	Northern Territory
	Correspondence
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Bauer, Jacob
Keywords	Observatory
Current Holder	State Library of Victoria
Period Of Reference	1850/1865
Date	1850-08-04
Series Number	MS 14822
Item Number	9924767943607636
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Copyright or permission restrictions may apply.
Country Of Origin	Germany
	England
	Australia
Place	Melbourne
	Adelaide
	Palmerston
	Metz
	Brighton
	London
Language	German
	English
Description From Source	0.5 Linear meters. Original ms., printed and typescript. Altogether 235 pages in 19th century German script. Seventy autograph letters, signed by Jacob Bauer, from 4 August 1850 – 11 April 1865. The collection includes 3 letters from Metz (4 August 1850 to 19 October 1850), 11 letters from Brighton (21 February 1852 to 26 April 1853), 6 letters from London (12 May 1853 to 6 July 1853), 1 letter from the ship “Rekrut” (10 July 1853), 46 letters from Melbourne (25 October 1853 to 20 February 1864), 2 letters from Adelaide (23 April 1864 and 27 October 1864), and 1 letter from Palmerston, Northern Territory (8 and 11 April 1865); an unsent letter from Susanna Schmahl, Bauer’s mother, dated 1 September 1863 to Jacob Bauer, his wife and son; a newspaper cutting dated 26 June 1859 of Bauer’s report from the Flagstaff Observatory. Also includes a typescript of the transcription of the letters and a partial translation into English.
Physical Format	Letters
	Typescripts
	Newspapers
	Correspondence
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/DUHEEAMS/
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/YB8VA32N/