Subject	Emigration and immigration
	Immigrants’ writings
	German diaries
	German letters
	Ship letters
	South Australia
	Correspondence
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Menge, Johannes
Current Holder	State Library of South Australia
Period Of Reference	1836/1846
Series Number	D 5882(L)
Item Number	b2172970
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Written permission required for publication – apply to State Library of SA for details.
Country Of Origin	Australia
Language	German
	English
Description From Source	1.5 cm, Includes a typescript translation. Letters written be Johann Menge to Dr Pauli, a jurist, in Lubeck, 6 January 1845 and 3 February 1846 (10 pages). English translation of letters written by Johann Menge (14 pages), translation made by Simone McDonough. Letters written by Johann Menge while on board the ‘Coromandel’ and later in S.A. 1836-47. In German other than a letter written 13 January 1842 which is partly in English. Additional records of Johannes Menge consisting of a copy of a typed transcript of a diary kept by him in 1846. With the diary is a hand written, anonymous, note which reads: ‘Recently a (female) descendant of my great-great grandfather J. Menge died in N.Z. In her possession was a book (with letters & diary entries by J. Menge) written by his son Carl. This book had been sent by relations of this descendant to an Irish relative from when it was sent to the Menges of Stuttgart’.
Physical Format	Letters
	Correspondence
	Diaries
	Typescripts
	Records
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/WKDUS2U4/
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/5327C2WK/