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Updated: May 13, 2025

I did hear that, when addressed to an uncolonial name, and with no grander direction than the Post-office itself, the clerks are apt to apropriate them this is, perhaps, only a wee bit of Melbourne scandal. The arrival of our letters from England left nothing now to detain us, and made us all anxious to commence our trip to the diggings, although the roads were in an awful condition.

Ellen Clacy - A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53