Letter from Charles Woss to family and friends

Title: Letter from Charles Woss to family and friends
Subject: Australia--Emigration and immigration—History; Aboriginal Australians--Australia; Aboriginal Australians--History; Missionary settlements; Settler colonialism; South Australia; Austria; German language--Writing; Correspondence
Category: 1. Settlement
Author: Woss, Charles
Current holder: State Library of South Australia
Date: May 18, 1848
Link: https://catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:443/record=b2922012~S1
Series number: D 8693(L)
Item number: b2922012
Access rights: Request at location
Rights: Undetermined. Normal copyright conditions for unpublished manuscripts apply.
Country of origin: Australia
Language: German
Description from source: 0.5 cm, manuscript (handwritten)

A letter written by Charles Woss, a German speaking immigrant from Austria, to his family and friends. The letter 'makes explicit mention of the brutality that characterised the earliest encounters between the indigenous Buandik people and the few white settlers in the Rivoli Bay area', including the murder of Aborigines on Rivoli Bay Station in 1848, where Woss was working.
Physical format: Letters