Life in the Bush. (1840 - 18470. A memoir of Henry Howard Meyrick.Henry Meyrick (V) was sent to Victoria with his cousin Alfred,(nineteen) to make their fortunes as grazier squatters. They, like many contemporaries, encountered a relentless sequence of challenges and hardships. Their Mornington Peninsula runs were ‘Colourt’, Narren- Gullen’ and‘Ballyrungen’. In 1846 they moved their venture to Gippsland in the vicinity of Glenmaggie where Henry struggled on...
The Letters of Henry Howard Meyrick.The Letters of Henry Howard Meyrick May 1840 - November 1841 and January 1845 - April 1847. Henry Meyrick (seventeen) was sent to Victoria with his cousin Alfred, (nineteen) to make their fortunes as grazier squatters. They, like many contemporaries, encountered a relentless sequence of challenges and hardships. Their Mornington Peninsula runs were ‘Colourt’, Narren- Gullen’ and‘Ballyrungen’....
