The Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate: Volume Two: Aboriginal Vocabularies of South East Australia, 1839-1852

The journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson (1788-1866), the Chief Protector of Aborigines of Port Phillip from 1839 to early 1850, are a rich source of historical and ethnohistorical information. His voluminous private papers and journals were acquired by the Mitchell Library in New South Wales in 1939 from the estate of his son Arthur P. Robinson of Bath, England. The papers did not arrive in Sydney until 1949, their departure from England being delayed by their possible destructi...