Letters from Victorian Pioneers

Letters from Victorian Pioneers, with fuller title: A series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc. is a collection of letters from early Victorian settlers, edited by librarian Thomas Francis Bride (1849–1927)^[1] and first published in 1898. The papers, addressed to Lieutenant-Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe, describe the colony's early settlement and interactions with Aboriginal peoples, including reports by the Australian settler William Thomas (1794–1867).^[2] The work has been republished several times and remains a key source on Victoria's colonial history and Aboriginal relations.