xt7qjq0stw34_5569 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Caroline Chisholm letter to dear sir, with clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Caroline Chisholm letter to dear sir, with clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_64/Folder_67/Multipage29157.pdf 1852 February 3, undated 1852 1852 February 3, undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5569 xt7qjq0stw34 Capt. Chisholm removed with his
family to Australia, as his health re-
quired a temporary change of climate.
At Sydney Mrs. Chisholm’s sympa-
thies were enlisted by the sufferings
of the emigrants, who frequently ar-
rived friendless and penniless. When
ECapt. Chisholm returned to India, it
:Was deemed desirable that his family
should remain for a time at Sydney,
and his wife devoted all her spare
nest efforts, and for them, after great
difiiculties, she succeeded in esta-
blishing a. temporary home. She
undertook several journeys into
the interior, for the purpose of
forming committees and establish-
ing country homes, taking with her
at the same time- parties of young
women, varying in number from
fifteen to sixty, whom she placed in
service at the farms on the route.
Their travelling expenses were at
first borne by herself, and afterwards
refunded. No sooner, however, did
the settlers become acquainted with
her praiseworthy object, than they
offered to find conveyance as well as
food; and Mrs. Chisholm records the
fact that her own expenses during
seven years amounted only to
£1. 18s. 6d. When labourers were
required in the interior, though there
was an excess in Sydney, she under-
took, at the Government expense,
many journeys of 300 miles into the
bush for the purpose of planting fami-
lies; sharing the hardships of her
companions, and performing the
duties of leader, adviser, and com-
missary-general. Mrs. Chisholm esta-
blished an office in Sydney, at which
all persons needing employment
might attend daily; and by her dis-
interested efl'orts has placed many
thousands in positions of respecta-
bility and comfort. Having collected
a quantity of facts bearing on the
history and prospects of settlers in
the colony, she published them under
the title of “Voluntary Information
of the People of New South Wales.”

Early in 1845 Capt. Chisholm re-

joined his wife, and gave her the
benefit of his hearty co—operation.

In 1846 they found it necessary to
revisit their native land; and Mrs.

Chisholm left Australia, having ac-‘
cepted a public testimonial of one:
hundred and fifty pounds, which she‘
set aside for the furtherance of her

benevolent views. In fact, she re-

turned to England, not to rest from

her labours, but to carry them out

more effectually. Possessing neither

rank nor influence, and with an in-

come scarcely amounting to a com-

petency, Mrs. Chisholm began her

contest with Government oflicials for

the rights of her poor clients. She

secured attention to her representa-

tions by the confidence she inspired;

and at length the order was given
which consigned two shiploads of
children from various workhouses to
their parents in Australia, at the ex-
pense of Government. Similar suc-
cess attended her efforts on behalf of
the convicts’ Wives, who had been
promised a free passage in certain
cases of meritorious behaviour on the
part of their husbands. But the great
achievement of her visit to England
was the establishment of the Female
Colonization Loan Society, for the
promotion of family emigration. She
returned to Australia in 1854, and
after devoting many years to the
philanthropic objects she had at heart,
a_ain visited En-land in 1866.

 

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