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Shows & fairs, 1831

3 stories in Sydney's papers

Fair Rosamond

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1831 · page 3

Popular traditions ascribe the queen's offences to jealousy of Rosamond Clifford, the daughter of a gentleman of Herefordshire, to whom these traditions also ascribe all bodily…

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The Agricultural Society

The Australian · Friday 9 September 1831 · page 2

THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY!—Herd is another namby pamby, useless, spiritless, good for nothing, but to make great cry and little wool. "ie ne scuis…

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Select Poetry. LINES. Supposed to be the Prayer of the supplicating Nymph [?] Mr. Laurence Macdonald's Exhibition of Sculp[?]ture

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 27 October 1831 · page 4

THE myrtle wreath that I have laid Upon thy shrine is withered all; [?]The bloom wh[?]ch once its beauty made, I would not, if I could, recall…

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