"This work collates the extensive correspondence of James Dawson found in Australian and Scottish newspapers. Born near Linlithgow, Scotland in 1806, into a family of well-known distillers, he arrived in Victoria in 1840 and became a passionate advocate for Aboriginal rights. His 1881 ethnography 'Australian Aborigines' is considered a primary source on the Aboriginal peoples of western Victoria."--Back cover
Notes
Includes wordlist of 'the Western District of Victoria' collated by Isabella Dawson and reprinted in the Australasian, pages 350-360.
