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A huge crowd for a hanging: the end of John Knatchbull

Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW (923.41/K67/2)   One of my very favourite letters in the collections of the State Library of NSW was written by a wool merchant by the name of Joseph Whitehead. In an 1838 letter to his uncle…