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The telegraph: a consolatory epistle manuscript from Thomas Muir to Hon. Henry Erskine, late Dean of faculty 1796

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[Am 9, Item 1]
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Muir, Thomas

One of the 'Scottish Martyrs' transported to New South Wales for sedition, Thomas Muir was one of the few convicts who escaped the colony in the 1790s.

Convicts

Poetry

Political crimes and offenses

Scots

The Telegraph: a consolatory epistle from Thomas Muir, Esq. of Botany Bay...

Satirical poem purportedly written by Thomas Muir in 1796 but believed to have come from a Tory clergyman in Edinburgh.

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Muir, Thomas

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One of the 'Scottish Martyrs', Muir was transported for sedition in 1794. He escaped from the colony in 1796 only to be hunted by the Spanish and English before being wounded and offered refuge in France.