The 1820 Settler Correspondence
as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
and edited by Sue Mackay

pre 1820 Settler Correspondence before emigration

ALL the 1819 correspondence from CO48/41 through CO48/46 has been transcribed whether or not the writers emigrated to the Cape. Those written by people who did become settlers, as listed in "The Settler Handbook" by M.D. Nash (Chameleon Press 1987), are labelled 1820 Settler and the names of actual settlers in the text appear in red.

ROBINSON, Dr.

Written by Sue Mackay on 06 April 2015.

National Archives, Kew CO48/45, 448

Eccles Street

Dublin

July 22^nd 1819

My Lord,

I beg leave to enquire of your Lordship whether it is the intention of Government in forming the new colony at the Cape of Good Hope to connect a Medical Establishment with the plan in view and whether a Physician is to be appointed.

I pray your Lordship will excuse the liberty and not consider the enquiry intrusive but if the present communication should receive your Lordship's notice as leading to further steps not perhaps foreign to the welfare of the colony, I have the honor to be my Lord

Your Lordship's most obedient and very humble servant

J? ROBINSON MD

Note from GOULBURN:

There is no intention of making any medical estab't of such a nature as to require the app't of a physician

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