Wealth for toil

Letter to the Editor of The Geelong Advertiser, from Francis Tuckfield, Buntingdale Mission on Gulidjan Country in Geelong, Victoria, Sep. 20, 1847

1 This is a redacted poem based on an edited excerpt of a letter written by Francis Tuckfield to the Editor of the Geelong Advertiser, 20 September 1847, with respect to the finances of his “Aboriginal Mission Station”, Buntingdale.

2 Lyric taken from hymn, ‘The Pilgrim’s Happy Lot’