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No 66 Spring 2000

Kelly, Ned (1854-1880), p. 43 of the Jerilderie Letter, dictated by Ned Kelly to Joe Byrne, February 1879. In which the Victorian police are described as ‘a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Baliffs or English landlords…’. MS 13361. La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection. [manuscript]

Kelly, Ned (1854-1880), p.43 of the Jerilderie Letter, dictated by Ned Kelly to Joe Byrne, February 1879. In which the Victorian police are described as ‘a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Baliffs or english landlords …’. MS 13361. La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection. A complete copy of the letter and transcript is available on the State Library of Victoria's web site http://www.slv.vic.gov.au