Volume 64: Emily Macarthur [Mrs. James Macarthur] correspondence and other papers, 1838-1879: No. 217

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experimentalists who had come from Warnambool to astonish the natives with what he called oil of violets the perfume of which was concealed in his rancid oil.  Still it was a beginning & I pointed out to him how he could obtain the perfume of violets in future - and I told him that if the N.S.Wales Government would afford me certain privileges I would soon be in the field as a competitor with him.

One exhibition of Pianofortes had expended £1500 pounds in preparing for the exhibition & had succeeded in turning out some fine toned

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