Accession[1979.0078] Letters received by and relating to Superintendent Francis HareIdentifierUMA-ITE-1979007800052Scope and ContentFrom F.C. Standish to Hare. Regarding a range of matters including the Argus and Daily Telegraph's "nasty" comments on Hare's report of the Glenrowan affair, expects Nicolson and "the numerous scions of the Smith family" to make things disagreeable for Standish and Hare, thinks Age will "not be our foe", political rumours, reference to McAuliffe, "one of the most dangerous of the sympathisers", mentions Sadleir's suggestions for "the preservation of peace in the
NE". This is part of the digitized version of the Francis Hare Correspondence held in the University of Melbourne Archives. It consists of 54 letters and documents, of which this is one, from 1859-87 and received by or relating to Superintendent Francis Hare, one of the members of the Victoria police force involved in the pursuit and capture of the Kelly Gang. The collection complements Hare's published memoir, The Last of the Bushrangers (London, 1892) and includes letters by some of the key figures of the Kelly story including the Police Commissioner Frederick Standish, Superintendents Charles Hope Nicolson and John Sadleir, Detective M Ward and John Sherritt, as well as items by Hare himself.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest itemUnitSI (Gen) Unit 0039Copyright StatusPublic domainConditions of Use and ReproductionThis item is out of copyright. Please acknowledge the University of Melbourne Archives as the source of this material. For information about ordering a copy of this image contact the University of Melbourne Archives: archives@archives.unimelb.edu.auMenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
Hare, Francis A., F. C. Standish to Francis Hare (21 July 1880), [UMA-ITE-1979007800052]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 14/02/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/229681
