The Jerilderie Letter
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The Jerilderie Letter was dictated by infamous bushranger
Ned Kelly
to Joe Byrne
in 1879. The letter is named after the town of Jerilderie, New South Wales
, Australia
where the Kelly gang carried out a daring robbery.
Bushranger
Bushrangers, or bush rangers, originally referred to runaway convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities...
Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly was an Irish Australian bushranger. He is considered by some to be merely a cold-blooded cop killer — others, however, consider him to be a folk hero and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against the Anglo-Australian ruling class.Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish...
to Joe Byrne
Joe Byrne
Joe Byrne was an Australian bushranger born in Victoria to an Irish immigrant. A friend of Ned Kelly, he was a member of the Kelly Gang, who were declared outlaws after the murder of three policemen at Stringybark Creek...
in 1879. The letter is named after the town of Jerilderie, New South Wales
Jerilderie, New South Wales
Jerilderie is a town of 768 people in the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the only town in the Jerilderie Shire Local Government Area....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
where the Kelly gang carried out a daring robbery.
External links
- The Jerilderie Letter - Statement of Significance with zoomable image. Only two original documents by Ned Kelly are known to have survived. The more significant of these is the Jerilderie Letter.
- Images and transcript of the Jerilderie Letter at the State Library of Victoria
- Images, transcript and audio of John Hanlon's transcript of the Jerilderie Letter at the National Museum of Australia (scroll down page)