Portraits -- Partners -- Journeying -- Arrival -- Geelong -- Boronggoop: the first year -- The daily round -- 'happy and prosperous' -- 'A piece of land & a stone cottage' --Caroline alone -- Postscript
Summary
In 1839 Miss Anne Drysdale sailed from Scotland to Port Phillip and with a small inheritance was determined to be a sheep farmer. She took up land near Geelong and formed a partnership with Caroline Newcomb. Their successful business and daily lives are recorded in Anne's diaries giving an account of domestic and farming life in the 1840s