Letter from Total Abstinence Society to J.B. Mather and George Bell

Quaker Collection, Total Abstinence Society (1836) Letter from Total Abstinence Society to J.B. Mather and George Bell. University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection, Australia. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Letter from the Finance Committee of the Total Abstinence Society to J.B. Mather and George Bell. It accuses George Washington Walker of misusing the Society's funds and then slandering it. On the outside of the letter under the heading 'Records of a Slanderer and an Ingrate' is a statement that it is a lie put about by Mather 'a man whom above most in the colony George Washington Walker has sought to befriend'.

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Keywords:	Quaker, Religious Society of Friends, Tasmania, religious history, social history, Australia, Van Diemen's Land, VDL, George Washington Walker, Total Abstinence Society, J. B. Mather, Joseph Benson Mather, George Bell, slander, funds
Subjects:	440000 Philosophy and Religion > 440200 Religion and Religious Traditions 430000 History and Archaeology > 430100 Historical Studies
Collections:	Quaker Collection
ID Code:	2143
Deposited By:	Gillian Ward
Deposited On:	16 Oct 2007 17:51
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2008 16:35
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