Rose Paterson's Illalong Letters | Rose Paterson, Colin Roderick
Rose Paterson was the third daughter of of East India Company Naval Officer Robert Johnston Barton who arrived in Sydney in 1839. Rose married Andrew Bogle Paterson about 1862 abd their first child was Barty 'Banjo' Paterson. The letters were written from 1873-1888 from Illalong, an isolated sheep station in western New South Wales.