Paper no.32, [July?] [1880?]

Stonehenge / Thursday / / My dear Hare / / Failuing to meet with Evans? and as I have to be to Sydney on Friday I committed to paper in a letter which I addressed to Evans? the urgent manner in which I conceived you had been ? & I gave my reasons why I thought you had reason to complain of the tone adopted by them, Evans’? reply reached me this ? and I cannot do better than send it to you. I confirmed that Evans? ? ??? events that might be placed in possession of the facts which they appeared not to be at present. / What a blow the result ???????Collingwood & one or two other large centres, I ?? think we have another berry administration pure and simple but I don’t ? that something ? advantageous to the ? ?? / Kindest rgards to Mrs Hare & yourself and all the Sunbury? Circle / I remain / Dear old Hare / Your true friend / A?M /

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.