Australian reminiscences and papers of L. E. Threlkeld, missionary to the Aborigines, 1824-1859.

Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1974. Series: Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 40. Ethnohistory series no. 2. Two volumes, large quarto (260 x 205 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers (light sunning to spines); endpaper maps;  pp. xii, 1-176; vi, 177-382; illustrated; an excellent set. Cover illustration after Robert Browne.

Although published over fifty years ago, Gunson’s scholarly presentation of the papers and miscellaneous writings of missionary Lancelot Edward Threlkeld (1788-1859) remains an essential resource for those interested in the early relations between the Awabakal people of the coastal Hunter region of New South Wales and their European colonisers.