Project Gutenberg 2025-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 143 Barker, Lady (Mary Anne) 1831 1911 Barker, Mary Anne, Lady Broome, Lady (Mary Anne) Broome, Mary Anne Stewart Barker, Lady Stewart, Mary Anne Letters to Guy $aLondon :$bMacmillan and Co., $c1885. MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Letters to Guy" by Lady Barker is a collection of travel letters written in the late 19th century. The book is composed of detailed correspondences from Lady Barker (who also published under the name Lady Broome) to her son Guy, chronicling her experiences as she travels from Mauritius, across Australia, and settles into her new home. The overarching topic is her family's journey and impressions of colonial life, society, nature, and people in Australia, enriched with personal anecdotes and descriptions of daily life. The opening of "Letters to Guy" is a lively account of Lady Barker’s journey from Mauritius to Australia, written in the form of an affectionate letter to her son. She describes the voyage by French steamer, the adjustment to the colder climate, and the various quirks of her travel companions—including her son Louis, their maid Catherine, and Monsieur Puppy the dog. Upon arrival in Adelaide, the family is greeted with Australian hospitality and explores the bustling city, particularly delighted by the schools and children they encounter. The narrative then follows their continued travels along the Australian coast and inland, featuring vivid descriptions of places, local customs, native performances, hardships of overland travel, and observations of the burgeoning colonial society, always with warmth, humour, and a mother’s tender perspective. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20230322001358barker 1885 GB Reading ease score: 67.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Western Australia -- Description and travel DU Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: Travel Writing 296379 2025-07-30T05:10:32.168954 text/html 272250 2025-04-01T00:28:52 text/html 563756 2025-07-30T05:10:37.139958 application/epub+zip 561142 2025-07-30T05:10:33.214941 application/epub+zip 219270 2025-07-30T05:10:32.652965 application/epub+zip 841233 2025-07-30T05:10:40.223394 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 811405 2025-07-30T05:10:36.583939 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 268305 2025-07-30T05:10:31.804986 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 248565 2025-04-01T00:28:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15950 2025-07-30T05:10:40.364401 application/rdf+xml 9729 2025-07-30T05:10:32.852930 image/jpeg 1846 2025-07-30T05:10:32.745934 image/jpeg 810669 2025-07-30T05:10:32.205953 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia