No Privacy for Writing Quotes

“In Sydney Doctor…has ordered us all into Quarantine all our bags beds and mess tins to be taken with us Alf scarcely able to put one foot before the other me been confined just 12 days the baby and Edie to be carried so you may guess what sort of a pickle we were in”
― Andrew Hassam, No Privacy for Writing: Shipboard Diaries 1852-1879

“fine Morning lots of flying fish flying about they fly in flocks like starlings nothing more particulaer”
― Andrew Hassam, No Privacy for Writing: Shipboard Diaries 1852-1879

“We have Some very Strange and Some very nice people With us”
― Andrew Hassam, No Privacy for Writing: Shipboard Diaries 1852-1879

“A useful Man lost for the want of common nourishment he was A Carpenter by trade and I believe A first rate tradesman from the aperatus’s he had made leaving A wife Pregnant & two little Children to mourn the loss of their Starved Father these are a few of the Horror’s of Government Emigration”
― Andrew Hassam, No Privacy for Writing: Shipboard Diaries 1852-1879