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Works by La Trobe

Published works by Charles Joseph La Trobe are as follows:

The Alpenstock: Or, Sketches of Swiss Scenery and Manners, 1825-1826. London, R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1829. ebook
_____ 2nd edition [1830?]

‘C. J. La Trobe on Negro Education’, Part 1, The Times, London, 19 October 1838, p.2.
_____ Part 2, The Times, London, 20 October 1838, p.7.

The Pedestrian: A Summer’s Ramble in the Tyrol and Some of the Adjacent Provinces, 1830. London, R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1832. ebook

The Rambler in Mexico, 1834. London, R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1836. ebook

The Rambler in North America, 1832-1833. London, R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1835. 2 vols. ebook vol.1, vol.2
_____ 2nd edition, 1836.

The Rambler in Oklahoma: La Trobe’s Tour with Washington Irving. From letters in The Rambler in North America. Edited and annotated by Muriel H. Wright and George H. Shirk. Oklahoma City, Harlow, 1955. ebook 1835, letters XI-XVI.

Report on Negro Education, British Guiana and Trinidad, 14 August 1838. Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Great Britain, 1839, vol.34, Accounts and Papers, No.35.

Report on Negro Education, Jamaica, 19 October 1837. Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Great Britain, 1837-38, vol.48, Accounts and Papers, No.113.

Report on Negro Education, Windward and Leeward Islands, 14 April 1838. Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Great Britain, 1837-38. vol.48, Accounts and Papers, No.520.

Report on the present state and prospects of the Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, May 31, 1847, in Correspondence on the subject of Convict Discipline and Transportation, 5th May 1848. Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Great Britain, 1847-48, Accounts and Papers, No.941, pp.33-79. Alternative link, pp.33-79.

_____ Reprinted in The Convict Probation System, Van Diemen’s Land 1839-1854; commentary and notes by Ian Brand. Hobart, Blubber Head Press 1990, pp.107-207. (Includes Enclosures 5 and 6 – not previously published.)

See also:

Reports and despatches, 1852-1854. Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Great Britain. (Search:- Keyword: “C. J. Latrobe”, typed as one word; Year: 1852 to 1854)

Address to the citizens of Melbourne, 3 October 1839, Port Phillip Patriot, 7 October 1839, p.4. Additional link

‘Port Phillip a lake: memorandum about the keys’ – discovered at Corio Bay, Geelong, The Australasian, 3 June 1871, p.7.

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