No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.

Australia initiated its own postage service featuring a kangaroo and map design.

"My Darling Father – I simply don’t know where to begin to give you any idea of this extraordinary place – stupendous size, lightning speed, deafening noise, miraculous mechanical ingenuity, no creative imagination, no sense of the absurd... above all an extraordinary atmosphere of hope..."
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