Gordons Cottage Australia

A Memory of Esslemont Ho.

My wife and myself are caretakers of Adam Lindsay Gordon Cottage, Dingleydell, near Port Macdonnell, South Australia, built 1862 and purchased by ALG in 1864. I am the present president of the Adam Lindsay Gordon committee. Adam is the only poet from down under to have his bust in the abbey, born 1833-1870 he was 37 years of age when he died by his own hand in Brighton, Victorian poet, horseman, father,and farmer, his name Gordon is held high in Australia - seee www.adamlindsaygordon.org or www.dingleydell.net.
We have a great print of castle if required, let us know. We get thousands of tourists each year to visit his heritage home called Dingley Dell, named from 'Pickwick Papers'. Gordon exiled to Australia (Adelaide 1853), he was a remittance boy then Penola 34 miles north of Mount Gambier as a trooper to be friends with Father Tension Woods, boss of young Mary Mckillop (Oct will be made a saint). Far too much to tell, lost his inheritance, 7000, in 1866 by taking sheep to Western Australia. Hoping to hear from you. Allan Childs, Post Office Box 309, Port Macdonnell, South Australia, PC 5291.

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