351 WILLIAM & ALICE GET MARRIED - VAN DIEMEN’S LAND 1842: William Smith arrived in Van Diemen’s Land aboard "Gilmore" in January 1839 having been found guilty of robbery and Transported for 15 years. Alice Reevey arrived in September 1839 aboard "Hindostan", transported for 7 years for larceny. In July 1842 they applied for permission to marry, which was granted. The present mss documents record their histories within the Convict Department and the process of applying for permission to marry. $500–750 352 A NEW SOUTH WALES TICKET-OF-LEAVE William PETTS, who had been found guilty of housebreaking and was sentenced to seven years transportation, arrived in New South Wales in August 1838 aboard "Lord Lyndoch" is granted a Ticket-of-Leave in December 1842. He is permitted "to employ himself in any lawful occupation within the District of Camden" and that is "Altered for Yass" a few weeks later. Petts was only 25 at the time he arrived in the colony, living until 1886 and the age of 71. He married twice and had 5 children. $500–750 353 WAIT, Benjamin Letters From Van Dieman’s Land, Written During Four Years Imprisonment For Political Offences Committed in Upper Canada. [Buffalo, A.W. Wilgis, 1843] 356 pp. frontispiece and fold-out map. Dampstains and mild foxing. In December 1837 , Benjamin Wait became involved in the Upper Canada Rebellion, first by trying to join the unsuccessful action of Charles Duncombe in the London District and then by throwing in his lot with William Lyon Mackenzie. Early in 1839, Wait & eight other state prisoners were transported together to Van Diemen’s Land. In the early 1840s, Wait escaped on an American whaler and, after several harrowing adventures, reached the United States. He then published this volume, which consists of letters he allegedly wrote to a friend over a 20-month period.The book relates the story of his transportation and includes petitions his wife Maria had written on his behalf in an effort to have him released. $200–300 ❖ 354 FREDERICK KALMUS (KALMERS) - TRANSPORTED FOR 15 YEARS FOR "CUTTING AND WOUNDING": Kalmus arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in February 1842, one of 401 convicts aboard the "Tortoise". His 15 year sentence arose out of his violent refusal to pay for a cup of coffee and four slices of bread and butter at a coffee-shop in Wardour Street, Soho. This original printed and mss Convict Record covers only the first three years of his sentence during which time he was allocated to the Cascades Station Gang. He very quickly got into trouble, the record showing 25 "stripes" for misconduct (28 Feb.1842), 6 days solitary for "positively refusing to work" (2 March); Insubordination, 30 stripes (April 1842); Disobedience - 8 days solitary (April 1843); Gross disobedience - 6 months hard labour in chains (April 1843); Disobedience - 36 lashes (May 1843)........ $500–750 355 A FREE PARDON FOR TIMOTHY LEES: 18 February 1844 Free Pardon on vellum, awarded to one Timothy LEES and signed by the Governor of New South Wales, George GIPPS; with official Coat of Arms and the original seal of NSW still attached. Lees had been tried and convicted of larceny at Bathurst 351 354 355 352 52