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On the Decease of a Late Newspaper single work   poetry   humour   "Thy death was sudden, tho' not unexpected,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1837... 1837 On the Decease of a Late Newspaper
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Notes

  • 'Humorous.' - Webby
  • John Hay notes in his chapter 'Literature and Society' published in A New History of Western Australia (1981): 604 that '[p]ersonal animus gave rise to [this] the liveliest of the Gazette's poems ... prematurely interring William Nairne Clark's Swan River Guardian.'

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