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for the Committee   Cooper's Creek 26th June 1861.			I hope we shall be done justice by We fulfilled our task but we were aband not followed up as I expected and the Depot party abandoned their post ROH Burke
Last notes of Robert O'Hara Burke ex2009-002, MS 13071, Records of the Burke & Wills Expedition Australian Manuscripts Collection. State Library of Victoria.	Image No: ms000059, ex2009-002 MS 13071, State Library of Victoria		Last notes of Robert O'Hara Burke ex2009-002, MS 13071, Records of the Burke & Wills Expedition Australian Manuscripts Collection. State Library of Victoria.	Image No: ms000060, ex2009-002 MS 13071, State Library of Victoria

King has behaved nobly and I hope he will be properly cared for. ROH Burke			and he goes up the creek in accordance with my request June 2[?]th 1861
Last notes of Robert O'Hara Burke ex2009-002, MS 13071, Records of the Burke & Wills Expedition Australian Manuscripts Collection. State Library of Victoria.	Image No: ms000061, ex2009-002 MS 13071, State Library of Victoria		Last notes of Robert O'Hara Burke ex2009-002, MS 13071, Records of the Burke & Wills Expedition Australian Manuscripts Collection. State Library of Victoria.	Image No: ms000062, ex2009-002 MS 13071, State Library of Victoria

Provenance: A note from Burke & Wills Web.
Burke's last notes are written on four pages detached from a notebook. Burke read these notes to John King shortly before Burke died. King looked after the notebook and gave it to Sir William Stawell, President of the Royal Society of Victoria, in Melbourne on 5 December 1861. Stawell read the pages to a meeting of the Exploration Committee on the same day and it is possible this was when Stawell detached the pages from the notebook.

The Royal Society of Victoria donated the pages to the State Library of Victoria in 1875, but the contents and whereabouts of the rest of the notebook in Stawell's possesion is unknown.

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