Others are, like Gilbert, members of the first expedition: John Roper, William Phillips (both Figure 2.1) and Christopher Pemberton Hodgson (Figure 2.2).
Some of these refer to Leichhardt's early contacts: William Nicholson, Leichhardt's research companion in Germany and England William Branwhite Clarke, the Sydney clergyman and geologist who had supported Leichhardt's career as an explorer and John Gould, the renowned zoologist who had employed John Gilbert, the researcher and ornithologist who would later die during Leichhardt's first expedition to Port Essington (all listed on Figure 2.1). White even includes a basic bibliography in which he lists a range of names (see Figures 2.1 and 2.2 below). On the basis of the Voss notebook, we now know that White conducted research into all three of Leichhardt's expeditions, with probably the most detail being devoted to the first attempted east-west crossing of Australia of 1846–47 (Leichhardt's second major expedition overall) The Voss notebook now reveals Aurousseau's opinion of 1958 to be a statement of fact, albeit one subject to some significant qualifications. White has read Leichhardt's letters to his relatives, I should say in the original German edition of 1881, and that he read them with most perceptive understanding.įollowing the recent discovery of a collection of White's letters, notebooks and manuscripts, sold to the National Library of Australia (NLA) in 2006, it has become possible to examine White's principal research notebook for Voss online via the NLA catalogue.
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