Includes index.
At head of title: Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria.
In 1853 Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe addressed a circular letter to a number of early settlers requesting information as to the time and circumstances of the first occupation of various parts of the colony. This book is a collection of those responses to that circular.

J. N. McLeod, Tahara -- Hugh Murray, Colac -- J. H. Patterson, Moorabee - Greenhill station -- H. Norman Simson, Charlotte Plains - The Loddon, Glenelg, and Wimmera -- John Carfrae, Ledcourt -- David Fisher, Roslin, Geelong -- T. H. Pyke, Upper Werribee, Ballan -- Edward Dryden, Macedon - Mount Macedon. Coliban, Campaspe and Loddon -- John G. Robertson, Wando Vale - VDL in 1831. Portland Bay in 1840 -- Charles Wale Sherard, Creswick Creek -- Thomas Learmonth, Buninyong -- John Hepburn, Smeaton Hill -- William Thomas -- Rev. James Clow, Melbourne -- Captain Foster Fyans -- W. Odell Raymond, Stratford -- Thomas Manifold, Warrnambool -- George Armytage, Hermitage - Williamstown 1836 -- Henry Dwyer, Victoria Valley -- Sir H. E. F. Young -- A. M. Campbell, Ganawarra -- Philip D. Rose, Melbourne -- George Faithfull, Wangaratta -- George D. Mercer, Weatherboard, near Geelong -- Robert Jamieson, Melbourne -- Charles Wedge -- J. Blair, Portland -- William J. T. Clarke, Melbourne -- Edward Bell, Wimmera -- W. T. Mollison, Pyalong -- Leslie Foster -- George Edward Mackay, Tarrawingee -- William Taylor, Longerenong -- Charles J. Tyers, Alberton -- C. Hutton, Melbourne -- John Aitken, Mount Aitken -- Peter Snodgrass, St. Kilda -- C. B. Hall, Amherst, Burnbank -- Colin Campbell, Port Phillip -- Edward Grimes -- John Templeton, Kyneton -- Alfred Taddy Thomson, Fiery Creek -- Thomas Chirnside, Point Cook -- E. P. S. Sturt, Lonsdale-street -- Dr. A. Thomson - Melbourne -- A. McMillan, Bushy Park -- S. G. Henty, Portland -- C. J. La Trobe, Melbourne -- Hugh Jamieson -- Thomas Winter, of Hobart -- Gellibrand's memorandum of a trip to Port Phillip in 1836 -- John Hart, Melbourne -- Barrabool tribe.