Albumen silver carte-de-visite photograph of Charles Gavan Duffy in ‘Fasti Victorienses’, compiled for the trustees of the Melbourne Public Library, c.1865. Many thanks to SLV Picture Librarian Fiona Jeffery for this. #CharlesGavanDuffy #Melbourne

Across the Black Spur to the #Acheron valley under Cathedral Mountain - granted to the first peoples by #CharlesGavanDuffy in 1859 - grabbed back by colonial ‘squatters’ within a year, forcing the people off good land with sacred associations

Duffeiana in the #Melbourne Punch, 1856. Just as Hibernophobic as its London cousin, 17k km away. #CharlesGavanDuffy