Two letterbooks: press copies. The first (26 January 1900 - 5 March 1902) contains business letters sent by Charles Rutherford (Manager of 'Wilgha Downs' at that time) to various correspondents (especially reports to the Manager of the London Bank of Australia at Bourke). The second (16 March 1906 - 20 March 1908), similar in form and content to the first, bears a label reading: 'London Bank\ Letter Book\March 1907 [sic] to March 1908'. Until 25 April 1906, the letters in the second volume continue to be signed by Rutherford. After that date, for some time, the signatory is H.L. Wheeler, and from 14 March 1907 they are signed by yet another manager, A.E. Smith. 'Wilgha Downs', a sheep station in the Bourke district of Western New South Wales, was (in 1895) the property of J. Davison & Co., And at that time carried 20,684 sheep and 500 cattle. By 1903, it was in the hands of the London Bank of Australia, carrying only 1616 sheep and no cattle.