Ned Kelly
UMA holds a collection of 54 letters and documents covering 1859-87 received by and relating to Superintendent Francis Hare, one of Kelly's pursuers and briefly in charge of the first stage of Kelly's capture. Nicely complementing his published memoir, The Last of the Bushrangers (London, 1892), the collection includes letters by some of the key figures of the Kelly story including the Police Commissioner Frederick Standish, Superintendents Nicholson and Sadleir, Detective M Ward and John Sherritt, as well as items by Hare.