The main papers in this edition are the product of the annual New Norcia Studies Day, which included a multimedia presentation on the early settlement years of the colony, the complex weave of relationships and the many struggles as everyone was attempting to find their way. Other papers included Salvado's 1900 Report to Propaganda Fide, the well-diggers of New Norcia, and Australia's Spanish bishops at the 1st Vatican Council.

CONTENTS:

Salvado’s Archives: A Unique Legacy by Peter Hocking

The Well Diggers of New Norcia by Ross Bertinshaw

Voicing a Language: Italian & Italians in the New Norcia Archives by Federica Verdina

Print Impressions of the Yued Noongar in Salvado’s ‘Memorie Storiche’ Engravings by Liz Conor

Australia’s Spanish Bishops at the First Vatican Council by Peter Price

‘A Most Useful Contribution to Science’: Salvado’s Third Consignment of Noongar Objects & Italian Prehistoric Archaeology by Lucy Davidson and John Kinder

Cash, Convicts & Catholicism: Catholic Ministry to Convicts & Church-State Relations in Colonial Western Australia by Odhran O'Brien

Constructing Friendships with Letters: Some Observations on Friendship and its Linguistic Expression in the Correspondence of Rosendo Salvado’s Epistolary Network by Francesco de Toni

‘Nothing But a Noble Desire & a Beautiful Ideal’: Rosendo Salvado’s Final Report to Propaganda Fide (1900) by Stefano Girola

Rosendo Salvado’s Voyages Between Europe & Australia 1845–1899 by David Barry, OSB

George Russo, 1928–2015 by Bob Reece

Vale, Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Corgenven Bolton AO by Geraldine Byrne