Microfilm copy of the original. Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.About 300 documents dealing with emigration from Ireland to Australia. Includes: 1) Letters , 1850-1853 to Lady Monteagle, 1836-1848 including correspondence of Lord Monteagle with various politicians and government official such as Sir Robert Peel and Lord Clarendon; letters, 1848, 1849 from Caroline Chisholm; letters, 1851 from the N.S.W. Association for Preventing the Revival of Transportation; reports on emigration; printed material and a list of emigrant ships to Australia in 1848 noting the number of emigrants, date of embarkation and captain and surgeon of each vessel.