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This collection was made possible thanks to the generous support of institutions and many private individuals who opened their archives for swissinfo. This content was published on Feb 25, 2009 Part of the legacy of the emigranti is the collection of old postcards, letters, advertisements and official documents they left behind. This content was published on Jan 7, 2009 Reprinted here is the 1855 letter he wrote his mother just before he boarded a ship in Hamburg for what would prove to be a one-way journey. This content was published on Feb 2, 2009 From 1846 to 1855, Victoria’s population swelled from around 33,000 to 347,305, and the state suddenly accounted for nearly one in every two people in Australia. The Pozzi correspondence is taken from the two volumes on the migrations of Ticinesi to Australia (L’emigrazione ticinese in Australia) by historian Giorgio Cheda, and reprinted with his kind permission. In the New World section, we have reprinted a… In about the year 1865, my brothers wanted me to come up to Old Race Course and carrying on the store keeping business, in payment of over a £ 100 that I have lent to them, and a bad job I have undertaken, for instead, of going there it would have been far better for me to loose the money; you could not do any business without giving credit and nothing but tick business, Billiards Club Business Model and at the end found myself in queer street and rouined for bad business and bad luck mining speculations.

The largest numbers of immigrants come from Britain, Ireland, the United States, China and Germany. On the 22 January 1859 I got married with a German girl of 18 years of age, and I was 28, her name was Margherita Leichner from Felterweil, Hessen, Germany. I applied for a publican license, and called it Crown Hotel (a big name eh!) I carried on this place from 1868, to 1871, when this old rookery was pulled down for the purpose of building a two story place or an addition to the Old Fellow Hotel that I bought for £ 100 on credit. Two doors where I was, I bought a place for £ 60 on borrowed money from some old Swiss friend, then send for the Mrs and family; when the family arrived, I went to the wharf to receive them, to my astonishment miss Emilia then 2 years an 9 months, as soon as she seen me, she called uncle taking me for my brother Alexander. Just then a rush brock out in Yandoit and down we went to put up the first hotel in the place called the Yandoit Hotel on which we spent about £ 900 to build the hotel and for forniture, and £ 250 to build a stable at our expense, for Gobbs & Co. coach proprietors to get them to run through Yandoit, to bring traffic to the hotel.

The Melbourne and other merchants insisted on us to start again, if we only put up the store building; we did. From Melbourne I went to Jim Crow, now called Hepburn, but before I left Melbourne the Captain of our ship offered me a good somme of money, if I would turn traitor to my ship colleague on the question of the ship agreement, but I refused the bribe. Or has the Swiss model of neutrality now become obsolete? Swiss food regulations do not allow raw milk to be sold for direct consumption. That coused a bad impression in me of finding myself in a poor country, comming from a country where wine and milk is drunk with a jok. We carried on a poor business for 8 years in this hotel, but we made some progress in the increase in the family, of 2 daughters. The first night that we opened the hotel, we engaged a brass band for a ball, and we took in port wine hot alone £ 60 at 1 - per glass, beside other drinks. We got married by a fat catholic prist at the Mount Franklin Hotel, he charged us, or robed us £ 10 for the performance, then he got dronk and went to sleep in the hotel.

We have done good business for a while, and then it ended the same as the Franklin Hotel. I and Lewis Tognini and John Body (now both dead also Tognini’s wife, but there is a living son in Daylesford, and Body’s wife and family are in Melbourne in good billets) we have bought the then Mount Franklin Hotel for £ 1000 also Tognini sold to the party a dancing and billiards Saloon in the Old Race Course for £ 250. We have done a very good business for a while, but when mining was done, our business was done too. The food is barely edible, the sleeping quarters are no better than "stables" and the captain is denounced as… After all this struggling life, I have decided to travel, and off I went to Hokitika New Zealand, with £ 22 that I have made in taking portraits as an amature, also took with me the billiard table that I had in Yandoit also all the appliances of photography; and left my better half who stock with me all indurance that I had to battle in life in these colonies, and also left beyond with her 4 children, Giglia, Matilda, Emilia and Valerio, in Jim Crow.