Convicts: 1842 Convict Pardon, parchment (32 x 20 cm), [Royal Coat of Arms] 'By His Excellency Sir John Franklin...Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Van Diemen's Land, .....James Walker...who arrived at Hobart Town in the Year 1831 by the Ship Lord Lyndock under a sentence of Transportation for Fourteen Years... a Conditional Remission of his sentence..., Eleventh January 1842', manuscript signature 'John Franklin'. Rare.