Hi, I thought this would be useful. In the Tasmania List I am on, someone was asking what a WRITER did in the colonial days. A person sent this site which explains that a writer was a scribe or clerk and was given a lot of work writing for the illiterate people of the day, ie convicts wanting to write back to families etc and other areas as well where ther was illiteracy. Someone may be wondering about a certain profession. http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/trades.html#TOP Edie