Doris Kennedy photocopies of letters from A. B. (Banjo) Paterson, 7 February 1915, 8 May 1916, 2 Aug...
Doris Kennedy photocopies of letters from A. B. (Banjo) Paterson, 7 February 1915, 8 May 1916, 2 August 1916, 15 September 1920
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Author / Creator
Date
7 February 1915, 8 May 1916, 2 August 1916, 15 September 1920
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6549
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Physical Description
Contents
0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript, photocopy)
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Fonds
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Photocopy : MLMSS 6549
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Subjects covered by Paterson in these four letters include horses and horseracing, his activities as a remount officer in Egypt and as a journalist and family man after the war.
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Full title
Doris Kennedy photocopies of letters from A. B. (Banjo) Paterson, 7 February 1915, 8 May 1916, 2 August 1916, 15 September 1920
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Notes
General note
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Robert Jocelyn in July 1998
Administrative / Biographical history
A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, 1864-1941, poet, solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and soldier was the author of 'The Man from Snowy River' and other bush ballads. At the outbreak of World War I he sailed for England hoping for a job as a war correspondent. In 1915 he visited the Straffan stud on the Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland, owned by Edwar...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6549
Record Identifier
1Lj2Rvb9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Lj2Rvb9
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Reference code
153612
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