E. Allen Tell diary, 1902
E. Allen Tell diary, 1902
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Date
1 January 1902-31 December 1902
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7974
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Physical Description
Contents
0.05 metres of textual material (1 volume)
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Level of description
Fonds
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The diary of a young legal clerk in Sydney in 1902, describing his social life, entertainments and reading matter.
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Full title
E. Allen Tell diary, 1902
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Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Patrick King Rare Books, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, July 2010
Collection history
Purchased by P. Jefferies of Hampstead, London in a second hand dealer's shop in Kilburn, on 2 March 1917, as recorded in a pencilled note by Jefferies on the flyleaf in which he also "wonders how it got here and what became of the author of this diary in which he reveals so much of his personality". Purchased by the Mitchell Library from Patrick K...
Administrative / Biographical history
E. Allen Tell was a law clerk in Sydney in 1902. He appears to have been in his twenties when he wrote this diary describing his social life, entertainments and reading matter. Tell lived in a boarding house in Balmain, and may have worked for the firm of Stephen Jaques and Stephen, as on 19 December he writes “Colin Stephen said the firm had deci...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7974
Record Identifier
nZNv4jen
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNv4jen
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Reference code
900843
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