Box 08-10: Fry family papers of Wilga Morgan (nee Fry), 1910 -1986

MLMSS 1159 ADD-ON 2076/Boxes 8-9
MLMSS 1159 ADD-ON 2076/Box 10X

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1910 - 1986

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Ida Wilga Morgan (nee Fry) was born in 1903, the fifth child of Arthur and Carrie Fry. She completed four years of training as a nurse at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in 1927, and later trained in obstetric nursing. In 1939 she married Major C. Eric Morgan and they lived for a time at 'Denegully', Wilga's family home at Lindfield.

1910 - 1986; Letters received, with a few drafts of letters sent; correspondents include : her brother Alan Fry (1910-1916); mother Carrie Fry (1913-1920, 1926, 1936); sister Dorothy Fry (1913-1925); aunt Katie Fry (1913); sister Hazel Watson (1915-1920, 1965-1970); father Arthur Fry (1916-1918); brother Rollo Fry (1919-1920, 1934); Bess Ashby, nee Savage (1923-1981); aunt Edith Fry (1934-1940); Lucie M.Lidgett (1945-1946); Lammy Geerts [the woman in Olst, Holland who looked after Rollo Fry's grave] (1947-1952); sister-in-law Jean Fry (1957-1967); P.and K.Desbois [letters addressed to Eric and Wilga] (ca.1968-1981); niece Glenn Petherbridge, nee Fry (1978-1986). (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 8)
1928, 1931; Diary accounts of trip to Lord Howe Island per SS Makambo (1928); and trip to Tasmania (1931). (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 8)
1922 - 1937; Papers re nursing, including certificates for general, obstetric and mothercraft nursing; various nursing badges. (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 8)
Papers re family history, including: family trees compiled by R.H.Fry, 1963; copies of family letters, 1858, 1892; family history chronology, 1824-1940, by Herbert Arnold Fry; notes made by Wilga Morgan. (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 9)
1910 - 1983; Miscellaneous papers, including: "pay book", 1915-1925; invitations; lists of jewellery; list of guests to wedding; house plans, ca.1953; two poems written by Hazel Watson, 1968. (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 9)
ca.1915 - ca.1980; Newscuttings collected by Wilga Morgan : World War I; family and friends; various. (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 9)
ca.1915 - ca.1978; Printed material, including: "Albert apres le bombardment. Guerre Europeenne Serie 14" - postcards; 'Lindfield College Chronicle', August 1922; flyer for a pianoforte recital by Joan Fry at the Conservatorium Hall, 17 April 1926; 'Millions', 15 August 1944, containing an obituary for Rollo Fry; 'Olst 1940-1945', compiled by A.Korten, 1947; 'Wilhelmina [en] Juliana', souvenir album, 1948; 'A pictorial history of the Blue Mountains', Blue Mountains City Council, 1968; 'The poems of John Fraser McManamey', privately published by his daughter Gertrude McManamey, ca.1978. (Call No.: ML MSS 1159, ADD-ON 2076/BOX 10X)

State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I letters