Doris Kennedy photocopies of letters from A. B. (Banjo) Paterson, 7 February 1915, 8 May 1916, 2 August 1916, 15 September 1920

MLMSS 6549

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7 February 1915, 8 May 1916, 2 August 1916, 15 September 1920

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Photocopy : MLMSS 6549

0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript, photocopy)

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 Edward Kennedy (Doris Kennedy was probably his wife). He returned to Australia and was commissioned in the AIF. He fought in the Middle East in 1916 and was given command of the Australian Remount Squadron from October of that year until mid-1919. Back in Australia he took over editorship of 'The Sportsman'in 1920.

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.

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