Mackellar family papers, 1783-1968, with associated material, 1833-1894

MLMSS 1959/Boxes 1-4, 6, 8-19, 21-22
MLMSS 1959/Items 5X, 7X
MLMSS 1959/Box 20X

fonds

1783-1968

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Objects

893075

2.58 metres of textual material (19 boxes, 2 outsize items and 1 outsize box)
8 objects, 4 albums and photographic prints

Dorothea Mackellar, author, was born Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar at Rose Bay in Sydney, NSW on 1 July 1885. Her parents were Sir Charles Kinnaird Mackellar, a notable Sydney physician, and Marion Mackellar nee Buckland. She had three brothers, Keith, Eric and Malcolm. Dorothea Mackellar is best known for her poem My Country which was first published in 1907. She died in Sydney in 1968.

Information transferred from Contents List.

This collection includes pictorial material:
Photographs and personal affects from the Mackellar family papers, February 1881-194-?

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Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010