Miles Franklin personal belongings, [1870s-1950s]

R 706

fonds

1870-1950s

826084

28 objects (bookmarks, greeting cards, handkerchief, metal printers blocks, pressed flowers, hair, business card, lock of hair) - various sizes

1. Embroidery enclosed with ribbon – with inscription `Tho absent not forgotten’ – 16.5 x 6 cm.
2. Embroidery enclosed with ribbon - 7 x 35 cm.
3. Embroidery enclosed with ribbon – with inscription `When this you see remember me’ – 7 x 23 cm.
4. Printed bookmark with Christmas greetings – 15 x 5 cm.
5. Leather bookmark (Kiwi totem) with inscription `Kiora from Rotarua N.Z.’ – 21.5 x 4 cm.
6. Leather bookmark – with inscription `SMF, I am an easy mark’ - 23.5 x 3 cm.
7. Leather bookmark – with inscription `To mother on Mother’s Day’ – 23.5 x 2.5 cm.
8. Bark bookmark – 16 x .5 cm.
9. Plastic bookmark, with image of kangaroo and flags imprinted at the top – 7 x 2 cm.
10. Cord and plastic bookmark
11. Fabric bookmark with inscription `Mizpah’ – 17 x 4 cm.
12. Fabric bookmark with embroidery – 9 x 3.5 cm.
13. Piece of blue ribbon
14. Embroidery enclosed with ribbon – with inscription `A present from Sydney’ – 8 x 16.5 cm.
15. Embroidery enclosed with ribbon – with inscription ` A gift of love’ – 7.5 x 43 cm.
16. Fabric bookmark – with inscription and words for `The last rose of summer’ – 24.5 x 5.5 cm.
17. Greeting card with hand watercolour of a bird – 13.5 x 9 cm.
18. Watercolour drawing of the Yellow-tailed cockatoo – 14 x 9 cm.
19. Greeting card with map of Australia and badge of swagman and verse – 11.5 x 9 cm.
20. Embroidered handkerchief sent to Miles Franklin from Mary Anderson, 1945
21. Pressed flowers
22. Pressed fern leaf
23. Pressed flowers
24. Printers letters `I. Crossing’
25. Metal printers block inscribed `Miles’
26. Metal printers block inscribed `26 Grey Street, Carlton New South Wales
27. Lock of long brown hair
28. Business card of Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin: a Brilliant Career? - State Library of New South Wales (1 March - 13 June, 2004)