Mary Porter - Letters received from Lloyd Rees and Charles Laseron with other papers relating to the Weston family, 1878-1970

MLMSS 7639

fonds

1878 - 1970

447382

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (printed)

Samuel Weston was the first school teacher at Brushgrove on the Clarence River. He was drowned in the wreck of the 'New England' steamship on the Clarence bar, Dec. 1882. P.L. (Percy) Weston was a lecturer at Queensland University and a consulting engineer. Charles Laseron was a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 under Douglas Mawson. Lloyd Rees was a painter who exhibited in London and America as well as Australia and was a multiple award winner. Joan Fraser wrote novels, short stories and poems under the name Amy Witting.

Letter from Percy Weston to 'Johnnie', 22 Oct. 1878; copy of an address by Weston to the Royal Society of Queensland on the internal combustion engine, 1913; 'Notes on Magnetic Steel Band Drive', undated; obituary of Percy Weston together with a letter of condolence to his widow, 1918.
Letters from Samuel Weston to S.E. Watts, 6 Oct. and 20 Dec. 1882
Two letters from Henry Parsons to his aunt Clara Weston, 15 Feb. 1908 and 27 Aug. 1918
Story written for Mary Porter (nee Weston) by Joan Fraser (Amy Witting) when a pupil at Fort Street High School, ca. 1933.
Letters from Charles Laseron to Mary Porter, 29 May 1956, 23 Aug. 1957, Aug, 26 Feb. 1958 with two Christmas cards from the Antarctic Club.
Letter to Mary Weston from Lloyd Rees, 14 Aug. 1970