Collection 1: Gordon H. Williamson papers, 1828-1975, relating to the Mackellar family, Dorothea Mackellar

MLMSS 5132

sub-fonds

1828-1975

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings

915979

1 folder of textual material - carbon typescript, photocopy, printed
newspaper clippings

Gordon Williamson, ca. 1897-1976, Sydney antiquary and amateur historian was the great great grandson of a Sirius marine who settled in Brighton, Tasmania and the son of the owner of the Old Curiosity Shop at Brown's River, Tasmania. In later years Williamson became the friend of Dorothea Mackellar and her friend and companion Mrs Dorothea Murchison Macmillan. Both ladies lent items from the Mackellar papers, then stored at 'Cintra' Darling Point, the home of Dorothea Mackellar. These items were appropriated by the beneficiaries of Dorothea Mackellar's will after his death on 16 September 1976 and later donated to the Mitchell Library in two batches, on 27 December 1979 and 7 February 1980. Williamson's papers were found interspersed in the second batch of Mackellar papers

a. Correspondence, letters received and copies of letters sent relating to the Dorothea Mackellar papers and portrait of Dr Wolfgang Graesse, 17 Febryary 1968-21 April 1975

b. Draft biographical notes on the Mackellar and Buckland families by Gordon Williamson, pp. 1-18, 1828-1968, compiled 1968-. Includes a form signed, 1 July 1967, by Dorothea Mackellar relating to the circumstances of writing the poem 'My Country' and an article by B. E. Marefield 'The Foundation' in Knox - 1924-1974, Chapter 1, pp. 1-2, 1974. 1828-1974

c. Collections of Australian Christmas cards (4), submitted to the Library by Gordon Williamson, ca. 1976

d. Newscuttings articles on and obituaries for Dorothea Mackellar. Includes photocopy of Mackellar birth announcement, Sydney Morning Herlad, no. 14, 752, 7 July 1885. 1885, 7 July 1955-16 January 1962

Papers of the Mackellar family, Dorothea Mackellar, presented with MLMSS 5232 are filed at MLMSS 1959

Manuscript, carbon typescript, photocopy, newscuttings, printed

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (2-314C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Keyword subject:
Obituaries