Bavin, Belt, and Horn family papers, 1833-2005

MLMSS 8438/Box 1
MLMSS 8438/Box 2X

fonds

1833-2005

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Manuscript Notated Music, Notated Music, Clippings, Photographs

971483

0.60 metres of textual material (1 box and 1 outsize box)

Diana Mary Heath (nee Horn) was the second of three daughters (Valerie and Penelope) of John Strelley Horn and Shirley Bavin.

John was the son of William Austin Horn, who married Penelope Elizabeth Belt in 1880. William Austin Horn was a mining magnate, pastoralist and politician, who organised and equipped the 1894 Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia which hoped to find evidence of older forms of life in the MacDonnell Ranges.

Shirley Bavin was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin, former Premier of New South Wales, and Edyth Ellen (nee Winchombe), and author.

Reference:
Compiled from the collection
Horn, William Austin (1841–1922), Australian Dictionary of Biography online http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/horn-william-austin-6734/text11631 (accessed 1 May 2012)

BOX 1
Red notebook of T.R. [Sir Thomas Rainsford] Bavin, 'S.S. Oriana Dec. 25 1954'

Black notebook incscribed 'Shirley Horn ... March 1931'

'Memoirs of our mother' by Marguerite Fairfax and Alfred Haire-Forster, given to Leslie (Sue) Scarisbrick (nee Reading) by Margaret Chauvel (nee Fairfax), 1962

Folder 1
Papers concerning the Bavin family, including typecript autobiography of S.B. [Shirley Bavin?], typescript personal narrative, copies of clippings about Thomas Rainsford Bavin, ca. 1935-1973

Folder 2
Papers concerning the Belt family, including manuscript and typescript copies of letters held in the State Library of South Australia, copies of family trees, correspondence etc., 1833-1974

Folder 3-4
Papers and photographs concerning the Horn family, including typescript autobiography of John Strelley Horn, papers relating to a portrait of the Duchess of Edinburgh attributed to Gainsborough, correspondence, copies of family trees, newspaper clippings, typescript biographical accounts of family members including William Austin Horn, and Colonel S.B. [Spencer Bertram?] Horn, ca. 1878-1981

Folder 5
'Baby Ballads' song book and picture book: words by Edyth Bavin, music by Varney Desmond Monk, inscribed 'Valerie Horn', 'With my love [E.E.B.?]'; exercise book with manuscript and annotated printed sheet music, ca. 1930-1938

BOX 2X
Invitations, menus, programs, calendar, papers, etc. of Diana Heath, including State Memorial Service for Kerry Packer, gala dinner in honour of Sir Robert Askin and Lady Askin, and Fashion Excellence Dinner at David Jones, ca. 1938-2005

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
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Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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