Letters received by Mario Faggion, 1945-1948, with selected English translations by Maria Faggion, ca. 1995

MLMSS 9320

fonds

1945-1948, ca. 1995

1077221

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)

Mario Antonio Faggion (1906-1985) was born in San Quirico, Province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy. He emigrated to Australia in 1924 and established the Florentino Continental Restaurant in Elizabeth Street, Sydney in the 1930s. His eldest brother Giuseppe had emigrated several years earlier. Faggion was briefly interned as a naturalized British subject after Italy entered the Second World War. He supported his widowed mother, Costantina, and unmarried sister, Ester, in Italy, with money, food and clothing. His sister died in February 1948 and his mother came to Australia in 1949, where she died in 1967, aged 92. Mario Faggion married Maria Bottaro in Sydney in 1948.

References:
Library correspondence file
Compiled from the collection

1. Telegram from Costantina Faggion to Mario Faggion, [Aug.] 1945

2. Eight letters [in Italian] from Ester and Costantina Faggion in San Quirico, to their brother and son, Mario in Sydney, 28 Aug. 1945-20 May 1946, documenting their domestic conditions in the wake of Italy’s capitulation and during the country’s early years of reconstruction. The letters provide insights into the privations endured by Ester and Costantina, including the lack of food, and life under German occupation and rationing in the early post-war years.

3. Letter [in Italian] from Mother Mary Rose Ossola and Mother Angelina (St. Mary’s School, Hong Kong-Kowloon) in Darwin to Mario Faggion, 29 Apr. 1946, thanking him for his past kind offers of assistance to their Catholic mission in Timor.

4. Letter [in Italian] from the Reverend Don Giuseppe Sgarbossa to Mario Faggion and Giuseppe Faggion [1948] informing them of Ester’s heart condition.

5. Typed English translations of nos 2 and 4 above, 17 pages, compiled by Maria Faggion, ca. 1995

Italian, English

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