1000543
- TitleAccount of visit to Mount Gipps station in around 1880 / unknown author, ca. 1920
- Call numberMLMSS 9785
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1920 - Type of material
- Reference code1000543
- Physical Description0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscripts
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Pages originally formed part of a larger memoir of the unknown author, which is likely to have been written ca. 1920,
References :
Mitchell Library Correspondence File, Douglas Stewart Fine Books - Collection historyFrom the estate of Flora frost (nee Jeffery) 1877-1958, wife of Melbourne journalist Gustave Robert 'Gus' Frost (1867-1940)
- Scope and ContentMANUSCRIPT
Pages 10-15 of an anonymous manuscript which describes a visit to Mount Gipps Station, Far West, New South Wales. Provides a detailed, first-person account of the writer's first visit to the area in around 1880. Discussion includes the author's journey on horseback and on foot across ground where precious metals would later be discovered at Broken Hill. - Copying ConditionsResearch & study copies allowed: In copyright
Rights and Restrictions Information:: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
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