Thomas George Valentine Blakey diary, 1923

MLMSS 11580/Box 1X

fonds

1 January-28 October 1923

9665292

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box)

Thomas George Valentine Blakey was born in Cobar, New South Wales in 1884 and died in Sydney in 1942. He lived in Paddington, Sydney and in 1911 was declared bankrupt. In 1920 he applied for a mining lease in Roebourne, Western Australia and three years later travelled to China, Hong Kong and the Philippines.

Reference
Library correspondence file and BDM NSW

By descent to author's granddaughter, then to Sydney Rare Book Auctions.

Thomas Blakey's handwritten Letts's No. 45 Indian and Colonial Rough Diary 1923 kept while working with Foochow Electrical Company, Foochow (Fuzhou Shi), China, the Anglo Chinese Commercial Co. Ltd and the Isabella Sugar Company in the Southern Philippines.
The diary document employment and living conditions, work projects, finances and Blakey's social life. Blakey also writes about Chinese society and politics including a reference to ‘5000 troops leaving Foochow for Canton overland march with full war kit guns etc' on 28 January 1923.

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