Francis William Lauderdale Adams miscellany 1849-1893

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams miscellany 1849-1893

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6474

The folder contains papers related to Francis W.L. Adams. Enclosed is a "note" regarding an investigation into his suicide that cleared his wife of neglience for not preventing it. Adams shot himself with a revolver; he was long suffering from consumption.

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Adams, Francis William Lauderdale, 1862-1893

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Francis Adams, poet, novelist, commentator and radical was born at Malta, son of an army surgeon and novelist Bertha Jane Grundy Adams. Arrived in Australia 1884. In 1887 worked as a journalist and leader-writer with the Brisbane Courier and with William Lane's radical weekly. The Boomerang Prolific contributor of poems, short fiction and critical articles to The Bulletin. Returned to England in 1890. Achieved most contemporary fame with his anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist collection of poe...