Papers. [18-- - 19--]

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Papers. [18-- - 19--]

Diaries, notebooks, incoming and outgoing correspondence, mss of poems and fiction, published and unpublished; scrapbooks of published poems, and articles features in The Queenslander and Darling Downs Gazette. Press clippings of reviews of his work, photographs. Photocopies of letters 1892-1906 by or about Evans, held in the Mitchell Library. There is also a scrapbook containing original sketches by Percy F.S. Spence, Frank P. Mahony, C. Roth, B.E. Minns, and E. Bevan.

2 boxes, 2 parcels.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7035444

Libraries Australia

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Evans, George Essex, 1863-1909

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George Essex Evans was a poet, journalist and public servant, noted for his patriotic poems. He was mainly based in Queensland. From the description of Letter [manuscript]. 1900 February. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223434291 Poet and journalist, who emigrated to Queensland from London in 1881. He farmed on the Darling Downs, taught in private schools and later took up journalism. He lived for many years in Toowoomba. Mary Ann Owen was his mother's maiden name...