Correspondence and notes. [not after 1979]

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Correspondence and notes. [not after 1979]

Correspondence, notes, two photographs etc. concerning Jack Thwaites, Tasmanian bushwalker; biographical notes on Evelyn Temple Emmett, historian and bushwalker of Tasmania; notes on Ralphs Bay Neck Railway, dating from the mid 1820s; correspondence and related material concerning John Bechervaise; and biographies and related papers of Warren Bonython and Elyne Mitchell.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7037517

Libraries Australia

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