Papers [manuscript]. [19--?].

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Papers [manuscript]. [19--?].

Includes letters and press clippings relating to the Armstrong, Patterson and Vestey families. Includes letters from Robert Menzies, Percy Grainger and the Archbishop of Melbourne. Also, magazine articles and clippings regarding Dame Nellie Melba.

1 ms. wallet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7038228

Libraries Australia

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Patterson, Gerald Leighton.

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Vestey-Armstrong, Pamela.

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Melba, Nellie

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Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell. In 1882 she married Charles Nesbit Frederick Armstrong, who died in 1948. From the description of Papers concerning Mitchell and Armstrong families [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225791512 Mrs Helen Porter Armstrong, soprano singer, was born in, and derived her non de plume from Melbourne. She first appeared in opera in 1887 after concentrating for many years on her piano playing and made her final appearance in...

Stogdale, Muffy.

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Muffy Stogdale was Melba's great grand-niece, and Pamela Vestey-Armstrong was Melba's grand-daughter. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. [19--?]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222978885 ...