Letters from Stella, Catherine and Pattie Deakin [manuscript]. 1909-1914.

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Letters from Stella, Catherine and Pattie Deakin [manuscript]. 1909-1914.

Folder 1: Letters to Vera Deakin from Stella, written whilst Stella was overseas in 1909-1910. Folder 2: Stella's "diary" (written in semi-letter form), 1909-1910; letters to Vera Deakin from Stella, Pattie and Catherine, 1913. Folder 3: Letters to Vera Deakin from Catherine and Stella, 1909-1914, including a letter from Catherine discussing the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 (incomplete). Folder 4: Two tape reels containing recording of a talk about the Deakin Family made on 28 November 196?

4 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7072694

Libraries Australia

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