Annotated books by Francis Adams and others [manuscript]. 1885-1923.

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Annotated books by Francis Adams and others [manuscript]. 1885-1923.

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Annotated books by Francis Adams, C.W.W. Webster, Ada Cambridge, Lady Newdigate Newdegate and a book of poems edited by William Sharp thought to have been collected by Sydney Jephcott. Several of the books are signed by Sydney Jephcott and one is dedicated to him. Two of the books by Francis Adams, Poetical works and Leicester - an autobiography, contain editorial annotations.

14 cm. (11 v.)

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Jephcott, Sydney, 1864-1951

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Poet and farmer, Jephcott was self-educated and, from from the age of 12, lived alone in the mountains in a tent. After meeting Henry Kendall in the late 1870s, he began writing poetry. A friend of Francis Adams, who saw Jephcott's The secrets of the south: Australian poems (London, 1892) through the press in London. Jephcott completed an unpublished, critical selection of Adam's poems. Jephcott remained a cattle farmer and served as a shire councillor on the Towong and Tumbarumba Shire Councils...