Papers [manuscript]. 1936-1962.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1936-1962.

Four items, 3 amalgamated from previously separate locations. 1. (Formerly MS 1631) "A high adventure: being the record of eighteen years of service and achievement in the public life of this state, 1917-1935", by A. Boswell (alias M. Dalrymple Hay), May 1936. An account of the public career of Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin, containing much useful material on Bavin's contemporaries and on Australian political history. 2. (Formerly MS 1808) Unpublished MS. "The Thompson story: a history of the family and the firm" by M. Dalrymple Hay, compiled from recollections of Gordon Thompson, Mrs. Winifred Throsby, Mrs. Muriel Jones and John McQueen and from old letters and records, the diary of Jane Thompson, financial reports of Thomas James Thompson and from old files of the S.M.H. 3. (MS 2210) 4 letters from Sir Ian Clunies Ross to Miss Hay, 1 letter from Lady Janet Clunies Ross to Miss Hay after Sir Ian Clunies Ross's death, and an article by Miss Hay entitled "Some memories of Ian Clunies Ross" (6 p.) Typescript. 4. "Legal digest", prepared by Miss Hay, for the information of law students and graduates serving overseas in World War II.

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Clunies Ross, Ian, Sir, 1899-1959

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Sir Ian Clunies-Ross was one of Australia's most distinguished scientists, founder of CSIRO and one of Australia's pioneering Asianists. He first visited Asia in 1929 when he went to Tokyo to conduct research at the Institute of Infectious Diseases. En route his Ship stopped at the Philippines and Hong Kong. Clunies-Ross stayed for 9 months (June 1929. March 1930) returning to Australia via China, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. In 1935-1936 he conducted a 3 month survey of sheep and wool i...

Thompson family.

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Bavin, Thomas, Sir, 1874-

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Politician, barrister and journalist. Private secretary of Sir Edmund Barton (1901-1903) and Alfred Deakin (1903-1904). Australian correspondent of Morning Post 1907-1911. Nationalist Member of the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly 1917-1935. Premier of New South Wales, 1927-1930. From the description of Papers. 1898-1942. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225641793 ...

Hay, Margaret F. Dalrymple.

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The first members of the Thompson family to come to Australia from England, arrived in the ship the "James Harris" in 1834. In 1872 T.J. Thompson established a sharebroking business in Sydney, which was still in existence when the biography was written. From the description of The Thompson story : a history of the family and the firm. 1962. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225843010 Miss Hay was for many years secretary of the Law School, University of Sydney, She ...