British Immigration League of Australia 1909-1910

Component identifier:

Series 32

Content Summary:

There is correspondence during 1909 and 1910 between Brookes and Rev. R.L. Gwynne of the Kentish Colonisation Society concerning a scheme for bringing British boys to Australia to work on training farms, together with the report dated 1908-09 of the British Immigration League of Australia, circulars of the Kent Colonisation Society 1910, and many press cuttings.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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