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Myalla Station was managed from June 1897 by Gilbert Percival Ferguson, who married Edward Pratt's daughter, Ellen Amy, in 1898. The Gilbert Fergusons bought Myalla after Pratt's death in 1903. Gilbert died in 1923 and Myalla was managed by his sons Edward Bruce and Gordon Alexander (b. 1905) from 1928 until it was sold to J. Litchfield in 1967.

The papers include the Myalla diaries kept by Gilbert Ferguson and his sons, 1905-1965, station books including ledgers, stock, cash and wages books, indenture and mortgage books, a Chinese book and photographs. The book was a gift to Mrs E. A. Ferguson from her brother Frederick Pratt, a journalist for the Far Eastern Review in China.

Diaries for 1912, 1921, 1966 and 1967 were not received by the Library.

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