Press release by Commonwealth of Australia News and Information Bureau, Australia House, London, 14 October 1957

Component identifier:

Item 44

Content Summary:

Regarding the handing over of John Grant's papers to the Australian High Commissioner. There is also a news cutting about the presentation.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was discovered in the vaults of Lloyd's Bank in London by Mr W.S. Hill-Reid. Mr Hill-Reid used the documents as the basis for his book John Grant's journey : a convict's story, 1803-1811 (London : Heinemann, 1957). The collection was acquired by the Library in 1957. Yvonne Cramer later used the papers for her book This beauteous, wicked place : the letters and journals of John Grant, gentleman convict. (Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2000).

Names:

Cramer, Yvonne

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