This folder contains the following items:

Containers:

Box 14

Component identifier:

File 8

Content Summary:

A Christmas card from Harold and Zara Holt to Fairbairn's mother and stepfather (1964), a letter from Sir Robert Menzies to Fairbairn's mother (1967), a copy of the memorial service for Harold Edward Holt in Westminster Abbey, London (1968), a copy of the memorial service for Lt. Col. Frederick Spencer Chapman, London (1971), a small book The imitation of Christ given to Fairbairn in 1953 by Reg Keating, a booklet Warning to the Western world by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1976), a coloured print of a work entitled Summer Bounty by Albert Williams (1959), and two news banners, one announcing the death of Lord Casey (1976) and one with the heading 'The Bulletin January 8, 1966/Geoffrey Fairbairn's Vietnam/Memories of a Jewish Boyhood'. Also included are a roneoed copy of a typescript letter, dated 1832, from J. Woolley (Professor Joseph Woolley) to his father, describing his arrival in Sydney and his first impressions; a typescript account by P.S. Lang (1968) of 'The death of William Ruddock', an employee of Mt Elephant Station (the Fairbairn's family property) who died in 1857; and a photograph of a cricket team with the notation 'The Jolimonters at Adelaide 1877'.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were acquired in 1998 from Fairbairn's wife, Anne Fairbairn, under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme.

Names:

Fairbairn, Anne

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