Member of the House of Assembly, South Australia, 1875-1928
- Component identifier:
- Series 6
- Content Summary:
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Symon was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1881-1887. The series contains a small amount of correspondence with C. C. Kingston, William Morgan and John Colton. It also includes printed matter and press cuttings from this period, when Symon was member for Sturt and Attorney-General in the Morgan Ministry of 1881.
There is a folder of correspondence concerning Bagot's election in 1884 for the Seat of Victoria. A copy of the letter of 1884 in which Symon declines a seat on the Bench of the Supreme Court is also included here.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers were received by the Library between 1966 and 1968 from Sir Josiah Symon's literary executor and daughter, Miss L. K. (Kilmeny) Symon. In December 1980 Sir Josiah's Commonwealth railway life pass was donated to the Library by the State Library of South Australia on behalf of a donor who was living in the house previously owned by Kilmeny Symon and had found the pass in a crack in the flooring.
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Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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