Financial and legal papers, 1892-1922

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Component identifier:
File 8
Content Summary:

Includes correspondence, certificates, receipts and reports relating to Fisher's activities in Queensland including his employment in the mines; his involvement in a number of cooperative investment schemes; the Truth Publishing Company and the newspaper, Gympie Truth.

Documents relating to his later political life include correspondence concerning a bank loan to Thomas Dunstan; the purchase of a piano and letters, telegrams and accounts from the legal firms Hedderwick, Fookes and Alston and Sly and Russell, in connection with a slander suit brought jouintly by Fisher and G. F. Pearce in 1915.

Comprises items 1-115.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were donated to the Library in several instalments by Fisher's family between 1961 and 1990.

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This collection is available for reference.
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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