Original consignment received 2011

Component identifier:

Class 1

Content Summary:

Personal papers of various members of the Mackay family down the generations together with station records relating to the rural property, Wallendoon near Cootamundra, New South Wales. Papers of Donald Mackay include notebooks kept on a trip to Papua in 1907-1908 which contain notes on English/Papuan vocabulary together with a number of glass negatives of photographs taken on the trip. Papers of Kenneth Mackay include some relating to the formation of the Australian Lighthorse and drafts of his poetry and writings. There are long runs of correspondence between various family members, including letters exchanged during WWI by Kenneth's daughter, Annie and her husband, Aldred Baldry. Station records include letterbooks, invoices and accounts, livestock records, and complete rainfall records for the period 1911-1943. There is also an accounts ledger for various branches of Meagher's Department Stores for the period c1930s-1940s.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were acquired from the Mackay Family in 2011.

Subjects:

Society and culture
Agriculture

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