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Bank Pass Book belonging to Miss Margaret Nugent, and receipts and invoices addressed to Mr James Nugent of Umbango from businesses including The Daily Advertiser, Hanson's Co-operative Butchery and Refrigerating Chambers, Hume Pastures Protection Board, Newtown Butchery, R.G. Nesbitt (furniture warehouseman), W Martin and Co (tailors and outfitters), Bailey and Baumer (monumental masons), Charles Hardy and Co (building contractors), Prescott Ltd (farm and dairy produce), and David Copland and Co.

Invoices sent to J Smith, relating to HC Wilson (general storekeeper in Ganmain), Nadin, Iverach and Wilson (general storekeepers of Coolamon), and Younghusband Ltd (wool and produce brokers of Albury).

Letter to George Blakemore, Principal Wagga Wagga Teachers' College regarding portrait of Mary Gilmore painted by Eric Saunders.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

A short note (probably accompanying document RW114-3E), her formal thank you to be read at the official dedication ceremony. Apart from mentioning Phoebe Price, she leaves him to choose who will do the reading and asks only that she be sent either the original or a typed true copy for inclusion in her papers at the Mitchell Library, SLNSW.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

Re: items for 'the museum' to be delivered by Mrs Catts. These include a photograph of Norman Hargreaves in 1915 and the cover of a gas mask belonging to Keith Douglas Young. Both are from old Wagga families.

See also Box 3: RW114-21.

Transcript letter from George Blakemore.

He informs Mary that the College's proposed history is underway. He expresses his interest in the Dobell portrait of Mary and inquires whether it would be possible for it to be displayed in Wagga as it journeys to the capital cities for exhibition. The portrait was commissioned in 1955 by the Australiasian Book Society of Melbourne on the occasion of Mary Gilmore's ninetieth birthday.

'Meanjin 2, 1959' and envelope to the College Library.

The journal contains Mary's appreciation (among others) of the work of Nettie and Vance Palmer, who had died on 15 July. The cover is inscribed and dated by Mary Gilmore.

'Art Gallery Quarterly 3, 1961'.

Journal of the Art Gallery of NSW. It includes a 'with compliments' slip from the Director. Among the commentaries concerning 1960 acquisitions is that of the Dobell portrait, which Mary Gilmore has donated to the Gallery.

Original hand-script letter to Mr Hogan.

A letter thanking the principal of North Wagga School for his information on Parkan Pregan Lagoon. It includes reminiscences about her time spent as assistant of the school. Mary Gilmore also exhorts Mr. Hogan to establish a collection of her books in the school library and to compile a scrapbook of his school as a possible preliminary to later forming a School Historical Society.

Xerox copy of hand-script letter to Phoebe Price.

Written during a period of convalescence after a major operation, Mary Gilmore thanks Phoebe for her proposal of naming a City of Wagga Wagga Eisteddfod prize in her honour and suggests that it could perhaps be shared with her mother, Lizzie.