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Typescript letter from Sheila Tearle to Mrs Armstrong.

Sheila refers to the accompanying Mary Gilmore's 'The Wollundry Lagoon', a poem in her 1932 anthology 'Under the Wilgas'. She also comments on a number of poems in 'The Tilted Cart', Mary's third anthology, published in 1925.

Sheila Tearle was for many years a leading light of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, located in Sydney.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

May Gilmore thanks the principal and, through him, the 1956-7 session of students and the town's inhabitants, for dedicating to her a set of gates, to be located at the College's main entrance at College Street. Includes reflections of early Wagga Wagga.

Original hand-script letter and annotated envelope to George Blakemore.
Original hand-script letter-card to Mary Gilmore from Minnie Bennett (Mrs Bernard Jones).

Mary's explanatory letter accompanies the envelope on which is information relating to a small utilities bag belonging to Norman Cullen Hargreaves; and, a letter card from a member of an old Wagga family, Minnie Bennett. There are to be added to her collection.

She suggests that Wagga should get the Melbourne publication, 'Overland' for which she has recently written an article relating to the District.

Possibly Mary's last latter to the Principal who died in 1958.

See also Box 3: RW114-21.

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.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

Re: a tentative inscription for the Dame Mary Gilmore Memorial Gates and her wish that the Gurwood Senior School be remembered in it. There is the possibility that Mary may not attend the official dedication ceremony because of her continuing bouts of illness and/or because her birthday party has been organised by the Australiasian Book Society around the raising of funds for the now Chair of Australia Literature. As informed by Alan Marshall, and very probably as much for her communist leanings as for her talent, she is now recognized by the chief literature societies of Moscow and Peking among others.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

Mary suggests he write to the President of the NSW ? Art Gallery Board of Trustees, Bertrand James Waterhouse, for details of exhibition arrangements about the Dobell portrait which has engendered a lot of controversy and which she plans to give to the nation. She brings up the matter of sending someone to collect 'a pottery aboriginal head', to be added to her collection at the college.

See also Box 2: RW114-19.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

Mary comments about the magazine 'Baringa'*, the College's new literary magazine, and enthuses about some of the contributors. Mention of the aboriginal bust, given to her by a man from Alice Springs who told her he had carried it over half of central Australia.

See also Box 2: RW114-19.
*for 'Baringa', see RW2143-165,166,167,168.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

Mary Gilmore regrets that she cannot attend the official dedication ceremony and proposes that a friend, Dorothy Catts, widow of the late J.H. Catts MHR, represent her. She wishes to give the College, among other things, an aboriginal axe-head from Queensland and shingles from the beach at Puerta Gallegos in South Patagonia. She encloses a small donation of £2.20 to go towards the purchase of a book to chronicle events, people, autographs, etc. - the start of a continuous history for the next hundred years of the college.*

See also Box 3: RW114/22; RW114/23; RW111/24; RW114/25.

• For Chronicle, see SA1.

Typescript letter to Mr Muir from GA Truskett, Headmaster of Wamoon Primary School.

Regarding the donation of an Admission Register from Downside School to the Wagga Teachers' College Library. Mary Gilmore is listed on the Admission Register under her maiden name Mary Cameron.

See also OO: RW114-26.

Transcript copy of letter to Mr Newling, Sydney Lyceum Club.

This letter contains a full description of the Eric Saunders / Kate Beard portrait of Mary Gilmore and gives the reason why it was re-framed as an oval. She was a founder of the club.

Xerox copy of hand-script letter to Mr Price.

Mary Gilmore is sorry to hear of Phoebe Price's illness.

Xerox copy of hand-script letter to Phoebe Price*.

Sent on the death of her mother, Lizzie McGaulley, with whom Mary Gilmore went to school, the letter contains reminiscences of their youth together in the Wagga District.

*Phoebe was co-Principal of the Little Theatre School of Arts in MacLeay Street, Wagga for many years.

Xerox copy of hand-script letter to Phoebe Price.

Mary Gilmore regrets that she cannot travel to Wagga to present the Wagga Wagga Eisteddfod prize and mentions she will also be unable to attend the official dedication of the Dame Mary Gilmore Memorial Gates because of her ill-health. She is conserving her strength in order to finish her current book in time for publication.

Xerox copy of hand-script letter to Phoebe Price.

In reply to a letter and enclosure from Phoebe, Mary Gilmore asks that she collect the aboriginal bust to be included in her memorabilia collection.

See also Box 2: RW114-19.

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.

Xerox copy of hand-script letter to Phoebe Price.

Mary Gilmore regrets that she cannot visit and suggests that someone might write to the Trustee of the Australiasian Book Society if Wagga wishes for the Dobell portrait to be exhibited there.

Xerox copy of hand-script letter to Phoebe Price.

Mary Gilmore expresses her concern over being misrepresented in the Wagga press. The incident relates to a reception at which she had allegedly made an anti-royalist statement. Mary Gilmore relates to Phoebe her perception of the events and asks her to correct any future misrepresentations.

Xerox copy of hand-script letter from Shirley Himman, Illabo Public Primary School Teacher.

The teacher requests Mary Gilmore's recollections about her term of teaching at Illabo (formerly Billabong).

Xerox copy of hand-script letter to Shirley Hillam.

Mary Gilmore's response to a request for information about her life.

Daily Telegraph clipping.

Mary replies to letters about the Dobell portrait; includes two illustrations: one a photograph of Mary, posing as she did for Dobell; the other is of the portrait.

Original hand-script letter to the Secretary of the First Masonic Lodge, Wagga.
Typescript copy.

The gift of a moleskin purse-around the edge of which Mary sewed a fringe, all that was left of her father's Masonic regalia - was offered to George Blakemore for inclusion in Mary's collection at the College.

See also Box 3: RW114-20.

Typescript list of Mary Gilmore's "Reliques" on display in glass case at the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College Library. In 1994 it was noted that some items not in the custody of Charles Sturt University.

See also Box 2: RW114-19; and Box 3: RW114-20, RW114-21, RW114-22, RW114-23, RW114-24, RW114-25.