Item F269 - Papers relating to Alexander Forbes and his family, 1965-1970

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F269

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Papers relating to Alexander Forbes and his family, 1965-1970

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  • 1965-1970. (Creation)

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1 folder (16 items); 30 cm.

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(1839-1879)

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Alexander Forbes' was the pseudonym of William Anderson Forbes, an Australian poet of Scottish origin.

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(1904-1987)

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Cecil Hadgraft was born 8 June 1904 at Melbourne, brought up at Rockhampton, winning an open scholarship to the University of Queensland at 16 years of age. Cecil Hadgraft was a senior lecturer and reader in the English Department at the University of Queensland. He was a prominent Australian literary critic and historian.

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Drafts for Cecil Hadgraft's entry on Alexander Forbes in the Australian Dictionary of Biography; correspondence and research notes relating to the entry, and a photocopied extract from his brother Archibald Forbes' book 'Souvenirs of some continents' (1894).

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Unrestricted access.

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  • English

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Mainly typescript, one photocopied article.

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991008134179703131

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Migrated

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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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