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- 1923-1943. (Creation)
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77 items ; 30 cm.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Picot was born in Baldoch, Hertfordshire, England, and came to Australia in 1923. He was a poet and a founding member of the journal Meanjin, as well as being an active member of the Queensland Authors and Artists Association. He was a student at the University of Queensland 1933-1936. He died as a prisoner of war on the Burma railway.
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Carbon copies of originals held by the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Victoria.
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Scope and content
Collection of letters from James Picot to his sister Aimee L. Picot in England, together with one letter to his brother Henri and one to an unnamed recipient. The letters date from Picot's arrival in Australia in 1923 under the Farm Boys' Emigration Scheme and his subsequent life working on properties in Queensland in th 1920s and his time in Malaya.
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Unrestricted access.
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- English
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Existence and location of originals
Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Note
Typescript (carbon copies).
Handwritten annotations.
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Name access points
- Picot, James, 1906-1944 (Subject)
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Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.