Guide to the Letters of Rose Paterson

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MS 9423

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: May 2014

Collection Summary

Creator: Paterson, Rose
Title: Letters of Rose Paterson.
Date Range: 1873-1888
Collection Number: MS 9423
Extent: 0.14 metres (2 security binders)
Language of Materials: English
Repository: Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

39 letters from Rose Paterson to her younger sister, Nora Murray-Prior, discussing, among other subjects, the young A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson and the Yass district.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for research. Not for loan.

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as 'Letters of Rose Paterson, National Library of Australia, MS 9423'.

Biographical Note

Mother of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson and writer and journalist in her own right.

Item Descriptions

Letter: Illalong, 9 April [1873] (Item 1)

Letter: Illalong, December 14 [1873] (Item 2)

Letter: Illalong, February 20 [1874] (Item 3)

Letter: Illalong, April-May [1876] (Item 4)

Letter: Gladesville, May 14 [1875?] (Item 5)

Letter: Gladesville, April-May [1876] (Item 6)

Letter: Illalong, August 12 1874 (Item 7)

Letter: Gladesville, September 19 [1876] (Item 8)

Letter: Illalong, February 9 1876 (Item 9)

Letter: Illalong, January 11 1877 (Item 10)

Letter: Illalong, March 30 [1879] (Item 11)

Letter: Illalong, June 11 [1878?] (Item 12)

Letter: Illalong, March 28 [1880] (Item 13)

Letter: Illalong, August 10 [1880] (Item 14)

Letter: Illalong, September [?] [1880] (Item 15)

To Priors at Gladesville

Letter: Illalong, October 3 1880 (Item 16)

Letter: Illalong, November 28 [1880] (Item 17)

Letter: Illalong, November ? [1880?] (Item 18)

Letter: Illalong, December ? [1880?] (Item 19)

To Nora at Gladesville

Letter: Illalong, January 2 1881 (Item 20)

Letter: Illalong, January 22 1881 (Item 21)

Letter: Illalong, February 11 1881 (Item 22)

Resumption of Letter no. 21: on Banjo

Letter: Illalong, January-February 1881 (Item 23)

On Barty's future

Letter: Gladesville, May 22 1881 (Item 24)

Barty's Typhoid

Letter: Illalong, ca. June-July 1881 (Item 25)

Barty back at school

Letter: Illalong, September 4 1881 (Item 26)

Andrew to remain in charge

Letter: Illalong, October 5 1881 (Item 27)

Barty now articled

Letter: Yass, January 1882 (Item 28)

Royal Hotel, birth of last daughter

Letter: Illalong, January 25 1882 (Item 29)

On the new baby

Letter: Illalong, ca. May 1882 (Item 30)

Fragment

Letter: Illalong, June 6 1882 (Item 31)

Barty breaks his arm again

Letter: Illalong, November 18 1883 (Item 32)

Letter: Illalong, December 3 1883 (Item 33)

Letter: Illalong, December 17 1882(3?) (Item 34)

Rose's teeth nearly all gone

Letter: Illalong, January 3 and 6 1883 (Item 35)

Barty home for Christmas