Collection: Miles Franklin diaries and personal papers
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VixE added a note to FL10035888 in Item 19: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1926, saying “Warwick Club, residential club for ladies, 21 St. George's Square Pimlico London.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0006084/19250206/102/0024”
VixE added a note to 1007259794 in Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1953, saying “Roland Robinson (1912-1992) Australian poet, writer and collector of Australian Aboriginal myths and legends.”
VixE added a note to 10072597177 in Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1953, saying “Henry the IV play at the Tivoli Theatre, Castlereagh St, Sydney - 25th to 30th May, 1953.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18366548?searchTerm=Tivoli
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/231042783?searchTerm=Tivoli”
VixE added a note to 1026663295 in Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1952, saying “Dr Whittemore is mentioned in a few diary entries.
John Bede Whittemore was also a Bexley Council Alderman.
Address 112 Willison Road, Carlton.”
VixE added a note to FL10254710 in Item 30: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1937, saying “The Goldstein household at 462 Punt Road, South Yarra, had in employ in domestic service a 'Lizzie Kavanagh' for 60 years. The Goldsteins 'retired' her in 1931 when Lizzie was 73. If it is the same Lizzie, 1937 makes her 79ish.
https://trove.nla...”
Note Added
VixE added a note to FL10254709 in Item 30: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1937, saying “The indecipherable reference to the location 'a picture show near' maybe could be Rat Dwellers- a Miles' description of a slum area at that time? ”
Barbie2 added a note to FL10088672 in Item 32: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1939, saying “The word ‘sags’ n the second line is probably used in the sense of ‘slumps’. The ‘gs’ at the end of the word is formed the same way as in the word ‘dogs’ in many other diary entries, eg. In FL10266269 10 June 1935.”