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Date(s)
- 1829-1864 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
2 folders
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
William Gore Elliston (1798-1872), schoolmaster and editor, was born on 17 October 1798 at Bath, England, the eldest son of Robert William Elliston, actor and theatre manager. After education at Martley, Worcestershire, he was admitted a pensioner at ... »
Name of creator
Biographical history
John Noel Douglas Harrison spent 25 years in Malaya and China, surviving several years in Changi prison camp and a murder attempt by bandits, before settling in Tasmania in 1958.
Harrison was born in 1911. He left England at the age of 22 to take up an ... »
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by J.N.D. Harrison.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Collection consists of typed carbon copy of transcript of diary and separate extracts selected for proposed book.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing reproduction
This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.... »
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Dates of creation revision deletion
He Jan 2018