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Miles Franklin - correspondence with Henry Lawson, 1899 - 1902
Miles Franklin to Henry Lawson, undated (incomplete)
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There was "Muum[?]" who was "Mum to the little ones and to the one big one, to whose lln one she was Grannies & to whose father of the little ones she was Ma in law. There was an odor surrounding them which wasn't exactly eau-de-cologne and the other passenger looked daggers. I grinned. They had four old bundles & square boxes & to crown all a kerosene tin with a blanket bulging out the top. The other passengers grumbled ab the baggage so I told them they could pile it all around me so long as they did not squash me. With an assurance that he "no squashie you missy"

 
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      Call No.: MLMSS 364/6
 

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