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Scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings and correspondence February 1937 - March 1965, which relate to Abbott's political career and to his association with the Country Party and with the pastoral industry, particularly woolgrowing.
J. H. M. Abbott (1874 - 1953) was an Australian novelist and poet who was born in Haydonton, Murrurundi, New South Wales in 1874. He was the eldest son of son of (Sir) Joseph Palmer Abbott and his first wife Matilda Elizabeth, née Macartney. He was educated at The King's School, Parramatta and then attended classes at the University of Sydney before returning to the family property to work as a jackaroo. He published his first verse in The Bulletin in 1897. In January 1900 he left Australia for the Boer War where he served as a corporal in the 1st Australian Horse, and later as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, but was invalided back to Australia in October 1900.
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also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of of the exhibition was carried out, the official awards of the executive commisioners, the catalogue of exhibits, together with sundry illustrations.
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