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Trooper Ross and Signal Butte
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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"Angela Thirkell, the famous novelist, was born in London in 1890, and travelled to Australia after World War I with her husband and 2 sons. The basis for 'Trooper to the Southern Cross' was found in the astonishing facts of their voyage to Australia on what was primarily a troopship returning about 800 Diggers to Australia. Angela Thirkell on a ship full of returning Diggers! A buried comic masterpiece. Hidden under a pseudonym, Angela Thirkell, best-selling chronicler of the English counties, is now revealed to be a brilliant satirist of the Australian character. Thirty years before Barry Humphries (who loves the book) she captures our idiom and our tastes -- with deadpan innocence and no mercy, her irony sails right home"--Back cover.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to the career of mining engineer Charles Janin. Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging.
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