This letter written by Mary Adams concerns the sale of a property, ‘my Hopkins land’, perhaps in the Warrnambool area. No information is available on Mary Adams or her ‘Uncle Jim’. There is a reference in the letter to ‘Mr Lawson’ and this may refer to a member of the Lawson family living in Warrnambool about this time, perhaps Richard Lawson who, in 1908, was Principal of a private school, Warrnambool College Academy. The Mountain Grand Guest House in Warburton was a well-known guest house in Victoria for many years and was still in existence in 1948. The letter came to the Society’s collection with other material relating to the Warrnambool Club. As no enlightening information is available on this letter or its contents it is of little importance at this time. Further research may render it a useful item to keep. This is a letter of two pages written in 1908 by Mary Adams to her Uncle Jim. The letter is handwritten in black ink. The letter is written on the green notepaper of the Mountain Grand Guest House Warburton, Victoria‘Mountain Grand, Warburton’ (on letterhead)mary adams

Thought to have originated in Austria in 1869, postcards first gained popularity in Australia in the 1890s.They were used to send short messages to friends and family. This collection was generated by Mary Emma Elliot of Talgarno. Talgarno is a rural locality in Victoria, Australia, situated on the southern shoreline of Lake Hume, about 23 km east of Albury-Wodonga. The collection contains postcards from across the world. Mary Emma Sibley was born in Ironbark, Bendigo in 1859. She married James Elliot in 1893 and they settled at “Kelso”, Talgarno. They had two children – Mona and Sibley. Mary Emma Elliot died in Melbourne in 1944, aged 84 years. Australian postcards collected by Mrs. James Elliot between 1898 and 1915. 1405.301 Corra Lin 1405.302 Moonlight on the River 1405.303 Horsemen on an Australian Station 1405.304 A Fern Gully 1405.305 Many Topped Tree-Fern 1405.306 River Yarra. Warburton 1405.307 River Yarra at Heidelberg 1405.308 Scene at Heidelberg 1405.309 Woodend Road opposite Braemar 1405.310 Nellie Stewart 1405.311 Half Moon Bay, Torquay near Geelong 1405.312 Mount St. George, Lorne, Victoria 1405.313 Banks of the Yarra, Warburton, Victoria 1405.314 Malhinna Falls, Healesville, Victoria 1405.315 Trentham Falls 1405.316 Rural Scene 1405.317 Fishermen's Return 1405.318 Barkly St - Ararat 1405.319 Pulpit Rock, Buffalo Mountain 1405.320 A Mountain Cascadepostcards, collecting, collections, talgarno