Document - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION: ORIGIN OF THE NAME BENDIGO

Physical description

(a) two newspaper articles and a typed copy of each written by Harold Curnow 'Is it Bendigo - the horse' .
(b) copy in red ink of a letter sent to Mrs. M.C.S. Cruwys in Devon, England by Harold Curnow inquiring as to any information on a Cornish miner named Bendigo.
(c) A handwritten letter on blue writing paper from George Rich to Harold Curnow with information about the race horse 'Bendigo'.
(d) pinned collection of correspondence between H. Curnow and Mr. J. Hughes Onslow relating to Bendigo the race horse.
(e) Photocopied letter from H. Curnow to Lady Jackson regarding the mystery Racehorse.
(f) A letter from Mr. Ryan MacMahon to H. Curnow regarding the prize fighter, Bendigo.
(g) A blue air letter/aerogram to H. Curnow from Canon C. T. Wood, Bishops Court, Claremont, Cape Province, South Africa, The subject is the horse Bendigo , of which he has a print.
(h) A letter and envelope in blue paper from N. Jackson, England relating details about the horse Bendigo which she saw as a child, he is buried at Fadderly Hall, Leicestershire

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