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Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 Goodbye Old Friend
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Last letter of David MacKay, written at Bluebush on 2 January 1893, to 'My dear Hutton'.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Gather No Moss William Linklater , Lynda Tapp , Melbourne : Macmillan , 1968 Z1219482 1968 single work autobiography Melbourne : Macmillan , 1968 pg. 94
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 127
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