Perkins Papers |
In 1943 when Perkins retired, he began to collect material relating to the history of the districts in which he had been brought up and which he had served as a member of Parliament. Perkins cast his net rather widely, covering his seat of Eden-Monaro from south of Goulburn, the South Coast, to the Upper Murray River, and the towns of Tumut and Adelong. After Perkins passed away, his wife moved and the papers her husband had intended to donate to the 'Historical Society' were disposed of at the local rubbish dump. Luckily an alert person found the collection and saved it. The original transcripts were donated to the Mitchell Library while the duplicate carbon copies were donated to the Society of the Australian Genealogists. Image: Tumut NSW, SAG Manuscript and Image Collection, Item 5/3345 |