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Letter to FH Batten and reply

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Letter from WM Watt to FH Batten, and reply

  • Other Id

    11073 (Presto content ID)

    MS-2016-1 (Reference Number)

    2016/1 (Registration number)

  • Department

    Manuscripts

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    manuscript

  • Name/Title
    Letter to FH Batten and reply
  • Primary Maker

     W. Watt

  • Date
    1934
  • Physical Description

    1 leaf

  • Level of Current Record
    Child
  • Is Part Of

    Frederick Harold Batten - Papers

  • Public Access Text

    A letter from WM Watt to FH Batten regarding an enclosed poem written in honour of Jean Batten's arrival in Auckland after her flight from Great Britain. The letter is paired with a reply from FH Batten to Watt thanking him for the poem. It also states Jean Batten "...is at present in Jamaica, W. Indies and I will send the poem to her; after taking a copy of it for myself."

  • Last Update
    04 Nov 2022
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