Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Miles Franklin - The Book of the Waratah Cup, 1902 - 1908, 1944 - 1954
R230c

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With much admiration for
Miss Franklin's unmistakeable literary
gifts, and with best wishes for her future

John Farrell
Aug 28, 1902

Your "Brilliant Career"
Will not be contained
In one volume. We
hope to see many more books.

H.H.L. Wallace
Aug 31st 1902.

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With best wishes

Harvey A. Hanks
Sept. 4. '02

Edith Stevens
Bertram Stevens.
5th Aug. 1902.

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With warm admiration

Ethel Curlewis
(Ethel Turner)
Sept 5th 1902.

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Hoping that your present undertaking
will add to the brilliancy of your
already brilliant Career, & improve
that of thousands of our hard working
fellow women in Australia

Yours sincerely
Vida Goldstein
Dec. 16th, 1903.
Died Aug 15, 1949.

Isabella Goldstein.
April 7th 1904.

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Mary Booth.
Sept 5. 1902.

A.B. Paterson
28th March /06.

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With delicious recollections of an
evening that sparkled with Miles's
brilliance - & never went bung !

Henrietta Drake-Brockman
July 29th 1949.

March 2nd 1950

No Waratah cup was needed to sweeten
remembrance of a day spent with Miles !
 She herself is the cup brimming over with
the sparkle of conversational brilliance,
the mellow vintage of matured wisdom,
the proteins & salts of the milk of human
kindness.

Jean Devanny.

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August 1949

Exquisite and unique - as the
psyche of Miles, herself - the
Waratah cup from which I
have drunk and been refreshed !

Katharine Susannah

A drink of tea from The Waratah
Cup, and I am admitted to the ranks
of Miles' friends of Australian
democracy.

Allan Dalziel 12.12.50.

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Tea that warms & conversation
that sparkles - are fine but
to have had tea in the Waratah
Cup & to have had conversation
 with Miles is enough to make
even the Leprechauns leaping
in the garden envious -
My love & thanks Miles,

Pixie O'Harris
Mar. 28. 50.

A precious memory,
Of time spent in
Miles company,
And tea in the
so famous Waratah Cup,
With many thanks,

Marie McNiven
28.5.51.

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Beautiful tea from a beautiful cup -
and an evening with Miles.
With love & gratitude

Beatrice Davis. (Aug 25.49)

How many miles to Carlton?
A thousand miles away -
Yet we'll go there by candle-light,
We'll roam there when the sun is bright,
We'll board the trains, we'll climb the stiles,
To drink a cup of Waratah tay
With the One & Only Miles !

Tom Inglis Moore
2/6/52.

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With many thanks for a delightful evening.

Beryl M. Walker
15.6.53.

Honoured this day by admission
to the Society of the Waratah Cup, and
grateful for the privilege.

T.D. Mutch
June 17, 1953.