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| Meta, like all of TLM-P's daughters, received her basic education at home from governesses, her mother and older siblings. Like her paternal uncle William M-P and maternal aunt Emily Susan Paterson, Meta was a talented artist, judging from a lovely watercolour of a swallow and orchids by a river in the NLA.\\ | Meta, like all of TLM-P's daughters, received her basic education at home from governesses, her mother and older siblings. Like her paternal uncle William M-P and maternal aunt Emily Susan Paterson, Meta was a talented artist, judging from a lovely watercolour of a swallow and orchids by a river in the NLA.\\ |
| {{:meta_s_painting_of_swallow.jpg?200|}}((M-P papers, NLA MS7801, folder 44))\\ | {{:meta_s_painting_of_swallow.jpg?200|}}((M-P papers, NLA MS7801, folder 44))\\ |
| | TLM-P encouraged her, in 5 October 1888 while in Australia with Meta in Europe, he tried to preserve a frilled-neck lizard, presumably for Meta to draw: 'bought some arsenical soap [for 2/-] and was most of the day trying to set up the Frilled lizard for Meta, very difficult. I managed the stuffing but could not do the frills.' (6 Oct) 'Finished Meta's frilled lizard'. |
| She also wrote poetry.((M-P family papers, NLA, Box 4, folder 22.)) A 17 page handwritten story of hers survives: the copy is dated July 1925((check)), inscribed 'For Mother', with the title "With the Sultan through Spicer's Gap. A Round Trip from Brisbane to Warwick and Back'. It is a well-written story of a family car trip with "the Sultan", her husband, and daughter ("Miss N.S.W.").((Provenance: J. Godden. **If anyone knows any of Meta's descendants, I'd be happy to return the ms to them. J.G.**)) \\ | She also wrote poetry.((M-P family papers, NLA, Box 4, folder 22.)) A 17 page handwritten story of hers survives: the copy is dated July 1925((check)), inscribed 'For Mother', with the title "With the Sultan through Spicer's Gap. A Round Trip from Brisbane to Warwick and Back'. It is a well-written story of a family car trip with "the Sultan", her husband, and daughter ("Miss N.S.W.").((Provenance: J. Godden. **If anyone knows any of Meta's descendants, I'd be happy to return the ms to them. J.G.**)) \\ |
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