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Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Three handwritten letters, written by Tokomaru farmer Edward Griffiths to friends in England, have been donated to the Ian Matheson city archives. The letters describe the life of a settler farmer in Tokomaru in the late 1800's to early1900s.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2021Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_034707
Title
Memory Lane - "Old letters a window into life of early farmer"
Relation
Manawatū Standard
Format
Born Digital
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Place
Manawatū
Date
June 5, 2021

Object rights

Credit Line
Fairfax
License
Copyright

Taxonomy

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dairy farming,
farmer,
farming,
immigrant,
letters,
manawatu standard,
memory lane,
tokomaru,
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