Selected Records of John Anderson and Family

1 x photograph of Helen’s mother Katie and Aunt Elsie standing outside a house

2 x photographs of group of individuals, c.1920s. Left to right: child - Sandy Anderson, Jenny Anderson, John Anderson, Kate Murodch (nee Anderson - John's sister), George Murdoch (sitting in front of Kate wearing glasses), Robert Kidd Dick, and, Helen Anderson Dick.

1 x photograph of Alexander Anderson on a ship with “White Lies” written underneath. Alexander and his wife undertook a world cruise in 1924 on his retirement.

1 x photograph of Sandy Anderson as a young boy

1 x photograph postcard of a man standing talking with people sitting behind him. Alexander Anderson is at the back on the right with the dark beard. On the reverse it is addressed to “Mr A Anderson, Schoolhouse, Stonehouse” and is from JEH

3 x colour images of Jenny Anderson taken in 1976 sent to Catherine Brown (Helen’s mother).

2 x newspaper articles from the Stonehouse/Larkhall gazette, April 10 & April 24 1973 on Mr Alex Anderson,headmaster of Camnethan Sreet School

Letter to Julia Barclay from Michael Easson, 19 July 1978

Tribute to John Anderson by W O’Neil

2 x Christmas cards to the Helen’s parents from Dr Brian Kennedy, John Anderson’s biographer

Details (handwritten) of John Anderson’s birth and his father, William’s death

News cutting from ‘The Australian’ 5 November 1997 on Anderson Bequest

Letter to Helen’s mother from her cousin, Marjorie Newhook (John Anderson’s niece and daughter of his brother William) which mentions the Dobell portrait of John Anderson, 10 Oct 1990; ‘William Anderson as Educator” by GWR Ardley (William was John’s brother); and, a letter to Marjorie from Robert Calder,

Extract of Helen’s mother’s eulogy with family highlighted.

Copy article by Peter Harris ‘The Anderson Estate’ from Quadrant July-August 1997.

2 copies of the 1977 program for the John Anderson Commemoration, lectures and Conference. One includes an image of Anderson (copyright third party – Mirror newspapers)

Newspaper article from The Sun herald July 8 1962 and the SMH weekend magazine and book review 5 March 1977

Copy article from Daily Telegraph 14 September 1946

Quadrant July 1977

The Bulletin 20 October 1962