Papers of the Reid Family

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Collection includes: "The middleman" by C.E. Reid, a partially fictionalised biography of Robert Reid, a Scotsman who migrated to Australia in 1852 (471 p.); architectural drawing of East St Kilda Grammer School and residence; a large leather bound volume of post cards, with an inscription to Andrew Lambert Reid, on the occasion of his birthday 21 Sept 1904; a bound copy of "The Victorian Freeman", (Vol.1, No.1. December 1876) edited by Rev. J. Reid, with the name Mary Lambert Reid inscribed on the first preliminary page; a copy of "Fifty years after" by William Ievers (1894); a copy of "The child of poverty" by James Crease (1847); a typed history of the Reid family; a history of Robert Reid & Co. Ltd. printed to commemorate Australia's jubilee (1951); papers relating to John Reid's involvement in the Melbourne Shakespeare Society; notes relating to a lecture series given at the University of Melbourne by John Reid; publications by John Reid, "The Shakespeare problem" and "God revealing himself to the soul"; photographs, correspondence and newspaper clippings of the Reid family.