WILL LAWSON’S MEMOIRS
Presentation To Turnbull Library
(New Zealana Kress Association/ WELLINGTON, Jan. 20. The unpublished autobiography of Will Lawson, the Australian and New Zealand journalist, poet and author, has been presented to the Turnbull Library, Wellington. The presentation was made today by the president of the Friends of the Turnbull Library, Mr Pat Lawlor.
‘The manuscript is a valuable addition to the library," said the Turnbull Librarian, Mr C. R. H. Taylor, today. “We have more than 30 books written by Mr Lawson in our collection, and this manuscript more or less makes them complete.” Mr Lawson was born in 1878, the son of Bishop Nicholas Lawson, of Durham, England. He started his career as a clerk with the Union Steam Ship Company and later joined the “Evening News.”
“Some of his better known publications include a book on Marlborough and another on Bully Hayes, the pirate, which he called ‘The Laughing Buccaneer. " Mr Taylor could offer no explanation why the autobiography had not been published. He said Mr Lawson apparently sent it to Mr Lawlor shortly before he died in 1957.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29108, 21 January 1960, Page 14
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