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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SYMONDS. SENT TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON, June 14. Dame Katherine Fnrse, Director of the World Bureau of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, is instituting an Austra-lia-wide search for two men whose names are unknown. They possess a missing autobiography and personal papers which belonged to her father. John Addington Symonds, the English critic and poet. Her father, on his death in 1893, left them to a friend, Horatio F. Brown, who died in 1926, leaving them to two nephews in Australia. Dame Katherine Furse wants the papers for memoirs, which she hopes to publish soon. J. A. Symonds instructed that his autobiography should not bo published till 1976, as it contains intimate material concerning his contemporaries. For many years, Symonds spent the autumn in the house of his friend. Horatio F. Brown, in Venice. He died at Rome on April 19, 1893, and was buried close to Shelley. Horatio Brown was the author of a two-volume life of Symonds. published in 1895.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 192, 15 July 1939, Page 13
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165MISSING PAPERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 192, 15 July 1939, Page 13
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