The Australian Women's Register

MS Acc10.207 comprises papers collected by Gareth Thomas relating to the Mawson family. The majority of the papers in this collection comprise personal correspondence of Paquita Mawson (née Delprat), principally with her daughter Patricia, but also with her daughter Jessica, and with other members of her extended family. There is a small group of letters of Douglas Mawson to Patricia, 1925-1931. Other papers include a small number of undated black and white photographs depicting Antarctic exploration; a typescript draft of Paquita Mawson’s biography of her father, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, published in 1958; a Deed of Agreement between the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and G.D. Delprat (1898); and architectural plans of a house for G.D. Delprat at Brighton, South Australia (1909) (6 boxes, 1 map folio). The Acc10.216 instalment comprises a telegram from Douglas Mawson to his fiancee, Paquita Delprat, advising her that he was alive after having been missing in the Antarctic for some months (1 folder).