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This is a truly magnificent gift by a public-spirited citizen, whose name will be remembered for a long time for the services he rendered this State. It is a pictorial record of the history of New South Wales, and of some parts of
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volumes showing signs of wear. At first the collection was for his own use but "...when he learned that the income from David Scott
Mitchell's bequest to the Public Library of New South Wales could not be spent on pictures, he 'decided to give special attention to them'".
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