Peter Kent papers, 1880-1918

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1 packet of photographs and papers, 1 satchel, Some of the correspondence is written in Norwegian. Letters, photographs and a leather satchel belonging to Peter Kent. These items were left in possession of Frederick and Edith Mills of Longreach who might have been Kent's employers. The collection contains eleven letters from Kent's relatives and and friends, photographs of Kent's relatives in Norway, Germany, New York and South America, several postcards, greeting cards, a Queensland Government Savings Bank passbook and a leather satchel marked 'P. Kent.' Peter Kent went under an assumed name, while living in Queensland; he was baptised Christian Matthias Matiasen Altschwager in 1841 in Norway.