• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH003955

Family papers, 1911-1960 [manuscript]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
  • Reference MS 2052
  • Date Range 1911 - 1960
  • Description

    Contains mainly unpublished typescripts of works by members of the Gepp family including autobiographical notes on the career of Herbert Gepp; copies of a narrative entitled “Youth as it flies” by Gepp’s daughter Mardi Gething detailing her experience during World War 1939-1945 as a pilot in the air transport auxiliary; and a draft by Kathleen Gepp entitled “First the desert”. Also includes newspaper cuttings, 1933-1954, relating to the knighthood and death of Herbert Gepp; letters to Kathleen Gepp from Henry Miller, 1960, regarding the possible publication of her work, and a letterbook kept by Lady Jessie Gepp during a trip to Great Britain, 1911-1912.

  • Quantity 5 folders 0.07 m
  • Access Available for reference. Not for loan.

Related entries


  • Primary
    • Gething, Margaret Helen (Mardi) (1920 - 2005)
    • Gepp, Kathleen Jessie (1908 - 1994)
    • Gepp, Jessie Powell (1878 - 1963)