Objects of Substance- The Mackinlay Honour Board

rights as Dickson’s widow to live at Toorak, Hamilton. Colonel Moore also described her final, lonely weeks when no-one close to Mary had come forward to care for her. “She has been living a life for some time past that virtually she has no friends here… and no family of her own in Australia” and that, despite being the late Premier’s wife, “was allowed to die like a dog”. (Magistrate Richard Moore’s letter to W H Ryder re Lady Mary Dickson’s final days, death, burial and will, written 23.2.1902, held in Fryer Library F447.MJK)

1902 Colonel Moore’s letter pages 1 and 2

1902 Colonel Moore’s letter pages 3 and 4.