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I have found a useful resource for anyone interested in Donald Dinnie's time touring/living in Australia.
The website is http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper and it has digitised, and searchable, copies of many newspapers from 1800's.
This link here http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/search?adv=y allows you to search their entire archive for the word (say) "dinnie". Only take a minute to find every reference to the man the have online.
A lot of the hits are just adverts but here is one (of many gems). A detailed description of Dinnie versus Professor Miller.
This contest was mentioned in Webster's book on Dinnie. Dinnie lost on 'style' even though his reps far exceeded Miller's.
This always always puzzled me but it all becomes clear in this newspaper article from "The Argus" 7/4/1884.
Unfortunately the pdf's are too large to upload to the forum so I had to use screenshots which are not as readable as the pdf.
Hopefully people will find this useful
all the best
James
The website is http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper and it has digitised, and searchable, copies of many newspapers from 1800's.
This link here http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/search?adv=y allows you to search their entire archive for the word (say) "dinnie". Only take a minute to find every reference to the man the have online.
A lot of the hits are just adverts but here is one (of many gems). A detailed description of Dinnie versus Professor Miller.
This contest was mentioned in Webster's book on Dinnie. Dinnie lost on 'style' even though his reps far exceeded Miller's.
This always always puzzled me but it all becomes clear in this newspaper article from "The Argus" 7/4/1884.
Unfortunately the pdf's are too large to upload to the forum so I had to use screenshots which are not as readable as the pdf.
Hopefully people will find this useful
all the best
James
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