Fonds A539 - Sarah Gertrude Millin Papers

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ZA HPRA A539

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Sarah Gertrude Millin Papers

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  • 1903 - 1968 (Creation)

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61 boxes and photographs

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(19 March 1889 - 6 July 1968)

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Lithuanian born, Sarah Gertrude Millin came to South Africa in 1889. She became the author of short stories, articles, reviews, plays, novels, biographical and historical works.
In 1912 she married Philip Millin, who later became a judge of the Supreme Court

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Includes correspondence which consists of family letters, letters received over a period of about forty years from personal friends, publishers and other business correspondents and some drafts and originals of letters written by S.G. Millin.

Manuscripts, typescripts and research notes for some of her books, short stories, articles, reviews and of projected and unpublished works. There are stage, radio and film versions of some of her novels. A large number of loose press clippings and 8 scrap-books; two of these relate to the trial of Daisy Louisa de Melker in 1932 for the murder of two former husbands and her son, one contains reviews by S.G. Millin and the remainder contain contemporary reviews of her books.

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