Darling Mother, Darling Son by Ziegler Edith M;

Author:Ziegler, Edith M;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press

1 In a 1991 article in Australian House & Garden Leslie said that it was while he was decorating Burradoo that he realised his knowledge of antiques was ‘competitively good’. He thought ‘why don’t I make a career of this?’ Australian House & Garden, October 1991, pp. 88–91.

2 Barbara Mack was the daughter of a barrister, Charles Sidney Mack, and a close friend of Leslie’s.

3 Leslie and Jeremy left on the SS Nieuw Holland for Singapore on 25 May 1953. SMH, 26 May 1953.

4 Actually, ‘Let all things be done decently and in order’: 1 Corinthians 14:40 (KJV). There are many instances in the correspondence where Dora quotes this verse.

5 ‘Robertson’ was Mr Ainslie M Robertson, the leasing agent from PC Bradfield Real Estate of 224 New South Head Road, Edgecliff.

6 Trot was one of Dora’s dogs. Peter Vernon Merewether was a Bowral veterinary surgeon.

7 Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation was on 2 June 1953. There were many public celebratory events in Sydney.

8 Dora’s and Lawrence’s various friends were Sefton and Nancy Cullen of Burradoo (Sefton Cullen was a long-time office-holder in the Liberal Party); Douglas and Zoë Hill-Douglas of Longreach, Queensland and Bowral; Harold and Marion Killen of Riverside Park, Burradoo and Merribee, Barellan; Henry and Rubie Sanderson of Bowral; and George Lyell and Camilla Blanche (Millie) Sly of Bowral.

9 The Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company.

10 FE Bishop & Co. of 10 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

11 ‘The Rex’ was the Rex Hotel at 58 Macleay Street, Potts Point. At around this time its back bar was becoming a known gathering place for homosexual men.

12 The film Dora missed was A Queen is Crowned. The film she did see was Elizabeth is Queen, a documentary made just after the coronation by the Associated British Picture Corporation and released at the end of June 1953. Information from <www.imdb.com/title/tt0238961/>. Accessed 6 October 2013.

13 The National Roads and Motorists’ Association.

14 Dora’s anxiety would have been heightened by knowing that any revelations of law-breaking by Leslie and/or his friends would damage her own carefully cultivated public image and Leslie’s future business prospects.

15 The scenario outlined to Dora was either a deliberately misleading or self-deluding version of what was really going on. In Sydney Jeremy had met a young architecture student named John Mould. His desire to return to Australia was so that he could be with John and Leslie was fully aware of this. Information from John Mould, 13 November 2013.

16 Leslie and Jeremy travelled to Hong Kong on the Tjiluwah. Information from <www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/java.shtml>. Accessed 6 October 2013.

17 Isaac (Ike) Elias was one of four brothers (the others were Joseph, Ezra and Raphael (Ralph)). The family was noted for their entrepreneurial skills and shrewd investment policies. Information from <www.eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1206_2008-12-05.html> and also from <www.remembersingapore.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/grand-mansions-bungalows-villas-of-the-past>. Both websites accessed 17 March 2016.

18 Leslie is referring to Bugis Street, the centre of Singapore’s sex industry. It was notorious for its parades of female impersonators. Justin Corfield and Robin S Corfield (eds), Encyclopaedia of Singapore, Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD, 2006, p.

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