Letters from Daisy Bates 20/7/43

Abstract

DMB reminisces about how much she enjoyed the company of some Perth women in 1899 and how she was made a member of the Karrakatta Club as soon as she arrived. She is unhappy that she cannot get “just the employment I’m most fitted for” – that is, to write a guide about the Aborigines for government policy makers and missionaries. She writes that she has no conversation, not even with the 4 married women of the settlement but she sends 5 shillings for each of their new babies.