Series 6 - Captain Patrick Wills memoir

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P/P155/15/6

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Captain Patrick Wills memoir

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  • 1930 (Creation)

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16pp

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Kerby A. Miller obtained this transcript from a private donor.

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[This series contains outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.]
Memoir of Captain Patrick Wills, a sailor from Larne, County Antrim, who spent time as a goldminer on St. Aignon (now Misima Island, Papua New Guinea) before returning to sea and travelling to Australia. Wills wrote this memoir from Portland, Oregon in 1930. The series consists of a photocopy of the typed memoir of Wills, along with Kerby A. Miller's research notes.

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