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Author
Gardiner, Lyndsay
Title
Esmond Venner Keogh
In
Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992
Editors
Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton
Imprint
Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1995, pp. 25-28
Url
https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/gardiner.htm
Subject
History of Australian Science - General
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Any biography depends on the voices of the past - or perhaps I should say on words from the past, because naturally I include in the term 'voices' the written as well as the spoken word. If one's subject is recent enough for surviving family, friends and colleagues to provide oral information and impressions, that is a bonus. Most particularly, of course, one requires ideally the voice of one's subject - in letters and diaries or just odd jottings (eg. 'Put out the cat!'). When I embarked on the biography of Esmond Venner Keogh this last, highly desirable ingredient was apparently completely lacking.

Bill Keogh (1895-1970) was a very private person; we all are, to some extent, but with him, for various reasons, privacy was almost an obsession, to the point that one sometimes feels that he was careful not to let his right hand know what his left was doing. He seemed to make almost a fetish of destroying personal papers. Those I have unearthed were, with a few trifling exceptions, found in public records.

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Carlson 1996

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  • Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Sherratt, Tim; Jooste, Lisa; Clayton, Rosanne (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), 124 pp, https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/contents.htm. Details

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