G'day Mike,

It may well have been pastiches of half-truth like this that led to Christina McPherson writing a letter to a folkloric medico in 1938 detailing her memory of the actual events. There is a bundle of (presumably) 'first drafts' in her papers (held by the National Library of Australia) which fits in fairly well with the conclusions published by Richard Magoffin in the 1980s and 1990s ... but stops short of further discussion of Paterson's possibles advances to her ... and the ending of "Banjo's" engagement to her ex-classmate that have been detailed by Magoffin's sometime co-author Denis O'Keefe.

Regards,

Bob Bolton