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Handwritten list of clients and fees made by Robert Gordon Menzies, October 1924 to October 1926. Stamped on front cover: “SIR ROBERT MENZIES”; written in blue ink on first page: “Robert G. Menzies Fees October 1924”. Includes several loose pages including: handwritten calculation of fees (dated July and August 1925); extract of birth certificate for Robert Gordon Menzies (issued 28 February 1913); handwritten copy of Morse Code; receipt for payment from R.G. Menzies for rent of room at 480 Bourke Street, Melbourne (25 October 1926); cutting from Australian Law Times (November 1911) on “Tenant for life and casual profits” and “Section 33 of Wills Act 1837”; and notes on subjects including the Conveyancing Act 1915; Supreme Court Act 1915; powers of life tenant; insolvency; Shelley’s case; Landlord and Tenant Act 1909; fraudulent conveyances; special procedure on bills of exchange; mortgage before and after conveyancing act; Life tenant and dilapidation money (April 1912) etc. Also includes handwritten poem by Menzies on letterhead of the Law Students’ Society of Victoria: “Soft o’er the fountain, Lingering falls the southern moon : far o’er the mountain Breaks the day to soon! In thy dark eyes’ splendour, where the warm light loves to dwell. [/] Weary looks, that tender, Speak their fond farewell. Nita! Nita! ask thy soul if we should part! Nita! Nita! Learn thou on my heart [/] When in thy dreaming, Moons like these shall shine again, and daylight learning. Prove thy dreams are vain, will thou not, relenting, for thine about loves sigh, In thy heart consenting To a prayer jove by? [/] Nita! Nita! Let me linger by thy side! Be my ever fair bride.”