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    GIBSON, Lavinia (née Featherstone) (1823-1888)

    Commonplace book of Lavinia Gibson (Featherstone), wife of Hugh Gibson of Glenample Station, southwest Victoria, containing important ephemera relating to the Loch Ard shipwreck, including the earliest known eyewitness sketch of the disaster scene (by F. H. Bruford, customs officer) and an autograph signed note by Eva Carmichael (Townshend), one of the only two survivors.