A two-page typed letter from John Monash to his daughter, Bertha, dated July 23rd 1906. 'Dear Bert', he writes, 'I am just sending you a few lines so that you May have a definite guide as to what to do on your return journey.....About 9.30 or 10 it will be time to go to the railway station at swan hill with Capt. Cantwell and ask him to make you snug in a first class corridor ladies compartment...', 'You get to Bendigo at 6.10pm, and you will no doubt find me on the Bendigo platform waiting...