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Bill Scott (1923-2005).(Obituary)

Bill Scott--Australian folklorist, song-writer, storyteller and poet--died just before Christmas 2005. He had been in increasingly poor health for some time, then a stroke in early December spelt the beginning of the end.

I had corresponded with Bill for about twenty years and he was the only pen-friend I ever had generous enough to put up with my hopelessness as a letter-writer. For every letter I wrote to him, he wrote me three long ones full of stories, news, ideas and weather reports from his beloved Condamine River. Many of the letters were accompanied by little gifts, tapes, books--on one occasion a piece of smoky quartz from the Snowy Mountains, which he said I was ...

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