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- ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography - Arthur Davitt
- 1 2 3 4 The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, p221
- ↑ Davitt, Ellen (2015), Force and Fraud : A Tale of the Bush, Clan Destine Press, ISBN 978-0-9924925-8-8
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