Agent TypePersonGenderMaleHistoryThis collection of itemised accounts and other records kept by W.F. Wells of Victoria was accompanied by a manuscript note (kept with the collection) supplying the following information: When Walter Wells was eleven years he left school in Beechworth. He worked as a cook for a surveyor, and went droving into New South Wales to support the family. Over most of the period covered by the records, Wells worked as a repairer for the Victorian Railways, but also found work with farmers. The sums brought into the household from various sources by Wells, his wife and their children (a family of ten) are carefully recorded. In addition to the accounts, the collection includes some minutes of organisations in which Wells was interested, the Blue Ribbon Army (a temperance body) and the short lived Gapstead Brass Band.
