Write, historian, VAD nurse and folklorist, Patsy Adam Smith was a popular author of books on Australian history and folklore. In particular, her adoptee upbringing in a railway family gave her the basis for Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen (1969) and a number of related works.
Some papers at State Library of Victoria at
http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER1641168
(though unavailable as at 2021)
Biography at The Australian Women’s Register
http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0120b.htm
There are interviews with her at the Australian War Memorial
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C268674
and the NLA
