Editing Banjo Paterson (section)

===Journalism===
[[File:Banjo Paterson photographic portrait.jpg|thumb|upright|This portrait of Paterson is reproduced on the [[Australian ten-dollar note]].]]
Paterson became a [[war correspondent]] for ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' and ''[[The Age]]'' during the [[Second Boer War]], sailing for South Africa in October 1899. There he met fellow war correspondents [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Rudyard Kipling]] as well as British army leaders [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Kitchener]], [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Roberts]] and [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Haig]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paterson |first1=A.B. |title=Happy Dispatches |date=1935 |publisher=Angus & Robertson |location=Sydney |pages=18–76 |edition=First}}</ref>

His graphic accounts of the [[Siege of Kimberley|relief of Kimberley]], surrender of [[Bloemfontein]] (the first correspondent to ride in) and the capture of [[Pretoria]] attracted the attention of the press in Britain.<ref name=ADB /> An untouched box of chocolates, created by the British company [[Cadbury|Cadburys]] for [[Queen Victoria]] as a 1900 New Year's gift for troops serving in South Africa, was discovered in Paterson's papers at the [[National Library of Australia]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Library finds 120-year-old chocolates commissioned by Queen Victoria and owned by Banjo Paterson - ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-21/old-box-of-chocolates-queen-victoria-boer-war-national-library/13001562|access-date=2020-12-20|website=amp.abc.net.au|archive-date=21 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221064703/https://amp.abc.net.au/article/13001562|url-status=live}}</ref> He also was a correspondent during the [[Boxer Rebellion]], where he met [[George Ernest Morrison|George "Chinese" Morrison]] and later wrote about his meeting. He was editor of [[Samuel Bennett]]'s ''[[The Evening News (Sydney)|Evening News]]'' from 1903 to 1908,<ref name=ADB /> and his ''[[Australian Town and Country Journal|Town and Country Journal]]'' 1907 to 1908.<ref>''Australian Writers'', L. J. Blake, Rigby Limited, 1968</ref>