Letters to Nora Heysen from her father and mother, Hans Heysen and Sallie Heysen, 1934-1968

Component identifier:

Subseries 1.3

Content Summary:

This subseries contains letters written mostly from Hahndorf, to Nora in London while she was studying; when she was engaged as a war artist during the Second World War; and while she lived with her husband, Dr Robert Black, in Hunter's Hill. Some letters were signed by both 'Mother' and 'Daddy'.

In later years as her parents became frailer, a number of letters were written in a different hand (that of their grand-daughter Jill?) and sometimes signed 'Daddy and Mother' or, after 1962 when Lady Heysen passed away, 'Jill and Daddy'.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Nora Heysen bequeathed the collection to the Library as part of the Heysen Trust in a single instalment in 2004, with the assistance of Lou Klepac, Nora Heysen's executor.

Names:

Dubery, Craig, Mr.

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