Correspondence

Containers:

Box 48

Component identifier:

File 361-364

Content Summary:

File with about 115 letters, late 1980s, some with notes of her replies, re permissions etc. for the publication of work by Judith Wright; correspondents include David Brooks, Angus Robertson (Richard Walsh, Jane Scurr, Sue Phillips), Brian Sweeney, A. W. Sheppard (Wright's agent) and others.

Interesting small file re proposed (later failed) Braidwood Festival, 1989, with one or two letters from Vincent Plush (musical director). Wright was a patron.

Thick file 1982-89 re restoration of Dalwood House, Branxton, on the Wyndham estate. (Wright a Wyndham descendant.) Some letters of Wright's: many from Ian Hudson, prime mover in the restoration.

Thick file of cuttings and photocopies, 1984-86, on Aboriginal questions. Used by Wright 'as references for articles'.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were acquired from Judith Wright in a number of instalments, the first of which was received in 1978. In 2002 and 2005, further papers were acquired from Wright's daughter, Meredith McKinney. In 2005, a small consignment of papers, consisting of autobiographical material given to Patricia Clarke by Wright in 2000, was received from Patricia Clarke.

Names:

Judith Wright

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