Consignment added 2010
- Component identifier:
- Class MS Acc10_040
- Content Summary:
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Comprises a large hardbound volume titled "Hortus Siccus Vol. 1" containing news clippings of articles written by Rohan Rivett when working in London between 1949 and 1951, clippings from the Adelaide News, 1951-1954, and clippings of book reviews "Your book for this week" from the Sunday mail. The clippings have been pasted over and between pressed and labelled botanical specimens of leaves and flowers from England dating from the 1850s. There is also a loose bundle of essays, drawings, letters and other juvenilia of Rohan Rivett dating from 1918-1929.
Contained in 1 folio box.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The collection was presented to the National Library by Mrs Nancy Rivett in 1989. Further papers were donated in 1998.
- Names:
- Rivett (widow), Nancy
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2701557).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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