Consignment added 2010
- Component identifier:
- Class MS Acc10_061
- Content Summary:
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Comprises correspondence between Sir Keith Murdoch and Rohan Rivett from January-October 1952, mostly concerning the day-to-day and strategic operations of the News; research notes on the relationship between Sir Keith and Rupert Murdoch based on Rivett's correspondence with Sir Keith; file of photographs, letters, and news clippings of articles by or concerning Rohan Rivett; letters and brief reminiscences about Rohan Rivett written in 1996-1997 by a cross-section of his friends and colleagues for Rhyll Rivett, who proposed to use them in a (never completed) biography of her father. Contributors include Delme Forbes, Keith Dunstan, Nan Rivett, Mochtar Lubis, Ken Inglis, David Bowman, Jack Fitzgerald, Lloyd Willey, Denis Warner, Patricia Dunstan, Rupert Murdoch, Catherine Veitch, John Miles, Joy Saunders, Rita Dunstan, Robert Gilmore, Ken May, Douglas Wilkie.
Contained in 1 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- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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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