Correspondence about Martin Boyd

Containers:

Box 16-17

Component identifier:

Series 9

Content Summary:

This series is housed in Folders 33-44.

During the years 1976-1982, Terence O'Neill wrote to many of Martin Boyd's relatives and friends, people who had corresponded with Boyd, and people who had information about him. Replies from approximately 165 people are included in this series and give information about Boyd at various stages in his life. The letters vary from detailed accounts provided by relatives, e.g. Joan Lindsay, Isla Marsh, Helen Read, and friends, e.g. Alan Shadwick, Joan Burnett, W.R. Crocker, Shelley Fausset, Quinton Geering, Pamela Gill, Barbara Musgrave, Alison Outhwarte, to brief comments from Australian writers who had had some contact with Boyd, such as Patrick White, Desmond O'Grady, Maie Casey, R.D. Fitzgerald, Frank Hardy, David Martin and Manning Clark. Interesting information about the time Boyd spent in the Society of St Francis, in 1923-1924 is provided by Brother Francis Tyndale-Biscoe and Bishop Lash. There are many letters from libraries, publishers and literary agents. In addition to the Terence O'Neill correspondence there is a small number of letters written by Vere Webster to Graham Pollard, and also by Hugh Fausset to his wife, Marjorie, from Rome, with frequent references to Boyd, and extracts about Martin Boyd from Hugh Fausset's letters to Joan Burnett.

Names:

Martin Boyd

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