Guide to the Papers of Ross Campbell, 1930-1982

 

Collection context

Summary

Collection number:
MS 8001
Creator:
Ross Campbell
Extent:
1.5 metres and (6 boxes, 1 folio box)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], MS 8001, National Library of Australia, Papers of Ross Campbell, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Biographical Note:

Born at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia in 1910, Ross McKay Campbell graduated in English from Melbourne University, where he was co-editor of the student newspaper Farrago. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship and spent three years studying at Magdalen College, Oxford University in the mid 1930s, where C.S. Lewis was one of his tutors. On return to Sydney Campbell embarked on a career in journalism, working for the Daily Telegraph before enlisting in World War II. In the years following the war he consolidated his journalistic work, firstly as a feature writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, before his 1954 move to Consolidated Press as a reviewer and satirical columnist for the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, Australian Womens Weekly and The Bulletin. The pieces written during this period were to provide the basis of his published collections Daddy Are You Married? (1962), Mummy, Who Is Your Husband? (1964) and She Can't Play My Bagpipes (1970). An autobiography, An Urge To Laugh, was also published in 1981, just a year before his death in 1982.

Provenance:

The National Library of Australia received the papers of well-known Australian journalist and humourist Ross Campbell as a donation from his widow Ruth in May 1989.

Indexed terms

Names:
Ross Campbell

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2239208).
Conditions Governing Use:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], MS 8001, National Library of Australia, Papers of Ross Campbell, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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