Original consignment

Component identifier:

Class MS 8344

Extent:

(88 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box)

Content Summary:

This consignment comprises: 1. Correspondence, 1960-91: personal, family, business (mostly with his solicitor) and general (with other writers and friends). The correspondents include Suse Wolf, Anne Whitehead, Alex Robertson, Ray Williams, Andrei Zdravomislov, Maurice Isaacs and June Factor. 2. Writings: drafts, typescripts, notes, research material, photocopies and correspondence relating to the following: "Mastering the media" (1971), "City on the Peel: a history of Tamworth and district, 1818-1976" (1980), "Wallabadah: the early history of the northern district of New South Wales ... " (1980), "Serpent's tooth: an autobiographical novel" (1984), "Waterloo Creek: the Australia Day massacre of George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales" (1992). The correspondents include N. McKeller, Lyall Green, R. Buchorn, Len Payne, Lyndall Ryan and Humphrey McQueen. 3. Political activities, 1970-91: cuttings and printed material. 4. Theatre, 1956-85: programs, play scripts and photographs. 5. Other activities, 1970-90: including typescripts and filmscripts for television and film documentaries, and ABC radio programs; and notebooks and journals kept while working in Moscow and East Africa.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Library purchased the papers from Roger Milliss in 1991 and 2022.

Extent information:

13.65 metres,

Subjects:

Politics and government
Active citizenship and representative democracy

Names:

Milliss, Roger

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