Documents and correspondence of Edouard Borovansky

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

File 2

Content Summary:

Three birth certificates (Czech, Prague 1923/4)

Certificate of registration (Bow St., 1927); List Domovsky and cert. de l'assignation des valeurs (Czech, 1936-8)

Certificate of identity (Australia, 1944)

Passport (Australia, 1950) and international health and electoral claim; press cuttings of Borovansky in "charge of supers" (Sunday Sun, 1939)

Letter to Sacha describing reason for staying in Australia (1943)

First correspondence with letters from Sir Harry Chauvel, Daryl Lindsay, David Martin, Sir William Slim, Kathleen Daintree

Memorandum of Agreement with Colonel de Basil (London, 1937)

Melbourne Ballet Club letters on Actors Equity; registration of Borovansky's Ballet Academy (1940) Equity card

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased from Geoffrey Ingram by the National Library in several instalments between 1987 and 1993. Two further additions were donated by Ingram in 1997 and 1998.

Names:

Ingram, Geoffrey

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