Prose

Component identifier:

Series 5

Content Summary:

This series comprises handwritten and typescript drafts and worksheets relating to a number of Moll's prose works, all apparently unpublished. These include the autobiographical 'Postscripts for poems', 'Shoes of silence' (also titled 'The white cockatoo' and 'The other side of the night'), 'Elements of style' and 'A chapter for Cockie'.

The series also contains a small number of Moll's short stories and essays, including 'Dark angel', 'A bright fire', 'No Troy to burn', 'Wordsworth: the struggle for poetry', 'The artist and society', 'Literature and the human spirit', 'John Shaw Neilson', 'Regional writing in relation to a country's literature' and 'Some aspects of contemporary poetry'.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The bulk of the Ernest Moll Papers were donated to the Library by Moll's daughter Dr Carolyn Moll in September 1997. An addition to the papers was made in October 1998 by Moll's nephew Peter Moll.

Names:

Moll, Carolyn

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