Manuscripts, 1945-75

Component identifier:

Series 1

Content Summary:

This series contains manuscripts, typescripts, some correspondence, cuttings and photocopies of poems and short stories by Brissenden. The poems include Winter matins, Elegies: nine poems, 'Juvenilia': poems of early childhood, 'Treasure trove', 'The catapult', 'Convivia and trivia' (including A.N.U. Staff Centre drinking verses), 'Acton prehistory' and 'Come on let's get together' (poems for the 1975 Election including the music score).

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased from Bob Brissenden in September 1990. Another consignment of papers, found in the English Department of the Australian National University, was acquired in August 1997.

Names:

Robert F. Brissenden

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