Byram Mansell: artwork and letters to Gilmore, 1950-1951

Component identifier:

Item 1

Content Summary:

A booklet created by Byram Mansell entitled on the front cover 'In the Dream Time' which encloses three stories under the title 'Australian Legends', the stories being 'How the sky was lifted', 'The rain cloud' and 'The fish cave'. The cover is illustrated in ink and clay pigment and inserted on the inside cover are two letters to Gilmore from Mansell. The first page includes an inscription to Mary Gilmore from Mansell, dated 1950. There is a separate copy of 'How the sky was lifted' in a hand-made paper, painted cover, inscribed from Mansell to Gilmore in 1951 and a decorated wallet containing b w photographs and news cuttings of Mansell's work, together with a letter to Gilmore, 1950. Also included is a typescript entitled 'Report on Aborigines in Australia', 1957, and a program for the Bolshoi Ballet, 1959, both sent to Gilmore by Jessie Street.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers held at MS 727 were received by the Library in several instalments between 1958 and 1991.

Names:

Ralfs, Christopher, Mr.

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