Miscellaneous
- Component identifier:
- File 6
- Content Summary:
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Eight letters to Dransfield dated 1969 or undated. Correspondents include Thomas Shapcott, Rodney Hall, Charles Buckmaster and John Tranter.
Also includes a letter from H.A. Dransfield to The Rector, Braidwood, 10 May 1929 requesting copy of lost birth certificate, a Sun Herald liftout dated 11 April 1971 and a copy of Free Poetry no 7.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- Michael Dransfield offered his papers for sale to the National Library in October 1972. They were purchased and transferred in March 1973, with further papers received from Rodney Hall in the same month. Together they make up the bulk of Dransfield's manuscript collection. Papers acquired from Livio Dobrez in May 1977 are contained in Files 2, 8 and 9, as noted in the file listings. The material contained in File 10 was acquired from Thomas Shapcott in January 1980. Paula Keogh donated the correspondence contained in File 11 in March 2006. Further papers were donated by Elspeth Dransfield in 2018.
- Subjects:
- Literature
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn537836).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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