Correspondence, 1952-1959

Component identifier:

File 20

Content Summary:

Includes letters from Mena Abdullah, Robin Pratt, Geoffrey Dutton, Pixie O'Harris, William H. Peters and Alec Bolton and single letters from Mary Gilmore, Miles Franklin, Rosemary Dobson and performing artist, Thea Rowe.

Immediate source of acquisition:

A first instalment of two cartons of papers was received by the Library in 1990 from Mathew's sister Lorraine Sankey, with whom they had been left by Mathew when he departed Australia in 1960. The Library purchased these papers in 1991 from Mathew who was at that time living in New York. After Mathew's death there in 2002, three cartons of papers were donated in 2002 and two cartons in two instalments in 2003, by Mrs Eva Kollsman (with whom Mathew was living at the time of his death). A final instalment of four cartons was donated to the Library in 2006 by Jeff Hyland, executor for both Mathew and Mrs Kollsman (who died in 2005).

Names:

Sankey, Lorraine, Mrs.

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