Diaries and notebooks, 1933-92

Component identifier:: Series 4
Content Summary:: Diaries recording the birth and achievements of McCutcheon's son Kim (1935-41), and her trips to Papua, Europe, India, Ceylon, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Rhodesia. Also includes notebooks containing addresses, quotations, extracts from letters (including excerpts of letters received after Kim's death), Christmas lists, hymn lists, Joyce Family genealogical details, and notebooks on her 80th birthday and the deaths of her father and son.
Immediate source of acquisition:: The papers were donated to the Library by McCutcheon's literary executor Dr John Garrett in 1992. Two small additions (tapes of McCutcheon's funeral and memorial service and personal correspondence of Sister Constance (Paul) Fairhall) were donated in 1993. A third addition was donated by June Epstein in 2001. This material includes letters from McCutcheon to Madeline Crump, 1978-1991, letters from Anne McCutcheon, Leonore Collard, Mary Learmonth and others to Crump, 1990-1998, photographs (7) of McCutcheon and others, 1932-1970, and other papers.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:: Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn232927).
Parent Terms of Access:: Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:: National Library of Australia

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia