Notebooks, c. 1952-1981

 
Component identifier:
Series 3
Content Summary:
This series comprises notebooks containing dated handwritten entries consisting of poems, notes and prose items. In an interview published in the National Times (May 17-23, 1981, pp. 36-37), Hope stated that he scribbled rough ideas and early drafts on bits of paper and kept them in 'a dirty great big File full of fits and starts'. He used the notebooks in this series for entering 'more precise annotation of things that are finished, or ideas that are fairly well worked out'.
Immediate source of acquisition:
The A.D. Hope Papers were purchased from Hope in ten consignments between 1978 and 1992. In 2001 two files of obituaries and tributes, published after the death of Hope in 2000, were donated to the Library by Hope's daughter-in-law, Sarah Burns. In 2003 further papers were donated to the Library by the Menzies Library at the Australian National University (Acc03/87). These papers had been lodged by Hope over a number of years at the Menzies Library, where they were catalogued under the title, 'The A.D. Hope collection of literary manuscripts'.

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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-vn2604277).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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