Correspondence, notebooks, notes, drafts and printed material
- Component identifier:
- Series 1-5
- Content Summary:
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The correspondence comprises some family letters and letters from publishers, academics and writers. The correspondents include Alfred Deakin, Bernard O'Dowd, Mary Gilmore, Ernest Philpot, Sir Ernest Scott, B.H. Liddell Hart, C.E. Sayers, Sydney Jephcott, Rudyard Kipling, Nettie Palmer, G. Bernard Shaw, Kylie Tennant, Lord Bryce, Edmund Gosse, and H.G. Wells.
An index to correspondents represented to the collection is attached (see the 'Related Documentation' tab.
Other papers include notebooks containing verse, notes, clippings, epigrams, etc; some small engagement diaries; typescript drafts of newspaper articles and radio talks, newspaper cuttings of book reviews and Murdoch's articles (including "Of books and men", "It seems to me", "Tours and detours", "Answers", and "After thoughts"); some published radio talks; a manuscript copy of Xanthippe by A. Panzini translated by Murdoch and F. Vanzetti (1931); and a set of Alfred Deakin's speeches to Parliament, 1903-1911.
- Names:
- Walter Murdoch
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2294062).
- 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- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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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