Consignment added March 2001

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Component identifier:
Class MS 4809
Content Summary:

The Library purchased this addition from McQueen in March 2001. It comprises personal and business correspondence (1996-2001), a copy typescript of The essence of capitalism: the origins of our future (2001) and other papers.

Subjects of the correspondence include McQueen's visit to the US, his illness, his work as a writer and reviewer, politics, Bach Festival in Melbourne, books read and personal news.

The main correspondents are Kathy Bail, Christie Beckhouse, Ruth Blair, Jenny Darling (McQueen's agent), Michael Dunn, Andrew Franklin (Profile Books), Graham Gully, Rodney Hall, Ken Inglis, Caroline Lurie (Hodder Headline), Peter Lyssiotis, Kathy Lette, Ben McGuire, Judy McQueen, HisayukiMitsuo, Nicholas Ponder, Graham Rowlands and Walter Stuve.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was partly donated to the Library by McQueen and partly purchased by the Library from him in several instalments from 1974.
Subjects:
Arts
Literature
Arts

Contents

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1889731).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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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