The Australian Society of Authors

Containers:

Box 140-141 (MS 4887)

Component identifier:

Subseries a

Content Summary:

The Australian Society of Authors was launched in Sydney on 15 May 1963 and by the end of that year there were members in all states. The subseries contains a small number of letters to Hardy from the secretary Jill Hellyer but the bulk of the papers consist of records of the Society for ten years from 1963. They include an invitation to the inaugural meeting, a copy of the constitution, notices of meetings, circulars, quarterly and annual reports, copies of Broadside v. 1 no. 1, September 1963 to v. 5 no. 3, April 1968, and printed material.

Hardy represented the A.S.A. on the convening committee of the National T.V. Congress held in Sydney in March 1965. Notices of meetings, Hardy's notes, papers of the Congress, press cuttings and 'The report from the Senate Select committee on the encouragement of Australian productions for television' (October 1963) complete the series.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of the writer Frank Hardy were purchased by the Library in seven consignments between 1975 and 1988.

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