Various papers, 1999-2000
- Containers:
- Box 1 (MS Acc06.025)
- Component identifier:
- File 5
- Content Summary:
- Faxes, records of conversations, notes etc. of communications between Judith Wright and Patricia Clarke, from early 1999 to just before Wright's death in 2000; Faxes between Pat Clarke and Michael Heyward, Text Publishing, re changes, additions etc. to autobiographical text; handover of final text, disk and photographs for Half a Lifetime to Michael Heyward in Melbourne; correspondence re text for editor's note; correspondence with Margaret Kennedy; arrival of page proofs etc.; arrangements for publicity and launch for Half a Lifetime; launch of Rosa! Rosa! (P. Clarke's biography of Rosa Praed, MUP, December 1999); JW's comments Rosa; records of conversations with Judith Wright including at Woden Valley Hospital, 25 January 2000; new paperback edition of Half a Lifetime and apology from Michael Heyward re omission of P.Clarke's name; conversation with JW, 22 May 2000. [See Judith Wright's Papers for addition by Patricia Clarke of correspondence and material given to her for second part of JW's autobiography
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers of Patricia Clarke were donated to the National Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme (now the Cultural Gifts Program (CGP)) in 1990, 1994 and 1997. Further donations were received via CGP in 2006 and 2011.
- Subjects:
- History
Literature
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn56010).
- 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- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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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