Tasma - personal and general information, articles about Tasma

Containers:

Box 25 (MS 8363)

Component identifier:

File 9

Content Summary:

Letter J. Beaucourt, Secretary General, Association des Membres de l'Ordre des PalmesAcadémiques, Paris, regarding decoration awarded to Tasma, rarely given to foreigners and very rarely to women, 8 January 1982 (French)

Letter Eric PeuchotInstitut de France re Tasma's decoration, 9 December 1991

Letter Jennifer Phipps, Curator of Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, 13 March 1980 to Edward Huybers, regarding painting mistakenly thought to be of Tasma

Letter Paul Greenhalgh, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, re Health Exhibition

Letter from Location register of English literary manuscripts and letters, 2 April 1992, regarding Tasma's papers (no locations)

Tasma's letters to her niece FauvetteLoureiro (copies, originals R. Erdos)

Tasma's will, 16 August 1897 (French)

previous will 24 September 1894 (French)

'British Novelists in Belgium', Galignani's Messenger, 16 November 1890

'Tasma (Mme Auguste Couvreur)', Queen, 13 January 1894

Obituary London Times, 25 October 1897

Obituary British Australasian 28 October 1897

'Well-known Women. Madame Couvreur (Tasma)' Home Notes, 14 November 1895

'Some Australian women - Tasma', Illustrated Sydney News 16 April 1891

'Heralds of Australian Literature', by T A Browne (Rolf Boldrewood) Australian Association for the Advancement of Science. Report of the meeting January 1892

'A Tasmanian Lady', Mercury 2 June 1881

Letter - Tasma to brother William Huybers 16 September [1897] just before death (Copy from Enid Jones)

Photocopy of letter by Tasma to A. M. Broadley, editor World

Photocopy marriage Tasma AugusteCouvreur 7 August 1885

Correspondence Dr Ringrose re Tasma's death

Shipping movements. Cuttings on various voyages by Tasma and her family including Melbourne to Launceston 22 September 1883 Argus Argus 19 July 1883; 4 February 1884

Visit to Tasmania 1878 - Mercury 7 February 1878 (arrival in Hobart)

Tasmanian events: Mercury 14, 15, 16, 20, 22 February 1878 Mercury 25 February 1878 (return from Launceston) Argus 28 February 1878 etc. Mercury 27 June 1867; Account of voyage of the Derwent - ran aground Jessie and brother Edward aboard, Mercury 7 February 1866 Argus, 28 December 1875; 6 January 1876; 28 February 1878; 1 March 1879

Articles, information about Tasma including Australasian Critic, Vol. 1 No.1, 1 October 1890; Bulletin The best 101 Australian books - Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill No. 20; Illustrated Sydney News, 11 April 1891 and others

La Conférence du travail, L'Independance Belge, 20 March 1890 etc. (Tasma - a speaker)

Obituary Gowen Evans (Tasma's friend), British Australasian, 14 October 1897; Australasian, 9 October 1897; plus other information

Information on Garnet Walch, publisher of Tasma's first short story in book form - including letters from Geoffrey Stilwell, Allport Librarian, includes Table Talk 14 March 1890

Listing of material collected by R. Beilby

Material collected by R. Beilby about Tasma in 1960s including letters from Ethel Morris, Tasma's niece who knew her when a child.

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

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