Consignment received 2011

Component identifier:

Class MS Acc11.100

Content Summary:

This consignment comprises papers reflecting Clarke's activities as a writer, editor, public speaker and member of academic and historical societies. They include material from Judith Wright, correspondence, notes, drafts and reviews relating to Clarke's role as co-editor, with Meredith McKinney, of The equal heart and mind: letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney (2004) and With love and fury: selected letters of Judith Wright (2006); papers relating to Steps to Federation (2001), which Clarke edited; Australian dictionary of biography research material, correspondence and drafts; and other papers relating to Clarke's PhD. thesis, articles and talks. In addition there is correspondence, minutes and other records documenting Clarke's roles in the Independent Scholars Association of Australia, the Canberra and District Historical Society and other organisations, between ca. 1950-2010, and papers relating to her Medal of the Order of Australia (10 boxes).

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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