Original consignments

Component identifier:

Class MS 8290

Extent:

(51 ms boxes and 3 folio boxes)

Content Summary:

This conignment is arranged into 16 series. The correspondence series, 1969-1991, includes general, overseas and business correspondence. Among the correspondents are Janet Bell, Carol Mills, Joan Allan, Patricia Mullins, Mavis Thorpe Clark, Elizabeth Tomlinson, Barbara Ker Wilson, Michael Horniman, Mem Fox and Elizabeth Jolley. Other series include manuscripts of books and other works, 1963-1989; diaries, 1975-1992; letterbooks, 1972-1984; and, children's art work and fan mail, 1970-1990.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers at MS 8290 were purchased from Christobel Mattingley in several instalments between 1990 and 1994. Further papers were received in 2002, 2012, 2015 and 2021.

Extent information:

9 metres,

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