ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE OF JOAN AND DARYL LINDSAY, 1964, 1968, 1969-1984

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Both Joan and Daryl Lindsay were prolific letter writers, and maintained frequent correspondence with close friends and advisers Joseph Burke, Professor of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne and Joseph Brown, an Australian fine art specialist and director of the Joseph Brown Gallery in Collins Street, Melbourne. Documented in this Series are original letters from these correspondents during the later period of their association with the Lindsays. Photocopies of additional correspondence between the Lindsays and Burke and Brown are filed in Series 10.

Immediate source of acquisition:

In February 1995 the National Library of Australia purchased papers of Cathy Peake comprising notes, letters and other information assembled when she was writing a biography of the Australian author and artist Joan Lindsay in the late 1980s.

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