Talks, 1965-1989

Containers:

Box 18

Component identifier:

File 142-143

Content Summary:

Comprising 32 typescripts of talks given by Rosemary Dobson together with related material. Events and organisations addressed include: Australian Museum, 1986; Canberra Tales, launch, 1988; Joy Warren and Elizabeth Durack, 'Solander Women's Art Opening', 1975; 'Modern Australian Poetry: a Personal View', The Teaching of English – Journal of the English Teachers' Association of New South Wales, 1964; Obituary for Thelma Herring, Southerly, August 1977; 'On Russell Drysdale', nd, np, together with letter from Russell Drysdale 3 July 1980, 2pp, thanking her for her piece about him; 'Poetry and Painting', University of Western Australia, 1977; Report on the Montsalvat Festival, 1978; Society of Women Writers, First Biennial Conference, 1978; Sydney Girls High School prizegiving 1984; 'Tobit Translated', 8pp., Warana Festival Writers' Week, Brisbane September-October 1978; 'Women Writers of the Forties and Today', Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education, 1979.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated to the Library under the Cultural Gifts Program by Rosemary Dobson in several consignments between July 1986 and December 2004. Three publications were separately donated to the Library by Rosemary Dobson in 2005.

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