Letter to Lydia - drafts

Containers:

Box 20

Component identifier:

File 158

Content Summary:

Copy of poem published in Quadrant January-February 1981, together with letter of thanks; photocopy of 4pp 1972 letter from Lydia Stephanou (Greek poet) from which phrases are quoted in the poem; 4pp letter from Veronica Brady, nd, on the poem; 2 6pp photocopies of amended drafts, 1980; handwritten notes exploring ideas for the poem; copy of 'The Cyclamens' (for Lydia, not published), May 1995

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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