Consignment received September 2008

Component identifier:: Class MS Acc08.149
Content Summary:: Comprises 19 cases of 3.5 inch floppy disks, including, in various forms: email correspondence; early drafts of Schemetime, Sapphires, Digging, and Reading the Pensinsula; current and "backburner" projects - Liza book/s, Hollywood essays, "Path to Fortune" thriller, Van der Velde novel; essays, stories, APA project, lectures, poetry, book reviews; transcripts of Russian, Israeli and US interviews; visual images. There are also two audio cassettes: one containing a recording of an interview of Dowse by Margaret Throsby, the other a recording of a talk given by dissident Chinese Dai Qing to Canberra PEN (1 box)
Immediate source of acquisition:: The papers have been acquired from Sara Dowse in a number of instalments between 1984 and 2005. 1984 - Boxes 1-91; 1988 - Boxes 92-99 ; Mar 1989 - Boxes 100; Jun 1989 - Boxes 101-103; 1990 - Boxes 104-111; 1991 - Boxes 112-114; 1992 - Box 115; 1994 - Boxes 115-129; 1996 - Boxes 129-130; 1997 - Boxes 131-133; 1998 - Boxes 133-146; 2002 - Box 147; 2003 - Box 148; 2004 - Box 149; 2005 - Box 150.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:: Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1082236).
Parent Terms of Access:: Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia