Consignment received 2010
- Component identifier:
- Class MS Acc10.128
- Content Summary:
- Personal correspondence with notable correspondents including Patrick White, A.D. Hope, Geoffrey Dutton, David Foster, A.N. Jeffares, Ralph Steadman, Naomi Mitchison, Annette B. Weiner, Russell Soaba, George Malko and Marlis Thiersch. Photographic prints and slides including portraits of Randolph Stow, family, and travels, including Tourmaline, Suffolk, Geraldton and Stour Estuary; material relating to Stow's work in the Forrest River Mission in Western Australia, Port Moresby and the Trobriand Islands, notebooks (many concerning local language) with writings, photographs, slides, letters, and articles by Annette B. Weiner. Research notes, manuscripts and typescripts for Stow's poetry and novels, including The girl green as elderflower and To the islands; research notes and writing on the Batavia; ephemera and correspondence relating to adaptations of Midnite; files on dealings with agents, publishers, royalty payments; personal papers including passports, birth certificate, academic records; reviews by and about Stow; personal diaries; theses on Stow's writing; biographical articles; bibliographies on Stow; various monographs containing loose correspondence and notes between pages; and, journals containing Stow's writing, including some in Swedish
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The initial instalments of papers were acquired from Randolph Stow over a period of time commencing in 1975. The two instalments in 2010 and one in 2016 were received from Stow's sister.
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Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information(http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1109597.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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