Kenneth Mackay manuscripts

Containers:: Box 3
Component identifier:: File 13
Content Summary:: Includes poetry (typewritten and handwritten); and "Hymn to the Australian Bush" (published Sept. 1907). Also includes reviews of Kenneth Mackay's novel "The Yellow Wave" and his play "To the West"; some correspondence; and a booklet "The Aborigines of Central Australia", W H Willshire 1888. Also includes a copy of booklet of poems by Adam Lyndsay Gordon (with annotation page 2 re the revision of the proof sheets of the book undertaken by Gordon in 1869)
Immediate source of acquisition:: The papers were acquired from the Mackay Family in 2011.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:: Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6859301).
Parent Terms of Access:: Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia