Papers of Frank Dalby Davison [manuscript]. 1859-1970.

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Papers of Frank Dalby Davison [manuscript]. 1859-1970.

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Contains correspondence with his mother and family, and letters from literary figures including Nettie and Vance Palmer, Kylie Tennant, Henry Handel Richardson, Walter Murdoch, Patrick White, Marjorie Barnard, R. D. Fitzgerald, Katherine Susannah Pritchard, Xavier Herbert, and others. Includes typescript drafts of some of his novels and some published novels inscribed to Davison from the authors. There is an ABC television interview transcript with Davison conducted by Owen Webster and the unedited working script of an interview with Davison recorded March 18-19, 1969. Included in the collection is the text of a talk on Christopher Brennan by Hilary Lofting, war service documents, and Davison family photographs.

2 m. (13 boxes)+ 1 folio item.

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Davison, Frank Dalby, 1893-1970

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Writer and novelist, Frank Dalby Davison won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for his novel Man Shy (1931). His interest in soil erosion and deforestation led to his stories Blue Coast Caravan (1935), The Wasteland (1935), and Children of the Dark People (1936). Davison was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund Fellowship in 1939-1940. He made political commentary through his literature "to reveal the Australian situation and to promote liberal democratic values." He saw literature as...