Papers [manuscript]. 1922-1980.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1922-1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225783107

The papers are mainly research material for her books; Daisy Bates: Queen of the Never Never, The lost impressionist about John Peter Russell the Australian painter, Helpman and others. There is correspondence with people who knew Daisy Bates, material on Dame Edith Sitwell mainly newspaper clippings, and photocopies of correspondence by Rodin, Van Gough, Monet and some MS of Percy and Allan Russell. There is also the unpublished MS of her novel Tails she dies and other published detective stories: Once upon a tombstone, The voice of the peacock, Will to survive, and Silver rain.

3.78 m. (27 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7071853

Libraries Australia

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