Papers [manuscript]. 1908-1985.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1908-1985.

Transcripts of Granite peak, a stage drama about Central Australia which won third prize in the Jubilee Playwrighting Competition 1951 and The touch of silk (revised version), her first work about the Australian drought, received in 1975. Also includes correspondence, notes, documents, typescripts, photographs, diaries relating to Montsalvat and Justus Jorgensen. Drafts of her Jorgensen biography and related correspondence, drafts of novels and a sketch of Guido Barracchi are also included. 9 cassettes located in Oral History.

1.40 m. + (10 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7072586

Libraries Australia

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Roland, Betty

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A number of the manuscripts were created or prepared whilst Betty Roland lived at Montsalvat, Vic. From the description of Literary manuscripts and papers. ca. 1929-ca. 1976. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223001907 The first full length talking feature film in Australia. From the description of The spur of the moment / by Betty M. Davies. 1931. (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 40872167 Betty Roland is a novelist &a...

Jorgensen, Justus, 1893-1975

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