Papers [manuscript]. 1878-1996.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1878-1996.

The collection comprises correspondence, personal documents, manuscripts, publications, newspaper clippings and photographs. These papers generally relate to Moll's poetry and prose writings including: Shoes of silence (unpublished), Blue interval: poems of Crater Lake (1935), Brief waters (1945); Beware the cuckoo (1947), The waterhole (1948), The lifted spear (1953), Below these hills: the history of a Riverina farm (1957), Collected poems 1940-55 (1957), The rainbow serpent (1962), Briseis (1965), The road to cactus-land (1971), The well and the star (1983), The view from a ninetieth birthday (1992), Recognitions at ninety-three (1993), The children of Somalia 1992-1994 (1994), A gleaner's sheaf of poems (1995), and other unpublished writings. Among the correspondents are George Mackaness, Horace Stelling, Beatrice Davis, James McAuley, Hugh McCrae, David McCord, Christof Wegelin, Cecil Hadgraft, A.D. Hope, Vance Palmer, John Le Gay Brereton, Sir Robert Menzies, Rex Ingamells, Rosemary Dobson, George Ferguson & Kenneth Slessor. This collection includes three reels of magnetic tape (see Moll film data sheet in Special Formats Data Sheet File for details).

2.24 m. (16 boxes) + 2 folio items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7073344

Libraries Australia

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Moll, Ernest G. (Ernest George), 1900-1997

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Poet. Born in Victoria, graduate of Harvard University, in 1928 appointed Professor of English at the University of Oregon. In 1939 he was lecturing on exchange at Teachers' College, Sydney. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225777986 Poet and novelist. Born in Murtoa, Victoria, Moll moved to the United States in 1920, graduating from Lawrence College & Harvard University. Professor of English at the University of Ore...