Essays on Jessie Street [manuscript]. 1976.

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Essays on Jessie Street [manuscript]. 1976.

"Jessie Street and the 1943 election", an essay submitted for the Master of Arts qualifying course, Australian National University. Also present: "Jessie Street: a rewarding but unrewarded life", corrected typescript; correspondence with publishers re. book, etc.; letters to and from Laurence Street, Philippa Fingleton (1976) and Belinda McKay (closed during lifetime of writers); 1 folder of correspondence, speeches etc. with a dealer relating to the launching of "Jessie Street"

49 leaves.

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