You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
MS 5378 comprises correspondence; letters from Keesing's children; manuscripts of poems, short stories (many unfinished) and reviews; correspondence, photocopies and drafts relating to her book Australian postwar novelists; translations of Hebrew poetry; correspondence and drafts of an article on David Martin; correspondence with Norman Lindsay; files on The Captain Cook Bicentenary Literary Competition, New South Wales Branch of the English Association, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Southerly and the University of Adelaide Department of Adult Education; and, material connected with her work for the Australian Society of Authors. There is also a card index to the correspondence with the collection. Correspondents include Rosemary Dobson, Jill Hellyer, David Martin, Ray Mathew and Stephen Murray-Smith (23 boxes, 1 fol. box).
None
Collection of Nancy Keesing poems which had previously been unpublished and were found in her papers held in the manuscripts section of the Mitchell Library, NSW. Nancy Keesing's husband directed the first Nancy Keesing Fellow of the State Library of NSW, Meg Stewart, to undertake the research and edit the collection. She provides a detailed introduction outlining bibliographic details and also provides information about the poems selected. Nancy Keesing was a prominent figure in the Australian Literary world, and achieved distinction as a poet, writer, critic and editor. She died in 1993. The editor, Meg Stewart is a writer, film director and the author of 'Autobiography of My Mother'.
None
Memoir of an Australian woman writer and poet. Nancy Keesing collaborated with Douglas Stewart in compiling collection of bush songs and ballads.___
Letters from : James Devaney (1945 Sept.14, 1951 Jan.29, 1970 June 3, undated) ; Ian Mudie (1944 Apr.15) ; Nancy Keesing ([1951]) ; Enid Bell (1968 Oct.1) ; L.H. Luscombe (1970 Aug.27, 1970 Nov.22) ; Ada England (1946 Mar.22)