• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH000082

Nancy Cato manuscript collection 1967-1992

  • Repository Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA
    Australian Defence Force Academy
  • Reference MSS 7
  • Date Range 1967 - 1992
  • Description

    The papers of Nancy Cato include correspondence, typescript drafts, research material, and photographs. The collection provides a record of Cato’s writings from 1976 to 1992. There are drafts for five of Cato’s major works, including Forefathers, The lady lost in time, A distant island, The heart of the continent, and Marigold. There is research material only for Mr Maloga : Daniel Matthews and his mission, Murray River, 1864-1902, and Queen Trucanini, by Nancy Cato and Vivienne Rae-Ellis. Correspondents include Diane Barwick, Peter Bladen, John Jefferson Bray, Collins, Vivienne Rae Ellis, Hodder & Stoughton, Harold White of the National Library, New English Library, St. Martin’s Press, Roland Robinson, Laurie Muller of the University of Queensland Press, Stephen Murray-Smith and Judith Wright.

  • Quantity 10 boxes 1.35 m

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  • Primary Creator
    • Cato, Nancy (1917 - 2000)
  • See also
    • Barwick, Diane Elizabeth (1938 - 1986)
    • Wright, Judith Arundell (1915 - 2000)