• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH000385

Papers of Frank Hardy, 1931-1988 [manuscript]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
  • Reference MS 4887
  • Date Range 1931 - 1988
  • Description

    MS 4887 comprises correspondence, notes, drafts and research material relating to Hardy’s published works; diaries; notebooks; press cuttings; tape recordings; photographs; cartoons and sketches by Hardy, Ambrose Dyson, Bruce Petty, Counihan and Vane; autobiographical notes; radio and television scripts; papers connected with political and literary organizations; material relating to the Power without glory trial; biographical and critical material on Henry Lawson, Russian poet Evgenii Yevtushenko, and writings by others. There is correspondence with publishers and fellow writers in Australia and overseas, 1946-1973; and letters from Martin Boyd, Eric Lambert, the Palmers, Neville Shute, Jack Lindsay, Howard Fast, Owen Webster, family, friends and Communist Party comrades. Photographs include Hardy in Russia, Europe, the United States and Australia, historical material of revolutionary Russia and postwar Poland (242 boxes, 11 fol. Boxes, 1 elephant folio).

  • Quantity 42.3 m
  • Access Part requires permission for research; part not available for research. Not for loan.

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    • Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920 - 1993)