Tess van Sommers - papers, 1943-1993
Tess van Sommers - papers, 1943-1993
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Date
1943-1993
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6180
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Physical Description
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4 boxes - 0.54 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
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Fonds
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Correspondence:
1961-1993; Letters received by Tess van Sommers. Correspondents include Sir Russell Drysdale, Cedric Emmanuel, Michael Heyward, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Arthur Marshall, Ruth Park, and Morris West. RESTRICTED (Call No.: ML MSS 6180/1)
1979-1993; Letters received by Tess van Sommers from Harold Stewart. Includes newscuttings,no...
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Full title
Tess van Sommers - papers, 1943-1993
Authors, Artists and Contributors
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Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Tess van Sommers in 1995, 1996
Administrative / Biographical history
Tess van Sommers was born in 1919. She graduated from Sydney University in 1944. From the early 1940s to 1966 she was a journalist, feature writer, columnist and literary critic. At times she wrote under the pseudonym of Vanessa Brown. In 1966 she became Executive Editor of Books for Reader's Digest, Australia. During 1967 she worked in New York fo...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6180
Record Identifier
9qoVX551
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoVX551
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Reference code
131410
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