Norman Lindsay - letters received (2) from Robert D. FitzGerald, 1950-1951
Norman Lindsay - letters received (2) from Robert D. FitzGerald, 1950-1951
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Date
1950-1951
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6136
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Contents
1 folder - 0.01 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
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Contents
16 May 1950; Manuscript letter (6 pages) thanking Lindsay for his pencil sketch and painting of FitzGerald's portrait and describing various people's reactions to them. He also comments on Lindsay's "early and, fortunately, ineradicable influence on anything I have since done."
15 Nov. 1951; Typescript letter (2 pages) thanking Lindsay for off...
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Full title
Norman Lindsay - letters received (2) from Robert D. FitzGerald, 1950-1951
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Author / Artists
Contextual Information
Source
Acquired from the Antique Bookshop & Curios in 1996
Administrative / Biographical history
Robert David FitzGerald (1902-1987) was born at Hunters Hill, Sydney, where he lived for much of his life. Although he pursued a career in surveying, he is best remembered as a poet and influential commentator on modern Australian writing. In the early 1920s, FitzGerald participated in the production of the journal 'Vision', with Norman Lindsay, Hu...
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Call Numbers
MLMSS 6136
Record Identifier
YK58aN0n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YK58aN0n
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Reference code
119758
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