Letters sent to Dorothea Mackellar regarding a request to set her poem 'My Country' to music
Letters sent to Dorothea Mackellar regarding a request to set her poem 'My Country' to music
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1955
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MLMSS 10467
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0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - typescript
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Letter from H. J. Perkins on letterhead of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Adelaide, dated 14 January 1955, to Angus & Robertson, Sydney, seeking permission to set music to Dorothea Mackellar's poem 'My country' for a song competition. In an accompanying letter on Angus & Robertson letterhead dated 19 January 1955, Beatrice Davis writes to...
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Letters sent to Dorothea Mackellar regarding a request to set her poem 'My Country' to music
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Purchased by the vendor from a Melbourne collector in 2016
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Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, June 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) is best known as a poet and is the author of 'My Country'.
Beatrice Davis (1909-1992) was an editor at Australian bookselling and publishing firm Angus & Robertson from 1937-1973.
Horace James Perkins (1901-1986) was an Australian composer and worked as a musical advisor for the ABC Adelaide offices in t...
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MLMSS 10467
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YRlB2ZVn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlB2ZVn
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9611281
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