ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection

HMSS 0048 Fellowship of Australian Writers, ACT Branch Records

Scope and Content Notes

Call Number	HMSS 0048
Collection	Fellowship of Australian Writers, ACT Branch Records
Date Range	1950-1996
Quantity	3.9m (23 Manuscript boxes)
Access Conditions	Reference only
File Number	-
Related Collections	-

Fellowship of Australian Writers, ACT Branch, later Canberra Fellowship of Australian Writers, held its inaugural meeting on 29th May 1950 and has held monthly meetings, exhibitions and produced anthologies. The first of these was Australia Writes, followed by Australian Signpost, Span (on Australian-Asian writers) and Australian voiced originating as contributions to Australia ’75.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuscripts, reviews of anthologies, proofs of Australian voices, notebooks, newsletters, circulars and other papers emanating from the activities of the F.A.W. and the production of the anthologies. Some papers from the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers are also included. Manuscript material by Rosemary Dobson, Richard Tipping, Ray Mathew, T. Inglis Moore and Geoffrey Dutton is included.

The collection requires complete listing.

Box List

BOX NO.	SERIES NO.	FILE NO.	DESCRIPTION	DATE RANGE
	1		NATIONAL LIBRARY ARCHIVES RECORDS	1950 – 1975
1-10	1	1-84	National Library Archives Records	1950 – 1975

	2		FINANCIAL RECORDS
11	2		Financial Records	1974 – 1991
12	2		Financial Records	1974 – 1991

	3		NEWSLETTERS
13	3		Newsletters	Aug 1988 – Jun 1996

	4		MINUTES
14	4		Minutes	1978 – 1991

	5		MEMBERSHIP
15	5		Membership forms	1972 – 1996
15	5		Letters	1972 – 1996

	6		GENERAL PAPERS
16	6		General papers	1989 – 1995

	7		CORRESPONDENCE
17	7		Correspondence
17	7		General papers
18	7		Correspondence	1974 – 1994

19-23			TO BE LISTED