The Australian Women's Register

MS Acc11.044 comprises manuscript scores of songs by Bene Gibson Smyth. The scores include an album titled “Song stories for children”, c1946; a musical play, “The wishing well … adapted from Stories told by Little Miss Kookaburra” (alias Hazel Maude, who broadcast bedtime stories in Australia), c1936; and individual songs. Some of the song lyrics are by Gertrude Hart. In addition, there is a sheet of typewritten poems by Queensland writer Mabel Forrest, with a covering note from the author, and photocopies of four photographic portraits (1 packet).