The Australian Women's Register

The papers in MS 7401 include 40 letters received by Brenda Niall while researching her book Australia through the looking-glass: children’s fiction 1830-1980; drafts of her book Martin Boyd: a life and correspondence relating to its publication; copies of official documents and papers accumulated while researching Martin Boyd; copies of notes by other researchers, particularly Terry O’Neill; interview transcripts, photographs and copies of Boyd’s novels, short stories and poems. The correspondents include Nance Donkin, Simon French, Eleanor Spence, Colin Thiele, Patricia Wrightson, Ruth Park, Desmond O’Grady, Arthur and Yvonne Boyd, Geoffrey Dutton, Alan Shadwick, Terry O’Neill and Graham Pollard (14 boxes, 1 fol. Box). The Acc06.113 instalment comprises the typescript of an interview conducted in 1985 by Desmond O’Grady with Luciano Tombini, an Italian boy who was very important to Martin Boyd when he settled in Rome (1 folder).