The Australian Women's Register

MS Acc04.058 comprises personal and business correspondence, 20 volumes of diaries and notebooks, 1961-1998, scripts of stage plays that have been performed and other stage scripts, radio plays that have been performed and other radio plays, television scripts, manuscript drafts of poems and other writings. Correspondents include Compton’s husband, Matthew O’Sullivan, her mother and sister and other family in New Zealand. The business correspondence includes letters from Compton’s agent Howard Nicholson, editors Rodney Hall and Les Murray and publishers including the ABC, Radio New Zealand and Caxton Press (8 boxes, 5 cartons, 1 oversize box). The Acc10.076 instalment comprises typescripts of poems, short stories and articles by Compton, some annotated with criticism by Les Murray. There are notebooks containing handwritten drafts, and personal and business correspondence including letters from family, publishers and others including Les Murray and Anna Volska. The instalment also includes pocket diaries (3 boxes).