The Australian Women's Register

MS 6244 comprises corrected manuscript and typescript drafts and galley proofs of Joan Phipson’s literary output, together with associated research material, correspondence, photographs, illustrations and designs. The papers also include a typescript copy of her autobiographical work “Just a silkworm” (10 boxes). The Acc04.039 instalment comprises correspondence, diaries, financial records, books, photographs, certificates and press cuttings dating from the 1930s to the late 1990s. The major strength of the instalment is the large and well-ordered professional correspondence maintained between Phipson and her publishers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The financial records are chiefly Phipson’s royalty statements for her writings over a long period of time. The personal travel diaries, written in hand, document Phipson’s interest in travel (1 box, 9 cartons, 1 packet).