The Australian Women's Register

A large component of MS 10111 comprises correspondence. There are letters from many well known people in the literary and arts world, some spanning a number years, and family letters which document many stages of Ninette Dutton’s life. Principal correspondents include Richard Adlington, Sir Walter Campbell, Bruce Chatwin, Dymphna and Manning Clark, Walter Crocker, Denison Deasey, Russell Drysdale, Sumner Locke-Elliott, Shirley Hazzard, Max Harris, Peg Hesse (Princess Margaret of Hesse), Barry Humphries, Alister Kershaw, David Marr, Mirka Mora, Les Murray, Gino Nibbi, Elizabeth Riddell, Nicholas Shakespeare, Jeffrey Smart, Tom Shapcott, Randolph Stow and Patrick White. Also included in the collection are drafts and original illustrations for Dutton’s published works, photographs, newspaper cuttings, travel journals and early family papers (50 boxes, 4 fol. boxes, 1 elephant folio).