The Australian Women's Register

MS 9864 documents some of Fanning’s activities during her long career at the National Library of Australia and her association and friendship with a number of politicians, writers, collectors, librarians and academics. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, research notes, talks, book reviews and newspaper cuttings. There are files on the Ferguson, Nan Kivell, Palmer and Petherick collections. Among the correspondents are Lord and Lady Casey, Russell Cope, Gerald Fischer, Adelaide Lubbock, Marcie Muir and Aileen Palmer (9 boxes). The Acc11.069 instalment comprises correspondence, notes and miscellaneous papers pertaining to Fanning’s career at the National Library and her related interactions with Russell Cope, Kathleen McArthur, W.S. and Joan Ramson and Marcie Muir (1 box). The Acc13.010 instalment comprises correspondence, research notes and miscellaneous papers pertaining to Fanning’s career with the National Library. It includes research notes and transcripts of Lady Franklin’s diary; correspondence and papers pertaining to the acquisition of the Kivell, Cope, Muir and Ramson collections; notes on the history of the National Library and significant staff members including Harold White, Arthur Wadsworth and Allan Fleming; and a substantial collection of small press publications including “The Pump Press” (7 boxes, 1 fol. box).