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Novels

Dorothy Blewett published two novels: Vision (1931) under the pseudonym Anne Praize, and Pattern for a Scandal (1948), published under her own name. This series has:

Parcel 1
Folder 1
The dust jacket for Vision, in very poor condition

Box 3
Folders 6-8
Three carbon copy typescript drafts, 'Death of anon de plume', 275 leaves, one copy with typescript inserts, 1958?

Folder 9
Untitled typescript draft about Dame Nellie Melba, possibly a fictional biography, handwritten emendations, unpublished, 215 leaves, undated

Folder 10
Five chapter drafts for unidentified works.

Blewett, Dorothy, 1898-1965

Short stories, articles and newspaper cuttings

This series is comprised of short stories and newspaper articles written by Dorothy Blewett. It also includes newspaper cuttings that are about Dorothy Blewett, her plays as well of articles that interested her. Based on when most of her short stories were published, they could have been written in the 1930s.

Blewett, Dorothy, 1898-1965

Exhibitions

Research material and correspondence relating to art exhibitions curated by Glenn Cooke.

Photographs.

Photographic prints, postcards and some photographic negatives relating to the history of European-Australians involved with the plantation economy of Australian New Guinea. The series include images of Anne McCosker's family and their expatriate associates, local people participating in ceremonial performances, engaged in plantation labour or posing in portrait or group shots, and views of various locations in New Britain, New Ireland and other northern islands of New Guinea where the McCosker family was based. The majority of the photographs were taken in the 1920s, 1930s and the postwar 1940s, and many are captioned. Some were published in Anne McCosker's book, Masked Eden.

There are approximately 1243 b&w photographs, 53 b&w photo postcards and 12 negatives in this series.

Realia.

Objects collected in the course of research for the books Masked Eden and Lieutenant Martin's Letters.

Correspondence.

Letters and cards received or written by Anne McCosker and letters collected by her and used as source material for her books about Lieutenant Frederick Martin and the history of Australians in the colonial territory of New Guinea.

McCosker, Anne, 1940-

Literary manuscripts.

Handwritten and typed drafts of Anne McCosker's poems and short stories, often with heavy editing and annotations, and notes and drafts for the book Lieutenant Martin's Letters. Many of the drafts of poems and stories are in notebooks. The series also contains a typed draft of a story titled 'Pacific Pot Pourri: Concerning One Klearwatgear', written during World War 2 by Winifred Martin.

McCosker, Anne, 1940-

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