Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1923-1996 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
16 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Fedora Fisher was a long-time active member of the Friends of Fryer and was instrumental in negotiating the transfer of manuscript material to the Fryer Library. She and her husband Len Fisher secured for the Fryer Library the papers of Sir Raphael Cilento, John Cooper, Dick Roughsey, Percy Trezise, and the McConnel Family.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1923-1996
Collection alternatively titled as: Fedora Gould Fisher Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Notes, typescript articles, speeches, correspondence, photographs, cards, invitations, programmes. Includes material relating to : Sir Raphael Cilento; University of Queensland events, including Sir Raphael Cilento Oration; Ron Edwards, Jack Lindsay, Patrick White, Douglas Gordon, Percy Trezise. There is also some biographical material about Len and Fedora Fisher.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access, except for Box 16, Folder 1. Access at the discretion of the Fryer Library Manager.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Bulk of papers from 1970s and 1980s.
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Fisher, Fedora Gould (Subject)
- Cilento, R. W. (Raphael West), 1893-1985 (Subject)
- Edwards, Ron, 1930-2008 (Subject)
- Lindsay, Jack, 1900-1990 (Subject)
- White, Patrick, 1912-1990 (Subject)
- Gordon, Douglas, 1911-1993 (Subject)
- Trezise, P. J. (Percy J.) (Subject)
- University of Queensland (Subject)
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Description control area
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Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Migrated
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.