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- 1942-2011 (Creation)
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13 folders
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Anne McCosker, poet, writer and historian of Australians in the colonial territory of New Guinea. Born in Rabaul in 1940, she was evacuated with her family to Brisbane in 1941 and educated at Somerville House in Brisbane and the National Ballet School, London. She has published several books of poetry since 1972 and in 1998 published a non-fiction work, Masked Eden: a History of the Australians in New Guinea.
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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.
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Accruals
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Where the drafts are of poems which were published, they are arranged according to the title of the published work in which they appeared.
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Unrestricted access.
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Copyright applies.
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- English
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Anne McCosker, Sea Watch (1972).
Anne McCosker, Camp Fires (1972).
Anne McCosker, Potter's Clay (1973).
Anne McCosker, Leaves (1987).
Anne McCosker, Witch Doctor (2003).
Anne McCosker, Lieutenant Martin's Letters : F. W. S. Martin, M. M. : an Anzac in the Great War (2013).
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Box 1 Folders 1-6.
Box 2 Folders 1-7.
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Final
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Full
Dates of creation revision deletion
Created, JR, 30-Mar-2021