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Date(s)
- 1923-1978 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
2 boxes (107 items)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born Glebe Point, Sydney in 1923. Served with the WAAAF in the Second World War. Freelance writer and book reviewer for such journals and newspapers as the Bulletin, Nation, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Australian. Her short stories were collected as An Affair of Clowns (1967).
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1923-1978
Collection alternatively titled as: Thelma Forshaw Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Certificates, war service papers, journal, correspondence, notebooks and clippings books, manuscripts of stories, pictures and photograph.
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Accruals
System of arrangement
77/1-7 certificates - 1923-1938;
77/8-24 papers concerning her war service in Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force. - 1941-1961;
77/25 Journal entry 1951 Dec.22.;
77/26 Journal : Mt. Victoria Hotel 1952 Mar. 6 - 1952 Dec.7;
77/27-41 correspondence : incoming - 1939-1973;
77/42-81 letters 1969-71 from Thelma Forshaw to Mrs Helen Peters. ;
77/82 note book - 1943-1947. ;
77/83 Cards recording titles of stories, acceptances, rejections and payments received for stories - 1943-1963. ;
77/85 Published poems and stories - 1935-1940;
77/86. Mirror readers who write; another who graduated in the children's pages/Esme Strathdee ;
77/87-104 Stories, articles and reviews;
77/105-107. Art originals (2 by Lawrence Collinson, 1 by J. Collins).
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Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access, except Box 1, items 26; 42-81 are restricted access.
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Language of material
- English
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Status
Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.