| Summary |
Correspondence; drafts of novels, plays, poems, broadcasts, travel books, an autobiography and short stories; press cuttings, diaries, photographs, invitations, programmes, notes, posters, personal documents such as certificates and passports, cassette-drafts of "Triple concerto", foreign periodicals and booklets, and many other printed items. Also includes three typescript drafts of "Nurse no longer grief", draft of "My experience as a high school teacher", MSS and galley proofs of "Dymphna" by Freehill and drafts of "The tide is running out".
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| Biography/History |
Ellen Dymphna Cusack was born at Wyalong N.S.W. She was one of Australia's most prolific and translated writers. A "joint autobiography", entitled Dymphna Cusack, was written by her husband Norman Freehill using Dymphna's tape - recorded reminiscences. (Published by Thomas Nelson in 1975). She died in September 1981.
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