Records, 1928-1994 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 1420498
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Pakies Club (Sydney, N.S.W.)
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- 1928-1994
- 1 v. (3 cm.) 1 folder (1 cm.) + 1 folio volume.
- Summary:
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1. Combined visitors book and scrapbook (known as "The Book of Words") of the Pakies Club, containing photographs, pen and ink sketches, typescript poems and news clippings relating to Club activities and members. Names included in visitor book entries include Mary Gilmore, Walter Burley Griffin, Frank Dalby Davison, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert, Nancy Keesing and Unk White. 2. Incomplete set of master copies of "Urge", loosely bound in large folder: v. 1, no. 2, 9 March 1933; v. 1, no. 3, 9 April 1933; v. 1, no. 4, 9 May 1933; v. 1, no. 6, 9 July 1933; v. 1, no. 7, 9 August 1933; v. 1, no. 8, 9 September 1933; v. 1, no. 9, 9 December 1933; 1, no. 10, 9 February? 1934; v. 1, no. 11, 9 April 1934; v. 1, no. 11, 9 April 1934; July-August 1934; November-December 1934; February 1935. 3. Papers relating to the Burley Griffins: letters, photographs of Marion Griffin; architectural drawings; newspaper cuttings; 1990s papers about a Griffin designed house in Castle Crag.
- Biography/History:
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The Pakies Club was founded by Mrs Augusta ('Pakie') MacDougall, wife of theatre director Duncan MacDougall, in 1929 as a meeting place and tearoom for bohemians, artists and intellectuals. Aided initially by Mrs Gladys MacDermott and decorated by Roy de Mestre, the Club operated from rooms on the second floor of 219 Elizabeth Street, Sydney until 1966. A journal entitled "Urge" was produced by Club members between 1933 and 1935.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no.: NLA MS 9071.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1928-1994
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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