Mary Edgeworth David, 1888-1987

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

There are more letters in this series than in the others as Molly David was a prolific letter writer later in life, particularly to her niece Annabel (Anne Edgeworth). There are letters to Kath Moss who owned a property and took over Molly's sheep and goats when she could no longer look after them. There are many letters from an admiring public for her second publication Passages of time.

There are handwritten drafts of 'Letters to Meg: an old-eye view', reminiscences in the form of illustrated letters to her sister Margaret. The theatrical notebook in the collection was kept at 53 Burdett Street, Hornsby, where Molly David produced one-act plays.

The miscellaneous files include an undated address book, drafts of letters, jottings, notes, accounts and receipts, 1936-51, postcards, the constitution and rules of the Edgeworth David Society, an article 'Locating coal seams in the Hunter Valley with Edgeworth David" and a pencil sketchbook.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased by the Library in 1995 from Ms Anne Edgeworth

Names:

David Family

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