MS 4621
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Dymphna Cusack
- Title
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Papers of Dymphna Cusack
- Date Range
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1937 - 1983
- Collection Number
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MS 4621
- Extent
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10.08 metres (23 MS Boxes + 26 Archive Boxes + 1 Medium folio box + 1 Map folio)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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NLA
Introduction
Scope and Contents
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.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1853783).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Dymphna Cusack, National Library of Australia, MS 4621, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Dymphna Cusack's papers were acquired in many consignments between 1959 and 1983. The last consignment was received after her death, from her stepson-in-law, Mr Jim McGrath.
In her will, Dymphna Cusack bequeathed her collection of books to the Sydney City Library, where her friend, Mrs Sarah Walters, is City Librarian. The transfer took place in 1983.
Books by Cusack are held in her manuscript collection as well as in the main book stack of the National Library. During her long association with the Library, and with her help, the Library sought to collect all translations as well as original editions; they may be identified from the Library's main catalogues.
A number of dictated drafts of Cusack's works are held in the Oral History Collection of the National Library: TRC 38 Notes for a book on Albanians (4 reels); TRC 82 Black Lightning, original dictated version (13 reels); TRC 119 The Half-burnt Ttree (13 reels); TRC 305 Nurse No Longer Grief (16 reels); TRC 1633 Blumore, original dictated version (10 reels); TRC 1657 Cusack recalls her life and experiences (4 reels).
Interviews with Cusack are also held in the Oral History Collection at De Berg no.47, 48 and 87.
Plays by Cusack may also be found in the Campbell Howard Collection (NLA MS 718), Eunice Hanger Collection (NLA MS 1044) and the British Drama League Collection (NLA MS 5579), as well as in the Miles Franklin and Dymphna Cusack collections in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and in the Fryer Memorial Library, University of Queensland.
Correspondence of Dymphna Cusack may be found in the papers of Philip Whelan (NLA MS 2449), Nancy Cato (NLA MS 757), Vance and Nettie Palmer (NLA MS 1174) and Henry M. Green (NLA MS 3925) as well as in the Victor Kennedy collection at the State Library of Victoria. Further correspondence is likely to be found by searching the correspondence series in the unindexed papers of Cusack's associates such as Alan Marshall (NLA MS 2741, 3992).
Correspondence of J.J. Cusack, Dymphna's uncle, may be found in the papers of King O'Malley (NLA MS 460).
Arrangement
Consignments received up to 1972 were sorted into one collection and each item was numbered. An index to the correspondence in Series 1 was created on the basis of these item numbers.
Consignments received subsequently have not been fully sorted, item-numbered or indexed; a preliminary list to these additions is located after the main descriptive list. This preliminary list and amendments to the descriptive list, were made by Valerie Helson. The boxes are numbered from 1 to 30 throughout the entire collection, but because the first part of the collection was finitely item-numbered, and for other practical reasons, the additions could not be interfiled with the first part of the collection. Each addition, therefore, is File-numbered from 1 to the end of the addition, and is separately listed. Readers should be aware that material they are looking for could be in any part of the various lists.
Biographical Note
Ellen Dymphna Cusack was born at Wyalong, New South Wales, in 1902, and educated at St Ursula's College, Armidale, and at Sydney University, where she obtained an honours degree in Arts and a Diploma of Education.
Her first novel Jungfrau was published in 1936 and since then her novels have included Pioneers on Parade (1939), Come in Spinner (1951), Say No to Death (1951), Heatwave in Berlin (1961), The Sun is Not Enough (1967). Her plays include Red Sky at Morning (1942), Call Up Your Ghosts (1945), Pacific Paradise (1955), Exit (1967). All her novels and most of her plays deal with Australians in contemporary Australia, or with Australians as the central characters. She is one of the most widely translated Australian authors, have been published in more than thirty countries and serialised in others. For her contribution to Australian literature, she was awarded the Elizabeth II Coronation medal. She refused the honour of an O.B.E. in 1975.
Dymphna Cusack died in September 1981.
For further information, see the joint autobiography Dymphna Cusack which Norman Freehill wrote with Cusack using her tape-recorded reminiscences (published by Thomas Nelson in 1975). Manuscripts of this autobiography are held at MS 4621 in Boxes 13 and 18, and tape-recorded reminiscences are held in the Oral History Collection at TRC 1657.
Relatives and associates of Dymphna Cusack: Norman Freehill, husband (died 1984); Beatrice, sister (deceased); Margie, sister (deceased); Nell, sister (deceased); Mollie, sister; Leo Cusack, brother (deceased); J.J. Cusack, uncle of Dymphna, owner of shop in Kingston, A.C.T. (despite efforts by family members and the Library to preserve them, his papers did not survive.); Peter Crowley, cousin; Peggy McGrath, Norman's daughter (died 1981); Jim McGrath, Peggy's husband and Norman's son-in-law; Cath Cusack, Dymphna's sister-in-law, widow of Dymphna's brother John Bede Cusack; Florence James, literary collaborator of Dymphna and companion of Norman Freehill.
Item Descriptions
Class. Original Consignment
General Correspondence (File 1)
The correspondence covers the period from 1936 to 1974. It is arranged in chronological order and relates mainly to general and personal affairs along with comments from readers, home and abroad. In the early part of the series are many letters from Miles Franklin discussing literary matters. The series contains very few letters written by Dymphna Cusack. Most of the letters she did answer she typed a copy of her reply on the back of the original.
Refer to the Correspondence Index for further information. Additional correspondence (unsorted and unindexed) is contained in Boxes 19, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29.
Series 2. Novels
Dymphna Cusack's first novel was published in 1935 and by 1967 her 10 novels had sold over 3 million copies in 26 countries. All the novels deal with Australians in contemporary Australia or with Australians as the central characters as in Heatwave in Berlin.
Miss Cusack has won various awards and recommendations for her novels. This series contains from one to four drafts of each of the listed novels. Most of the drafts are typescript with handwritten alterations, some quite extensive. The manuscript for Unabated Spring is the original as entered in the Daily Telegraph novel competition.
A list of translations of novels and plays may be found in Box 29, File 19. Further drafts contained in Boxes 17, 22, 24, 25, 27.
Black Lightning (See also Box 20) (Item 1_761)
A Bough in Hell (Item 762 _1494)
A Half Burnt Tree (Item 1495 _3120)
Heatwave in Berlin (Item 3121 _3468)
Picnic Races (Item 3469 _4692)
Pioneers on Parade (Item 4693)
The Sun is Not Enough (Item 4694 _4703)
Unabated Spring (Come in Spinner) (Item 4704)
Nurse Be Long Grief (see also Boxes 17,24) (Item 4705 _7023)
Series 3. Travel Books
In this series there are drafts of the following books: (a)Holidays Among the Russians (Items 1-1015); (b) Illyria Reborn (Items 1016-1381). All drafts are typescript with extensive handwritten alterations. These books are two of three travel books written by Dymphna Cusack. All three were set for study by the Methodist Mission Senior Citizen's Current Affairs class (Sydney) where they were described as "The most important weapons in contemporary Western literature for Peaceful Co-existence".
Series 4. Plays (Stage)
It was mainly during periods of illness that Dymphna Cusack wrote her plays, many of them prize winners. Amongst the prizes were two W.A. Drama prizes and a Special Prize of Playwrights Advisory Board. Her plays have been produced in several countries.
Though the majority of the drafts are typescript one is handwritten and other typescript with handwritten alterations. A list of translations of novels and plays may be found in Box 29, File 19.
The Alien Seed (Item 1 _ 86)
Exit (Hungarian Translation) (Item 197 _ 263)
The Banner (Item 264 _ 284)
Call up Your Ghosts (Item 285 _ 300)
Eternal Now (Item 301 _ 336)
His Honour Come to Tea (Item 337 _ 344)
Pacific Paradise (Item 345 _ 346)
Second Rhapsody (Item 347 _ 358)
Shallow Cups (Item 359 _ 369)
Shoulder the Sky (Item 370 _ 400)
Strange Victory (Item 401 _ 447)
Unnamed Play (Item 448 _ 502)
Tubbs' Teaching Tabloids (Item 503 _ 513)
Series 5. Plays (Radio)
The Australian Broadcasting Commission and the British Broadcasting Commission along with other radio stations have produced Miss Cusack's plays many times.
Dymphna Cusack had the ability to present vital issues in simple and human terms and this is most true of her play Pacific Paradise in which she protests against the misuse of atomic energy.
Blood on the Coal (Item 1 _ 18)
From Coal to Steel (Item 19 _ 31)
The Lure of the Inland Sea (Item 32 _ 55)
Pacific Paradise (Item 57 _ 90)
The Peterloo Massacre (Item 91 _ 96)
Spartacus (Item 97 _ 125)
The Sun in Exile (Item 126 _ 155)
The Thinking Rocket (Item 156 _ 188)
Series 6. Short Stories
This series contains a History essay written in 1923, a short story written for Women's Weekly and another for Pillar to Post. Most of these short stories were written during the 1940's. They are typescript with handwritten amendments on some.
Australia and the Yanks (Item 1 _ 13)
Liberty and the Future (Item 14 _ 24)
The Lost Tribes of Australian Writers (Item 25 _ 31)
Miss Amelia Refuses (Item 32 _ 47)
The Regeneration of the Misses Brett (Item 71 _ 104)
You Won't Mind the Ghost (Item 106 _ 110)
Series 7. Calling All Women (Radio Programs)
Calling all Women were talks given by Dymphna Cusack over 2GB in early 1944. The programs are typescripts with handwritten amendments. See also Box 25.
Series 8. Report to the Nation (Broadcast)
This is a dramatic feature written by Miss Cusack entitled They Fight the Bush Fires for presentation by the A.B.C.
Series 9. Autobiography
This series contains the first uncorrected transcription of notes for Dymphna Cusack's autobiography which she claimed she would never write. It includes many comments on literary matters and details of how her novels were written, up to The Sun is Not Enough. Because she refused her publisher's request to write her autobiography, her husband, Norman Freehill, interviewed her and from the results wrote Dymphna (published by Thomas Nelson in 1975). See also Box 18 for further drafts, and TRC1657 in the oral History Collection.
Series 10. Photographs
Loose photographs and three albums complete this series. There are photographs of Miss Cusack, her relatives and friends, school and university days, scenes of stage plays and scenes in Broken Hill, Guyra, Armidale and Sydney areas. They date from 1896 through to the 1950's. See also Boxes 20, 21, 23, 30.
Series 11. Promotion Booklet
A promotion booklet for the novel Come in Spinner written by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James. Come in Spinner was the Grand Winner in the £1000 Sydney (Aust.) Daily Telegraph novel competition in 1948.
Series 12. Foreign Periodicals and Booklets
The majority of this series was forwarded to Dymphna Cusack by overseas friends. Most of the books have been annotated and the two Gorky Drama Theatre Company booklets have been autographed by members of the company who appeared in their production of "Heatwave in Berlin".
L'Englise Romane De La Garde (Var) (Item 1 _ 2)
Evocation Du Passé Gardéen (Item 3)
Ville De La Garde (Item 4)
Programmyi Pedagogioheskhih Institutov (Item 5)
Gorky Drama Theatre Co. Booklets (Item 6 _ 7)
Uchenyie Zapnski (Item 11)
Neve Deutsche Literatur (Item 12)
Zvesda Bostoka (Item 13 _ 15)
Series 13. Magazine Stories and Articles
All but one of the magazines in this series is from overseas. They all contain either an instalment of a novel, a short story or an article written by Dymphna Cusack.
The Sun is Not Enough (Final instalment) (Item 1 _ 4)
Black Lightning (Item 5 _ 6, 7 _ 9)
The Sins of the Father (Item 10 _ 13)
Heatwave in Berlin (Item 14 _ 15)
The Christmas Tree (Item 16 _ 17)
Black Lightning (Item 18 _ 19)
Travel with the Over Sixties (Item 20)
Series 14. Album
This series consists of an album of newspaper cuttings, photograph, letters and programs.
Series 15. Press Cuttings - Reviews about Dymphna Cusack's Work
This series consists of book reviews, both home and abroad, for 20 of Miss Cusack's works.
Black Lightning (Item 1 _ 38)
A Bough in Hell (Item 39 _ 61)
Come in Spinner (Item 62 _ 194)
Comets Soon Pass (Item 195)
Golden Girls (Item 197 _ 211)
The Half Burnt Tree (Item 212 _ 248)
Heatwave in Berlin (Item 249 _ 345)
Holidays Among Russians (Item 346 _ 352)
Morning Sacrifice (Item 354 _ 359)
Pacific Paradise (Item 360 _ 382)
Picnic Races (Item 383 _ 410)
Red Sky At Morning (Item 411 _ 414)
Say No To Death (Item 415 _ 437)
Southern Steel (Item 438 _ 478)
Stand Still Time (Item 479 _ 493)
The Sun in Exile (Item 494 _ 539)
The Sun in My Hands (Item 540 _ 542)
The Sun is Not Enough (Item 543 _ 558)
Series 16. Press Cuttings - Articles about Dymphna Cusack
These are biographical articles of Dymphna Cusack and some of her activities. Some of the articles have been gathered from foreign papers.
Series 17. Press Cuttings - Miscellaneous
This series includes material relating to other writers and their works and several articles written by Dymphna Cusack.
Series 18. Invitations, Programs, Notes, Posters
Within the series are invitations from people such as the Ambassadors from USSR, Czechoslovakia and Indonesia, Consul General of the People's Republic of Bulgaria and Charge d'Affaires of the Peoples' Republic of China to formal functions, autographed playbills, programs for Dymphna Cusack's plays, 1961 air ticket to USSR and a Diploma for Distinguished Achievement from the World Who's Who of Women.
Series 19. Books
This series contains 8 published translations of some of Dymphna Cusack's novels and 6 books by other authors. 10 of the books have been inscribed by Dymphna Cusack. Further books contained in Boxes 20, 23, 26, 30.
A course in Modern Rumanian (Item 1)
Das Land Der Weine (Item 2)
Fifty Soviet Poets (Item 3)
Visages De La France (Item 4)
Nctopna Zapybexhon NTEPATYPBI (Russian textbook) (Item 5)
Say No To Death (Rumanian Version) (Item 6)
The Half Burnt Tree (Norwegian versions) (Item 7)
The Half Burnt Tree (Hungarian version) (Item 8)
The Half Burnet Tree (German version) (Item 9)
Black Lightning (Polish version) (Item 10 _ 11)
Black Lightning (German version) (Item 12)
The Sun is Not Enough (Lithuanian version) (Item 13)
JUCHE! Towards a United and Independent Korea (Item 14)
Series 20. Travel Diary
A small notebook containing a brief outline of Dymphna Cusack's and her husband, Norman Freehill's, travels from 1951 to 1969. See also Box 28.
Class. Consignment received 11 May 1978
Note that the papers in this consignment were received between 1974-1977.
Drafts of Nurse No Longer Grief (See also Box 24) (File 1 _ 7) - Box 17
Draft of My Experiences as a High School Teacher. (File 8) - Box 17
Also known as Window in the Dark or Boo to the Goose
Drafts and galley proofs of Dymphna Cusack, a joint autobiography written by Norman Freehill with Dymphna Cusack (published by Thomas Nelson in 1975). (File 9 _ 13) - Box 18
See also the first draft transcribed from dictated reels and slightly corrected, in Box 13, and the four reels of tapes where Cusack recalls her life and experiences (Oral History Collection, TRC1657).
Manuscripts and printed versions of poems. (File 14) - Box 18
Script of Ben Hall, by Lindsay Gordon. (File 15) - Box 18
Autobiography of Emmeline de Falbe, niece of John McArthur. (File) - Box 18
Papers relating to J.J. Cusack, Dymphna's uncle. (File) - Box 18
Correspondence: letters from home and overseas, 1975-1977 (File 16) - Box 19
Correspondence with publishers, including contracts, 1948-1972 (File 17) - Box 19
Correspondence 1969-1976, including letters from overseas (ten countries) and Australia. (File 18 _ 19) - Box 19
Correspondents include Barrie Ovenden, Alan Marshall, Nancy Cato, J.D. Pringle, C.B. Christesen, Ric Throssell.
Letters and six diaries of Peter Crowley, a private in World War II (Dymphna's cousin). (File 20 _ 20A) - Box 19
Photographs for Black Lightning (Prague T.V. production) (File 21) - Box 20
Photographs (File 22) - Box 20
Documents, certificates, miscellaneous (File 23) - Box 20
A.B.C. interview, 1975 (File 24) - Box 20
Eighteen volumes of printed matter. Two larger-size photographs (File) - Box 20-21
Class. Consignment received 31 January 1979
Correspondence 1974-1975 (67 letters) (File 1) - Box 22
Correspondence 1977-1978 (155 letters) (File 2) - Box 22
First draft of Triple Concerto (File 3) - Box 22
Second draft of Triple Concerto (File 4) - Box 22
Twenty cassettes of her novel Triple Concerto (File 5 _ 25) - Box 22
9 & 10 Bronwyn / Monica - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [1 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000018) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
Triple Concerto - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [2 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000019) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
5 Alan visits Charlotte re influencing Bronwyn & 6 Alan's discussion with Charlotte- Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [3 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000020) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
7 The Triple Concerto Quarrel btn Allan ? & 8 Bronwyn / Monica - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [4 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000021) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
7 Triple Concerto. Dialogue bet Bronwyn and Charlotte & Triple Concerto Charlotte & Bronwyn & John - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [5 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000022) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
12 Monica & Charlotte, & Monica - Charl. Bronwyn - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [6 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000023) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
Monica & Bronwyn go for a walk on the hill & Monica visits Charlotte and John - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [7 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000024) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
14. Alan & Bron re house & 15 The family at Dakfast? Andy brings paper to O'L - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [8 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000025) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
16 Andy & O' Ws. Cabron? & 17 [not recorded] - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [9 of 20], 1970s (Item 9) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
18 C? tell Bron. They have bought house &19 [no title] - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [10 of 20], 1970s (Item NLA.MS-SAV000027) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
20 & 21 Bron. walks along Marine Parade / Bron. and Alan discuss ? - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [11 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000028) - Cassette Box 2
1 item
22 & 23 Discussion bet. Alan & Bronwyn / Alan's reaction to their buying house - His moving out O'L's moving in - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [12 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000029) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
24 & 25 Re Far West / ?At Far West - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [13 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000030) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
26 & 27 - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [14 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000031) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
28 & 29 - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [15 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000032) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
30 & 31 - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [16 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000033) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
32 & 33 - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [17 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000034) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
34 & 35 Tapes for / of Triple Concerto - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [18 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000035) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
36 & 37 Tapes for / of Triple Concerto - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [19 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000043) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
38 & 39 Tapes for / of Triple Concerto - Addition 11/5/78 [cassette tape] [20 of 20] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000044) - Cassette Box 3
1 item
Postcards, photographs of Guyra district and Primorye, U.S.S.R. press cuttings, greetings cards. (File 26) - Box 23
10 volumes of printed matter. (File 27 _ 37) - Box 23
Class. Consignment received 25 July 1979
Final typescript draft of The Triple Concerto (see Box 22). (File 1) - Box 24
Drafts, including final draft of The Tide is Running Out (formerly Nurse No Longer Grief. See also Box 17). (File 2 _ 5) - Box 24
Correspondence, 1972 -1975 (File 6 _ 7) - Box 24
Correspondence, 1976 - 1979 (File 8 _ 9) - Box 25
Correspondence, 1976 (File 10) - Box 25
Correspondence, 1977 - 1978 (File 11) - Box 25
Correspondence with publishers, agents, 1978-1979 (File 12) - Box 25
Correspondence, cuttings, 1974-1979 (File 13) - Box 25
In File entitled Fiji novel including letters about an O.B.E. which Cusack refused, 1975.
Broadcasts, articles etc. (File 14 _ 15) - Box 25
Broadcasts, articles in File entitled Window in the Dark or Boo to the Goose. (File 16) - Box 25
Eleven volumes of published works and one tiny notebook. (File 17 _ 28) - Box 26
Class. Consignment received 30 September 1983
Typescript draft A Triple Concerto (see also Boxes 22 and 24). (File 1) - Box 27
Typescript draft of The Tide is Running Out (see also Boxes 17 and 24). (File 2) - Box 27
Miscellaneous drafts. (File 3 _ 7) - Box 27
Screenplay of Caddie, edited and sub-edited by Cusack. (File 8) - Box 28
Diaries, 1959-1966 (File 9) - Box 28
Diaries, 1967-1975 (File 10) - Box 28
Diaries 1976-1979, passports. (File 11) - Box 28
Correspondence, March 1964 - January 1981 (File 12) - Box 28
Correspondence June 1973 - August 1980; F.A.W. Membership card; Program Royal Visit, 1980 (File 13) - Box 28
Correspondence 1977-1979; contracts; clippings. (File 14) - Box 28
Correspondence 1977-1981, postcards, press clippings and miscellaneous items. (File 15) - Box 29
Correspondence 1979-1980 and much undated. (File 16) - Box 29
Correspondence, 1981-1983 (File 17) - Box 29
Correspondence and clippings (File 18) - Box 29
Business correspondence and papers; contracts; list of translations of novels and plays. (File 19) - Box 29
Clippings and photographs, 5 slides. (File 20) - Box 29
Personal photographs and leather photograph holder. (File 21) - Box 30
Printed material. (File 22 _ 23) - Box 30
Signed copy of What Bird is That by Neville Cayley. (File 24) - Box 30
Two photograph albums (Sydney Angus and Robertson 1967). (File 25_26) - Box 30
Class. Printed Books Collection
The following books, in boxes 31-49, were transferred to the National Library of Australia from the City of Sydney Public Library in October 1990. The collection had been bequeathed to the City of Sydney Public Library by Cusack in 1983, but it was later decided that, as many of the books contained manuscript annotations, they should be added to Cusack's personal papers which are held by the National Library. Boxes 31-49 contain those books which contained manuscript annotations/insertions. Those books which did not have any manuscript component were incorporated into the Library's printed books collection
SHOLOKHOV, M. (Item) - Box 31
At the bidding of the heart: essays, sketches, speeches, papers.
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 31
Parce qu'elle etait noire - une-veserve en Australie: roman
Crusade for journalism: official history of the Australian Journalists' Association (Item) - Box 31
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 31
Black lightning
THOMPSON, Francis (Item) - Box 31
Selected poems of Francis Thompson 1859-1907
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 31
Auf eigenen Fussen
LONG, William J. (Item) - Box 31
English Literature: its history and its significance for the life of the English
Immortal juche idea: a collection of foreigners' writings (Item) - Box 31
USSR: 100 questions and answers (Item) - Box 31
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 31
Black lightning
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 31
Kelten a halal ellen: regeny
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 31
Orzet ezy neszka
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 31
The sun is not enough
HIGGINS, Hugh (Item) - Box 31
From warlords to red star
YOUNGER, Carleton (Item) - Box 31
Ireland's civil war
FITZPATRICK, Brian (Item) - Box 32
The Australian Commonwealth: a picture of the community
The Australian and New Zealand writers handbook (Item) - Box 32
Meanjin quarterly, v. 32. no. 4, Dec. 1973 (Item) - Box 32
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 32
Heatwave in Berlin. Russian
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 32
Chinese women speak
GOLD, William A. (Item) - Box 32
One best seller
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 32
Hittegolf in Berlijn
The peaceful army: a memorial to the pioneer women of Australia, 1788-1938 (Item) - Box 32
GILBER, Kevin (Item) - Box 32
People are legends: Aboriginal poems
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 32
Hetebolge over Berlin
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 32
The sun is not enough (Russian)
GOODFIELD, June (Item) - Box 33
Cancer under siege: a unique account of the lives and ideas of the scientists who are striving to lessen...
TOLSTOR, Lev (Item) - Box 33
Resurrection: a novel
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 33
Maar de goden lachen
PUSHKIN, Alexander (Item) - Box 33
Alexander Pushkin selected works in two volumes; Hohullam Berlinben Fekete Villain
WILSON, H.H. (Item) - Box 33
A show of colours: a selection of prize-winning stories
SLANIMSKII, I.U. (Item) - Box 33
The Bolshio ballet: noteThe world who's who of women 3rd ed., 1976
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
The golden girls; A book of Scotland
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Say no to death
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Red sky at morning
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Polnobgorenoti durono: roman
FITZPATRICK, Brian (Item) - Box 34
A short history of the Australian labor movement 1905-1965
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Ketten a Halal Men
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Vagne de chaleur a Berlin: roman
Caddie (Item) - Box 34
Caddie, a Sydney barmaid: an autobiography
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Nylon und orchideen: roman
FITZPATRICK, Brian (Item) - Box 34
Short history of the Australian labor movement
Hecate Vol. 6, no 1 (Item)
Songs and poems of the singing matron (Item)
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Arsita la Berlin
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Zharvoe letov Bereine
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 34
Vale te nxehta ne Berlin
GORKY, Maksim (Item) - Box 34
Childhood
PRILEZHAYEVA, Maria (Item) - Box 35
The life of Lenin: reader for senior forms of secondary schools - Zhizm
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 35
The mystery of a novel competion
Australian Literary critism (Item) - Box 35
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 35
Soentse - eto eshche ne vse
Kim Il Sung: prodigy of human thinking (Item) - Box 35
CADDIE (Item) - Box 35
Caddie, a Sydney barmaid: an autobiography
GORKY, Maksim (Item) - Box 35
Selected works in two volumes
ROPER, Myra, 1911 (Item) - Box 35
China - the surprising country
The author's and writer's who's who (5th ed.) (Item) - Box 35
MAO, Tsetung (Item) - Box 35
Mao Tsetung poems
Bowyang: work on changing Australia (Item) - Box 35
FRANKLIN, Miles (Item) - Box 36
All that swagger
FRANKLIN, Miles (Item) - Box 36
My brilliant career
Who's who in Australia, 1938 10th ed (Item) - Box 36
SUMMERSON, John (Item) - Box 36
Georgian London
LAWSON, Henry (Item) - Box 36
The prose works of Henry Lawson
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary, 1759-1797 (Item) - Box 37
The nights of women. The subjection of women
BEILEY, Jean (Item) - Box 37
Antarctica: a traveller's tale
SHAKESPEARE, (Item) - Box 37
The complete works of William Shakespeare
PRIESTLEY, J.B. (Item) - Box 37
Angel pavement: a novel
LOWENSTEIN, Wendy (Item) - Box 37
Weevils in the flour
Und jeden morgen nene hoffnung: roman (Item) - Box 37
PUZIN, N. (Nikolai) (Item) - Box 38
Yasnaya Polyana: a guide to Tolstoi's home
HAYLEN, Leslie (Item) - Box 38
Blood on the Wattle: a play of the Eureka Stockade
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Nedorol mi odejit
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Say no to death
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Picnic races
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Nedaj ma Smrti
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Tikhookeanskii' rai Pacific paradise (Russian)
WILSON H.H. (Item) - Box 38
The skedule and other Australian short stories
RYAN, Peter, 1923 (Item) - Box 38
Fear drive my feet
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Le solent ne suffit pas
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Tagd nach gluck: roman
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Skazhi smerti "net!" [2nd ed.]
GIORGI, Renate (Item) - Box 38
Marzabotto parla
SOTIRIOU, Dido, (Item) - Box 38
Dun jardin d'Anatolie
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 38
Skazhi smerti "Net!"
CADDIE (Item) - Box 38
Caddie, a Sydney barmaid: an autobiography written by herself
STIRLING, Monica (Item) - Box 39
The cat from nowhere
Dymphna Cusack (Item) - Box 39
KLEIN, Colleen (Item) - Box 39
The heart in the casket
MIDDLETON, O.E. (Item) - Box 39
A walk on the beach
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 39
Si nei til doden
STIRLING, Monica (Item) - Box 39
The wild swan: the life and times of Hans Christian Andersen
The fundamentals of Marxist - Leninist philosophy (Item) - Box 39
BAKER, Sidney J. (Item) - Box 39
The Australian Language: an examination of English Language and...
The Nepean Review, 1975 (Item) - Box 39
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 40
Hohullan Berlinben
KOROLENKO, Vladimir (Item) - Box 40
Selected stories
SOSTAVLENIE (Item) - Box 40
Poeziia australii
STREET, Jessie, (Item) - Box 40
Truth or repose
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 40
Picnic races
HUXLEY, Julian (Item) - Box 40
We Europeans: a survey of racial problems
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 40
Heat wave in Berlin
The radical tradition in Education in Britain (Berlin) (Item) - Box 40
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 40
Kelten a halol ellen
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 40
Come in spinner
EMBLING, John (Item) - Box 40
Tom, a child's life regained
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 40
Tu flasin grate kineze
VICKERS, F.B. (Item) - Box 40
A stranger no longer
OGNEV, Vladimir (Item) - Box 41
Fifty poets
The traveller's manual of conversation in four languages: English, French, German and Italian (Item) - Box 41
CONLEY, Enid (Item) - Box 41
The dangerous Bombora
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 41
Pacific-Sud: roman
RICHARDSON, Henry Handel (Item) - Box 41
The fortunes of Richard Mahony: comprising Australia Felix, the way home, Ultima thule
BRODSKY, Isadore (Item) - Box 41
North Sydney 1788-1962
The complete plays of Bernard Shaw (Item) - Box 41
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 41
Chernaia molniia
WEARN, Polly (Item) - Box 42
The magic shoulder
KLEIN, Colleen (Item) - Box 42
The pomegranate tree
Letters from South Korea (Item) - Box 42
Three golden giants and other poems (Item) - Box 42
Gold mines of Australia and New Guinea: leading companies (Item) - Box 42
Around the Kremlin: the Moscow Kremlin its (Item) - Box 42
MAIN, Barbara York (Item) - Box 42
Twice troden ground
TABBERER,Jane (Item) - Box 42
The times of Henrietta
BARCLAY, John (Item) - Box 42
The bloom is gone: a novel
WILLIAMS, Justina (Item) - Box 42
White river and other stories
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 42
Faites vos jaux
FRANKLIN, Miles (Item) - Box 42
Joseph Furphy: the legend of a man and his book
ROPER, Myra (Item) - Box 42
China in revolution 1911-1949
The black interpreters (Item) - Box 42
HUDSON, Flexmore (Item) - Box 42
Pools of the cinnabar range
The book of Kells a selection of pages [1961] (Item) - Box 43
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 43
Nedaj ma Smrti
FRANKO, Ivan, (Item) - Box 43
Short stories 1856-1916
GOGH, Vincent van (Item) - Box 43
Lettres de Vincent van Gogh: a son frere thes
MARX, Karl (Item) - Box 43
Capital: a critical analysis of capitialist production
BRUEGEL, Pieter, (Item) - Box 43
Pieter Bruegel ca. 1525-1569
DURER, Albrecht (Item) - Box 43
Fame-tszetei es rezmetszetei
LIEBAU, Hans (Item) - Box 43
Vincent van Gogh
1939-1945: we have not forgotten... (Item) - Box 43
GORKY, Maxim (Item) - Box 44
My apprenticeship my university
TOLSTOI, Lev (Item) - Box 44
Childhood, boyhood, youth
THROSSELL, Ric (Item) - Box 44
The day before tomorrow: a play
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 44
Skazhi Smerti "net!"
Italy in one volume (Item) - Box 44
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 44
Spune mortii nu!
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 44
The half-burnt tree
PARRY, Anne (Item) - Box 44
The land behind the world
WRIGHT, Meriel (Item) - Box 44
China: new neighbour
THROSSELL, Ric (Item) - Box 44
Wild weeds and wind flowers: the life and letters of Katharine Susannah Prichard
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 44
Hotel South Pacific
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 44
Goreshla vulna nad Berlin
DELPLACE, Maurice (Item) - Box 45
Doscours de reception a l'Academie du Var de M. Maurice Delplace
Nouveau guide de Rome et des environs (Item) - Box 45
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 45
Say no to death
Guide to Pyongyang (Item) - Box 45
JURJEVIC, M. (Item) - Box 45
Ustasha under the Southern Cross
WILLIAMS, Vic (Item) - Box 45
Delegate
FATCHEN, Max, 1920 (Item) - Box 45
The river kings
Australian Short Stories (Item) - Box 45
SOVIET UNION (Item) - Box 45
Constitution (fundamental law) of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (Item) - Box 45
DALE, George (Item) - Box 45
The industrial history of Broken Hill
WILSON, Helen (Item) - Box 45
Bring back the hour
PRICHARD, Katharine (Item) - Box 45
Brumby Innes and bid me to love
STRONG, Anna Louise (Item) - Box 45
When serfs stood up in Tibet
EVANS, Howard (Item) - Box 45
Our old nobility. 7th ed.
O'FAOLAIN, Sean (Item) - Box 45
Constance Markievicz
STEPHENS, S.E. (Item) - Box 45
Introduction to Cooktown and district: and its museum 4th ed.
MARSHALL, Alan (Item) - Box 45
Australian stories
MASS, Nuri (Item) - Box 45
China: the waking giant
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 45
Berlida Saraton
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 45
Kuumalaine Berliinis
Le musee Egyptien (Item) - Box 45
Koria must be reunified independently (Item) - Box 46
The city of the Yellow Devil: pamphlets, articles and letters about America (Item) - Box 46
HORTON, Allan (Item) - Box 46
Libraries are great mate! but they could be greater: a report to the nation on public libraries in Australia
BROPHO, Robert (Item) - Box 46
Fringedweller
WILLIAMS, Joan (Item) - Box 46
The dreaming vine
WILLIAMS, Victor (Item) - Box 46
Hammers and seagulls: poem
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 46
Femmine a Sydney
PRICHARD, Katherine Susannah (Item) - Box 46
Coonardoo: the well in the shadow
O'FAOLAIN, Sean, (Item) - Box 46
The Irish Rev. ed.
The literature of Australia (Item) - Box 46
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 46
Red sky at morning: a play in three acts
HANFF, Helene (Item) - Box 46
84 Charing Cross Road
Poems for sixth form (Item) - Box 46
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 46
Say no to death
NEWTON, Ellen (Item) - Box 46
This bed my centre
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 46
Vien sules negana
Hugo's pocket dictionary: German-English, English-German: also imitated... (Item) - Box 46
TOLSTOY, Leo (Item) - Box 47
War and peace: a novel
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 47
Hedebolge over Berlin
KIM, Il-song (Item) - Box 47
On the building of the people's government
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 47
The cultural cringe in Australian Universities' study of Australian literature
The author's and writer's who's who (Item) - Box 47
PESKOV, Vasili (Item) - Box 47
This is my native land
DRURY, Susan (Item) - Box 47
Writers and writing
HURLINANN, Martin (Item) - Box 47
Eternal France 216 pictures in photigravure
CARLETON, William (Item) - Box 47
The courtship of Phelim O'Toole
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 48
Fulperal nyru
MIACHIN, Ivan (Item) - Box 48
Moscow: guide-book for tourists
DAVIES, Lloyd (Item) - Box 48
Past master and other stories
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 48
Black Lightning
REITLINGER, Gerald (Item) - Box 48
The SS, alibi of a nation 1922-1945 2nd rev.
KAROLYI, Catherine (Item) - Box 48
A life together: the memoirs of Catherine Karolyi
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 48
The sun is not enough
The Penguin atlas of the world (Item) - Box 48
KANN, P. (Item) - Box 48
Leningrad: a short guide
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 48
Sakyk mirciai ne!
Banished civilizations: forgotten peoples of the ancient world (Item) - Box 49
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 49
Come in spinner (1966)
WILSON, H.H. (Item) - Box 49
The golden miles; Socialist constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea...
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 49
Say no to death
CHEVALLEY, Abel (Item) - Box 49
The concise Oxford French dictionary
CUSACK, Dymphna (Item) - Box 49
Fekete viliam harmadik kiadas
HUBBARD, Geoffrey (Item) - Box 49
Quaker by convincement
DARLEY, Robert (Item) - Box 49
Writing in a half free country: Dymphna
