Guide to the George Mackaness Collection
MS 534
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 1964
Collection Summary
- Creator
- George Mackaness
- Title
- Papers of George Mackaness
- Date Range
- 1853-1962
- Collection Number
- MS 534
- Extent
- 3.24 metres (18 archive boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Part of the collection comprises letters from Australian writers to Dr. Mackaness, some of them relating to his publication in 1946 of "Poets in Australia: An Anthology of Australian Verse." There are 150 manuscripts by Bulletin writers (1918-1920) in the collection, together with some 800 other manuscripts by Australian writers.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2784115) for the access conditions.
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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], George Mackaness Collection, National Library of Australia, MS 534, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Arrangement
The collection has been arranged following the order in which Dr. Mackaness kept it, in groupings each with its internal alphabetical order by author.