Volume 18 No. 3 — 1 May 1998

Building an Archive: The H.H. Richardson Papers in the National Library of Australia

Graeme Powell

Abstract

Discusses the 'process whereby the Library built up its Richardson collections [the only surviving papers directly assembled and kept by Richardson during her lifetime] over a period of fifty years'.

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Published 1 May 1998 in Volume 18 No. 3. Subjects: Australian literature - Manuscripts, Correspondence, Libraries, Henry Handel Richardson , Literary archive.

Cite as: Powell, Graeme. ‘Building an Archive: The H.H. Richardson Papers in the National Library of Australia.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 3, 1998, doi: 10.20314/als.a6d3d792e7.

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