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Papers of Francis Webb
MSS 040

Collection Title

Papers of Francis Webb

Collection Identifier

MSS 040

Inclusive date(s)

1946 to 1961

Extent and Medium

1 box

Category

Literature

Subject: Terms(s)

Collection Description

A collection of correspondence with Francis Webb and Douglas Stewart; an annotated typescript of A Drum for Ben Boyd.

Administrative / Biographical history

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Webb_(poet)

Francis Webb was an Australian poet. Born in Adelaide in 1925, he completed his schooling in Sydney before enlisting in the RAAF, serving 1943 - 1945. After demobilisation, he briefly attended Sydney University but withdrew to focus on writing. He spent some time working for the publisher Macmillan in Canada, before moving to England in 1949. In the 1950s, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent much of his life in and out of psychiatric institutions in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Despite his poor health, Webb was a prolific poet, publishing six collections, beginning with the 1948 A Drum for Ben Boyd, which won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry. His last collection, Collected Poems, was published in 1969

References:
Author record, Francis Webb, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A32010 14/01/2019].

H. P. Heseltine, 'Webb, Francis Charles (1925–1973)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/webb-francis-charles-11988/text21493, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 15 January 2019.

Acquisition Details

Provenance unknown.

Scope and Content

A collection of letters from Francis Webb to Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay, bound in a half-leather album. The collection also includes an annotated typescript of A Drum for Ben Boyd (1948), as well as media clippings, photographs and some other items.

Access Restrictions

Other

Access: Open Access.

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

Copying: Copying of material for private study and research is approved.

Existence and Location of Orginals

Special Collections, UNSW Canberra

Disclaimer

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

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