Papers of Ian Moffitt
MSS 067
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Papers of Ian MoffittCollection Identifier
MSS 067Extent and Medium
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Collection Description
Correspondence, manuscripts and drafts of novels, newspaper clippings, photographs, and audiocassettes relating to Ian Moffitt's literary works and newspaper feature writing
Administrative / Biographical history
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Moffitt
Ian Moffitt was born in Sydney in 1926 and worked as a copy boy for the Sun before becoming a cadet in 1945. In 1949, Moffitt joined the staff of the South China Morning Post. He then headed News Limited Bureau in New York in the early 1960s, followed by time as a feature writer for The Australian in the late 1960s and 1970s. After becoming a full-time novelist in 1979, Moffitt published The retreat of radiance in 1982, the first of many publications including both fiction and non-fiction
References:
Austlit : Ian Moffitt https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A30585 retrieved 3 November 2020
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
This collection relates to author Ian Moffitt and is largely comprised of his literary drafts for short stories, novels, and non-fiction, including The retreat of radiance, Blue angels, The colour man and Gilt edge. Also included are newspaper clippings, photographs, audiocassettes, and correspondence
System of arrangement
The collection has been described in two main sequences (Sequence 1: Boxes 1-29; Sequence 2: Boxes 30-36). Folder numbering restarts at Box 30. Oversize material is listed after the standard box sequences
Access Restrictions
Other
Access: Check with Curator
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 If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items.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collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright.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: Check with Curator
Existence and Location of Orginals
Related and Separated Materials
The collection originally included the following publications which were transferred to the Academy Library in 1992
Gilt edge (paperback), Pan Australia, 1991
My Australia published by Robert Gunn - Roberts Bridge Group, 1989
Panorama, December 1990 containing article by Ian Moffitt (photocopied)
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.