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Papers of Kenneth Mackenzie
MSS 225

Collection Title

Papers of Kenneth Mackenzie

Collection Identifier

MSS 225

Inclusive date(s)

1940s

Extent and Medium

1 AV box

Category

Literature

Collection Description

Two draft poems by Kenneth 'Seaforth' Mackenzie, together with correspondence with Hugh McCrae, and letters relating to Norman Lindsay

Administrative / Biographical history

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Mackenzie_(author)

Poet, novelist and journalist. Born in Perth in 1913, Kenneth 'Seaforth' Mackenzie studied law and agriculture at the University of Western Australia before moving to Sydney at the suggestion of Norman Lindsay, where he embarked on a career as a newspaper and radio journalist. Mackenzie became a close friend of the Lindsay family and romantic partner of Jane Lindsay, with Norman illustrating his first volume of poetry Our Earth (1937). During the Second World War he served as a corporal at the Cowra POW camp, the mass breakout of Japanese prisoners was used as the subject of his novel Dead Men Rising (1951). Mackenzie's second volume of poetry The Moonlit Doorway was published in 1944. Mackenzie drowned near Goulburn in 1955

References:
Author record, Kenneth Mackenzie, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002- https://www-austlit-edu-au.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/austlit/page/A36839 retrieved 22 May 2020

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition: Mackenzie, Kenneth Ivo (Seaforth) (1913–1955) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mackenzie-kenneth-ivo-seaforth-10987 retrieved 22 May 2020

Acquisition Details

The collection was acquired in a single instalment

Scope and Content

This collection relates to Australian poet Kenneth Mackenzie who also wrote under the pseudonym 'Seaforth Mackenzie' to distinguish himself from another writer with the same birth name. The material consists of autograph manuscripts of Mackenzie's poems 'The Plover's Country' and 'Duet for Lovers', together with letters by Mackenzie to Hugh McCrae and a draft from McCrae recalling his visit to Norman Lindsay. A typewritten letter from Philip Lindsay to his father Norman Lindsay discusses Mackenzie's work and Australian literature more generally

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

Related and Separated Materials

Related Material

 

Research material relating to Kenneth Mackenzie is located in the Papers of Dorothy Green at MSS 020.

A substantial collection of letters and poems by Mackenzie are contained in the Letters and poems of Kenneth Mackenzie, amassed by his friend and lover Jane Lindsay (1920-1999) and housed at the National Library of Australia at MS 8642

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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