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Nellie Melba (1861-1931)
[Array of correspondence, with silk evening bag]
Manuscripts Collection, MS 9561
Photograph by Damian McDonald

One of a number of Nellie Melba holdings in the Library’s Manuscripts Collection, MS 9561 includes letters for the period 1895-1905, programs, photographs of the diva, and a somewhat worn silk evening bag. The latter is embroidered with floral patterns, and the name 'Nellie' is picked out in spangles. (See story, page 8 this issue.)

 

November 2002 Volume XIII Number 2

BLEECK HOUSE: AUSTRALIAN PULP FICTION

Toni Johnson-Woods considers Gordon Clive Bleeck’s contribution to home-grown popular writing

'DEAREST TIB': LETTERS FROM NELLIE MELBA

Richard Stone looks at some of the diva’s correspondence

THE BRINGING THEM HOME ORAL HISTORY PROJECT: 'BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF VOICES'

Barry York reports on the culmination of a major Library project, and its fruition as a book, Many Voices: Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation

GOVERNORS' WIVES IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA

Anita Selzer introduces a new Library publication

TOUGH BUT REWARDING: AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING

Diana Giese reports on the activities of two local publishers

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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