Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1903-1960 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
16 type one boxes and 4 files plus 12 unaccessioned type one boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Royal Tasman Bridges (Roy) (1885-1952), journalist and novelist, was born in Hobart on 23 March 1885, son of Samuel Bridges, basketmaker, and his wife Laura Jane, née Wood, descendants of Tasmanian pioneers. He was educated at Queen's College, Hobart, in ... »
Name of creator
Biographical history
Hilda Maggie Bridges (1881-1971), writer, was born in Hobart on 19 October 1881 and educated at Scotch College there. Roy's lifelong companion, housekeeper and amanuensis, she still found time to produce thirteen novels, three children's tales and ... »
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Miss Hilda Bridges for preservation for posterity 1955
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The collection consists of correspondence, papers, newspaper cuttings, literary manuscripts and other miscellaneous items of Roy Bridges, Tasmanian writer and newspaper reporter Including some correspondence and agreements with publishers and manuscripts ... »
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Available to bona fide students of history or Iiterature of Australia. Quotations from the papers may be made in theses or other publications in accordance with the copyright Act provided due acknowledgment is made of the source of the quotation.
Conditions governing reproduction
This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.... »
Existence and location of originals
Also 12 type one boxes of unaccessioned material relating to Hilda Bridges
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Subject access points
Dates of creation revision deletion
December 2017 PP