Book Description
The letters were written by Australian poet, Mary Gilmore, in 1956 to Australian photographer and journalist, Keast Burke, and his wife, Iris, in Killara, Sydney. The collection includes three photographs of Mary Gilmore; an annotated copy of her poem "All Souls"; a page of writing by Gilmore entitled "New Australia"; various newspaper clippings; and a programme for the production "Bill and Mary" by Billie Brown performed by the Queensland Theatre Company. 1n 1955 the artist, William Dobell, visited Dame Mary Gilmore in her flat in Kings Cross, Sydney, to make sketches for a commissioned portrait which Mary later gifted to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.