State Library Victoria > La Trobe Journal

No 23 April 1979

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Notes on Contributors

Elly Fink, M.A., is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. In 1978 she completed a thesis entitled “Blamire Young: Artist and Critic”. She is a tutor in the Fine Arts Department, University of Melbourne.
Lurline Stuart, M.A., is a graduate of Monash University. In 1977 she completed a thesis entitled “Nineteenth Century Australian Periodicals: Literary and partly-Literary”, a copy of which is held in the La Trobe Library. An annotated edition of the bibliographical index to this thesis is shortly to be published by the Sydney firm of Hale & Iremonger.
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The La Trobe Library

is a section of the State Library of Victoria and is Victoria's chief research-centre and reference library for Australian history and literature. It is the State's principal repository for manuscript material, historical paintings, newspapers, etc. relating to the history of Australia and the Pacific and especially Victoria.

Friends Of The La Trobe Library

is a society founded in 1966. Its aims are to publicise the Library, to attract financial support for it, to help to fill gaps in the book-collection, and to encourage the donation of manuscript and other material.
With regard to the last objective, the Friends seek to locate diaries, letters and other family or institutional papers which have survived, and to acquire such material for the Library or to arrange to have it photocopied by negotiation with the owners.
The Friends' Patrons are H.E. The Governor, Sir Rohan Delacombe, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., K.St.J. (Patron-in-Chief); Hon. Sir Henry Bolte, K.C.M.G., M.L.A.; Lady Bassett; The Lady Casey; Professor R. M. Crawford; Sir John Jungwirth, C.M.G.
The Friends' office-bearers are: President, Tristan Buesst, Esq.; Vice-President, Dr. Geoffrey Serle; Hon. Treasurer, S. R. C. Wood, Esq., D.F.C.; Hon. Secretary, Major-General R. R. McNicoll, C.B.E.; Librarian, Miss Patricia Reynolds (La Trobe Librarian).
New Friends will be welcomed, especially if they are prepared to be active. The annual subscription is $3 (which includes the Journal). The Friends’ address is c/o State Library of Victoria, Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000.
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