Peter Hopegood - letters from Tom Inglis-Moore, 1946-1950

MLMSS 6302

fonds

1946-1950

148678

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

Peter Hopegood was born in England in 1891 and came to Australia in 1924. After working on a pearling lugger and as a jackeroo he became a journalist and free-lance writer, publishing four books of poems between 1932 and 1964. He died in 1967.
Tom Inglis Moore was born in Camden, NSW in 1901. After service in World War 2 he joined the Canberra University College (later ANU) where he remained until his retirement in 1966. He published three books of poems as well as a novel and much literary criticism. He died in 1978.

Three letters dated 30 October 1946, 18 February 1949 and 23 January 1950. Also includes a brief note to Hopegood, 1 October 1948, froom an unknown correspondent.