Melva Thomas - further papers, 1929-1996

MLMSS 3637 ADD-ON 2114/Boxes 1X-2X

fonds

1929 - 1996

Textual Records, Clippings

152083

0.47 metres of textual material (2 outsize boxes)
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (printed)
Clippings

Melva Thomas (nee Vincent) was born in Dorrigo, NSW in 1912. She contributed to The Sun Herald's 'Sunbeams' page under the pen-name "David". She began her career as a cadet reporter on her father's newspaper, the Don Dorrigo Gazette; in 1936 she took up a position with the Country Press in Sydney. She wrote many short stories which were published, under the pen-name M.G. Vincent, in various magazines including The Australian Women's Mirror and The Bulletin, and in several Coast to Coast anthologies. In 1980 she published 'The Vincent printers', a history of the Vincent family's involvement wth the newspaper business.

1929-1996; Papers, mainly letters received, correspondents include : Ron [no surname - 'Sunbeams' pen-name was "Cerebos"], a music buff, of swing music and Duke Ellington in particular, (his father was a member of Jimmy Davidson's Palais Royal Orchestra), and he writes at length about popular music of the day and of his social activities in Sydney [with typescript copies transcribed by Mrs Thomas]; J. Lawson Glassop; the Sydney Literary Society; other papers include : references, family photographs (4), exhibition catalogues (Festival of Fisher's Ghost, Campbelltown), newscuttings (Call No.: ADD-ON 2114/1X)

1933-1976; Issues of magazines containing short stories by M.G. Vincent bound into three volumes; Vol.1 : The ABC Weekly, Mar. 1948; The Australian Women's Mirror, June 1933, Feb. 1936, June 1949; The Bulletin, July & Dec. 1961, Aug. 1964, Dec. 1965, The Bulletin Holiday Book, 1976; Everylady's, Aug. 1934, Apr. 1935; Woman, July & Dec. 1949, July 1950 (Call No.: ADD-ON 2114/1X)

1933-1955; Vol. 2 : The Bulletin - 8 issues between July 1949 - Dec. 1952; The Sydney Mail, Aug. 1933, Nov. 1934; Vol. 3 : The Bulletin - 10 issues between January 1953 - July 1955 (Call No.: ADD-ON 2114)