Collection 3: Robert Hay Morrison further papers, 1968-2004

MLMSS 10735

sub-fonds

1968-2004

9585882

0.51 metres of textual material (3 boxes)

R. H. Morrison was the son of William Allder Morrison, poet (q.v.). He studied modern languages at the University of Melbourne and was employed during the Second World war by the Australian army as an Italian translator. After the war he worked in radio and television news but from 1968 devoted himself full-time to poetry, translating and reviewing. He translated works by Russian, Spanish and Chinese poets as well as of Australians who had written in Russian, Ukrainian and Italian. His translations of the works of Paul Verlaine was issued as number 6 of the Hawthorn Poets series (1972).

https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A22219

Family papers and poetry
Box 1 Papers regarding the publication "All I have is a Fountain" and "Hoard". North America accepted/published.
Box 2 Copies of book reviews, Manuscripts not out in Australia, many published in USA, Poems Destroyed, Rilke, Poems of Gerard de Nerval
Box 3 Correspondence with the Mitchell Library / State Library of NSW 1970-2000. Guy Allder Morrison. Family correspondence. Poems published but not included in any subsequent collection in Australia

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