Camden Morrisby letter to Ella Dwyer

MLMSS 12141

fonds

29 December 1933

9680164

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript - 13 x 20 cm

Camden Morrisby was a book and ex-libris collector and a leader in the bookplate movement in the days of P. Neville Barnett, the NSW Bookplate Club and the Australian Ex Libris Society. He corresponded with literary and artistic figures and was a close friend of Lionel Lindsay.

Hobart-born, Sydney-based artist Ella Dwyer (1887–1979) was a watercolourist, printmaker, and bookplate designer.

The vendor advised that the item came from the estate of a mail order bookseller.

Manuscript letter from Camden Morrisby to Ella Dwyer, on two sheets of blue paper, with envelope addressed to Dwyer, stamp dated 29 December 1931.

Offers Morrisby’s candid opinion of several bookplates recently produced in Australia. Morrisby praises Eric Thake’s bookplate for the Muir family, finding it superior to Adrian Feint’s bookplate for
Dorothea Mackellar. He also comments on offerings at the Archibald, other plates he is interested in, and other platemakers.

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Date from stamp on envelope.