Item 20 - Handwritten autobiography: The War Years

Identity area

Reference code

AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX18-Box 7-20

Title

Handwritten autobiography: The War Years

Date(s)

  • n.d. (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 file

Context area

Name of creator

(1910-1981)

Biographical history

Clive Sansom (1910-1981), poet and speech educator, was born at Finchley, North London, in 1910. He worked as a clerk and salesman in London and studied speech and drama under Marjorie Gullan at the Polytechnic, Regent Street, and the Speech Institute (19... »

Name of creator

Biographical history

Ruth Sansom (nee Large) was the wife of renowned, teacher, poet and conservationist Clive Sansom. They met while she was studying in London in the 1930's and married there in 1937. In 1949 visited Tasmania to see Ruth's parents and decided to stay.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited on indefinite loan by Mrs Ruth Sansom February 1987 (& later additions 1989, 1991) to be held for safekeeping in the University Archives with the Friends' Meeting Records. May be withdrawn by Mrs Sansom on reasonable notice.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Ruth Sansom' s handwritten autobiography - 'The War Years'. This describes her school days, her work in England, the Sansoms' friendship with Paul Scott, and their relationship with Jonathon Field, and Clive Sansom's illness at the end of the Second World War.

System of arrangement

Boxes inventoried by Ralph Spaulding March 2006

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

May be consulted by researchers under supervision

Conditions governing reproduction

This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.... »

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Dates of creation revision deletion

HE Feb2019

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