Explore letters written by Dorothy Richmond about her experience travelling to Europe with the 1924 Australian Olympic team.

The Library has recently acquired a journal recording the first Russian Antarctic expedition in 1819-21.

Take a look at some of the letters sent from overseas to friends and family back in Australia during the First and Second World Wars.

The Library recently acquired an original draft of a poem by Mark Twain in the form of a letter.

A letter from Sir John Franklin to Captain John Washington from 1839 was recently acquired by the Library.

The National Library has recently digitised two letters from the collections of Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney.

Our dance collection contains portraits, manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, music scores, personal papers, theatre programs and memorabilia.

The National Library holds a rich and diverse range of library materials on the Pacific region, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

A summary of copyright and rights in the Manuscripts Collection.

The Library’s medieval manuscripts comprise more than 6000 individual folios in 250 items and 12 bound volumes, dispersed across several collections.

Listing of immigrant diaries (1822-1895) held in the Manuscripts Collection

More than 1,000 comics, mostly published in Australia and including some overseas titles reprinted in Australia, from the 1940s to 1970s, as well as fanzines and personal papers.