David Marr
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His Master’s Voice: The corruption of public debate under Howard (Quarterly Essay 26) by David Marr
I can’t let you have my ‘papers’ because I don’t keep any. My mss are destroyed as soon as the books are printed. I put very little into notebooks, don’t keep my friends’ letters … and anything unfinished when I die is to be burnt. The final versions of my books are what I want people to see …
(Patrick White, reply to Dr George Chandler, Director General, 9 April 1977, National Library of Australia, MS 8469)
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