Pearl, Cyril

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Cyril PERL 
Housing: 4 boxes Period: 1941-1983

Cyril Pearl was a prolific writer with a well-developed investigative sense. His book, The Dunera Affair, was an important study of that unhappy incident in the early war period which both the British and Australian governments are still trying to cover up from scrutiny. The Dunera brought many foreign migrants to Australia who later became major artists, writers and scholars.

Papers: The Pearl papers are the raw material/original sources used in his volume on Dunera and the camps. They include ephemera from the Hay camp, newspaper cuttings about the Dunera affair, 1941-1983. Hansard extracts, 1940-41 on aliens and refugees. Graphics and photographs of the Dunera and Hay. Letters to Ruth Swann from Hay. Papers from Internment Camp at Orange 1941 - 1943 are included in this collection. See Cyril Pearl Collection. which is also on DVD.

ProvenancePEARL, Cyril (PERLC)
Dates(s)1941 to 1983
Scope & ContentPapers: The Pearl papers are the raw material/original sources used in his volume on Dunera and the camps. They include ephemera from the Hay camp, newspaper cuttings about the Dunera affair, 1941-1983. Hansard extracts, 1940-41 on aliens and refugees. Graphics and photographs of the Dunera and Hay. Letters to Ruth Swann from Hay. Papers from Internment Camp at Orange 1941 - 1943 are included in this collection. See Cyril Pearl Collection. which is also on DVD.