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Margaret Scott

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1928 -2014

In her 2001 memoir, Recollecting Mansfield, Scott described being offered a job at the Turnbull as ‘an extraordinary gift… And then to discover that I now had responsibility for the care of masses of Mansfield manuscripts, many of which were nearly illegible and some of which had never been read since they were written, took my breath away. And, quite apart from those, there were all the manuscripts to do with New Zealand's history, the correspondence and records of early missionaries and early run-holders and surveyors and settlers — new ones coming in all the time — as well as the papers of other literary figures. It was a world of never-ending fascination…’

Scott was one of the few people able to read Katherine Mansfield’s famously illegible writing, and embarked on a project to transcribe and edit Mansfield’s letters and journals.

Scott edited The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, and with Vincent O’Sullivan co-edited the Clarendon Press five-volume edition of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, which was published between 1984 and 2004.

The work of Scott’s family friend, the poet, editor and arts patron Charles Brasch was also a subject of her scholarship. She edited Charles Brasch in Egypt published in 2007 and transcribed Charles Brasch: journals 1938-1945 published in 2013.

In 1971 she was the Mansfield fellow in Menton and held the National Library fellowship in 1989.

-Paul Diamond and Jocelyn Chalmers

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Margaret Scott

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Books from Margaret Scott

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 1: 1903-1917

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 2: 1918-1919