Members Only Event

The 2025 ‘Letters Out Loud’ highlighted letters from a range of fascinating people, including devoted prison reformer and writer Blanche Baughan, famous guide and academic Maggie Papakura, American writer Mary Redmer, and English dancer and actress, Diana Gould Menuhin. Three of these women were writing to a man and one to a woman. In this lunchtime talk, Professor Emerita Barbara Brookes will discuss their backgrounds and how their letters survived to be placed in the Alexander Turnbull Library.