Writer, critic, collector, arts administrator and eminent literary figure, Nancy Keesing made a number of contributions to Australian folklore, including her work with poet Douglas Stewart on Australian bush ballads, Australian Bush Ballads (1955). Nancy Keesing published collections of weather lore, folk beliefs and women’s lore in Just Look Out the Window (1985) and Lily on the Dustbin: Slang of Australian Women and Families(1982)
Her papers can be accessed through the NLA at
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1101722
and a Guide at
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-244390717/findingaid
The State Library of NSW has extensive papers, including those related to bush ballads accessed through a catalogue search on her name.
Biographies at ADB
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/keesing-nancy-florence-17853
and The Australian Women’s Register
https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE6272b.htm
