R.D. FitzGerald and others

Containers:

Box 23 - 24

Component identifier:

Series 16

Content Summary:

Letters R.D. Fitzgerald to Hugh Anderson 1953-1958 1 folder, 15 letters re his poetry, and typescript copies of same; Anderson original ms. and notes for a volume on poetry of R.D. Fitzgerald: never published and never completed, 2 folders; original cuttings, notes etc. re Fitzgerald; draft bibliography R.D. Fitzgerald 1917-1966 (Note: Anderson may submit this for consideration 1st Walter Stone Memorial Prize). In the same box, unpublished bibliography of Hugh McCrae by Anderson, collection of cuttings articles, verse etc. by or about McCrae; Hugh McCrae The Mimshi Maiden Sydney, Halstead Press n.d.

Katharine Susannah Prichard: broadsides, bibliographical listings; draft bibliography and checklist of KSP writings; handbills; advertising material re KSP publications; Why I am a Communist, KSP pamphlet; correspondence, Stephen Murray-Smith 3 letters to Anderson re publications, mostly 1956, 7 letters and set of notes 13 pp.; Anderson notebook containing letters, drafts of articles etc.

Barcroft Boake: unpublished bibliography by Anderson.

William Baylebridge: annotated bibliography of William Baylebridge by H. Anderson: unpublished typescript with ms corrections; draft report by Hugh Anderson dealing with the publication of the works of Baylebridge; correspondence: William Baylebridge to Louis Lavater; typescript copies letters to Baylebridge from various correspondents and some replies from Baylebridge, correspondants include Percival Serle, Christopher Brennan, Tom Inglis Moore, George Mackaness, P.R. Stephensen, Hugh McCrae.

Note: the copies described here are thought to be the only surviving documentation of the Baylebridge correspondence. Hugh Anderson was given access to the original letters by Mrs Garran Brown, sister to Baylebridge. Anderson was permitted to borrow the file. He had typescript copies prepared and returned the file to Mrs Brown who subsequently died. Anderson has made enquiries about the letters since but they appear to have disappeared.

Talabilla Press: advertisements for Baylebridge's press.

Assorted correspondence: letter to Anderson from L.A. Watt Co. Ltd. who published Baylebridge's Songs of the South 1908; letter to Anderson by F. McKimm; letter to Anderson from E. Morris Miller re W.B.; Grace Croll re W.B.; Eleanor Hutton re her uncle Louis Lavater and W.B.; letter W.B. to Furnley Maurice (Wilmot); copy of letter John Kirtley to J.K. Moir, memories of Baylebridge; unpublished article on W.B. by Anderson together with assorted notes and Anderson's notes for W.B. bibliography.

Dowell O'Reilly: draft notes for bibliography, unpublished by Anderson; Eleanor Dark (daughter of Dowel O'Reilly), three letters to Anderson re Eleanor Dark by Grove Day.

Steele Rudd: draft bibliography Steele Rudd by Anderson and notes and letters from Norman K. Harvey 1953 re Steele Rudd in Queensland; set of cuttings, reprint from Bulletin 1953 on Steele Rudd short stories etc.

Price Warung: draft notes etc. by Anderson.

Names:

Anderson, Hugh

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