Publishing Correspondence and Papers, 1931-96

Component identifier:

Series 2

Content Summary:

This series comprises correspondence relating to the development and publication of many of Moll's writings. There is correspondence with or letters from various writers and editors, including George Mackaness, Kenneth Slessor, Rosemary Dobson, Beatrice Davis, George Ferguson, G. F. James, B. M. Ramsden, Judith Fisher and Frank Eyre. Moll had contact with various publishing companies, including Angus Robertson, Melbourne University Press, Metropolitan Press, Thomas Nelson Sons, Rigby, Australasian Publishing Company, Edward Arnold, Macmillan, Jacaranda Press, Whitcombe and Tombs, Oxford University Press, La Jolla Poets Press, Penguin and Longmans, Green.

The correspondence documents arrangements for publication of Moll's writings, including marketing and distribution, requests for reprints, and use of Moll's published poems in various anthologies, newspapers or magazines. There are also letters from the Australian Broadcasting Commission regarding radio broadcasting of the poems 'Cicadas in February' and 'Foxes among the lambs'.

This series includes correspondence relating to Blue interval: poems of Crater Lake (1935, Metropolitan Press), Brief waters (1945, Australasian Publishing Company), Beware the cuckoo and other poems (1947, Australasian Publishing Company), The waterhole (1948, Angus Robertson), The lifted spear (1953, Angus Robertson), Below these hills: the story of a Riverina farm (1957, Melbourne University Press), Collected poems: 1940-55 (1957, Angus Robertson), The rainbow serpent and other poems (1962, Angus Robertson) and The view from a ninetieth birthday (1992, La Jolla Poets Press). The series also includes correspondence, primarily with literary agent BartholdFles, regarding an unpublished novel 'Shoes of silence' (also titled 'The white cockatoo' and 'The other side of the night'). Drafts of these works are found in series 4 and 5.

There are also a small number of royalty statements and receipts from various booksellers and publishers. The series also contains newspaper cuttings and typescripts of reviews of most of Moll's published writings, including reviews by Vance Palmer, A. D. Hope, Thomas Gardiner, Robert FitzGerald, Thomas Shapcott, Hugh McCrae and Frank Dalby Davison.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The bulk of the Ernest Moll Papers were donated to the Library by Moll's daughter Dr Carolyn Moll in September 1997. An addition to the papers was made in October 1998 by Moll's nephew Peter Moll.

Names:

Moll, Carolyn

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