Articles, speeches and reviews, 1967-1998

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Series 2

Content Summary:

This series mainly consists of articles and reviews for the Age, National Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Reviewand the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It also includes correspondence with editors and publishers, as well as responses from readers, original typed reviews together with the published version, and invoices and payments received for articles and reviews written by Ryan.

The series is well organised into manila envelope files with titles named and written by Ryan. From 1981, Ryan maintained a list of the articles, the newspapers they were written for and the fees received inside the cover of each file.

The file titled 'Nation Years' consists of correspondence with Penguin relating to 'Nation Years', a book contracted for but never prepared or published. The book was to be a study of the Sydney-based journal, the Nation, from the late 1950s until the 1970s. Ken Inglis later edited a book on the journal, Nation: The Life of an Independent Journal of Opinion, 1958-1972 (1989).

The last file, miscellaneous correspondence, mainly contains responses from readers in relation to articles written by Ryan.

Correspondents in this series include Leonie Kramer, Russell Drysdale, Ken Inglis, Paul Hasluck, Ian Fitchett, Harry Jackman, Manning Clark, Alec Hope, E. G. Whitlam, Betty Riddell, Allan Martin, Lady Casey, Geoffrey Blainey, Tom Fitzgerald, Maslyn Williams, Sir Walter Crocker, Don Baker, Geoffrey Dutton and Judith Wright.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original consignment was purchased by the Library from Peter Ryan in December 2003. Further papers were received in 2012, 2022 and 2023.

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