Guide to the Papers of Douglas Stewart, 1935-1977

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 4829
Creator:
Stewart, Douglas, 1913-1985
Extent:
0.96 metres and (6 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Douglas Steward, National Library of Australia, MS 4829, [file number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The papers comprise poems, reviews, essays, broadcasts, the original manuscript of The seven rivers, transcripts of interviews, the script of Stewart's adaptation of The cenci, inscribed copy of 'The garden of ships', drafts of poems by Roderic Quinn, Robert D. FitzGerald and others and a copy of R.D. FitzGerald's Heemskerck shoals, illustrated by G. Ingleton and published by the Mountainside Press. They also include: correspondence and photographs, some relating to his research on Kenneth Slessor; drafts of book reviews, manuscripts of poems, A man of Sydney, Norman Lindsay: a personal memoir, the script Ned Kelly, the script for the ABC TV adaptation of Hamlet and The broad stream and letters and manuscripts of David Campbell.

Major correspondents include Nancy Keesing, Ronald McQuaig, William Hart-Smith, Francis Webb, Eve Langley, Robert G. FitzGerald, Tyrone Guthrie, A.D. Hope, A.A. Stewart, A.A. Phillips, John Blight and Judith Wright.

Biographical Note:

Douglas Alexander Stewart was born in Eltham, New Zealand on 6 May 1913 and died in Sydney on 14 February 1985. He was educated at New Plymouth Boys' High School in New Zealand and Victoria University College, Wellington. Stewart married the artist Margaret Coen in 1946.

Stewart worked as a cadet journalist on newspapers in New Zealand before joining the Sydney Bulletin in 1938 as assistant editor of the Red Page. From 1940 to 1961 he was literary editor of the Bulletin and from 1961 to 1971 was poetry editor at Angus Robertson. He was a member of the advisory board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund from 1955 to 1970. His works included, plays, poetry, short stories, criticism and anthologies of Australian literature.

Date Publication
1943 <em>Ned Kelly</em> (play)
1944 <em>The fire on the snow</em> (play)
1944 <em>The golden lover</em> (play)
1946 <em>The dosser in springtime</em>
1947 <em>Shipwreck</em> (play)
1947 <em>Glencoe</em> (poems)
1948 <em>The flesh and the spirit</em> (criticism)
1952 <em>Sun orchids and other poems</em> (poems)
1955 <em>Australian bush ballads</em> (editor, with Nancy Keesing)
1955 <em>The Birdsville Track</em> (poems)
1957 <em>Old bush songs</em> (edited with Nancy Keesing)
1960 <em>Fisher's ghost</em> (play)
1962 <em>Rutherford</em> (poems)
1964 <em>Modern Australian verse</em> (editor)
1966 <em>The seven rivers </em>(reminiscences)
1967 <em>The Lawson tradition</em> (short stories, editor)
1967 <em>Collected poems</em>
1973 <em>Selected poems</em>
1975 <em>Norman Lindsy: a personal memoir</em>
1975 <em>The broad stream </em>(criticism)
1977 <em>A man of Sydney: an appreciation of Kenneth Slessor</em>
1983 <em>Springtime in Taranaki</em>
Provenance:

The Stewart Papers were purchased from Douglas Stewart in 1974. Additions were made to the collection by Stewart in 1976 and 1977 and by Meg Stewart in 1991.

Indexed terms

Names:
Stewart, Douglas, 1913-1985

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is available for research.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Douglas Steward, National Library of Australia, MS 4829, [file number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Contact:
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