Guide to the Papers of Alec Derwent Hope., 1918-2000

Summary

Collection number:

MS 5836

Creator:

Hope, A. D. (Alec Derwent)

Extent:

18.28 metres and (3 Folders + 67 Archive Boxes + 41 MS Boxes)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of A.D. Hope, National Library of Australia, MS 5836, [series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Part available for research; part requires permission for research; part not available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The papers comprise: personal and professional correspondence (including copies of Hope's replies); notebooks; manuscript and typescript drafts of Hope's works and proofs of some that were published; manuscript and typescript articles, lectures, reviews and broadcasts; photographs; family and personal papers, including correspondence between members of the extended Hope family; and manuscript and typescript prose and poetry of other writers.

Correspondents include Jane Adamson, Ann Bright, R.F. Brissenden, Vincent Buckley, David Campbell, Clem Christesen, C. Manning Clark, Rosemary Dobson, Geoffrey Dutton, Anne Edgeworth (Godfrey-Smith), Anne and Geoffrey Fairbairn, Robert FitzGerald, Dorothy and H.M. Green, Amanda Haight (Mrs A. Caines), Sir Keith Hancock, William Hart-Smith, Gwen Harwood, Mikio Hiromatsu, Vera Jennings, George Johnston, Leonie Kramer, Norman Lindsay, James McAuley, John Manifold, Philip Martin, Stephen Murray-Smith, Mark O'Connor, Nettie Palmer, Kenneth Slessor, Douglas Stewart, Harold Stewart, Dal Stivens, Francis Webb, Patrick White, Judith Wright and Fay Zwicky.

Biographical Note:

Alec Derwent Hope was born in Cooma, NSW on 21 July 1907 and spent most of his childhood in rural New South Wales and Tasmania. He was educated at the University of Sydney and Oxford University. Hope worked as a psychologist with the New South Wales Department of Labour and Industry, as lecturer in Education and English at Sydney Teachers' College (1937-1944) and as Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne (1945-1951). In 1951 he was appointed the first Professor of English at the Canberra University College, and held this position in the College and in its successor (the Australian National University) until his retirement in 1968. From 1968 until his death Hope was Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University.

His published works include The wandering islands (1955), Poems (1960), The cave and the spring (essays, 1965), Collected poems (1966), New poems (1965-1969), Dunciad minor (1970), A midsummer eve's dream (1970), Native companions (1974), A late picking (1975), The pack of Autolycus (essays, 1978), The new Cratylus (1979), A book of answers (1978), The drifting continent (poems, 1979), Antechinus (1981), The tragical history of Dr Faustus (1982), The age of reason (poems, 1985), Ladies from the sea (drama, 1987), Orpheus (poems, 1991) and Chance encounters (memoirs, 1992).

Hope was awarded the Robert Frost Award for Poetry and the Age Book Award in 1976, the Ingram Merrill Award for Literature (New York) in 1969, the Levinson Prize for Poetry (Chicago) in 1968, the Myer Award for Australian Literature in 1967 and the Britannica Award for Literature in 1965. He was awarded an OBE in 1972 and appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1981.

Hope died on 13 July 2000.

Bibliographic Reference(s)

• Who's who in Australia. Melbourne, Vic : Information Australia, 2000.
• Wilde, William H. et al. The Oxford companion to Australian literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Provenance:

The A.D. Hope Papers were purchased from Hope in ten consignments between 1978 and 1992. In 2001 two files of obituaries and tributes, published after the death of Hope in 2000, were donated to the Library by Hope's daughter-in-law, Sarah Burns. In 2003 further papers were donated to the Library by the Menzies Library at the Australian National University (Acc03/87). These papers had been lodged by Hope over a number of years at the Menzies Library, where they were catalogued under the title, 'The A.D. Hope collection of literary manuscripts'.

Arrangement:

Since the first consignment of A.D. Hope papers was received in 1978 a number of different approaches to arrangement have been taken by Library staff. A preliminary finding aid was created in 1992 which incorporated all consignments received up to and including that year. With funding provided by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust, the series arrangement was revised and the finding aid upgraded in 2008. At this stage two consignments received in 2001 and 2003 were incorporated into the new arrangement. It should be noted that the box and File numbers from the original arrangement have been retained (Boxes 1-81, Files 1-670). The box and file number ranges for the 2001/2003 consignments are Boxes 82-107, Files 671-855. Refer to the Container List to locate material (although researchers wishing to locate material cited according to the original arrangement should refer to the attached appendix, 'Container List by Files (Original Arrangement)').

The order of Files within each series commences with Files from the original arrangement followed by papers from the 2001 and 2003 consignments (ie the numerical order of Files from the old arrangement has been carried across to the new arrangement, with Files from the 2001/2003 consignments in the same series filed immediately after them).

The internal order of material in Files from the old arrangement has not been changed. The papers in the 2003 consignment were arranged by Hope into files and the order of papers inside these files has been retained.

In the preliminary finding aid for the Hope Papers there were two files numbered 533. File 533 (also numbered 532a on the file itself) in Box 63 is now in Series 7. File 533 in Box 64 is in Series 2.

Container List:

Series	File/Item	Box
1	1-11	1
1	12-20	2
1	21-31	3
1	32-43	4
1	44-56	5
1	57-64	6
1	65-76	7
1	77-87	8
1	88-98	9
1	375-383	43
1	384-391	44
1	392-399	45
1	400-408	46
1	409-416	47
1	417-423	48
1	424-430	49
1	431-439	50
1	440-446	51
1	447-452	52
1	453-455	53
1	456-464	54
1	538-540	64
1	542	64
1	638-643	77
1	644-647	78
2	308-309	35
2	310	35A
2	341-343	39
2	366-374	42
2	465-473	55
2	474-482	56
2	483-491	57
2	492-496	58
2	497-501	59
2	533-537	64
2	541	64
2	648-650	78
2	663-665	80
2	667	81
2	673-678	82
2	679-687	83
2	688-693	84
2	694-700	85
2	701-707	86
2	708-713	87
2	714-719	88
2	720-725	89
3	99-106a	10
3	313a	35A
3	341a	39
4	107-116	11
4	117-125	12
4	126-135	13
4	136-137	14
4	143-158	15-16
4	159-182	16-19
4	183-199	19-21
4	200-201	21
4	202-204	21-22
4	205-209	22
4	210-215	22-23
4	216-218	23
4	219-226	23-24
4	227-235	24-25
4	236-242d	25-27
4	243-255	28-29
4	256-265	29-30
4	266-268	30
4	269-277	31
4	278-289	32-33
4	290-296	33-34
4	297-302	34
4	304-307	35
4	311-313	35
4	314-324	36
4	325-332	37
4	344-348	39
4	349-360	40
4	361-365	41
4	506-514	60
4	515-521	61
4	522-526	62
4	527-533c	63
4	543-549	65
4	550-556	66
4	557-563	67
4	564-570	68
4	571-579	69
4	580-588	70
4	589-597	71
4	598-603	72
4	603a-610	73
4	611-618	74
4	619-628	75
4	629-635	76
4	651	78
4	661-662	80
4	666	81
4	669	81
4	726-732	90
4	733-737	91
4	738-740	92
4	741-748	93
4	749-755	94
4	756-763	95
4	764-771	96
4	772-778	97
4	779-786	98
4	787-795	99
4	796-803	100
4	804-811	101
4	812-820	102
4	821-827	103
4	828-833	104
4	834-838	105
5	138-142	14
5	333-340	38
5	502-505	59
5	636-637	77
5	652	78
5	654	79
6	655-658	79
7	303	35
7	533 (532a)	63
7	653	79
7	659-660	80
7	668	81
7	670	81
7	839-841	105
7	842-849	106
7	850-853	107
8	533d-e	63
8	671-672	82
8	854-855	107

Related

Related Documentation:

1. Supplementary finding aid (Type: pdf, Size: 196.62 KB)

   Appendix I - Container List by Folders (Original Arrangement)

Indexed terms

Names:

Hope, A. D. (Alec Derwent)

Conditions Governing Access:

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2604277).

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of A.D. Hope, National Library of Australia, MS 5836, [series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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