Writings of A.D. Hope, c. 1918, 1927-1988

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

This series encompasses the entire range of Hope's writing, including published and unpublished poetry and prose, lectures, articles, speeches, broadcasts and reviews. The papers include manuscript and typescript drafts, publishers' proofs, publications, notes and correspondence. The File titles are largely Hope's, although some have been enhanced by the Library to provide more descriptive representations of the File contents. File 331 includes family papers.

The arrangement of papers in Series 4 roughly reflects the order in which they were received by the Library. As a result, categories of writing are interfiled: articles, lectures and talks followed by drafts of published material, followed by articles, followed by broadcasts and so on.

Files 741-820 contain lectures and notes received in 2003 from the Menzies Library at the Australian National University. These papers were arranged by Hope into two alphabetical sequences ('Australian writers' and 'Writers'). Small numbers of files were bundled together with covering lists written by Hope. The lists are filed at the beginning of each short alphabetical sequence to which they refer. A small number of files in the lists were not received by the Library. The files contain draft manuscript and typescript lectures, reviews by Hope of publications by the writers, roneo and carbon copies of lectures, small amounts of correspondence and press cuttings. Some of the lectures were written for Commonwealth Literary Fund seminars in 1954-1955.

Immediate source of acquisition:

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'.

Names:

Hope, A. D. (Alec Derwent)

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