Power without glory (1950) and The hard way (1961)

Containers:

Box 42-63 (MS 4887) and Folios 29-30 (MS 4887)

Component identifier:

Series 8

Content Summary:

This series contains correspondence, typed transcripts of the Wren v. Hardy case, manuscript and typescript drafts of the above books, hand-written and typed notes, reviews, research material and newspaper cuttings.

The correspondence includes letters, telegrams and postcards written mostly from 1950 to 1962. It is arranged chronologically with undated letters placed last. It includes letters from Australian writers Eric Lambert, K.S. Prichard and Martin Boyd, American, European and Russian writers, Communist Party associates, personal friends and vehement anonymous critics.

The drafts of Power without glory are incomplete, undated, and often unnumbered. These pages have been sorted as closely as possible to the pagination of the first edition, published in 1950 by the Realist Printing and Publishing Co. Melbourne. The drafts of The hard way are more systematically arranged in five handwritten and typed drafts made between 1953 and 1959.

Research material includes 8" x 5" subject cards, jottings on scrap paper and miscellaneous printed matter later incorporated into the above book.

Typescripts of Hardy's trial cover proceedings at the Melbourne Court of Petty Sessions 16-19 January 1951, and at the Victorian Supreme Court proceedings, 15, 18 December 1950, in the Argus law reports 10 July 1951: pp. 1552-62.

Other material includes copies of the Newsletter published by Brian Fitzpatrick for the Frank Hardy Defence Committee, Hardy's lecture notes, newspaper cuttings during 1950 of the early, middle and late 1950s, undated handwritten notes for the TV adaptation of Power without glory, and an annotated proof of Niall Brennan's 1968 study John Wren: gambler.Further material is located in the 1984 consignment (Boxes 212-213).Folio Item 29: Water colour sketch by Counihan advertising book

Folio Item 30: Sketch (ink)

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of the writer Frank Hardy were purchased by the Library in seven consignments between 1975 and 1988.

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