Short stories

Containers:

Box 110-115 (MS 4887)

Component identifier:

Series 18

Content Summary:

Frank Hardy had been a prolific writer of short stories since 1944 when his 'Stranger in the camp' won the School of Modern Writers competition. This series includes hand-written and typed drafts of stories from 1944 to 1970, journal and newspaper cuttings of published stories, and correspondence with publishers and editors of anthologies and periodicals in which Hardy's works appeared.

The letters cover 1945, 1946, 1947, 1957-70 and include negotiations with Australian, English, American, German, Russian and Czechoslovakian publishers of anthologies like Coast to Coast, newspapers as varied as the Melbourne Sun and Moscow's Izvestia and periodicals ranging form the Australian Women's day to the American Harpers.

Published material includes cuttings from Textile Topics, Progress, Meat Industry Journal and The Clerks, (1946-48) as well as some more recent material from the Sydney Tribune and The Daily Mirror, (1960-65).

Drafts of short stories including 'The load of wood' (1945); 'The Mirror' (1947); 'The Returned soldier' (1950); 'Good as ever' (1957) and 'The Daily Double' (1970).

See also series 32 'Voices off'.

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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