Quadrant

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A long series of letters exchanged between Arndt and the staff of Quadrant, in particular with editor Peter Coleman. Arndt was President of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, Quadrant's publisher and was co-editor of Quadrant for a short time.

Also filed here are copies of correspondence between Peter Coleman and Gerard Henderson, director of the Institute of Public Affairs (NSW); notices, agendas and minutes of the Quadrant Board of Directors meeting and cuttings of tributes to Richard Krygier.

Other letters relate to contacts with the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom and Melbourne University Press and a special issue on socialism.

The correspondents include Peter Coleman, Professor David Armstrong, Ian Gregory (Managing Director), Professor Geoffrey de Q. Walte, Sir Noel Foley, Creighton Burns, Robyn Marsden, Richard Krygier, B.A. Santamaria, and David Kemp.

Located with the George Watson Prize Essay correspondence are copies of articles submitted for judging, including work written by Babette Francis, Phillip Chubb, Peter Ryan, Gerard Henderson, Robert Manne, Lachlan Chipman, Joseph Siracusa, W.D. Rubinstein, and I.R. Hancock.

Consignments added February 1988 and May 1993.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first instalment of papers was donated by Professor Arndt under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in 1981. Further consignments were donated by Professor Arndt in two instalments, in February 1988 and in May 1993.

Names:

Arndt, Heinz Wolfgang, Professor

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