Consignment received 1985-1986, 1893-1989

Component identifier:

Class 1

Extent:

32.61 metres and (209 ms boxes + 7 archive boxes)

Content Summary:

This consignment comprises letters to family, Australian and overseas writers, artists and others; drafts of published and unpublished works with background material (notes, photocopies and cuttings) relating to those works; and, diaries including trip diaries. Lindsay's letters are arranged chronologically with alphabetical indexes. Much of the collection comprises papers arranged by Lindsay according to his activities, especially publication projects, including books on William Blake, Gustave Courbet, William Hogarth, William Morris, and J.M.W. Turner, and interests in subjects such as alchemy, anthropology, art, Marxism and science.

The collection also includes manuscripts, photocopies, printed items and some letters. Among the many correspondents represented in the collection are Arthur Boyd, Harry Chaplin, Clem Christesen, Dymphna Cusack, Simone de Beauvoir, Dorothy Green, Frank Hardy, Flexmore Hudson, Doris Lessing, Sir Daryl Lindsay and other Lindsay family members, David Martin, Alan Marshall, Stephen Murray-Smith, Vance and Nettie Palmer, K.S. Prichard, Elizabeth Salter, Christina Stead, P.R. Stephenson, Peggy van Praagh, Judah Waten and Judith Wright

Subjects:

Arts
Literature

Names:

Lindsay, Jack, Mr.

Contents

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