(25 MS Boxes + 1 Archives Box + 1 Large Folio Box + 1 Map Folio + 1 Folder)
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The collection comprises personal and business papers relating to Spate's career as art historian, academic, author and curator and includes correspondence, research files, family papers and juvenilia, book drafts, slides and posters.
(31 ms + 1 folio box + 1 packet + 1 folder + 14 audiovisual carriers + 5 digital carriers)
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The papers in MS 958 comprise letters and cards of Barbara Hanrahan, a typescript titled "The world you are walking upon: a tribute to Barbara Hanrahan" and photocopies of articles on Hanrahan, including her orbituary. In her letters, Hanrahan discusses her writings, including Flawless Jade, her art, people they know and Carmel Bird's writings. Also included are papers relating to The Penguin century of Australian stories, which was edited by Bird and published by Penguin in 2000. They mostly comprise correspondence, biographical notes and permission to publish forms received from authors approached about contributions to the anthology (15 boxes, 1 large folio box). The Acc06.204 instalment comprises further papers relating to the editing of The stolen children: their stories: including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, which was published in 1998 (1 box). The Acc15.118 instalment comprises correspondence received by Carmel Bird 1980-1999. Correspondents include Bruce Pascoe, Frank Morehouse, Gerald Murnane and Bird's students (2 boxes). The MS Acc22.151 instalment comprises book and short story drafts, speeches, essays, research notes, reviews, correspondence, and documents relating to the Literature Board, 1970s-2022. Correspondents include Marion Halligan, Gillian Bouras and Gerald Murnane (13 boxes, 1 packet, 1 folder, 14 audiocarriers, 5 digital carriers).
2.52 metres(14 ms boxes + 1 ms carton + 2 folders + 2 packets)
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MS 9916 comprises correspondence, emails, drafts, notes, articles, press extracts, newspapers, magazines, and books relating to Campbell's interest in Indonesian poetry and the writing and publication of his own Indonesian language poems; brochures and other ephemera relating to cultural events. Correspondence, emails and books relating to Erich Maria Remarque and his English translator Arthur Wheen (the subject of an article by Campbell in NLA news). Copy of Campbell's Honours social work thesis, 'Educational and vocational aspirations of Australians and Southern European adolescents...', 1971, and, Journal of a visit to Tenterfield in 1980 in the steps of his grandfather, ornithologist Archibald James Campbell, and other papers relating to A.J. Campbell. Papers relating to Campbell's research for his University of Sydney Master of Arts thesis on family and inheritance law in West Java (4 boxes).The MS Acc06.109 instalment includes correspondence in Indonesian and English on Indonesian poetry and Campbell's own poetry writing, with Indonesian poets and Australian academics, ca. 1990-2005; ephemera relating to cultural and literary events in Sydney, 1990-2005; handwritten diary, 2000; copies of The Phoenix, school magazine for Normanhurst Boys High School, 1961-1966; and, personal documents such as passports and student cards (1 carton).The MS Acc06.175 instalment includes, in Box 1: University of Sydney, Masters thesis, "National literature, regional manifestations: contemporary Indonesian language poetry from West Java", Ian Campbell, June 1996; University of Sydney, Masters thesis, "Family law and inheritance law in West Java", March 1988; correspondence, 2000-2006; in Box 2: correspondence, 2003-2006; Indonesian publications and pamphlets, 1981-1998; Christmas cards, postcards (blank); in Box 3: postcards (blank), invitations and postcards; envelope marked "Indonesia 1984"; and, three video cassette tapes, 1995-1997 (3 boxes).The MS Acc07.180 instalment comprises papers relating to Campbell's interest in Indonesian literature, including drafts of poems in Indonesian; printed versions of emails concerning Campbell's involvement as English language editor of Utan Kaya international literary biennial anthology, and various other printed emails and publications (1 folder).The MS Acc08.150 instalment includes Campbell's summaries, in English, of Indonesian mass media and Internet news in 2001 related to people-smuggling, SIEV X, Tampa issues and others; material concerning Indonesian mass media coverage of the Bali bombings; Campbell's Master of Philosophy degree and academic transcript from the University of Sydney; correspondence and ephemera relating to the publication in May 2008 of Campbell's book on contemporary Indonesian poetry; early drafts of Indonesian language poems written in 2007; publication processes for collection of 25 poems "Selatan-Sur-South; and, uncaptioned, unidentified photographs (2 boxes).The MS Acc09.041 instalment comprises "South-Sur-Selatan", an anthology of poems written in English on the theme South-Sur-Selatan (1 packet).The MS Acc10.097 instalment includes correspondence and ephemera relating to Indonesia, Indonesian culture and Indonesia-Australia relations. Also included are organisational correspondence for the Gang Festival 05-06, invitations, programs and newspaper cuttings (1 folder).The Acc10.122 instalment comprises notes, typescripts, photocopies and ephemera relating to Vietnam and Vietnamese poetry. Included are original poems by Ian Campell, and translations of poems by Campbell and others, together with an essay by Campell on Vietnam (1 packet).The MS Acc22.004 instalment comprises papers relating to Ian Campbell's poetry publications in Indonesian and/or English in Indonesian and Australian journals and newspapers. It includes correspondence between Campbell and editors, poets and academics; unpublished and drafts of poems by Campbell; conference papers and essays; travel notes and diaries; publications, some signed, by various Indonesian writers and poets; plus colour photographs, newspaper clippings and associated printed materials.
The collection comprises: personal correspondence including from Manning Clark and Frank Kellaway; lecture notes; research for proposed books; a memoir and reviews of 'Days of Wrath: A Life of John Dunmore Lang'. The collection also includes papers of Don Baker's father, Donald Baker, Anglican bishop of Bendigo, that comprise clerical correspondence between clergy and church governing bodies and also correspondence from clergy to newspapers.
The collection comprises notebooks, journals and papers written by Anne Edgeworth including published and unpublished poems; correspondence with literary figures, and members of the Edgeworth David family; reviews of theatre productions; university revue scripts and ephemera plus ; a script, with handwritten production notes for 'Born of Fire' the Judith Wright 80th birthday tribute.
This collection contains correspondence sent by and to Norman Lindsay. Correspondents include Jane Lindsay, Harry Chaplin, Brian James (John Lawrence Tierney), Keith Wingrove, Hugh McCrae, Frank Rinder, Adolphe Beutler and Guy Howarth, and childhood friend Mame.
7.66 metres(25 ms boxes + 3 archives boxes + 2 large folio boxes + 3 medium folio boxes + 4 card index boxes)
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The collection comprises notes and alphabetical index cards relating to Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey's books on the Kerr Brothers, an Anglo-French distributor of goods including copra and cocoa; original papers and diaries of her father Graham Lennox Stirling Kerr; Cawsey's notebooks and diaries; correspondence; business records relating to the Kerr Brothers Ltd and the East Santo Plantations Ltd in the New Hebrides (now the nation of Vanuatu); photographs; and scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings.
MS 7017 comprises correspondence, notes, draft manuscripts, and miscellaneous papers relating to the research, writing and publication of major works Brian Kiernan has either written or edited, as well as contributions he has made to other publications. Also included are 18 audio tapes of research material relating to Kiernan's biography of David Williamson (14 boxes).
Papers relating to Sophie Cunningham's career in publishing with McPhee Gribble/Penguin and Allen Unwin, including edited proofs, book covers, production files about writes such as Mandy Brett, David Menandue, Paul Livingston and Louise Southerden, and professional correspondence. The collection also comprises correspondence, press clippings and articles by Cunningham. Correspondents include Hilary McPhee, Helen Garner, Tony Ayres, Peter Nicholls, Michelle de Krester, Kaz Cooke and Morris Gleitzman.