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Papers of Gavin Souter, 1959-1991

9.94 metres (71 boxes, 1 folio)
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The papers comprise correspondence, drafts, typescripts, research material and photographs for Souter's published works: New Guinea: the last unknown, Lion and kangaroo: the initiation of Australia, 1909-1919, Acts of Parliament: a narrative history of the Senate and House of Representatives Commonwealth of Australia, Company of Heralds: a century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors, 1831-1981 and Heralds and angels: the house of Fairfax 1841-1990.
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Records of the Bulletin, 1901-1928

0.63 metres (1 archives box + 1 medium folio box)
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Comprising Poetry and Prose collected by A. Dunlop.
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Papers of Bruce Desmond Graham, 1921-1969

0.075 metres (5 folders)
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The collection contains notes on a number of oral history interviews which were made by Graham in 1956-57, while he was writing his book The formation of the Australian Country Parties.

Papers of Harcourt Algeranoff, 1830-1967

3.78 metres (27 boxes)
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The papers primarily relate to Algeranoff's employment in various companies and organisations including the Anna Pavlova Company, Ballets Russes, International Ballet, Australian Children's Theatre, Carl Rosa Opera Company, Borovansky Ballet, Australian Ballet and the North West Victoria Ballet Society. There is also family, personal, business and financial correspondence; family papers; diaries; lectures and articles; financial papers; cuttings and cutting books; photographs; programs; publications; and material relating to writings by Algeranoff including his ballet For love or money and his memoirs My years with Pavlova.
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Papers of Robert F. Brissenden, ca. 1942-ca. 1993

9.95 metres (45 boxes, 11 cartons)
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The collection includes manuscripts (drafts of poems, short stories and reviews), correspondence (personal, literary, business and copies of many of his own letters), and papers relating to the Australia Council and the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminars.
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Papers of Andrew Taylor, 1953-2004

(37 boxes)
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MS 5740 comprises family correspondence, 1955-1975. These letters were written by Andrew Taylor to his family whilst he was at Scotch College, 1955-1957, University of Melbourne, 1958-1960, Puckapunyal Army Camp, 1959, and during his periods studying overseas in London, Rome, Florence, 1963-1965, Buffalo, New York, New Haven and San Francisco, 1970-1971 and 1974-1975. The collection also includes drafts of Taylor's poetry: Beyond silence, The invention of fire, Ice fishing, The cat's chin and ears: a bestiary, The drummer, Cool change, and Parabolas. There are notebooks kept during Taylor's visit to the United States in 1974-1975. Also, correspondence with Roger McDonald of Queensland University Press, 1970-1975. Also included are letters to Beate Haliol-Josephi, 1975-1976, "exacting parallel the writing of a love poem" The crystal absences, the trout (a love poem written during Beate's absence), and the first version of The crystal absences, the trout, completed on 3 March 1976.
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Papers of Chester Porter, 1948-2019

(55 ms boxes) + 1 folio packet + 1 packet + 43 audiovisual carriers
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This collection comprises transcripts of the proceedings of the Royal Commission into the conviction of Frederick Linton McDermott for the murder of William Henry Lavers and related papers (1948-1951); an account of the administration of the death penalty for the last time in New South Wales (1939); papers concerning an inquiry into the affairs of companies associated with Ian Sinclair MHR (1978-1980); papers related to the application of Wendy Bacon to be admitted to the New South Wales Bar (1981); and papers concerning the Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons (1976). Additionally, the collection includes correspondence, case notes, Royal Commission documents, legal papers, reports, research notes, personal diaries, work and appointment diaries, lecture notes, press clippings, and audiovisual material.
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