MS 5678
Papers of Dorothy Green (1915-1991)



Summary

Title

Papers of Dorothy Green

Date Range

1943-1990

Extent

12.42 m. (85 boxes, 1 carton, 1 folio)

Access

Part available for research (Subseries 2A Folder 31; Subseries 2C; Subseries 2E; Series 5; Series 9 - 12; Subseries 13B - 13C; Subseries 13E - 13I; Series 14 - 15); part requires permission for research (Series 1; Subseries 2A Folders 1 - 30, 32 - 62 + card index; Subseries 2B; Subseries 2D; Subseries 2F - 2G; Series 3; Series 4; Series 6 - 8; Subseries 13A; Subseries 13D).

Scope and Content

The collection includes material relating to Green's career as a journalist; as co-principal of Presbyterian Girl's College in Warwick, Queensland; and as a lecturer in Australian, English and American literature in Monash University, the Australian National University and the Australian Defence Force Academy. There is also material pertaining to Green's diverse interests and research, as well as personal, financial and family papers.

Provenance

Some papers were given by Dorothy Green to the Library in various consignments between 1981 and 1990. The bulk of the material (80 boxes, one carton and one folio) was purchased by the Library from Dorothy Green's children following her death in 1991.

Related Material

It should be noted that other papers of Dorothy Green are held in the Australian Defence Force Academy Library, Canberra

The National Library holds the papers of Green's husband, H.M. Green, at MS 3925. Papers of Henry Handel Richardson are held at MS 133, papers of Martin Boyd are held at MS 6810, and records of the Australian Society of Authors are held at MS 4572.

Biographical Note

Dorothy Auchterlonie was born in County Durham, England, in 1915 and educated in England and at Sydney University. In 1944 she married H.M. Green, the University Librarian at the University of Sydney. She worked as a reader, journalist and news editor with the News Service of the ABC (1942-49) and was co-principal of the Presbyterian Girls' College in Warwick, Queensland (1955-60). She was a lecturer in Australian, English and American literature at Monash University (1961-63), the Australian National University (1964-72) and the Australian Defence Force Academy (1979-87).

Green's publications included The music of love: critical essays on literature and life (1984), Ulysses bound: a study of Henry Handel Richardson and her fiction (1986) and Descent of spirit: writing of E.L. Grant Watson (1990). She also produced a revised edition of her husband's A History of Australian literature (1984-85).

Green died in 1991.

Series List


Series       Title                                                              
1            Correspondence, 1943-90                                             
2            Literary works                                                      
              2A Ulysses bound: a study of Henry Handel Richardson and her fiction, 1969-90                                          
              2B Martin Boyd, 1964-80                                            
              2C The music of love                                               
              2D A history of Australian literature (revised edition)            
              2E Book reviews and articles, 1961-89                              
              2F Notebooks, [n.d.]                                               
              2G Miscellaneous drafts                                            
3            Personal, financial and family papers, 1928-81                      
4            Journalism and teaching, 1943-1968                                                                        
5            Monash University, 1961-63                                          
6            Australian National University, 1965-79                             
7            Australian Defence Force Academy, 1983-89                           
8            Lectures, [n.d.]                                                    
9            Literature Board, 1967-89                                           
10           Australian Society of Authors, 1981-85                              
11           Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1980-88         
12           Conferences, Seminars and Public Lectures, 1948-88                 
13           Research material                                                  
              13A John Cawte, 1982-90                                            
              13B Environmental issues, 1984-89                                  
              13C Nuclear disarmament and peace movement, 1981-86                
              13D Philosophy and religion, 1977-89                               
              13E Education, 1965-84                                             
              13F Drama and poetry reading, 1965-70                              
              13G Aborigines, 1968-80                                            
              13H Writings by others, 1977-87                                    
              13I Miscellaneous, 1969-88                                         
14           Newspaper cuttings, photocopies and printed material, 1964-77      
15           Miscellaneous items                                                


Series Description

Series 1. Correspondence, 1943-90

Some of the letters appear to have been kept in separate groups. To keep this original order, the correspondence has been arranged into the following categories: alphabetical order according to the names of the major correspondents, chronological order, and business correspondence.

The major correspondents include Diana Baillieu, Barbara Barnes, Martin Boyd, Alec Bolton, Jenny Bosse, Jennifer and Geoff Campbell, Janet Carden, Clem Christesen, Betty Combie, R.D. FitzGerald, A.D. Hope, Margaret Lewis, James McAuley, Joy MacMillan, Greg and Ruth Paris, Elizabeth Perkins, Christina Stead, Kylie Tennant and Judith Wright.

The business correspondence contains letters from publishers as well as other writers. They include Allen and Unwin, Angus and Robertson, ANU Press and Quadrant. Some of the correspondents are George Munster, Brian Chugg, Sara Dowse, Gwen Harwood, Barry Roberts and Elizabeth Webby. See Appendix I.

Series 2. Literary works

The papers in this series have been arranged into the following subseries:

Subseries 2A. Ulysses bound: a study of Henry Handel Richardson and her fiction, 1969-90

Published by Allen & Unwin, 1986

Correspondence, notes, drafts, research material, cuttings, author and galley proofs, and photocopies pertaining to the book. The research material includes photocopies of correspondence between Walter Lindsay Richardson and his family (1859-79). There is also a large body of correspondence with William Norris, who shared the same interest in Henry Handel Richardson. Norris also sent Green cuttings and photocopies pertaining to Richardson. The correspondents include Clem Christesen, Geoff Serle, Margaret Capon, Olga Roncoroni, and Walter, Mary and Patrick Neustatter. See Appendix II.

Subseries 2B. 'Martin Boyd', 1966-75 (not published)

Correspondence, drafts, typescripts, notes, photocopies and cuttings for a proposed book on the novelist Martin Boyd. The correspondents include Martin Boyd, Arthur Boyd, Phyllis Boyd, Gerry A. Wilkes, Paul de Serville, Rodney Wetherell and Reverend J. Guidera. The typescripts include copies of articles by Green, Brenda Niall, Patricia Dobrez and Pamela Ruskin. (11 folders)

Subseries 2C. The music of Love

Published by Penguin Books, 1984

The series includes drafts, typescripts and photocopies. Some of the essays included in the book had been published as separate articles. (4 folders)

Subseries 2D. A history of Australian literature

Published by Angus and Robertson, 1984-85.

The two volumes were originally written by H.M. Green and published in 1962. The series contains research notes, photocopies and roneoed material which were used in this revised edition. Some research material was for the proposed, but never completed, third volume. (7 folders)

Subseries 2E. Drafts of reviews and articles, 1961-89

Most of the reviews and articles were published in the Canberra Times and some of them were used in The music of love. The series includes drafts, photocopies, cuttings and copies of Green's letters to the editor of the Canberra Times. (24 folders)

Subseries 2F. Notebooks [n.d.]

The notebooks contain drafts and notes.

Subseries 2G. Miscellaneous drafts and notes [n.d.]

This series contains drafts and notes on various subjects including Christina Stead (typescript of 'Chaos, or a dancing star' by Green and a copy of Chris Williams draft of her book Christina Stead), Joyce Carey (for other material on Carey see Series 7), Joseph Furphy, Ginger Meggs, Henry Kendall, Alexander Pope, William Dunbar and a typescript 'Franois Villon: ruffian, robber, murderer and poet'. (17 folders)

Series 3. Personal and family papers, 1919-81

The series includes financial papers relating to the sales of properties (including a house in Queen Street, Ulverstone, Tasmania and a unit in Punt Road, South Yarra, Victoria, 1961-80), school certificates and prizes (1928-32), telegrams sent on Green's wedding day (May 1944), papers relating to visits to England (1974) and Yugoslavia (1979), drafts of Green's M.A. thesis on Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Sydney University, 1940), miscellaneous correspondence and miscellaneous documents of James Thompson (Auchterlonnie?, 1919-32). The correspondents include Jose Moravec and Mirko Jurak. (12 folders)

Series 4. Journalism and teaching, 1943-68

The papers relating to Green's career as a journalist (1943-52) include typescripts of articles, typescripts of ABC news and letters from her editors, Dorothy Drain, Esme Fenston and John Quinn.

Green was co- principal of the Presbyterian Girls' College in Warwick, Queensland (1957-60). The papers include cuttings, photographs and letters of Constance Mackness. (8 folders)

Series 5. Monash University, 1961-63

This small series comprises a copy of Green's letter of application for the position of lecturership in English and Australian literature, roneoed material, drafts and cuttings. (9 folders)

Series 6. Australian National University, 1965-79

Notes, drafts, roneoed material and photocopies used for teaching Australian literature, Greek and medieval drama. (7 folders)

Series 7. Australian Defence Force Academy, 1983-89

The series includes typescripts and drafts of lectures and tutorials (eg. William Blake, Joyce Carey, Emily Dickinson, Anna Broadstreet and Ed Taylor), drafts of papers given at seminars and conferences (eg. 'Language and inner life', 'The shock of battle', 'Gorbachev's Vladivostock initiative', 'Directions in Australian literary criticism and scholarship' and a seminar on the poet Francis Webb) and correspondence. The correspondents include W.G. Spooner, D.L. Moore and Kevin McBrearty. There is also some correspondence with John Cawte, Michael Dudley and Rosemary Dobson concerning the seminar on Francis Webb in 1983, and copies of Webb's letters to Clem Christesen (1961-70). See Appendix III.

Series 8. Lectures [n.d.]

Dorothy Green's drafts of mostly unidentified lectures. The papers in this series were acquired by the Library in 1987. See Appendix IV.

Series 9. Literature Board, 1967-89

Green received a grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 1979 to work on the new edition of A history of Australian literature and was made an Emeritus Fellow in 1984. The series comprises circulars, leaflets and correspondence. The correspondents include Michael Costigan, Elaine Lindsay, Tom Shapcott, Irene Stevens, Kevin Waddell, W.R. Cumming and A.A. Staley. (3 folders)

Series 10. Australian Society of Authors, 1981-85

Green was a member of the Society. The series contains newsletters, copies of Australian Author (1982-85), roneoed material and circulars. (4 folders)

Series 11. Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1980-88

Dorothy Green was a member of ASAL. The series includes papers written and delivered by Green at the conferences ('A living history?' a keynote address given at ASAL 87 in Launceston and 'The road not taken?' a paper given at ASAL 88 in Sydney), a copy of a talk by Judith Wright given at ASAL 85 and miscellaneous material relating to the Association. (7 folders)

Series 12. Conferences, seminars and public lectures, 1948-88

The earliest conference paper found in this series is the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East Lapstone Conference (1948), which Green attended on behalf of the ABC news service. Other conferences represented in the series include the National Identity Conference at the University of Queensland (1968), the Conference on the Teaching of Australian Literature at James Cook University of Northern Queensland (1971) and a symposium at the Salamanca Arts Festival in Hobart (1973). (15 folders)

Series 13. Research material

The types of material found in this series reflect Green's diverse interests. Some of the papers were sent to Green by other writers and researchers because of her interest in the subjects. (12 folders)

The series has been arranged into the following subseries:

Subseries 13A. John Cawte, 1982-90

John Cawte was an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Prince Henry Hospital at the University of New South Wales, who appears to have shared literary (eg. the poet Francis Webb) and other interests (eg. mental illness) with Green. The series comprises Cawte's letters to Green, photocopies (mostly published articles written by Cawte), cuttings and printed material. (8 folders)

Subseries 13B. Environmental issues, 1984-89

The series includes a typescript by Green 'Conditioned man' [n.d.], leaflets, photocopies and printed material. ( 3 folders)

Subseries 13C. Peace movement and nuclear disarmament

Green had a strong interest in the peace and nuclear disarmament movement. The series includes typescripts by Green (including 'Aspidistra and coca cola': a speech delivered at the meeting of the Australian Association for Armed Neutrality in April 1988 and 'Nuclear war: a personal view': a paper delivered at a conference in Wollongong in September 1982), articles and letters by Alex Carey, material pertaining to the Australian Council of Churches, cuttings, photocopies and printed material (eg. Peace dossier, 1982-86 and Peace studies, 1984-85). See Appendix V.

Subseries 13D. Philosophy and religion, 1977-89

Notebook, typescript by Green on Harold F. Stewart and printed material. (3 folders)

Subseries 13E. Education, 1965-84

Typescripts (including 'A way of living or an article of commerce?' by Green), roneoed and printed material. (4 folders)

Subseries 13F. Drama and poetry reading, 1965-70

Notes, cuttings, photocopies, roneoed material concerning the production of 'Everyman' in Canberra in 1965, the ACT Arts Council Autumn Poetry Festival in 1970 and others. (7 folders)

Subseries 13G. Aborigines

Typescripts, including 'The road not taken' by Green and 'Aborigines and mining' by Judith Wright, and printed material. (4 folders)

Subseries 13H. Writings by others

Typescripts and photocopies sent to Green by other writers including, John Kenneth Galbraith ('The age of uncertainties'), Humphrey McQueen (on Petrov), J. Enoch Powell, Andrew Lohrey, Peter Newman, Tony Fitzgerald, Tony Page, Sverker Sörlin and P.R. Stephensen. See Appendix VI.

Subseries 13I. Miscellaneous, 1969-88

Correspondence, notes, typescripts, photocopies and cuttings relating to various topics, including immigration, Monash University's Women Biography Project (1981-83), feminism, Word Festival, E.L. Grant Watson, Serbo-Croatia issues and copies of Le Gay Brereton's letters to Duncan Hall (the original letters are at NLA MS 7229). The main correspondents are Marilyn Lake, Farley Kelly, Jean Ada and Heather E. Peek.

Series 14. Newspaper cuttings and printed material, 1964-77

Some of the cuttings had been arranged according to their subjects by the donor and this order has been maintained. See Appendix VII.

Series 15. Miscellaneous items

This series includes various card indexes, video tapes, X-rays, a handbag and printed material.

Appendix I

Series 1: Correpondence

Personal letters to:

Folder                                                                            
1              Photocopies of letters to A.D. Hope (copied from the A.D. Hope Papers, MS 5836)                            
2              Letters to Judith Wright                                           
               Personal letters from:                                             
3              Diana Baillieu, 1966-89                                            
4              Barbara Barnes, 1978-89                                            
5              Alec Bolton, 1977-83                                               
6              Jenny Bosse, 1981-91                                               
7              Jennifer and Geoff Campbell 1974                                   
8-9            Janet Carden, 1970-83                                              
10-19          Clem and Nina Christesen, 1955-90                                  
20             Elspeth (Elsie) Christiansen, 1970                                 
21             Brian Chugg, 1984-87                                               
22-30          Betty Crombie, 1957-87                                             
31             Joan and Cathy Carey, 1987-88                                      
32             Sara Dowse, 1990                                                   
33             Gwen Harwood, 1990                                                 
34-43          Margaret G. Lewis, 1964-88                                         
44             Joy McMillan, 1976-83                                              
45             Ruth Paris, 1962-70                                                
46-52          Elizabeth Perkins, 1964-90                                         
53             Barry Roberts, 1990                                                
54             Christina Stead, 1979-80                                           
55             Christina Webby, 1990                                              
               Correspondence alphabetically arranged:                            
56-59          A - D   1943-88                                                    
60-68          E - P   1963-88                                                    
69-73          R-W   1953-88                                                      
                                                                                  

Correspondence in chronological order:
Folders
                                                                                  
74             1937-58                                                            
75-77          Cards and letters of condolences, 1962                             
78             Legal correspondence concerning H.M. Green, 1962-64                
79             1960-69                                                            
80             1970-71                                                            
82             1972-73                                                                                                                                     
83-85          1975-78                                                            
86-93          1979-85                                                            
94-102         1986-88                                                            
103-111        1989-January 1990                                                  
112-121        1990 (February- November)                                          
122-123        1990 (December)                                                    
124            1991                                                               
125-26         n.d.                                                               

Business Correspondence
127-28         The Age, 1982-86                                                   
129            Allen & Unwin, 1985-86                                              
130            Angus & Robertson, 1973-83                                         
131            Australian National University Press, 1967-85                      
132            Australian Research Grant Scheme, 1982                             
133            Bulletin and Quadrant, 1978-82                                     
134            Canberra Times, 1988                                               
135            University of New England, 1980-83                                 
136            George Munster, National Review                                    
137            Correspondence with various publishers and editors, 1977-81        
138            Correspondence concerning reviews, 1984-85                         
139-41         Miscellaneous business correpondence and copies of letters sent, 1969-87                                                      

Correspondence received 1987
142            Margaret Capon, 1976-86                                            
143-44         R.D. FitzGerald, 1966-80                                           
145            Nancy Kusnei (Keesing)?                                            
146            J.P. McCauley, 1936-73                                             
147            Walter Neustatter, 1968-75                                         
148            Olga Roncoroni, 1969-81                                            
149            Douglas Stewart and other poets contributing to Australian Poetry, 1968                                             
150-52         Kylie Tennant, 1947-83                                             
153            Judith Wright, 1982                                                
154            Miscellaneous letters received as poetry editor, 1966              
               2 boxes of unsorted greeting cards                                 


Appendix II

Series 2 part A: Ulysses bound

Folders                   
1-6            Letters of William Norris, 1971-89                                 
6-7            Newspaper clippings and printed material and photocopies           
               from William Norris.                                               
8              Margaret Capon, 1982-90                                            
9              Heather Radi, 1987                                                 
10             Hanne Bock, 1977-85                                                
11             Hanne Nielson, 1976                                                
12             D. Clark (notes)                                                   
13             Photocopies of letters by Walter L. Richardson, 1853-76            
14             Photocopies of Mary Richardson journal and letters, 1859-74        
15             Photocopies of Lucinda Cheyne's letters to W.L.Richardson,        
               1857-63                                                            
16-18          Photocopies of W.L.Richardson correspondence 1859-79               
19             Photocopies of W.L.Richardson Will and probate, 1879               
20             Photocopies of W.L.Richardson commonplace book, 1870               
21-22          Photocopies of old letters, notes and correspondence, 1869-74      
23             Typescripts                                                         
24             Typescripts of articles and notes from A.D. Hope [n.d.]            
25             Typescripts of Seminar papers                                      
26             Typescript: The H.H. Richardson Centenary Lecture,                 
               National Library 23 November 1970                                  
27             'Á great liar' at PLC Melbourne, 1883-85                           
28             Notes and typescripts: Maurice Guest                               
29-30          Miscellaneous notes                                                
31             Songs by H.H.R.                                                    
32             Author's proof (H.H.R. material)                                   
33             Photocopies of H.H.R. photographs                                  
34-35          Printed and photocopies of articles                                
36             Olga Maria Roncoroni                                               
37             Draft article on H.H.R.  [n.d]                                     
38             Draft for 'Pot and Kettle' (published in Overlander)               
39             'At home nowhere': H.H. Richardson                                 
40             'Anti-vaccination and syphilis', transcript, New England 1985      
41             Letters of Geoff Serle and Clem Christesen commenting on           
               Ulysses bound, 1973                                                
42             Photocopies of articles by Elizabeth Summons                       
43             Reviews, 1973-74                                                   
44             Australian Dictionary of Biography: entry on H.H. Richardson       
45-47          Writers Week - Adelaide, 1977-78                                   

Folder                                                                            
48             Correspondence, typescript and printed material                    
48             Newspaper cuttings and five envelopes of photographs               
               of H.H. Richardson                                                 
49-53          Ulysses bound - annotated typescript draft                         
53-62          Ulysses bound - galley proof                                       
               1 Box of Card indexes                                              

Appendix III

Series 7: Australian Defence Force Academy

English Literature

Folder                                                                           
1              William Blake                                                     
2              Joyce Cary                                                        
3              Samuel Taylor Coleridge                                           
4              William Congreve                                                  
5              Joseph Conrad                                                     
6              John Dryden                                                       
7-8            George Eliot                                                      
9              T.S. Eliot                                                        
10-11          Ralph Emerson                                                     
12             Robert Frost                                                      
13             Thomas Hardy                                                      
14             James Joyce                                                       
15             John Keats                                                        
16             Walt Whitman                                                      
17             E.A. Robinson                                                     
18             Othello                                                           
19             Percy Shelley                                                     
20             Oscar Wilde                                                       
21             David Williamson                                                  
22             William Wordsworth                                                
23-24          American Poetry                                                   
25-29          English I: Poetry                                                 
30-31          English I: Fiction                                                
32-33          English tutorials                                                 
34             English miscellaneous                                             
35-36          English comedy                                                    
37             16th century prose                                                
38             Bush ballads                                                      
39-40          Courses                                                           
41             Seminar on 'Language and inner light', 1985                       
42             Seminar Australian studies, 1986                                  
43-45          Seminar: 'The shock of battle', 1989                              
46             ADFA Symposium: 'Gorbachov's Vladivostov initiative', 1987        
47             Conference: 'Direction in Australian literature'                  
48-49          Seminar: 'Francis Webb', 1983                                     
50             Letter of Rosemary Dobson concerning F. Webb, 1983                
51             Papers of D.M. Dudley                                             
52             Copies of F. Webb letters to Clem Christesen 1961-70              
53-54          Correspondence, 1979-83                                           

Appendix IV

Series 8: Lectures

Folder                                                                            
1              Five Elizabethan comedies                                          
2              'The crucible' (Arthur Miller)                                     
3              American drama                                                     
4              Various notes                                                      
5              'The white devil' (John Webster)                                   
6              Henrik Ibsen                                                       
7              'The playboy of the Western world' (Synge)                         
8              Christopher Marlowe                                                
9              Shakespeare                                                        
10             Ben Jonson, T.S. Eliot and The New Fortune (brochure)              
11-12          Shakespeare                                                        
13             Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage                              
14             Development of English prose and Elizaethan tragedy                
15             Introduction to Swift                                              
16             Designing stages and modern Australian plans                       
17             John Donne, Hakluyt to Donne                                       
18             Thomas Browne                                                      
19             Ninteenth century literature                                       
20             Prose extracts                                                     
21             Prose general                                                      
22             The development of the English prose sentence                      
               Religio medici - an outline                                        
23             Prose passages and extracts                                        
24             Miscellaneous notes and press cuttings                             

Appendix V

Series 13 part C: Peace movement

Folder                                                                            
12-13          Correspondence, 1981-86                                            
14             Typescripts by Dorothy Green and by Alex Carey                     
15-18          Letters and writings by A. Carey                                   
19-22          Australian Council of Churches                                     
23             Vietnam                                                            
24             Article by M.and B. Danielsson [n.d.}                              
25             Photocopies of leaflet from Mary Cassini                           
26             WANA symposium, 1988                                               
27             WANA meeting, 1987                                                 
28             Writers seminar, 1986                                              
29             Typed draft of address to the Australian Association for           
               Armed Neutrality                                                   
30             Typed draft of articles                                            
31             Letter and proposed article for National Times, 1983               
32             Nuclear war: a personal view, paper delivered at a                 
               conference in Wollongong, 1982                                     
33             'Aspiditra and coca cola' a speech delivered at a meeting          
               of the AAAN, 1988                                                  
34-35          Photocopies and cuttings                                           
36             Miscellaneous papers, photocopies and printed material from        
               meeting, 9 February 1983                                           
37-42          Miscellaneous                                                      
               3 boxes   (64-66) of printed material and newspaper clippings      

Appendix VI

Series 13 H: Writings by others

Folder                                                                           
61             Tony Fitzgerald, 1984                                             
62             Andrew Lohrey, 1984                                               
63             John K. Galbraith, 1977                                           
64             Typescript on Petrov by H.McQueen                                 
65             Peter Newman                                                      
66             Tony Page                                                         
67             J. Enoch Powell                                                   
68             Suerker Sorlin, 1988                                              
69             Article by P.R. Stephensen                                        
70             Papers by others                                                  
71             Emily Martilda Manning                                            

Appendix VII

Series 14: Newspaper cuttings-literary subjects

Folder 1       Aesthetics, Beauty                                                 
               American literature: general                                       
               American literature: prose                                         
               American Literature: verse                                         
               Andersen, Hans Christian                                           
               Arnold, Matthew                                                    
               Auden, W.H.                                                        
               Austen, Jane                                                       
               Barrie, J.M.                                                       
               Brontes                                                            
               Bennett, Arnold                                                    
               Best sellers                                                       
               Biography                                                          
               Biology                                                            
               Bridges, Robert                                                    
               Browning, Robert                                                   
               Butler, Samuel                                                     
                                                                                  
Folder 2       Carlyle, Thomas                                                    
               Carey, Joyce                                                       
               Censorship                                                         
               Chesterton, G.K.                                                   
               Chekhov, Anton                                                     
               Classics                                                           
               Conan Doyle, Arthur                                                
               Coward, Noel                                                       
               Crabbe, George                                                     
               Criticism                                                          
               Davies, W.H.                                                       
               De la Mare, Walter                                                 
               Detective stories                                                  
                                                                                  
Folder 3       Dickens, Charles                                                   
               Dickinson, Emily                                                   
               Donne, John                                                        
               Dostoevsky, Fyodor                                                 
               Dreiser, Theodore                                                  
               Drama                                                              
               Dryden, John                                                       
               Dunsany, Lord                                                      
                                                                                  
  Folder 3     Education                                                          
               Eighteenth century                                                 
               Eliot, George                                                      
               Eliot, T.S.                                                        
                                                                                  
  Folder 4     Essayists                                                          
               Existentialism                                                     
               Fantasies, Space                                                   
               Faulkner, William                                                  
               Fiction                                                            
               Fielding, Henry                                                    
               Films                                                              
               French literature                                                  
               Frost, Robert                                                      
               Galsworthy, John                                                   
               German literature                                                  
               Graves, Robert                                                     
                                                                                  
  Folder 5     Hardy, Thomas                                                      
               Hemingway, Ernest                                                  
               History                                                            
               Hopkins, G.M.                                                      
               Housman, A.E.                                                      
               Hudson, W.H.                                                       
               Huxley, Aldous                                                     
               Ibsen, Henrik                                                      
               Irish literature                                                   
                                                                                  
  Folder 6     Jacobs, W.W.                                                       
               James, Henry                                                       
               Joyce, James                                                       
               Keats, John                                                        
               Kipling, Rudyard                                                   
               Language                                                           
               Lawrence, D.H.                                                     
               Lewis, C.S.                                                        
               Lewis, Wyndham                                                     
                                                                                  
  Folder 7     Literature : History 1 and 2                                       
               Literature today                                                   
               London, Jack                                                       
               Mann, Thomas                                                       
                                                                                  
  Folder 7     Mansfield, Katherine                                               
               Masefield, John                                                    
               Maugham, W.S.                                                      
               Melville, Herman                                                   
               Meredith, George                                                   
               Milton, John                                                       
               Miscellaneous                                                      
                                                                                  
  Folder 8     Moore, George                                                      
               Morgan, Charles                                                    
               O'Casey, Sean                                                      
               O'Neill, Eugene                                                    
               Pater, Walter                                                      
               Personality                                                        
               Poe, Edgar Alan                                                    
               Poetry                                                             
               Pound, Ezra                                                        
               Pre-Raphaelites                                                    
               Priestley, J.B.                                                    
                                                                                  
  Folder 9     Proust, Marcel                                                     
               Puritanism                                                         
               Richardson, D.M.                                                   
               Romanticism and Classicism                                         
               Russell, Countess                                                  
               Russell, G.W., "Æ"                                                 
               Russian literature                                                 
               Sainsbury, George                                                  
               Scholarship                                                        
               Scott, Walter                                                      
               Sentimentalism                                                     
               Shakespeare, William                                               
               Shaw, G.B.                                                         
               Shelley, Percy                                                     
               Sitwell, Edith                                                     
               Spender, Stephen                                                   
               Stapledon, Olaf                                                    
               Sterne, Laurence                                                   
               Stevenson, R.L.                                                    
               Strachey, L.                                                       
               Style                                                              
                                                                                  
  Folder 9     Tennyson, Alfred                                                   
               Tolstoi, Leo                                                       
                                                                                  
  Folder 10    Turgenev, Ivan                                                     
               Turner, W.J.                                                       
               Twain, Mark                                                        
               Verse - modern                                                     
               Whitman, Walt                                                      
               Wilder, Thornton                                                   
               Wolfe, Humbert                                                     
               Woolf, Virginia                                                    
                                                                                  
  Folder 11      Yeats, W.B.                                                        

Newspaper Cuttings: General

  Folder 12    Aborigines                                                         
               Academic tenure                                                    
               Adams (Guilt)                                                      
                                                                                  
  Folder 13    Afghanistan                                                        
               Agriculture business                                               
               AIDS                                                               
               Airlines policy                                                    
               Antarctica                                                         
               Argentina                                                          
               Arms industry - firearms                                           
               Art in Australia                                                   
               Asian studies                                                      
               Australia card                                                     
                                                                                  
  Folder 14    Bicentennial (Aborigines, Cook)                                    
               Biography                                                          
               Bjelke Petersen, Johannes                                          
               Boredom (Graham Greene)                                            
               Burchett, Wilfrid                                                  
               Canberra - history, literacy, etc.                                 
                                                                                  
  Folder 15    Capitalism                                                         
               Cartoonists (Leunig)                                               
               Casino                                                             
               Cervical cancer                                                    
               Chemical warfare                                                                                                                     
               Children (cruelty                                                  
               Chile                                                              
               China (Beijing massacres)                                          
                                                                                  
  Folder 16    Churches: Catholic                                                 
               Churches: Russian Orthodox                                         
               Civil liberties: police powers                                     
               Clark, Manning: Hughes, Helen                                      
               Computers: artificial intelligence                                 
               Computers: education                                               
               Computers: electronic democracy                                    
               Constitution (U.S. and Australian)                                 
                                                                                  
  Folder 17    Daltons Bookshop                                                   
               Defamation                                                         
               Defence (including Pine Gap)                                       
               Disarmament (WANA)                                                 
               Disinformation                                                     
               Dresden                                                            
               Drugs                                                              
               Duntroon: RMC                                                      
                                                                                  
  Folder 18    Ecological/environmental                                           
               Economy                                                            
               Education                                                          
               Elections                                                          
               Empire (End of)                                                    
                                                                                  
  Folder 19    Families                                                           
               Fiji - New Caledonia                                               
               Food irradiation                                                   
               Forest devastation                                                 
               Freedom of information                                             
               French nuclear tests                                               
               Furlong, Hillary (Australian Film Commission)                      
                                                                                  
  Folder 20    Gardening                                                          
               Genetic engineering                                                
               Gerrymander (Qld)                                                  
               Gilmore, Mary                                                      
               Graduate Tax                                                       
               Gray, Robert                                                       
               Green Paper (Education)                                            
                                                                                  
  Folder 20    Green house effects                                                
               Greer, Germaine                                                    
               Gulf War (Arms Bazaar)                                             
                                                                                  
  Folder 21    Hall, Rodney                                                       
               Hawke, R.J.                                                        
               Hawke Government record                                            
               Hayden, Bill                                                       
               Health: Irradiation                                                
               Health: Women's health service                                     
               Hippocratic Oath                                                   
               History (Road to Botany Bay)                                       
               Hope, A.D.                                                         
               Hunger                                                             
                                                                                  
  Folder 22    Information Revolution                                             
               Inglis, Amirah                                                     
               Investments                                                        
               India (wife burning)                                               
               Indonesia                                                          
               Insects                                                            
               Iran scandal                                                       
               IVF                                                                
               Japan                                                              
               Khomeini                                                           
               Korean                                                             
               Kramer, Leonie                                                     
                                                                                  
  Folder 23    Labor Party betrayals                                              
               Langmore, John                                                     
               Language/s                                                         
               Lapps                                                              
               Legal system (including Staples)                                   
               Levi, Primo                                                        
               Libraries                                                          
               Litaracy: adult                                                    
               Literary: history                                                  
               Literary: magazines                                                
               Literature                                                         
               Literature Board                                                   
               Loneliness                                                         
                                                                                  
  Folder 24    MacArthur myth                                                     
               Macmahon Ball, William                                             
               McQueen, Humphrey                                                  
               Maralinga                                                          
               Marshall Islands                                                   
               Media                                                              
               Medicine                                                           
               Memory                                                             
               Miscellaneous                                                      
               Monarchy                                                           
               Moral irresponsibility                                             
               Multiculturalism                                                   
                                                                                  
  Folder 25    NCDC                                                               
               Nationalism                                                        
               Newspapers and pornography                                         
               Nicaragua                                                          
               Nuclear power                                                      
               Nuclear ships visit                                                
               Nuclear war                                                        
                                                                                  
  Folder 26    Ollif, Lorna                                                       
               Papandreou, Andreas                                                
               Paraguay                                                           
               Parliamentary education inservice network                          
               Parliament House                                                   
                                                                                  
  Folder 27    Peace activities                                                   
               Petrov case                                                        
               Physics                                                            
               Pilger, John                                                       
               Pollution                                                          
               Population explosion and peace                                     
               Poverty: child                                                     
               Privatisation                                                      
               Public service: Australia                                          
               Publishing and the book trade                                      
               Pulp mills                                                         
                                                                                  
  Folder 28    Radiation                                                          
               Refugees                                                           
               Road accidents                                                     
               Rushdie, Salman                                                    
                                                                                  
  Folder 28    Sakharov                                                           
               Santa                                                              
               Scientific research                                                
               Scientists and Science (including SANA)                            
               Secrecy Agreements                                                 
                                                                                  
  Folder 29    Self rule for Canberra                                             
               Shopping                                                           
               Social Darwinism                                                   
               Social security                                                    
               Soil research                                                      
               South Africa                                                       
               Soviet expansion (Gwyn Dyer)                                       
               Soviet Union (New Era): Chernobyl                                  
               Soviet Union: 'Greenies'                                           
               Space search                                                       
               Spy Catcher                                                        
               Star Wars                                                          
               Stephen, Ninian                                                    
               Stock market crash                                                 
                                                                                  
  Folder 30    Tankard, Meryl                                                     
               Tasmania                                                           
               Tax evasion                                                        
               Thatcher (Budget)                                                  
               Third World (Langmore)                                             
               Throssell, Ric                                                     
               Trainor, Ted                                                       
                                                                                  
  Folder 31    United Nations                                                     
               United States                                                      
               Uranium breachers                                                  
               Valentines Day                                                     
               [Vidal, Gore]                                                      
               Video pornography                                                  
               Vietnam                                                            
                                                                                  
  Folder 32                                                                        
               Wall Street crash                                                  
               Warden, Ian                                                        
               Waste                                                              
               Wealth                                                             
               Whalan                                                             
                                                                                  
  Folder 32    Whitlam Dismissal (Pilger)                                         
               Wildlife trade                                                     
               Wittgenstein, Ludwig                                               
               Women: general                                                     
               Women: under Hitler                                                
               Wood, Robert (NDP)                                                 
               Yellow rain exposed                                                
                                                                                  
  Folder 33    Miscellaneous items                                                
                                                                                  
  Folder 34    The Listener, 13 Jan 1977 and 30 Aug 1984                          

Box List


Box            Series                                 Folders                    

Personal letters to:
1              1                                       1-2                        

Personal letters from:
1              1                                       3-7                        
2              1                                       8-16                       
3              1                                       17-25                      
4              1                                       26-33                      
5              1                                       34-41                      
6              1                                       42-50                      
7              1                                       51-54                      

Correspondence: alphabetical
7              1                                       55-59                      
8              1                                       60-68                      
9              1                                       69-73                      

Correspondence: chronological
9              1                                       74-77                      
10             1                                       78-85                      
11             1                                       86-93                      
12             1                                       94-102                     
13             1                                       103-111                    
14             1                                       112-121                    
15             1                                       122-126                    

Business correspondence
15             1                                       127-130                    
16             1                                       131-141                    

Correspondence received 1987
85             1                                       142-154                    

Unsorted greeting cards
17-18                                                  Ulysses bound              
19             2                                       1-5                        
20             2                                       5-12                       
21             2                                       13-20                      
22             2                                       21-28                      
23             2                                       29-36                      
24             2                                       37-44                      
25             2                                       45-48                      
26             2                                       49-53                      
27             2                                       53-62                      
28             2                                       card index                 

Martin Boyd
29             2                                       63-73                      

Music of love
30             2                                       74-77                      

A history of Australian literature
30             2                                       78-79                      
31             2                                       80-84                      

Reviews and miscellaneous articles
31             2                                       85-86                      
32             2                                       87-94                      
33             2                                       95-101                     
34             2                                       102-109                    

Notebooks
35             2                                                                  

Miscellaneous drafts
36             2                                       110-118                    
37             2                                       119-128                    

Family papers
38             3                                       1-5                        
39             3                                       6-13                       

Journalism and teaching
40             4                                       1-8                        

Monash University
41             5                                       1-9                        

Australian National University
42             6                                       1-7                        

Australian Defence Force Academy
43             7                                       1-8                        
44             7                                       9-16                       
45             7                                       17-24                      
46             7                                       25-33                      
47             7                                       34-41                      
48             7                                       42-47                      
49             7                                       48-54                      

Lectures
50             8                                       1-9                        
51             8                                       10-18                      
52             8                                       19-24                      

Literature Board
53             9                                       1-3                        




Australian Society of Authors

53             10                                      1-3                        
54             10                                      4                          

Association for the Study of Australian Literature
54             11                                      1-5                        
55             11                                      6-7                        

Conferences, seminars and public lectures
55             12                                      1-4                        
56             12                                      5-12                       
57             12                                      13-15                      

Research material:

A: John Cawte

57             13                                      1-5                        
58             13                                      6-8                        
                                                                                  

B: Environmental issues
58             13                                      9-11                       
                                                                                  

C: Peace movement
58             13                                      12                         
59             13                                      13-18                      
60             13                                      19-25                      
61             13                                      26-33                      
62             13                                      34-38                      
63             13                                      39-42                      

Printed material
64-66          13                                      

D: Philosophy and religion
67             13                                      43-45                      

E: Education
68             13                                      46-49                      

F: Drama and poetry
68             13                                      49-53                      
69             13                                      54-56                      

G: Aborigines
69             13                                      57-60                      

H: Writing by others
70             13                                      61-68                      
71             13                                      69-70                      

Box            Series                                  Folders                    

I: Miscellaneous
71             13                                      71-76                      
72             13                                      77-84                      
73             13                                      85-91                      
74             13                                      92-93                      

Newspaper cuttings: subjects
74             14                                      4 envelopes                 
75             14                                      1-7                        
76             14                                      8-11                       
                                                                                  

Newspaper cuttings general
77             14                                      12-19                      
78             14                                      20-26                      
79             14                                      27-34                      
80             14                                      
81-82          15                                      
83-84          15