MS 6201
Papers of Katharine Susannah Prichard



Scope and Content Note

  • 1851-1970
  • 3.4 metres (24 boxes)
  • Available for reference

The bulk of this collection was sold to the National Library in 1990 by Prichard's son Ric Throssell. Although the collection did not become the property of the National Library until 1990, it has been physically stored in the Library since 1980 when it was given the accession number MS 6201. Between 1980 and 1991 the collection had an interim arrangement which was controlled by means of a despatch inventory. During this time the collection was used by some researchers who had obtained access permission from Ric Throssell.

At the same time as it purchased the Prichard collection the Library also purchased Throssell's own personal papers (MS 8071). Because Throssell had had possession of his mother's papers since her death in 1969, and had used them when writing his biography Wild weeds and wind flowers, the two sets of papers suffered a degree of intermingling and reorganisation. In sorting the two collections estrays from both collections had to be relocated into the other collection. For instance, the Prichard consignment as valued contained over one thousand letters to Ric Throssell (1943-69). These were shifted into the Throssell Papers (MS 8071, Series 7). While the original order of the Prichard collection had been greatly disturbed, where it was discernible it has been retained. The series divisions have been artificially devised by staff of the Manuscript Section.

This collection also incorporates a consignment of papers which Prichard donated to the Library in 1969. This material, which had previously been accessioned at MS 1094, consisted largely of corrected typescripts of her published works (now located in Series 3,4,6,8 and 9) and some printed material (now in Series 14). This earlier consignment has been microfilmed (Mfm G11,726-G11,730).

According to Ric Throssell, his mother destroyed most of her unpublished manuscripts in addition to those letters which she regarded as purely personal. After her death Throssell, following his mother's instructions, burnt the remainder of her unpublished manuscripts and strictly personal correspondence.

The 1990 consignment of this collection also included a number of tape recordings, mostly of family communications. These have been transferred to the Library's Oral History collection.

Biographical Note Katharine Susannah Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883, the daughter of Tom Prichard, Editor of the Fiji Times. She grew up in Tasmania and then Melbourne, matriculating from South Melbourne College. After working as a governess in South Gippsland and the far west of New South Wales, she returned to Melbourne to teach. During this time she attended night lectures in English literature where she was taught by Walter Murdoch.

In 1908 she travelled to London, working as a freelance journalist for the Melbourne Herald and, on her return, worked as the social editor of the Herald's women's page. In 1912 she again left for England to pursue a career as a writer. During her four years in England she published two novels, The Pioneers (1915) and Windlestraws (1916), and met the Australian Victoria Cross winner, Captain Hugo Throssell. In 1919 she married Throssell and moved to Western Australia. By then she was a committed Communist and, in 1920, she became a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. In 1922 she gave birth to her only son Ric Throssell. While she was on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1933 her husband committed suicide.

From the 1920s until her death in 1969 she lived at Greenmount, Western Australia, earning her living as a writer of novels, short stories and plays. Her novels include Black Opal, 1921; Working Bullocks, 1926; The Wild Oats of Han, 1928; Coonardoo, 1928; Haxby's Circus, 1929; Intimate Stangers, 1939; and the goldfields trilogy The Roaring Nineties, 1946; Golden Miles, 1948; and Winged Seeds, 1950. Prichard remained a member of the Communist Party of Australia until her death, with her political concerns being reflected in most of her published work. Her novels were published throughout the world and translated into numerous languages. In 1951 her international stature was recognised when she was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

References:

PRICHARD, K.S., Child of the hurricane [autobiography], Sydney, Angus and   
Robertson, 1963.                                                            
                                                                            
THROSSELL, Ric, Wild weeds and wind flowers: the life and letters of        
Katharine Susannah Prichard, Sydney, A & R, 1975.                           
                                                                            
BEASLEY, Jack, The Rage for life: the work of Katharine Susannah            
Prichard, Sydney, 1964.                                                     
                                                                            
DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Henrietta, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Melbourne, Oxford   
University Press, 1967.                                                     
                                                                            
MODJESKA, Drusilla, Exiles at home: Australian women writers, 1925-1945,    
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1981.                                          

Series List

  1. Family Papers and Photographs, 1851-1970
  2. Notebooks, Literary Fragments and Jottings, 1914-c.1940
  3. Literary Drafts - Novels, c.1925-1950
  4. Literary Drafts - Short Stories, 1903-59
  5. Literary Drafts - Poetry, c.1894-1960
  6. Literary Drafts - Drama, 1909-59
  7. Literary Drafts - Articles, Lectures and Broadcasts, 1908-60
  8. Literary Drafts - Autobiography, c.1962-63
  9. Political Writings and Papers, 1917-69
  10. Correspondence (personal, literary and political), 1908-69
  11. Reviews and Newsclippings, 1908-69
  12. Photographs (Non-Family), c.1900-1960s
  13. Miscellaneous Papers, 1905-61
  14. Printed Material, 1926-69


Series Description

SERIES 1          FAMILY PAPERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, 1851-1970                  
                (See also MS 1147 - Papers of T.H. Prichard)                

Folder 1        Thomas Henry Prichard documents re his work as a            
                Lieutenant in the Fijian Police, 1872-74 (includes two      
                documents signed by King Cakobau)                           
Folder 2        Typescript of a play by T.H. Prichard "Under Queen's        
                Colours", n.d.                                              
Folder 3        Typescripts and newscuttings of "In Sapphire Seas" by       
                T.H. Prichard, 1898; "A Tongan Triumph", n.d.; "A           
                Christmas Story", 1889; and "Submerged Continents", 1903.   
Folder 4        Commonplace book of Edith Prichard, 1879-80.                
Folder 5        Miscellaneous family papers, 1851-1970 - including birth,   
                death and marriage certificates; wills; insurance           
                policies; property valuations; poetry; newsclippings;       
                letters; sketches and a copy of the shipboard newspaper     
                for the barque Hero for its voyage from Melbourne to        
                Fiji, 1883.                                                 
Folder 6        KSP's University of Melbourne matriculation certificate,    
                1902.                                                       
                KSP's Certificate of Registration as a teacher,             
                Melbourne, 1907.                                            
                KSP's letter of introduction from Alfred Deakin, 1908.      
                KSP's commonplace book, 1904-1906.                          
Folder 7        Hugo Throssell's war diary, 1915-17 (includes some          
                inserts: newsclippings, a photograph of a camp near         
                Jericho and a letter from Hugo's father, 1909).             
Folder 8        Hugo Throssell's personal journal re Palestine campaign,    
                1918 (includes inserts: two photographs, newsclippings      
                and a typescript of "A Memorable Fight: Captain             
                Throssell's Story", 1916).                                  
Folder 9        Newsclippings and letters re Hugo Throssell's Victoria      
                Cross award.                                                
                Copies of the pamphlet The Man I want to follow: full       
                story of the deeds of the hero of Gallipoli's Hill 60,      
                reprinted from the London Daily mail, 27 October 1915.      
                Pamphlet The Late George Throssell: an appreciation. Hugo   
                Throssell's citations/commendations for gallantry at        
                Gallipoli (removed from HVT's map case).                    
Folder 10       Papers re Eric Throssell's (Hugo's brother) War service,    
                1914-18.                                                    
                Papers re George Throssell's estate, 1920.                  
                Copy of a letter from C.E.W. Bean to C. Smith of the        
                Argus, 2/1/1918, informing him of Alan Prichard's (KSP's    
                brother) death at Ypres.                                    
                Typescript by KSP describing Alan Prichard's War service    
                experiences.                                                
Folder 11       Newsclippings, correspondence, leaflet and photographs      
                re Hugo Throssell's Greenmount Rodeo, 1933.                 
                Letter to Hugo from KSP, June 1933, written on board the    
                S.S. Baradine.                                              
                Three letters to Ric Throssell from KSP in the USSR,        
                October - November 1933.                                    
                Newsclippings re Hugo's death, 1933.                        
Folder 12       Hugo Throssell's correspondence re his resignation from     
                the Soldiers' Settlement Board, 1931.                       
                Hugo's correspondence with the Greenmount Roads Board       
                re its order to demolish a kraal he had built to            
                accommodate horses, 1931.                                   
                Papers re Hugo Throssell's estate, 1933-48.                 
Folder 13       50 photographs of various members of the family,            
                including KSP, and various scenes in Levuka and England,    
                c.1880-c.1920.                                              
Folder 14       30 family snapshots, including scenes at Greenmount and     
                portraits of Hugo, c.1920-c.1940.                           
                Photograph album containing c.40 snapshots of family life   
                at Greenmount, 1920s - late 1940s.                          
Folder 15       110 snapshots of Ric Throssell and family, c.1950s.         
Folder 16       Letters to Karen Throssell (grandaughter), 1960-69.         
                Letter from Ric, c.1948.                                    
                Ric Throssell's Wesley College school reports and           
                references, 1938-39.                                        
                Hugo Throssell's First World War map case.                  

SERIES 2        NOTEBOOKS,LITERARY FRAGMENTS AND JOTTINGS, 1914-c.1940      

Folder 1        Notes, c. 1914-15, including notes for The Pioneers.      
Folder 2        Four notebooks, 1916-17.                                  
Folder 3        Notebook for Working bullocks.                            
                Two notebooks, 1928-29.                                   
Folder 4        Three notebooks, early 1930s.                             
Folder 5        Two notebooks for the goldfields trilogy, 1940s.          
Folder 6        Notes for the goldfields trilogy.                         
Folder 7        Miscellaneous notes and incomplete stories including      
                "Boss of Willaring" and "the Savage".                     

SERIES 3        LITERARY DRAFTS - NOVELS, c.1925-1950                                    
                (Corrected typescripts)                                                  

Folders 1-3        Working bullocks, c.1925-26 (see also MS 649).         
Folders 4-6     Intimate strangers, c.1938-39.                            
Folders 7-10    Moon of desire, c.1940-41.                                
Folders 11-14   Roaring nineties, c.1945-46.                              
Folders 15-17   Golden miles, c.1947-48.                                  
Folders 18-21   Winged seeds, draft 1, c.1949-50.                         
Folders 22-25   Winged seeds, draft 2, c.1949-50.                         

SERIES 4        LITERARY DRAFTS - SHORT STORIES, 1903-1959                
                (corrected typescripts, unless otherwise stated)          
                                                                          
Folder 1           "Letters from the back of beyond" - clippings from     
                New Idea, 1906.                                           
                   "The Winged turtle", n.d.                              
                   "A Modern Pygmalion", n.d.                             
Folder 2           "Granny Peace" - from Everybody's journal, 1917-18.    
Folder 3           "The Grandchild".                                      
                   "Sour sap".                                            
                   "The Wreck".                                           
                   "The Kid" - corrected clippings from the Bulletin.     
                   "Kit, the wild cat" - clippings from Red Funnel,       
                1907.                                                     
                   "The Paper Lantern" - clippings from The British       
                Australasian, 1913.                                       
                   "Wild honey" - clippings from the Bulletin, 1917.      
                   "Bush fires" - corrected clippings from New idea,      
                1903.                                                     
                   "The Bridge".                                          
Folder 4           "The Old track", c.1940.                               
                   "Mena -- and Birabijan".                               
                   "The Wreck"                                            
                   "Josephina Anna Maria"                                 
                   "Western wild flowers"                                 
                   "Sister Faith"                                         
                   "Intimate strangers"                                   
Folder 5           "The Almond tree" - clippings from Table talk,         
                1932.                                                     
Folder 6           "Woman with a broom" - published in The Realist.       
                   "Possums"                                              
                   "The Wreck"                                            
Folder 7           "No bokay"                                             
                   "Maggie and her circus pony"                           
                   "Mongalilli"                                           
Folders 8-9     Kiss on the lips (1932):                                  
                   "The Grey horse"                                       
                   "The Curse"                                            
                   "Kiss on the lips"                                     
                   "White kid gloves"                                     
                   "The Cooboo"                                           
                   "The Cow"                                              
                   "Two men"                                              
                   "Dark horse of Darran"                                 
                   "An Encounter"                                         
                   "Treason"                                              
                   "Mrs Jinny's shroud"                                   
                   "The Swop"                                             
Folders 10-11   Potch and colour (1945):                                  
                "The Bride of faraway" (First published in Womans         
                Mirror, 1933).                                            
                "Miss Grundy's mission".                                  
                "The Siren of Sandy Gap" (First published in              
                      The Home, 1939).                                    
                "Jimble".                                                 
                "Luck".                                                   
                "The Gentleman on the coals".                             
                "Genevieve".                                              
                "Flight".                                                 
                "The Mayor of Bardie Creek".                              
                "Painted finches" (First published in The Home,           
                1939).                                                    
                "Bad debts".                                              
                "The Frogs of Quirra Quirra".                             
                "Marlene".                                                
                "Christmas tree".                                         
                "The Bridge".                                             
Folder 12       Potch and colour, duplicate typescripts:                  
                "Luck"                                                    
                "The Bride of far-away"                                   
                "The Gentleman on the coals"                              
                "Christmas tree"                                          
                "The Bridge"                                              
Folders 13-16   N'Goola (1959):                                           
                "N'Goola"                                                 
                "The Prayer meeting"                                      
                "Yourimba" (ms and t/s drafts)                            
                "The Galah"                                               
                "Hero of the mines"                                       
                "His dog" (ms and t/s drafts)                             
                "The White turkey"                                        
                "The Devout lover"                                        
                "Bucaneers"                                               
                "Christmas Day on Yienda"                                 
                "Josephina Anna Maria"                                    
                "Communists are always young"                             
                "The Long shadow"                                         
                "The Happy foreman"                                       
                "A Young comrade"                                         
                "The Rabbit trapper's wife"                               
                "The Elopement"                                           
                "Narinja and Janey"                                       
Folders 17-18   N'Goola - duplicate typescripts.                          
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 5        LITERARY DRAFTS - POETRY, C.1890s-1950s                   
                                                                          
Folders 1-2     Various ms, t/s and printed poems (includes an            
                inscribed copy of KSP's Clovelly verses, 1913 and some    
                poetry written by others including Dorothy Hewett).       
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 6        LITERARY DRAFTS - DRAMA, 1909-1959                        
                (corrected typescript unless otherwise stated)            
                                                                          
Folder 1        "The Burglar", 1909.                                      
                "A Miracle on the street of refugees", 1910.              
Folder 2        "Her place", c.1915.                                      
Folders 3-4     "The Great man", 1923.                                    
Folders 5-6     "Deakin".                                                 
Folders 7-8     "Bid me to love", 1927 (not performed until 1973)         
                 - includes music scores for "Bid me to love" by          
                Clifton Bingham and D. Barnard and "To Anthea" by         
                Herrick and Hatton.                                       
Folders 9-10    "The Great strike", c.1931-32.                            
Folder 11       "The Thief", c.1935.                                      
                "Forward one", 1935.                                      
                "Women of Spain", 1937.                                   
Folder 12       "A Leaf", c.1914.                                         
                "Day dreams", c.1925.                                     
                "Kalgoorla", c.1948.                                      
                "A Pageant of industrial history", n.d.                   
                "The Irresistible spirit", n.d.                           
                "Nothing serious", c.1929.                                
Folder 13       "The Pioneers" - one act version.                         
                "The Pioneers" - ABC Radio version, c.1940s.              
Folders 14-15   "Solidarity", AKA "Penalty clause", 1940.                 
Folder 15       "Perisphone's baby", 1959.                                
Folder 16       "Love song", n.d.                                         
                "Good morning", 1955.                                     
                "The Irresistible spirit"/"Roaring nineties" television   
                scripts.                                                  
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 7        LITERARY DRAFTS - ARTICLES, LECTURES AND BROADCASTS,      
                1908-1960                                                 
                (corrected typescript unless otherwise stated)            
                                                                          
Folder 1        London journalism, 1908-15 (mostly clippings with some    
                ms and t/s).                                              
                "West Australia's charge: how Lieut. Throssell won his    
                V.C.", 1915.                                              
Folder 2        KSP on KSP:                                               
                "How I write", written for Realist writer.                
                "Some successes on the inky way".                         
                "Memoirs".                                                
                "Why did you become a writer?"                            
Folder 3        Literature:                                               
                "Australia" from The Home annual, 1936.                   
                "Contemporary Australian literature", 1960.               
                "The Land I love" from Overland, 1958.                    
                "Literature for the Australian people" (ms and t/s).      
                "On clarity in literature" (ms).                          
                "Literature in reconstruction", 1944                      
                "International influences on Australian literature",      
                1945.                                                     
                "Australian literature: present and future", n.d.         
                "Read Australian books!", 1945.                           
                "Literature and socialism", n.d.                          
                "Colonialism and Australian literature", n.d.             
                "The Australian Communist Party greets Australian         
                literature", n.d.                                         
                "Modern trends in literature and cultural development     
                in Australia", n.d.                                       
                "Great thoughts and lovely lines of Australian            
                literature", 1945.                                        
Folder 4        "The Art of the short story", c.1937.                     
                "Australian drama", 1942.                                 
Folder 5        "Katharine Susannah remembers" [broadcasts], 1941-45.     
                "The Land I love", 1958.                                  
                "Treasure trove: our wildflowers", n.d.                   
                "Wild flower walkabouts", n.d.                            
                "Brolga ballet", n.d.                                     
Folder 6        Articles on Australian writers, 1940s: Bernard O'Dowd,    
                1942; Dymphna Cusack; Louis Esson; Miles Franklin,        
                1944; Mary Gilmore; Joseph Furphy, 1949; Frank Wilmot;    
                Hugh McCrae; D.H. Lawrence; E.J. Brady; Henry Lawson;     
                Vance and Nettie Palmer; Myra Morris; and Elenor Dark,    
                1945.                                                     
Folder 7        "Roots and blossoming of Australian literature", n.d.     
                Articles on foreign writers: D.H. Lawrence; Mayakovsky;   
                and "Some modern Soviet writers".                         
Folder 8        "Music and its relation to peace and war", n.d.           
                "Our dramatic resources", 1955.                           
                "Darling girls" [about hospital]                          
                "Critics and criticism", 1953.                            
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 8        LITERARY DRAFTS - AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1962-63                  
                                                                          
Folders 1-7     Child of the hurricane, corrected typescript, 1962-63     
Folders 8-9     Child of the hurricane, ms and corrected t/s drafts.      
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 9        POLITICAL WRITINGS AND PAPERS, 1917-1969                  
                                                                          
Folder 1        Ms notes on Monty Miller, Secretary of IWW - inserted     
                in an inscribed copy of Dorothea: a lyrical romance in    
                verse by W. Siebenhaar (London: Jarrold & Son).           
Folder 2        "People of Australia, think for yourselves!" [re          
                conscription], typescript, 1917.                          
                Pamphlet The New order: being an address on socialism     
                with afterthoughts by KSP (Perth, 1919).                  
                Letter from International Press Correspondence, Berlin,   
                1922.                                                     
                Minute book for Education For Peace Committee, 1936-7.    
                Pamphlet Who wants war? by KSP (Perth, c.1936).           
                "Spanish front", ms, c.1937.                              
Folder 3        Articles on communism - corrected typescripts, 1930s.     
                "Our future rests on socialism" - Daily Telegraph         
                clipping, 1943.                                           
                "Why the name of Lenin is dear to me" - corrected         
                typescript, 1969.                                         
Folder 4        Articles on international affairs, 1936-42 (corrected     
                typescripts).                                             
                "Growth of fascism", 1937.                                
                "Justice and mercy outraged", re the Rosenbergs - t/s.    
                Miscellaneous typescripts re communism, 1950s.            
Folder 5        Articles and broadcasts on Australian Aborigines,         
                1937-55.                                                  
                The Frankland River strike, n.d.                          
Folder 6        Articles and broadcasts on the USSR, 1936-67 (some        
                clippings).                                               
Folder 7        Articles and speeches on World War II, 1941-43 (some      
                clippings).                                               
                Articles on women and youth, 1943-57.                     
Folder 8        Articles used in Straight left, 1938-60.                  
Folder 9        Articles re peace and nuclear tests, various dates.       
Folder 10       Articles for Soviet Press, 1951-63 (mostly clippings).    
Folder 11       Articles for Eastern European publications, 1954-67       
                (mostly clippings with some ms and t/s).                  
Folder 12       Letters to newspapers, 1957-62 (some newscuttings).       
                Correspondence with Tribune re Czechoslovakia, 1969.      
                Typescript re Vietnam War.                                
                "Deakin and Evatt", t/s - published in The Realist,       
                1968.                                                     
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 10       CORRESPONDENCE, 1908-1969                                 
                                                                          
Folder 1        Correspondence, 1908-38 (includes letters from            
                Aleister Crowley, 1909; D.H. Lawrence, 1922 (two          
                letters); E.J. Brady, 1934; Kenneth Slessor, 1930;        
                Norman Lindsay; George Bernard Shaw, 1932; Percy          
                Grainger; and Henry Handel Richardson, 1934; and a card   
                to Walter Murdoch).                                       
Folder 2        Photocopies of letters to Louis Esson, 1928-36 (one       
                original from 1932); Vance and Nettie Palmer, 1919- 49;   
                and Miles Framklin, 1940-50.                              
Folders 3-6:    Correspondence from concertina file A-Z, 1908-67          
Folder 3        A-F, 1928-67 (includes letters from Rewi Alley,           
                1959;Noel Counihan, 1953; Dymphna Cusack, 1953; Eleanor   
                Dark, 1951; H.V. Evatt, 1951-58; Louis and Hilda Esson,   
                1950-58; and Miles Franklin, 1946-53).                    
Folder 4        G-M, 1908-67 (includes letters from Mary Gilmore,         
                1953-54; Leon Gellert, 1924; Ernestine Hill, 1948-60;     
                Xavier Herbert, 1967; Stefan Heyam, 1962-66;D.H.          
                Lawrence, 1924; Mathilde Marchesi, 1908; Jack Lindsay,    
                1953-54; and Ian Mudie, 1958).                            
Folder 5        M-R, 1930-61 (includes letters from Hugh McCrae (many     
                illustrated), 1930-54; Walter Murdoch, 1950-60; C.        
                Hartley Grattan, 1930; Aileen Palmer, 1959-68; Vance      
                Palmer, 1930-59; Nettie Palmer, 1950-61; Henry Handel     
                Richardson, 1933; a letter from H.B. Higgins to Nettie    
                Palmer, 1927 re Working bullocks;                         
                a photocopy of a letter from Edith Prichard to Alfred     
                Deakin, 1903).                                            
Folder 6        S-Z, 1930-66 (includes letters from Mollie Skinner,       
                1950-54 and Ian Turner).                                  
Folder 7        Correspondence, 1929-52 (includes letters from C.         
                Hartley Grattan; Ernestine Hill, 1948; Hilda Esson,       
                1940s-1952; letters to Hilda Esson,       1940-42).       
Folder 8        Correspondence, 1942-66 (includes correspondence with     
                Eleanor Dark, 1942-50; Ian Turner, 1954-56; Alan          
                Marshall, 1955; John and Roma Gilchrist, 1955-58).        
Folders 9-11    Correspondence with publishers, 1930-68:                  
Folder 9        Jonathan Cape, 1936-66                                    
                W.W. Norton and Co., 1930-45                              
                Czechoslovakia, 1948-65                                   
                Angus and Robertson, 1955-63                              
Folder 10       USSR, 1943-65; Poland, 1948-54; Libraries, 1949-64.       
Folder 11       Publishers - general, 1931-68.                            
Folder 12       Photocopies of correspondence with Stephen Murray-        
                Smith, 1949-67.                                           
Folder 13       Photocopies of correspondence with Jack Lindsay,          
                1953-69; Clem Christesen, 1951-67; Joan and Victor        
                Williams, 1954-63; Leon Brodsky, 1930-56; Len Fox,        
                1954-56; Olive Pell, 1954.                                
Folder 14       Letters to Jean Ferguson, 1950-57.                        
                Letters to Len Fox, 1954-67 (with some printed            
                material, 1932-63).                                       
Folder 15       Miscellaneous correspondence, 1950-59 (includes           
                material re Modern Women's Club; letters from Miles       
                Franklin, 1950-54; Vance and Nettie Palmer, 1954;         
                Mollie Skinner, 1954; Allan Edwards, 1951 - with t/s of   
                lecture on KSP; correspondence with Walter Murdoch,       
                1948-57).                                                 
Folder 16       Photocopies of correspondence with accountant Herbert     
                Griffin, 1952-64.                                         
                Miscellaneous correspondence, 1957-63 (includes letters   
                from Dorothy Hewett; Tom Inglis Moore; Colin Simpson;     
                Douglas Stewart; D.W. McLeod; Sumner Locke Elliot,        
                1963; correspondence with Jack Lindsay; letters to Clem   
                Christesen).                                              
Folder 17       Letters to Aileen and Helen Palmer, 1956-69.              
                Correspondence with Beatrice Davis (Angus and             
                Robertson), 1960-68.                                      
                Letters to Douglas Stewart, 1963.                         
                Correspondence with Jack Lindsay, 1961-64.                
                Letters to Guido Baracchi, 1965-66.                       
                Miscellaneous correspondence, 1960-64.                    
Folder 18       Letters to Dymphna Cusack, 1963-69.                       
                Correspondence with Stefan Heyam, 1962-69.                
                Letters to Adele Joseph, 1960-63.                         
Folder 19       Miscellaneous fan letters and letters from USSR and       
                Eastern Europe, 1948-67.                                  
                Letters from Jack Lindsay, 1965-66.                       
                Letter to Kylie Tennant, 1965.                            
                Correspondence with publishers, 1960s.                    
                Correspondence with Laurie Aarons (CPA), 1966.            
Folder 20       Miscellaneous correspondence, 1967 (includes letters      
                from Guido Baracchi; Dorothy Hewett; Clem Christesen;     
                Stefan Heyam; Nancy Cato; Jill Hellyer; Lloyd O'Niell).   
Folder 21       Miscellaneous correspondence, 1967-68 (includes letters   
                from Jack Lindsay; Clem Christesen; Aileen Palmer;        
                Robert FitzGerald Dymphna Cusack) - many of the letters   
                relate to Subtle flame.                                   
Folder 22       Miscellaneous correspondence, 1967-68 (includes letters   
                from Kylie Tennant; Guido Baracchi; Norman Cusack;        
                James Murdoch).                                           
Folder 23       Miscellaneous correspondence, 1968-69.                    
Folder 24       Miscellaneous correspondence (includes correspondence     
                with Catherine Duncan, 1964-69; David Hellgott, 1969).    
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 11       REVIEWS AND NEWSCLIPPINGS BY AND ABOUT KSP, 1908-1969     
                                                                          
Folder 1        Clippings and reviews, 1908-26 (includes some articles    
                by KSP and reviews of Windlestraws, The Pioneers and      
                Black opal.                                               
Folder 2        Reviews: The Pioneers, 1915-63 and Black opal, 1921-27    
Folder 3        Reviews of Working bullocks, 1927-28 and The Wild oats    
                of Han, 1928.                                             
Folder 4        Reviews of Coonardoo, 1928-56.                            
Folder 5        Reviews of Haxby's circus, 1930.                          
Folder 6        Miscellaneous cuttings and reviews, 1927-35.              
Folder 7        Miscellaneous cuttings adn reviews, 1926-40.              
Folder 8        Miscellaneous cuttings and reviews, 1928-68.              
Folder 9        Miscellaneous cuttings and reviews, 1939-49 (includes     
                reviews of Intimate strangers, 1939 and Moon of desire,   
                1941).                                                    
Folder 10       Reviews of the goldfields trilogy, 1946-51.               
Folder 11       Miscellaneous reviews and cuttings, 1950-59.              
Folder 12       Miscellaneous reviews and cuttings, 1950-59.              
Folder 13       Reviews of Child of the hurricane, 1963 and Subtle        
                flame, 1967-68.                                           
Folder 14       Miscellaneous cuttings and reviews, 1960s.                
Folders 15-17   Miscellaneous cuttings and reviews, 1960s.                
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 12       PHOTOGRAPHS, c.1900-1960s                                 
                Note: Family photographs are in Series 1                  
                                                                          
Folder 1        c.20 postcards, early twentieth century.                  
                Two unidentified portraits, c.1910-1910.                  
                Studio portraits of Kate Wiggin, Hilda Esson (2), Louis   
                Esson and Nettie Palmer.                                  
Folder 2        c.130 snapshots and postcards, c.1920s-30s, showing       
                scenes in Western Australia, USSR and South East Asia.    
Folder 3        c.60 photographs of scenes on the Western Australian      
                goldfields, 1930s.                                        
Folder 4        c.40 photographs, 1940s-60s (includes some photographs    
                of Jack Lindsay with his children).                       
                                                                          
                                                                          
SERIES 13       MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, 1905-1961                           
                                                                          
Folder 1        Scrapbook/Commonplace book, 1905-c.1960 (contains         
                clippings and fragments of poetry).                       
Folder 2        Scrapbook/Commonplace book, c.1910-c.1920.                
Folder 3        Loose pages, clippings and fragments removed from         
                scrapbooks in folders 1-2 (includes ms and t/s poetry     
                by KSP and others).                                       
Folder 4        Small scrapbook/commonplace book, c.1900-1910.            
                Exercise book/scrapbook, 1930-c.1960.                     
Folder 5        World Council of Peace Diploma of Honour, 1959.           
                Ms score of "Prelude" composed by D.V. Taylor and         
                dedicated to KSP.                                         
                Commonwealth Literary Fund application, 1940.             
                Program and cuttings for "The Great man", play by KSP,    
                performed by the Pioneer Players, 1927-28.                
                Illustrated leather bound menu for "The Pioneers", 1916.  
                Catalogue of exhibition of Noel Counihan paintings and    
                drawings, 1956.                                           
                Printed score of "Songs of reverie" composed by Furnley   
                Maurice and Henry Tate.                                   
Folder 6        Dustjackets of various boks by KSP.                       
Folder 7        Two address books and visidex, 1940s-60s.                 
                Notebook with record of work despatched, 1956-61.         
                Autograph book presented to KSP on her 76th birthday,     
                1959 (signed by Judah Waten, Laurence Collinson,          
                Stephen Murray-Smith, Ralph de Boissiere, Aileen          
                Palmer, Ralph and Dorothy Gibson and others).             

SERIES 14 PRINTED MATERIAL, 1926-1969                                     
                                                                          
Various Australian journals and monographs, 1926-68, containing           
material by or about KSP.                                                 
Hand corrected copy of The Wild oats of Han, 1928.                        
Issues of journals from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, 1950-69,     
containing articles by or about KSP.                                      

Box List

BOX 1           Series 1, Folders 1-7 (+ Hugo Throssell's map case)       
BOX 2           Series 1, Folders 8-16                                    
BOX 3           Series 2, Folders 1-7                                     
BOX 4           Series 3, Folders 1-10                                    
BOX 5           Series 3, Folders 11-17                                   
BOX 6           Series 3, Folders 18-25                                   
BOX 7           Series 4, Folders 1-7                                     
BOX 8           Series 4, Folders 8-14                                    
BOX 9           Series 4, Folders 15-18                                   
                Series 5, Folders 1-2                                     
BOX 10          Series 6, Folders 1-8                                     
BOX 11          Series 6, Folders 9-16                                    
BOX 12          Series 7, Folders 1-8                                     
BOX 13          Series 8, Folders 1-9                                     
BOX 14          Series 9, Folders 1-7                                     
BOX 15          Series 9, Folders 8-12                                    
BOX 16          Series 10, Folders 1-8                                    
BOX 17          Series 10, Folders 9-16                                   
BOX 18          Series 10, Folders 17-24                                  
BOX 19          Series 11, Folders 1-7                                    
BOX 20          Series 11, Folders 8-14                                   
BOX 21          Series 11, Folders 15-17                                  
                Series 12, Folders 1-4                                    
BOX 22          Series 13, Folders 1-7                                    
BOX 23          Series 14                                                 
BOX 24          Series 14