MS 7999
Papers of Sir Randal Heymanson (1903-1984)



Scope and Content Note

  • Papers of Sir Randal Heymanson
  • 1920-1984
  • 23.25 metres (155 boxes), and 5 folio packages
  • Available for research. Not for loan.

The Library acquired the papers and some publications and maps of Sir Randal Heymanson by bequest in 1985.

Two cartons of maps and travel brochures were directed to the Map Section. Issues of Vital news were incorporated into the Library's printed collection. This was a confidential newsletter edited by Sir Randal Heymanson and Roy Lewis and published in the United States, July 1939 - December 1941. It was circulated amongst government policy makers and bankers in Britain and the U.S.

A quantity of printed matter and booksellers' catalogues, having no significance by association with Sir Randal, was directed to Australian and Overseas Selection.

Under the terms of Sir Randal's bequest, Griffith University received the bulk of his private library (some 20 000 volumes).

Victoria's National Gallery received for its art reference library more than 25,000 volumes of works on western and oriental art, the history of costume and fashion and the art of the book.

The University of Melbourne, of which Sir Randal was a graduate, received a significant provision of funds to establish and maintain the Sir Randal Heymanson Foundation to support research efforts into the study of pain.

Sir Randal did not assign copyright therefore the Library assumed ownership of copyright in writings by Sir Randal along with the bequest.

Biographical Note

Journalist and editor. Chairman of the Board of American-Australian Association, New York, 1967-1984; Editor, Australian Newspapers Service, New York, 1940-1969.


Summary List

(June 1990)

SERIES 1 - CORRESPONDENCE

Box 1          Very personal letters; Peggy 1926-27; Kath Madden, 1932-35; Polly,   
               Paddy and others, 1920s-1950s.                                       
               Newspaper Correspondence                                             
Box 2          Melbourne Herald with Herald New York Bureau, 1942-52                                             
Box 3          Melbourne Herald 1953-58                                             
Box 4          Melbourne Herald 1958-62                                             
Box 5          Melbourne Herald 1962-67 (including photos)                          
Box 6          Melbourne Herald 1968-84                                             
               New York, general 1940-44                                            
Box 7          New York, general 1940-48, correspondence and cuttings re New York Herald Tribune Forum                                            
Box 8          Sun-Herald, 1940-42                                                           
               Vital News, 1939-42                                                           
               Australian Associated Press                                          
               Advertiser                                                           
               American Australian Association (See also Boxes 124-131, 152)        
Box 9          American Australian Association                                      
               Alphabetical Correspondence Files                                    
Box 10         Australian Society                                                   
               Alphabetical Correspondence Files (cont):                            
               A -                                                                  
Box 11         B-D (including Sir Lloyd Dumas)                                      
Box 12         D-F (including Bill Dunstan)                                         
Box 13         G-N (including Holt, Litigation, Menzies)                            
Box 14         M-R (including Murdoch, Professional Writings and Reference, W.S.    
               Robinson)                                                            
Box 15         S-Z (including Sir Bertram Stevens, Lord Stonehaven, Bill Tonkin,    
               J. Williams, Woman's Day)                                            
               Correspondence Files by Date                                         
Box 16         1919 "All Saints Grammarian" correspondence                          
               Letterbooks, 1920s                                                   
               1921 correspondence                                                  
Box 17         1920-32                                                              
Box 18         1930s                                                                
Box 19         1930s-1940s                                                          
Box 20-21      1940s                                                                
Box 22         1940s-53                                                             
Box 23         1951-54                                                              
Box 24         1945-55                                                              
Box 25         1949-58                                                              
Box 26         1949-71                                                              
Box 27         1960-63                                                              
Box 28         1961-66                                                              
Box 29         1962-67                                                              
Box 30         1966-75                                                              
Box 31         1970-73                                                              
Box 32         1970-79                                                              
Box 33         1974-78                                                             
Box 34         1978-81                                                              
Box 35         1970-84                                                              
               Difficult-to-file letters (all dates, no subjects)                   
Box 36-37      Difficult-to-file                                                    
               Loose letters, cuttings, envelopes, notes (need further sorting)     

SERIES 2 - DIARIES AND NOTEBOOKS

Box 38-39                                                                             

SERIES 3 - BUSINESS PAPERS

Box 40		1940s
Box 41		1977-80  
Box 42		1976-80
Box 43		1946, 1978-79
Box 44		1940s, 1977
Box 45		1940, 1950-1953
Box 46		Accounts, 1940-41; 1940s-70s
Box 47		Cheques, 1980-83
Box 48		1940s, 1960s-1970s
Box 49		1942-44; 1960-63
Box 50		1941-54
Box 51		1945-48
Box 52		1942-52                         

SERIES 4 - CABLES

Box 53         # 2-2538,  4/11/1940 - 31/10/40  (No April, July)                     
Box 54         # 203-3242,  1/3/40 - 31/12/40                                        
Box 55         Sept-Dec 1940                                                         
Box 56         Jan-May 1941                                                          
Box 57         1/1/41 - 27/5/41                                                      
Box 58         June-Sept 1941                                                        
Box 59         1/7/41 - 19/11/41                                                     
Box 60         November-December 1941                                                
Box 61         # 238-2061,  23/1/42 - 9/6/42                                         
Box 62         Jan-June 1942                                                         
Box 63         # 1064-4822,  March-December 1942                                     
Box 64         # 2062-3221,  10/6/42 - 12/9/42                                       
Box 65         # 3346-1115,  16/9/42 - March 1943                                    
Box 66         July-December 1942                                                    
Box 67         Jan-July 1943                                                         
Box 68         August-December 1943                                                  
Box 69         1/1/44 - 31/7/44                                                      
Box 70         1/1/44 - 31/5/44                                                      
Box 71         # 2868-1253,  October 1943 - 26/5/44                                  
Box 72         1/8/44 - 24/12/44                                                     
Box 73         # 1116-2867,  April-Oct 1943                                          
Box 74         1/1/44 - 31/12/44 and articles by Heymanson, c1944                                                    
Box 75         1/1/45 - 31/7/45                                                      
Box 76         Jan-July 1945                                                         
Box 77         1/8/45 - 31/12/45                                                     
Box 78         August-December 1945                                                  
Box 79         Jan-June 1946.  (No February)                                         
Box 80         1941-43                                                               
Box 81         Jan-June 46                                                           
Box 82-83      July-Dec 1946                                                         
Box 84-85      Jan-December 1947                                                     
Box 86         July-December 1947                                                    
Box 87         Jan-June 1948                                                         
Box 88         Aug-Dec 1948 (No November)                                            
Box 89         1948 and unknown dates                                                
Box 90         Jan-July 1949 (No March)                                              
Box 91         Jan-July 1949                                                         
Box 92-93      Aug-Dec 1949                                                          
Box 94         1950                                                                  
Box 95         Jan-Dec 1951                                                          
Box 96         1/1/52 - 30/6/52                                                      
Box 97         Jan-Dec 1952                                                          
Box 98         Jan-May 1953                                                          
Box 99         Jan-June 1953                                                         
Box 100        July-Dec 1953                                                         
Box 101        June-Nov 1953                                                         
Box 102        1954-55                                                                  
Box 103        1956                                                                  
Box 104        1957                                                                  
Box 105        1958                                                                  
Box 106        1958                                                                  
Box 107        Late 1950s?  1959-60                                                  
Box 108        Early 1960s, 1961                                                     
Box 109        1962                                                                  
Box 110        1965-67                                                               
Box 111        1966-67                                                               
Box 112        1968                                                                  
Box 113        1972; 1975-76, 1978                                                   
Box 114        Unknown dates                                                         
Box 115        1941-42                                                                   
Box 116		1945-50
Box 117        Undated                                                               
               Various dates, 1940s and 1961                                         
               General files, miscellanea                                            
Box 118        Personal items                                                        
Box 119        Personal items, including Knighthood Insignia                         
Box 120        Personal                                                              
Box 121-123    Foreign Press Association                                             
Box 124-131    American Australian Asociation                                        
Box 132-138    Drafts of articles by R.H.                                            
Box 139-140    Printed matter                                                        
Box 141-143    Invitations, postcards, menus, programs, greetings     cards          
Box 144        Photographs.  Slides from Pictorial added 23/4/86                     
               Personal slides of paintings                                          
               German politicians 1930s including Hitler                             
               Photographs for G.L Wood's Australia                                  
               Dutch Airways                                                         
Box 145        American Management Association Conference, 1961-                     
66                                                                                   
Box 146        Visit to Brazil, 1960, 1962                                           
               London-Melbourne Airmail Flight, 1934                                 
Box 147        Listings of Heymanson's personal library, music                       
Box 148        Olympic Games                                                         
               De Gaulle in Canada                                                   
               British Commonwealth Relations Conferences 1949                       
               Papua New Guinea                                                      
Box 149        Manuscripts by others                                                 
               Galleys of biography of Zara Holt with photograph                     
Box 150        Photographs (travel):  India, Egypt, SE Asia,     Ravenna, Berlin,    
               Peru                                                                  
Box 151        Photographs:  India, Nepal, Thailand, Japan, PNG                      
Box 152        Photographs - Australian politicians                                  
               - American Australian Association functions                           
Box 153        Press cuttings - articles by Heymanson.  A further 88 boxes of        
               press cuttings in poor condition were culled as having limited        
               research potential.  They consisted of files arranged by country      
               and date (eg Russia, July 1949) and presented a month-by-month        
               summary of world politics.  Some subjects files of cuttings were      
               also disposed of.                                                     
Box 154        Lecture notes                                                         
Box 155        Lecture notes, miscellaneous material                                 

FOLIO ITEMS

Folio package A      Press cuttings album, "Selections from articles by Randal      
                     Heymanson published by Melbourne Herald and its affiliated     
                     newspapers throughout Australia".  November 1958-December      
                     1959                                                           
                     Four volumes of Supreme Court of State of New York,            
                     Heymanson vs Morgan and Brother                                
Folio package B      Album of photographs of Margaret Ackermark                     
Folio package C      Box of glass slides taken during first London-Melbourne        
                     Airmail Fight, 1934.  Numbered slides are listed in a          
                     printed publication in Heymanson's file on the flight, which   
                     he covered (Box 146).  Prints are also in some of his albums   
Folio package D      Framed pictures/photographs                                    
Folio package E      Large photographs