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Alan Lawson Papers
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Alan Lawson Papers

  • UQFL600
  • Collection
  • 1956-2008

Research papers relating to Patrick White including correspondence, articles, newspaper cuttings and notes dating from 1956 to 2008. Correspondence with writers including Thea Astley, Bruce Dawe, Dorothy Green, David Marr, Frank Moorhouse, Janet Tuner Hospital and one folder relating to Helen Darville dating from 1979 to 1997.

Lawson, Alan, 1948-

Papers relating to Patrick White

Series A consists of papers relating to Patrick White including correspondence, articles, newspaper cuttings and notes dating from 1956 to 2008.

Box 1

Folder 1
Reviews of The cockatoos, The full belly and A woman’s hand.

Folder 2
Articles by Ben Nicholson. Reviews of The vivisector.

Folder 3
Reviews of The burnt ones, The aunt’s story, The living and the dead and Happy valley.

Folder 4
Reviews and launch invitation to the Patrick White Letters (edited by David Marr).

Folder 5
Original and copies of Patrick White letters and Alan Lawson correspondence with David Marr.

Folder 6
Reviews of Riders in the chariot.

Folder 7
Reviews of The solid mandala.

Folder 8
Reviews, The tree of man and The eye of the storm.

Folder 9
Correspondence from 1956 and 1972-1973, includes two original Patrick White letters.

Folder 10
Uncollected Patrick White stories, poems, letters, and articles.

Folder 11
Reviews of Patrick White plays

Folder 12
Reviews of Voss.

Folder 13
Photocopies of reviews and newspaper cuttings about Patrick White. Mostly in languages other then English.

Folder 14
Postcards and poster poems, mostly relating to Billy Jones.

Folder 15
Correspondence to and from Alan Lawson, 1974 to 1982.

Folder 16
Correspondence relating to Meanjin with Geoffrey Dutton, Clem Christensen and others, 1972 to 1975.

Folder 17
Promoting Australian Literature in Schools (1990). Report to the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Prepared by Ian Reid, Centre for Studies in Literary Education Deakin University.

Box 2

Folder 1
Reviews of Flaws in the glass: a self-portrait and Memoirs of many in one.

Folder 2
Patrick White research including papers, slides and pamphlets on Stroud’s centenary, articles about Patrick White and his family history.

Folder 3
Papers and articles about Patrick White.

Folder 4
Patrick White bibliography.

Folder 5
Newspaper cuttings and photocopies of reviews of Voss, Riders in the chariot, The tree of life, The aunt’s story, The burnt ones, The living and the dead, Four plays, and *The solid mandala.

Folder 6
Correspondence to Alan Lawson from various other academics about Patrick White. Articles and reviews.

Folder 7
Theatre programs from Brisbane and Melbourne.

Folder 8
Newspaper cuttings and journal articles about Patrick White from August 1973.

Box 3

Item 1 (in 3 parts)
'Alternative mythical structures in the fiction of Patrick White', by Brenda Bosman (1989). PhD thesis (Rhodes). Part 1 Chapter 1.

'Alternative mythical structures in the fiction of Patrick White', by Brenda Bosman (1989). PhD thesis (Rhodes). Part 2 Chapters 2-5.

'Alternative mythical structures in the fiction of Patrick White', by Brenda Bosman (1989). PhD thesis (Rhodes). Part 3 Chapter 6.

Lawson, Alan, 1948-

Correspondence with writers

Series B consists of correspondence with writers including Thea Astley, Bruce Dawe, Dorothy Green, David Marr, Frank Moorhouse, Janet Tuner Hospital dating from 1979 to 1997. Includes one folder relating to Helen Darville dating from 1995 to 1997.

Box 3

Folder 1
Correspondence with Thea Astley from 1982 to 1983. Includes three handwritten letters. Correspondence with Bruce Dawe from 1979 to 1984. Includes three handwritten letters from Bruce Dawe and two typescript copies of letters from Alan Lawson to Bruce Dawe. Original folder retained.

Folder 2
Correspondence with Dorothy Green from 1981 to 1986. Includes six handwritten letters. Dorothy was Lawson’s Masters of Arts supervisor at Australian National university from 1971 to 1972. Original folder retained.

Folder 3
Correspondence with David Marr from 1986 to 1994. Includes eleven handwritten and typescript letters and two handwritten postcards. Original folder retained.

Folder 4
Correspondence with Frank Moorhouse from 1978 to 1995. Includes typescript copy of ‘Boozing with Hawke : a short story’ by Frank Moorhouse, and correspondence and papers relating to chain letters. Original folder retained.

Folder 5
Written on cover of folder: 'The 'D' file - Confidential'. Contains correspondence, newspaper cuttings, to do with Helen Demidenko Darville, 1995-1997.

Folder 6
Correspondence with Janette Turner Hospital from 1988 to 1990. Includes four handwritten and typescript letters. Also includes a typescript invitation to a honouring Australian writers at the Australian Pavilion during the World Exhibition in Brisbane in 1988. Jane Turner Hospital’s new novel Charades was launched at this event.

Lawson, Alan, 1948-