Correspondence with others about Judith Wright, and other miscellaneous material collected.

Folder 2
Item 1: Judith Wright’s academic record from the University of Sydney, 1934-36 (includes photocopies from the Calendar of the University of Sydney outlining subjects studied)
Item 2: 22 Aug 80,1p, letter from Les Murray to Shirley Walker in response to a request to review The Poetry of Judith Wright, intended for publication in the Armidale Express
Item 3: Photocopy of the review by Les Murray of The Poetry of Judith Wright considered too contentious to publish in the Armidale Express
Item 4: 5 Jun 80, 1p, handwritten postcard from Les Murray to Shirley Walker regarding review of The Poetry of Judith Wright
Item 5: 3 Nov 93, 1p, handwritten postcard from Les Murray to Shirley Walker
Item 6: 19 Oct 83, original version of poem ‘Falls Country’ given to Shirley Walker by Peter Skryznecki, different to final version
Item 7: 15 Sep 74, 2p, letter from A.D. Hope to Shirley Walker regarding his book Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 8: 18 Jul 83, 2p, letter from Dorothy Green to Shirley Walker regarding article written by Shirley Walker on Christina Stead published in Meridian, handwritten
Item 9: 22 Oct 82, 1p, letter from Barbara Hanrahan to Shirley Walker, handwritten
Item 10: 05 Sep ?, 1p, letter from Jessica Anderson to Shirley Walker
Item 11: 24 Jan 80, 1p, letter from Jessica Anderson to Shirley Walker, handwritten
Item 12: Copy of speech by Shirley Walker at the launch of Peter Pierce’s book, Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally’s Fiction, at the ASAL Conference 1995
Item 13: 10 Jul 95, 2p, letter from Tom Keneally to Shirley Walker responding to her speech
Item 14: 28 Jul 95, 2p, letter from Shirley Walker to Tom Keneally replying to his letter dated 10 Jul 95, not answered
Item 15: 08 Jul 92, 1p, letter from Ken Goodwin regarding Vanishing Edens
Item 16: 10 Sep 79, 1p, letter from Ali Athar to Shirley Walker regarding his PhD study on Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 17: 15 Feb 80, 1p, letter from Ali Athar to Shirley Walker regarding his PhD study on Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 18: Photocopy of article by Ali Arthur, ‘Judith Wright’s mysticism: its Indo-Iranian strain’
Item 19: Photocopies of poems which appeared in the Sydney Mail 1925-29, New England Girls’ School Chronicle 1930-32, Hermes 1934, and miscellaneous poems arranged in chronological order
Item 20: Photocopies of the New England Girls’ School Chronicle 1930-1932 includes juvenilia poems and biographical information on Judith Wright

Folder 4
Item 1: 24 Dec 81, 1p, letter from Chairman, Division of Humanities, Morris College to Shirley Walker regarding article ‘Poetry of Judith Wright’
Item 2: 19 Sep 80, 2p, letter from [Peter ?] to Shirley Walker regarding references to Judith Wright in New Zealand newspapers
Item 3: 11 Mar 80, 1p, letter from Anna to Shirley Walker regarding Judith Wright poems published in An Australian Anthology
Item 4: 26 May 80, 1p, letter from Marianne Ehrhardt to Shirley Walker regarding Judith Wright poems in Fryer Library
Item 5: Wright, Judith, ‘The reef’s defenders’, The National Times, 14-20 Dec 1980, p12
Item 6: Clarke, Julie, ‘Judith Wright: Literary Ladies of Australia’, source not known, p92
Item 7: Photocopies of poems by Judith Wright:
--‘Remembered drought’, Bulletin, 17 Jan 51, p21
--‘Inheritor’, Bulletin, 19 Sep 51, p2
--‘The poet ages’, 21 Mar 56, p2
--‘The true religion’, Australian, 25 Oct 69, p15
--‘Hide or run?’, Canberra Poetry, Winter 1974, pp35-36
--‘The eucalypt and the national character’, Blacksmith, no 2, 1975, p46
--‘The emergence’, Southerly, vol 7, no 2, 1946, p84
--‘Nocturne’, Hermes, 1934, p22
--‘The crucible’, Hermes, 1934, p24
--‘Nocturne’, Hermes, 1935, p26
--‘Earth’, Australian National Review, 1 Oct 38, pp53-54
--‘City rain’, Australian National Review, Apr, 1939, pp51-52
--‘Battle-station, New Guinea’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Nov 42, p7, copied by hand
--‘Township at night’, Bulletin, 17 Feb 43, p12
--‘G.W. Australia 1827’, source not known
--‘The bubble’, Jindyworobak Anthology, 1949, p10
--‘The last classicist’, Austrovert, no 7, 1952, p7
--‘To A.D. Hope’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Nov 65
--‘Painting an orchard’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 1, no 3, 1973, p2
--‘Eve to Adam’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 1, no 3, 1973, p3
--‘After the visitors’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 2, no 1, 1973, p3
--‘Remembering Michael’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 2, no 3, 1974, p3
--‘About building’, New Poetry, vol 22, no 2 and 3, 1974, p54
--‘For M.R., in return’, Poetry Australia, vol 50, 1974, p34
--‘Dream’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 3, no 3, 1975, p15
--‘Elegy for a whale’, Nation Review, Apr 9-15, 1976, p644
--‘Learning a word’, Overland, vol 62, 1975, p44
--‘Thought control machine’, Overland, vol 64, 1976, p36
--‘The emergence’, Southerly, vol 8, no 2, 1946, p84
--‘To Hafiz of Shiraz’, Galmahra, 1960, p35
--‘The document’, source not known
--‘The city asleep’, ‘Flame-tree in a quarry’, ‘Woman to man’, ‘Woman to child’, Poetry Commonwealth, vol 2, 1948, pp2-4
--‘Hunting snake’, Luna, p10
--‘Entertainment’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p305
--‘On the beach at Hokitika’, Landfall, no 120, 1976 p304
--‘In the rail-car’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p303
--‘From the Wellington museum’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p302
--‘Canberra’, Hemisphere, vol 20, no 4, 1976, p41
--‘Campfire at evening’, Poet’s Choice, 1977, p 74
--‘End of a monarchy’, Age, 5 Feb 77, p22
--‘Elegy for a whale’, Poet’s Choice, 1976, pp61-62
--‘Power dream’, Canberra Poetry, 1976, p29
--‘Boundaries’, Age, 28 Aug 76, p120
--‘End of a monarchy’, Poems from the Age, 1979, 122
--‘Durre’, Neue Welt, 29 Aug 61
--‘To A.H., New Year, 1943’, The Moving Image, 1946, pp14-15
--‘The other half’, ‘Brush-turkey’, The Texas Quarterly Image of Australia, 1962, p 94
--‘Late spring’, Bulletin, 31 Oct 56, p34
--‘White night’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, no 1, 1972, p3
--‘Carrion beetles’, Southerly, vol 26, no 2, 1966, p93
--‘For Mariano Coreno, migrant poet’, Poetry Australia, no 6, 1995, p6
--‘The bargain’, Bulletin, 9 May 56, p2
--‘At a public dinner’, source not known
--‘Christmas ballad’, Overland, Autumn, 1973, p4
--‘The madman singing’, Poetry, no 16, pp25-27
--‘Eve scolds’, Australian, 10 Mar 73, p33
--‘Beside a creek’ and ‘The young wife’, London Magazine vol 2, no 6, 1962, pp37-38
--‘Two songs of mad Tom’, The Gateway, 1953, pp20-21
--‘The moving image’, part 3, 1962, pp4-6, source not known
--‘To A.H., New Year, 1943,’ 1962, pp14-15, source not known
--‘The unborn’, Poetry, no 18, 1946, p13
--‘The women’, Poetry, no 19, 1946, p12
--‘The garden’, Poetry, no 21, 1946, p23
--‘The clock’, Poetry, no 14, 1945, pp 13-14
--‘Two at night’, Poetry, 1947, p13
--‘Song for a drowning sailor’, The Gateway, 1953, p18
--‘That seed’, Poet’s Choice, 1971, pp4-5
--‘Halfway’, Australian Poetry, 1971, pp114-115
--City Sunrise, The Shapcott Press, Brisbane,1964, handwritten copy
--‘Value judgement’, Meanjin, 1956, p345
--‘Wings’, Australian Poetry, 1969, p33
--‘Furniture: mirrors’, Square Poets, 1971, p42
--‘Growth’, Meanjin, 1956, p240
--‘Two sides of a story’, Australian Poetry, 1969, p35
--‘The twins’, source not known

Correspondence with Judith Wright. Each item is accompanied by a note from Shirley Walker with commentary.

Item 1: 27 Jul 73,1p, response to an interview request
Item 2: 21 Feb 74,1p, response to an interview request in Canberra
Item 3: Undated, 1p, confirmation of interview, handwritten
Item 4: 10 Jun 75,1p, thank you letter on receipt of birthday telegram
Item 5: 10 Aug 75, 2p, contains comments on a number of poems and on Jungian archetypes
Item 6: 26 Jun 76, 1p, thank you letter for birthday present
Item 7: 14 Aug 76, 2p, contains comments on Jack McKinney, individual poems and William Baylebridge
Item 8: 18 Sep 76, 1p, accompanying letter with proofs and copy of ‘Hevesi’
Item 9: 23 Sep 76, 1p, gives permission to use passages from letters in thesis
Item 10: 25 Sep 76, 1p, gives permission to be used as a referee
Item 11: 13 Jun 77, 1p, comments on Shirley Walker’s thesis, criticism of Fourth Quarter, and the New England Girl’s School juvenilia
Item 12: 20 Aug 77, 1p, comments on reviews of work and The Coral Battleground
Item 13: 5 Dec 77, 1p, comments on The Double Tree, reprinting of Birds and involvement in the uranium issue, handwritten card
Item 14: 12 May 78, 1p, congratulations on new job appointment, handwritten card
Item 15: 7 Mar 79, 1p, discussion of visit to ‘Edge’, Mongarlowe, NSW
Item 16: 25 Apr 79, 2p, confirmation of visit, comments on ASAL Conference 1979 and proposed biography by Val Vallis
Item 17: 9 Jun 79, 1p, thank you for birthday card and comments on involvement in Barrier Reef issue
Item 18: 11 Aug 79, 1p, comments on PhD being done by Indian scholar Ali Athar and additions to bibliography compiled by Shirley Walker
Item 19: Christmas 1979, 1p, refers to visits by Professor Bernard Hickey from the University of Venice to the sites of various Judith Wright poems, handwritten card
Item 20: 20 May 80, 2p, comments on The Poetry of Judith Wright and ‘At Cedar Creek’
Item 21: 30 Jun 80, 1p, comments on The Double Tree
Item 22: 22 Sep 80, 1p, authorising photocopying of unpublished material in the Meanjin collection in Baillieu Library
Item 23: 22 Sep 80, 2p, further suggestions for bibliography compiled by Shirley Walker, comments on four poems printed as broadsheets
Item 24: 20 Mar 82, 1p, comments on The Cry for the Dead
Item 25: 7 Nov 82, 1p, comments on the Games protests on the land rights issue
Item 26: 4 Nov 83,1p, discussion of We Call for a Treaty
Item 27: 13 Nov 83,1p
Item 28: 18 Nov 84,1p, thank you letter for birthday card
Item 29: 3 Jan 85, 1p, comments on article by Shirley Walker on The Cry for the Dead
Item 30: 4 Nov 85, 1p, thank you letter for invitation to speak at the ASAL Conference 1985, handwritten card
Item 31: 2 Mar 87,1p, thank you letter for invitation to ASAL Conference 1987
Item 32: 20 Apr 89,1p, question about a title included in a proposed bibliography by Gale Research Company
Item 33: 31 Mar 90,1p, comments on the establishment of CALLS (Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies) at UNE and on A Human Pattern
Item 34: 7 Apr 91, 1p, comment on book by Shirley Walker, Flame and Shadow, a further comment on ‘At Cedar Creek’ and thoughts on giving up writing poetry
Item 35: Mar-Jun 1990, 1p, comments on the controversy with University of Queensland Press regarding a new ‘Selected Poems’
Item 36: 30 Jun 90, 3p, corrections and additions for chronology for updated edition of Flame and Shadow
Item 37: 29 Jul 90, 1p, comments on Phantom Dwelling
Item 38: 30 Aug 90,1p, comments on new edition of Flame and Shadow
Item 39: 18 Sep 90, 1p, comments on a proposed anthology of translations into Chinese
Item 40: 14 Nov 90, 1p, thank you for sympathy card sent on brother, Peter’s, death
Item 41: 11 Nov 92,1p
Item 42: 1 May 94, 1p, discussion on visit to Braidwood
Item 43: Undated, 1p, handwritten card
Item 44: Undated, 1p, handwritten card

Art exhibition ephemera including invitations, fliers and price lists. Some signed or annotated.

This series is comprised of four (4) artworks mounted on boards, 31 x 51 cm.
Item 1: Fred Leist, (Two men in street), 1898, ink on paper, 10 x 13 cm, signed Fred Leist, mounted with an inscribed silver gelatin photograph, inscribed 'Lest you forget/Yours Fred Leist', 11 x 6.5 cm.
Item 2: Lionel Lindsay, The Return Home, ink on paper, 10.5 x 8 cm, inscribed lower centre "After Sunday dinner. The return home. Pray notice the ties - (very unique)'.
Item 3: Percy Lindsay, (The Vanquished), 1909, ink on paper, 20 x 15.5 cm, signed 'Percy Lindsay' dated '09'.
Item 4: Rose Lindsay, silver gelatin photograph, 19.5 x 13 cm, signed by Rose Lindsay.

Bookplates collected and arranged by Patrick Corrigan.

This series is comprised of the correspondence, public relations and journalism work of Tania Peitzker.

This series is comprised of the creative works, published and unpublished, of Tania Peitzker including her poems, plays, novels, satirical essays, journal artices and short stories.

Tania Peitzker studied at the University of Queensland, undertaking a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in the 1990s. This series is comprised of material relating to her fourth year honours project. It includes annotated copies of printouts of journal articles, notes, correspondence, drafts of her report 'Toward the construction of a lesbian history in Australia : dyke intellectuals of the liberation movements and their influence on sexual politics today' and her honours thesis 'Questions of politics in the "moment" of the Australian journal of cultural studies : a genealogy of interdisciplinary knowledge and practice in Australia" (1994). Where possible original folders have been retained; material relating to Tania Peitzker's nomination for Australian Historical Association Prize for Australian History; material relating to Queer Collaborations conference, Brisbane, 2-9 July 1994; and a hard bound copy of her PhD dissertation 'Dymphna Cusack (1902-1981) : a feminist analysis of gender in her romantic realistic texts' (2000).

4 posters.