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Frederick Walter Robinson Papers

  • UQFL5
  • Collection
  • 1910-1968

Personal papers, correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, notes, photos, slides, taped lectures (C.L.F.), maps, plans, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous publications, as well as a stamp collection.

Robinson, Frederick Walter, 1888-1971

Papers, ca. 1960-1969

  • F3781
  • Item
  • ca. 1960-1969.

Correspondence, research notes, ephemera. Folder includes index to material, provided by author.

Merrell, Joan

Letter to Miss McCreath, 1970

  • F73
  • Item
  • 1970

Letter 28 Oct 1970 to Miss McCreath, Acting Fryer Librarian, re: his pleasure in a recent visit to the Fryer Library, enclosing 3 poems shortly to be published in limited edition, for the Fryer manuscript collection.

Bingham, Colin, 1898-1986

Fryer Memorial Library Papers

Fryer Memorial Library Papers
• Colin Bingham, editor, Galmahra, obituary for John D Fryer, ‘St. John’s College Notes’, Galmahra, (May 1923)
• Extracts from Minutes of the Student Benefactions Committee of the University of Queensland Union, Galmahra, etc. relative to the foundation of the Fryer Library, 1927 to 1929, three copies
• Student Benefactions. Extract from Galmahra, Fryer Memorial Library (April 1927)
• Memorandum to Commander Drake re: Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature
• Letter from Professor Robertson, Lecturer in English, University of Queensland, Chairman of the Student Benefactions Committee of the University of Queensland to Dr. F. P. Keppel, President Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York re: application for funding grant, 29 Mar 1933
• ‘The Fryer Memorial library of Australian Literature’, Galmahra, (October 1929), two copies
• ‘University News and Notes’, Courier – Mail, [nd]
• Letter from John M. Russel, Carnegie Foundation, New York to Dr. Frederick W Robinson, 4 May 1933
• Carnegie Corporation of New York Survey of Australian Libraries – survey form
• Carnegie Corporation of New York Survey of Australian Libraries. Particulars of the Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature, a student benefaction to the English Department within the University of Queensland, 28 May 1934
• Letter from Mr S. F. Markham, The Museums Association, London, Secretary (Empire Survey) to Miss Pauline L. Joice, Clayfield, Brisbane re report to Carnegie Foundation, 1 Aug 1934
• ‘Varsity Benefits from Donation of Retired Publisher’, 10 Jun 1938
• Darnell Library Fund. Suggested uses, 2 Apr 1940
• Memorandum on the Fryer Library of Australian Literature, attached to the English Faculty, 23 Jul 1942 [page(s) missing]
• Associate Professor Frederick W. Robinson to Mr J. S. Gilmour, 31 Mar 1949
• The Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature: Two copies of an article written by Dr. Frederick W. Robinson on the history of the Fryer Memorial Library and published in Galmahra (November 1952)
• One copy of Galmahra, (November 1952)
• Letter from Daphne Harrison to Professor [Frederick W] Robinson, 28 Nov 1952
• Invitation to Professor and Mrs FW Robinson to the laying of the foundation stone of the new St. John’s College, 1954
• Draft speech on the Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature. A Brief Historical Explanation: Foundation and Purpose - delivered to the Queensland Branch, Library Association of Australia during 1961
• Letter from Mr Harrison Bryan, Librarian, Main Library, University of Queensland to Mr Stapleton, the State Librarian, Public Library of Queensland, Brisbane – copy to Fryer re ‘possible union catalogue of Australiana in major Brisbane libraries’, 2 Feb 1961
• Draft article by Mrs JM Merrell, Fryer Librarian, 1958 to 1961, on the history and function of Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature for the literary journal Quill, Jun 1962 [two copies of article]
• Letter from AC Cawley, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, to Miss E Harrington, Fryer Library re enclosed questionnaire on the University Library, 1 May 1963
• Letter from the ‘Librarian, Fryer Memorial Library’, listing books the Fryer Memorial Library was interested in acquiring, pre 1965
• ‘Browsing in the Fryer Library’ by Old Crab, Queensland Teachers Journal, Sep 1966 [two copies of article]
• Photocopy of letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to Mrs N Bonnin, Fryer Memorial Library, re biography of John D Fryer by Mrs Gilmour and attendant information, 22 Sep 1966
• The University of Queensland Institute of Modern Languages course brochure, enrolment guide and university fee payment slip, 1966
• Newspaper article re the first purchase of books from the Mary Alexis Macmillan Memorial fund for the Fryer Library. Mary Macmillan was Jack Fryer’s fiancée at the time of his death, [nd]
• Memorandum to Mr Fielding from N Bonnin, Fryer Library, re Father Leo Hayes collection
• Photocopied page from Bookweek, Vol. 4, No. 2, re the Fryer Memorial Library index of Australian Literary periodicals, 1970
• Memorandum to Marianne from Don re vacation hours – Robinson Room, 23 Nov 1970
• Letter from FDO. Fielding, University Librarian to Professor Zelman Cowen, Vice Chancellor, University of Queensland, re forthcoming luncheon for Dr. FW Robinson, 16 Jul 1970
• ‘The Raison D’Etre of the Fryer Library’ [1970]
• Address delivered on the growth of Fryer and the new Robinson reading room – four copies bundled as one
• Description of Fryer Memorial Library, its history and its holdings, two typed pages, dated 15 Jul 1970
• Handwritten note from Elizabeth S Gilmour re Mrs Annie Wheeler
• Memorandum to Ric Moore re information on Fred Paterson
• Handwritten note re ‘Fryer article should cost $20’
• Handwritten note re correspondence ‘in the Fryer Brochure’
• Hardboard with typed biography of John D Fryer. Handwritten note explains ‘This card was originally exhibited with the photograph of JD Fryer in the Fryer Lib. display case’
• Pro forma acknowledgement letter used in the Fryer Library circa 1970
• List of Galmahra articles relevant to John D Fryer/the Fryer Memorial Library
• Bookplates used by the University of Queensland Library; Army Memorial Library bookplate, blank bookplate to acknowledge donated item, University of Queensland bookplate, The John Caffery Memorial bookplate, Thomas Llewellyn Jones Memorial Library bookplate, The Roles Gift bookplate, and bookplate devised for items donated to the library by Archbishop James Duhig
• Letter from M. A. Macmillan to Mrs Harrison re founding of Fryer Memorial Library and contemporaries of John D Fryer

University of Queensland Press, Microform Division Records

  • UQFL155
  • Collection
  • 1968-1971.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, notes on playwrights.
The University of Queensland Press was formed in 1948 to publish mainly university materials In the 1960s, it became a fully fledged publishing house. This collection, from the Microform Division, contains files relating to the microfilming project of Fryer Library's Hanger Collection of Australian playscripts. This project was abandoned in 1973.

University of Queensland Press, Microform Division

Letter, 1973 Jul 26: to Fryer Librarian.

  • F758
  • Item
  • 1973

Letter to Fryer Librarian 1973 Jul 26, to accompany gift of 'West Australian goldfields sketchbook' by A.E. Read; and 3 drawings to illustrate it, gift of the artist. Also list of galleries in which his work is represented.

Goodin, Isabel M.

Fryer Library Correspondence regarding John D Fryer

Fryer Library Correspondence re John D Fryer
• Letter from Elizabeth Gilmour to Dr [later Professor] Frederick W Robinson, Townsville, 25 Sep 1953
• Letter from Elizabeth Gilmour to Dr. Frederick W Robinson, 5 May 1954
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour [née Fryer], to Miss Lee, the Librarian, Fryer Library, University of Queensland re donation of money and brief account of Fryer siblings, 27 Oct 1960 [original and two copies]
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to The Librarian, Fryer Memorial Library, 27 Mar 1963
• Letter from F. Jardine, The Rockhampton Grammar School to Miss E. Harrington, Librarian, Fryer Memorial Library, 3 Aug 1963
• Letter from Elizabeth Gilmour to Elizabeth [Harrington], 17 Sep 1963
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to Betty [Miss E Harrington], 8 Oct 1963
• Letter from EN Dimmock to Miss Harrington, 4 December1963
• Letter from EN Dimmock to Miss Harrington, 4 Dec 1963
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to Betty [Harrington], 3 Dec 1963
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to Mrs Bonnin [Fryer Library], 22 Sep 1966
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to Mrs Bonnin, 9 Nov 1966
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to Miss McCreath, 11 Dec 1970
• Letter from Lord Roberthall [Robert Lowe], London, to Mrs Bonnin, 8 Mar 1973
• Letter from Fred Patterson to Mr Len Fisher, Alumni Office, University of Queensland, 15 Jul 1973
• Letter from Eric Partridge to John L. Cummings, Deputy University Librarian, 6 Mar 1975
• Letter from Lex Lear née Gilmour, Townsville to Fryer Librarian, 20 Nov 1979

Fryer Memorial Library

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