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Letters to Charles and Doris Hawkins, 1937-1979

  • F3168
  • Item
  • 1937-1979.

4 letters (holograph) by Xavier Herbert: three to Charles Hawkins and one to Doris Hawkins.
Includes a brief typewritten note on their friendship and falling out, by Doris Swann, daughter of Charles and Doris Hawkins. Also includes 4 photographs taken in Darwin in 1937.

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984

Sadie and Xavier Herbert Papers

  • UQFL83
  • Collection
  • [ca.1941] - [ca.1984]

Notebooks (referred to by Herbert as "literary logs"), manuscript drafts, proofs and other papers relating to Poor Fellow My Country, Disturbing Element, Soldiers' Women, and "The Little Widow" together with short stories, poems, articles, publications, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, photographs, financial records and artwork by Xavier Herbert.

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984

Letter to Professor [Duhig], 1941

  • F1476
  • Item
  • 1941

Letter 18 Aug 1941 to Professor Duhig congratulating him on "The Ruling Passion."

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984

Of Mars, the moon and destiny, 1948-1959

  • F1478
  • Item
  • 1948-1959.

Carbon copy of original script of 'Of Mars, the moon and destiny', later published as 'Soldiers' Women.' Accompanied by two notes by Xavier Herbert.

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984

Soldiers' women

  • F1477
  • Item
  • 1959

Typescript, carbon copy, dated 9 Aug 1959. Final copy of Soldiers' women by Xavier Herbert.

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984

Bang goes my O.B.E.!, 1961

  • F797
  • Item
  • 1961

Manuscript of article published in reduced form in 'The Bulletin', 22 Feb 1961, p. 52.

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984

Letters to Gwen Kirwan, 1963-1974

  • F1265
  • Item
  • 1963-1974.

Letters (6) 1 Dec 1963 - 16 Jan 1974 to Gwen Kirwan, literary and personal, chiefly concerning the effort of writing "Poor Fellow My Country."

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984

Papers relating to Xavier Herbert

  • UQFL203
  • Collection
  • 1963-1981

Correspondence Xavier Herbert to Sadie Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984 Herbert & Sadie Herbert to Laurie Hergenhan; manuscripts, papers, and audiotapes relating to "Poor fellow my country".

Series A: Correspondence, 1963-1981
Box 1
Letters Xavier Herbert to Sadie Herbert, from Atherton Hospital 1964-1965.
Letters Xavier Herbert to Sadie Herbert from Maryborough 1963-1966.
Boxes 8-9
Letters Xavier Herbert to Laurie Hergenhan, 1970-1981.
Box 10
Letters Sadie Herbert to Laurie Hergenhan, 1971-1974.

Series B: Drafts of Poor fellow my country
Boxes 2-6
Drafts of Poor fellow my country.
Boxes 14-15
Manuscript of Poor fellow my country

Series C: Diaries and logbooks
Box 7
Diaries and logbooks, mostly relating to Poor fellow my country

Series D: Audio recordings
Box 13
Tapes 1-23: Audio recordings, mostly of Xavier Herbert talking to Laurie Hergenhan and Xavier Herbert discussing Poor fellow my country. Three are offair recording from ABC.
Tapes 24-43: Xavier Herbert discusses the composition of Poor fellow my country. In addition to reviewing chapters, sections and drafts of the book, Xavier discusses the writing process, comments on Australian society, Australian literature and various other topics extraneous to the reviewing of the book. Sadie comments in background. Xavier often asks for Sadie's input.
Tape 44 is blank.
[Tapes 45-55]: Audio recordings (11 cassettes) of interviews by Laurie Hergenhan with Xavier Herbert.

Series E: Photographic material, 1975
Box 13
Twenty black and white photographs. Three are of the Xavier and Sadie at the dinner table with two others; and the rest of, possibly, 90 Broughan Street, Woolloomooloo. Accompanied by twenty black and white 35 mm negatives (on five strips), a handwritten note and the packet that held the prints which has a handwritten note "Xavier Herbert: room in Wooloomooloo Sydney, where he began writing".

Hergenhan, Laurie

Letters, 1969-1975: Redlynch, Queensland, to Percy Trezise.

  • F3222
  • Item
  • 1969-1975.

2 letters handwritten; one typescript (photocopy).
First letter, Easter Monday 1969, concerns Xavier Herbert's trip with Percy Trezise to Sandy Creek. Signed 'Your Bunga, FX'. Second letter, June 4 1979, deals with his critics, his ill health and his proposed appointment at Newcastle University coinciding with the publication of 'Poor fellow my country'. Signed 'F.X.' And the third letter, 25 June 1975, talks of the television programme 'The contract', and the treatment of Percy Trezise's 'Quinkan country'; Dick Roughsey; and the inspiration for and writing of 'Poor fellow my country'.
Includes unidentified handwritten transcript of the June 4, 1979 letter.

Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984

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