Letter to Peggy Penberthy, 1982
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Letter 30 July 1982 to Peggy Penberthy, Shorncliffe, Brisbane.
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984
Letter to Peggy Penberthy, 1982
Letter 30 July 1982 to Peggy Penberthy, Shorncliffe, Brisbane.
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984
Letters to Charles and Doris Hawkins, 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
Interview with Ken Wilder / with Leo Berkelouw and Margaret Rutherford.
Transcript of an interview with Ken Wilder, former Chairman and Managing Director of the publishing company William Collins, on the occasion of his presentation of a painting by Ray Crooke (for the cover of Xavier Herbert's "Poor fellow my country") and various other related papers to the Fryer Library , University of Queensland, in memory of his son, Christopher, 25th October 2001.
Includes audio cassette recording of interview.
Wilder, Ken, 1927-
Letters : Hughenden, Qld., to Alan Hudson, 1979 Nov 27, 1984 Feb 17.
Draft of "Who killed my Sadie" (25 l., typescript photocopy) and letter (5 l. holograph) from Xavier Herbert.
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984
Manuscript of article published in reduced form in 'The Bulletin', 22 Feb 1961, p. 52.
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984
Typescript, carbon copy, dated 9 Aug 1959. Final copy of Soldiers' women by Xavier Herbert.
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984
Correspondence relating to the literary journal The Austrovert, research material for The Puzzled Patriots: The Story of the Australia First Movement published in 1968, transcripts, newspaper cuttings and journals.
Muirden, B. W. (Bruce W.)
Letters from Xavier Herbert to Robert Roseman
Letters from Xavier Herbert written to his editor Robert Roseman at Collins Publishers during the final year of writing his novel Poor Fellow My Country.
Roseman, Robert
Letters, 1969-1975: Redlynch, Queensland, to Percy Trezise.
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
Letters to Gwen Kirwan, 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