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'For the Anti-bridge committee'

Original folder titled 'For the Anti-bridge committee'. Includes reports, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, newsletters, journal article, press statement, and ephemera relating to the proposed bridge to link the mainland and North Stradbroke Island.

Florence Elizabeth James-Wallace photograph albums

  • F831
  • File
  • 1915-1916.

Two photograph albums containing 167 photographs. Includes photographs of Luxor, Cairo, Australian military hospitals in Egypt, Anzac beach, Australian military hospitals and personnel on Lemnos Island off Gallipoli, and Queenslanders who served in No. 3, Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Medical Corps. James-Wallace and nurses of the 3AGH were photographed by Private Albert William Savage, from whom it is said James-Wallace purchased 116 photographs. Handwritten captions with each photograph. Second album labelled: 'Lemnos Photos.'

James-Wallace, Florence Elizabeth, 1886-1970

Flloyd Kennedy Papers

  • F3368
  • File
  • 1963-1964.

Green on white, semi-gloss program for 1964 production of 'As You Like It' performed at the Brisbane Arts Theatre from Thursday 4th June to Saturday 13th June at the Albert Hall. Autographed inside by most of the cast with one to Flloyd dated 10 Jun 1964. Three photocopied pages of newspaper cuttings regarding performances by the Brisbane Arts Theatre from 1963-1964. Flloyd Smith is in one of the cuttings in a chimpanzee suit.

Kennedy, Flloyd

Flares

Correspondence, printouts of emails, regarding the cover of the book of poetry by Judith Rodriguez Flares, published by the
Melbourne Shakespeare Society in 2016.

Rodriguez, Judith, 1936-2018

First typescript draft of Fly Away Peter

One leaf, handwritten in blue ink, with details of accompanying typescript. First typescript draft, written in Brisbane in April 1981, handwritten emendations in blue ink, hand written numbering on all pages (one is missed), 105 [sic 106] leaves. Accompanied by small note about a mistake in numbering of pages numbers 3 and 4 (not counted in total number of leaves).

First typescript draft of Child's Play

One handwritten note '1st typescript, heavily corrected'. With first typescript draft, 72 leaves, extensive handwritten emendations, Chapters 10 and 13 not included. Undated.

First Joanna : a play in two acts

The First Joanna : a play in two acts was written around 1941 and revised over the following 17 years. It was not published in her lifetime but was published online in 2016 by AustLit. This file is comprised of draft typescripts, some ephemera from stage productions, and a few letters.

Box 1
Folders 8-13
Six folders with unbound and 'bound' typescripts/carbon copy typescripts of The first Joanna : a play in three acts, pagination for each varies, some have handwritten emendations, all are undated, most are in very poor condition and fragile.

Box 2
Folders 1-2
Two folders with unbound carbon copy typescripts of The first Joanna : a play in three acts, 92 leaves, undated, with accompanying envelope addressed to the Merry Days Correspondence School in Eltham, Victoria. [The principals of Merry Days Correspondence School, Nursery School, Kindergarten and Sub-Primary were R. and E. Blewett, which they began in 1942.]

Folder 3
Loose pages of The first Joanna, some with handwritten emendations, undated.

Folder 4
Correspondence and contracts:
Contract with: J.C. Williamson Theatres Limited and Dorothy Blewett, dated 20 Jun 1944; Maxwell Wray Productions Limited and Dorothy Blewet dated 26 Sep 1952.
Letters: Australian Broadcasting Commission to Dorothy Blewett dated, 9 Dec 1947; letter to and from Linnit and Dunfee, date 16 Oct 1951 and 5 Dec 1951; telegraph offering payment for television rights, 27 Sep 1960; Australian Broadcasting Commission to Dorothy Blewett, 28 Sep 1960; and A.B.C. Television Rehearsal Schedule for The First Joanna from 1 Feb 1961 to 22 Feb 1961, from producer Christopher Muir.

Folder 5
Ephemera relating to The first Joanna. Includes: 1 b&w photograph of the first performance in Marc 148 at Metropolitan Theatre Sydney; 1948 program from the Metropolitan Theatre (2 copies); hand drawn stage setting; The Metropolitan newspaper, vol 1 no. 3, 21 Feb 1948 (2 copies); and program for the St. Peters Community Plays performance, from 1949.

First handwritten draft of Fly Away Peter

One page, handwritten in blue ink, with notes by the author on the original handwritten draft that accompanies it. Original first handwritten draft, 12 sheets of paper, some folded in half and written on both sides, in red and blue biro and black ink. From the accompanying note: This was usually referred to as 'Birds'; Written at Campagnatico in 1981; “Birds was originally to be a long story of some 15,000-20,000 words; the opening of a collection which would include 'Sorrow & Secrets', 'Musica Viva' and several more.”

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