Letters from Xavier Herbert to Robert Roseman
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- 1974-1975.
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 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, 1973 May to Aug : Redlynch, Qld to Peter Hetherington.
Three letters: 2 Apr 1973 (5 p. with draft reply from Hetherington, 2 p.) ; 18 May 1973 (6 p. with telegram) ; and 29 Aug 1973 (3 p. with clipping).
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984
Letter, 1973 June 28 : from Redlynch, [Queensland], to Margaret Brenan.
Letter of thanks to Margaret Brenan for her letter and attention given to Sadie.
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984
Papers concerning the construction of Xavier Herbert's transformer, 1972-1975
Includes letters by Xavier Herbert and Laurie Hergenhan.
Papers compiled by Harry Mellor.
Mellor, Harry
Letters to Paula and Karl Schubert, 1971-1977
Letters 24 Jan 1971 to 12 Mar 1977 to Paula and Karl Schubert.
Letters cover Herbert's work, health, interest in Judaism and his wife Sadie.
Includes note from Laurie Hergenhan, English Dept., University of Queensland to Paula Schubert, 3 Dec 1971, and card folder with addresses of L. Hergenhan and P. Schubert.
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984
Preliminary design for the dustjacket of Xavier Herbert's Poor fellow my country
Preliminary design for the dustjacket of the Miles Franklin Award winning novel, first published in Sydney by Collins in 1975. Oil painting on stiff card, the size of the book, 29 x 51 cm folded as a dustjacket. The rough sketch by Crooke shows his initial thoughts regarding the design of the wrapper. The bleak landscape insert would be reworked and developed to encompass the whole jacket. Accompanied by finished cover with annotations.
Crooke, Ray, 1922-
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
Papers relating to Xavier Herbert
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
Manuscript of article published in reduced form in 'The Bulletin', 22 Feb 1961, p. 52.
Herbert, Xavier, 1901-1984