Comprises:

1. Diary entries on Child’s Play and Fly Away Peter, Jan and Feb 1981, removed from annual calendar, titled on front page.
2. Diary of a trip to Lebanon and Syria with Carmen Callil [editor at Chatto & Windus], Apr 1994, A6 notebook, [Ca. 100p].
3. Typescript from a diary: account of a trip to Lebanon and Syria in 1994 with Carmen Callil, for printing an anthology, 19p, undated.
4. Copy of extract from water-stained diary together with ‘typed extracts from a personal diary kept by David Malouf from October to December 1976', with relevance to the material in the subseries for An Imaginery Life.

Correspondence with Judith Wright. Each item is accompanied by a note from Shirley Walker with commentary.

Item 1: 27 Jul 73,1p, response to an interview request
Item 2: 21 Feb 74,1p, response to an interview request in Canberra
Item 3: Undated, 1p, confirmation of interview, handwritten
Item 4: 10 Jun 75,1p, thank you letter on receipt of birthday telegram
Item 5: 10 Aug 75, 2p, contains comments on a number of poems and on Jungian archetypes
Item 6: 26 Jun 76, 1p, thank you letter for birthday present
Item 7: 14 Aug 76, 2p, contains comments on Jack McKinney, individual poems and William Baylebridge
Item 8: 18 Sep 76, 1p, accompanying letter with proofs and copy of ‘Hevesi’
Item 9: 23 Sep 76, 1p, gives permission to use passages from letters in thesis
Item 10: 25 Sep 76, 1p, gives permission to be used as a referee
Item 11: 13 Jun 77, 1p, comments on Shirley Walker’s thesis, criticism of Fourth Quarter, and the New England Girl’s School juvenilia
Item 12: 20 Aug 77, 1p, comments on reviews of work and The Coral Battleground
Item 13: 5 Dec 77, 1p, comments on The Double Tree, reprinting of Birds and involvement in the uranium issue, handwritten card
Item 14: 12 May 78, 1p, congratulations on new job appointment, handwritten card
Item 15: 7 Mar 79, 1p, discussion of visit to ‘Edge’, Mongarlowe, NSW
Item 16: 25 Apr 79, 2p, confirmation of visit, comments on ASAL Conference 1979 and proposed biography by Val Vallis
Item 17: 9 Jun 79, 1p, thank you for birthday card and comments on involvement in Barrier Reef issue
Item 18: 11 Aug 79, 1p, comments on PhD being done by Indian scholar Ali Athar and additions to bibliography compiled by Shirley Walker
Item 19: Christmas 1979, 1p, refers to visits by Professor Bernard Hickey from the University of Venice to the sites of various Judith Wright poems, handwritten card
Item 20: 20 May 80, 2p, comments on The Poetry of Judith Wright and ‘At Cedar Creek’
Item 21: 30 Jun 80, 1p, comments on The Double Tree
Item 22: 22 Sep 80, 1p, authorising photocopying of unpublished material in the Meanjin collection in Baillieu Library
Item 23: 22 Sep 80, 2p, further suggestions for bibliography compiled by Shirley Walker, comments on four poems printed as broadsheets
Item 24: 20 Mar 82, 1p, comments on The Cry for the Dead
Item 25: 7 Nov 82, 1p, comments on the Games protests on the land rights issue
Item 26: 4 Nov 83,1p, discussion of We Call for a Treaty
Item 27: 13 Nov 83,1p
Item 28: 18 Nov 84,1p, thank you letter for birthday card
Item 29: 3 Jan 85, 1p, comments on article by Shirley Walker on The Cry for the Dead
Item 30: 4 Nov 85, 1p, thank you letter for invitation to speak at the ASAL Conference 1985, handwritten card
Item 31: 2 Mar 87,1p, thank you letter for invitation to ASAL Conference 1987
Item 32: 20 Apr 89,1p, question about a title included in a proposed bibliography by Gale Research Company
Item 33: 31 Mar 90,1p, comments on the establishment of CALLS (Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies) at UNE and on A Human Pattern
Item 34: 7 Apr 91, 1p, comment on book by Shirley Walker, Flame and Shadow, a further comment on ‘At Cedar Creek’ and thoughts on giving up writing poetry
Item 35: Mar-Jun 1990, 1p, comments on the controversy with University of Queensland Press regarding a new ‘Selected Poems’
Item 36: 30 Jun 90, 3p, corrections and additions for chronology for updated edition of Flame and Shadow
Item 37: 29 Jul 90, 1p, comments on Phantom Dwelling
Item 38: 30 Aug 90,1p, comments on new edition of Flame and Shadow
Item 39: 18 Sep 90, 1p, comments on a proposed anthology of translations into Chinese
Item 40: 14 Nov 90, 1p, thank you for sympathy card sent on brother, Peter’s, death
Item 41: 11 Nov 92,1p
Item 42: 1 May 94, 1p, discussion on visit to Braidwood
Item 43: Undated, 1p, handwritten card
Item 44: Undated, 1p, handwritten card

This series includes: newspaper cuttings relating to Shirley Hazzard; manuscripts (handwritten and typescript) by John Beston, including the manuscript for 'Patrick White : The search for a life value'.

General research material, publicity material and ephemera.

This series includes photographs (some related to writings), personal papers, publishing contracts, publicity material, business records.

Correspondence, reports and diaries for the University of Queensland Bushwalking Club (UQBWC). This series contains the first annual report from 1950 which records the formation of the club. There are documents, correspondence, and reports relating to the Mt Barney Hut. Two diaries of outings and activies for 1994 and 1995 are present.

This series contains cuttings from journals or the journals with four short stories by Shearston and two unpublished play scripts.

Books presented to Roman Pavlyshyn

Box 6
Item 1
Power, Jan, Setting the Stage: Queensland Performing Arts Complex. The First Ten Years, ed. Sue Gough, text development and research by Kate Gould. Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 1995. Inscribed to Roman Pavlyshyn by Tony Gould.

Item 2
Queensland Art Gallery (Bowen Hills, Queensland: Queensland Newspapers Pty. Ltd., 1982. Inscribed to Roman Pavlyshyn by Raoul Mellish, 2 July 1985.

Item 3
Tucker, Maya V. This Whole Matter: The First 25 Years of the NCRB. Highett, Victoria: National Committee on Rationalised Building, 1993. With a letter from the President of the NCRB, Dr Selwyn Tucker, 9 November 1993.

Documents relating to peace campaigning leading up to the founding of People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) in Brisbane, and administrative records of PND in Brisbane and nationally. Includes minutes, correspondence, newsletters and membership lists. The series documents the internal life of the organisation in Brisbane.

Documents by and about peace and anti-nuclear organisations other than People for Nuclear Disarmament. Most of the organisations represented in this series were Australian. The documents include publications, and internal letters, circulars and newsletters.