Letter, 1971 Jun 1 / Castlemaine, Vic. to Head of English Dept., University of Queensland.
Handwritten letter to Head of English Dept [Ken Goodwin] enquiring if any student had written a thesis on Mary Hannay Foott who was related to Helen Vellacott through marriage. Information about the Foott family is included.
Vellacott, Helen, 1911-
[Eleven poems] / compiled by Wendy Allen.
Handwritten poems, some signed by John Manifold, others not, but appear to be in the same hand. One poem might have been written by another person.
Poems:
To an incompletely remembered mistress
Sonnet for a Caravaggio lady
Resignation with a sonambulist
Ex Africa ....
Sparrows, a flower-swallow and Captain Cook's tea tree (Trochaic sonnet)
Plasticarol for a plastichristmas
Death indefinitely postponed in the old men's home
Death in the old men's home
Warning against loving too much
[Poem beginning with the words] Nurse Exe-Wye, that teetotal bidge...
[Poem beginning] Why Kampuchea? What about Timor? (This poem is not like the others, so may be by another person).
Manifold, J. S. (John Streeter), 1915-1985
Live with me / Dora Sutherland.
Two copies of handwritten sheet music scored for voice and piano.
Musical setting to poem by William Shakespeare .
Sutherland, Dora
All in a garden / music by Muriel King, words by Heather Green.
Handwritten sheet music scored for voice and piano.
King, Muriel
Handwritten transcript of sheet music scored for voice and piano.
Hiller, Ferdinand, 1811-1885
La valse des adieux : vieille chansonnette francaise.
Two copies of handwritten sheet music scored for voice and piano.
Green, Heather
Souvenir of the Northern Tour of the Hon J.G. Appel (Home Secretary), 1914,
Bound album of black and white photographs. Appears to be a record of Appel's voyage while Home Secretary in the Queensland Government Steamer "Otter" in 1914 which went as far north as Daru on the coast of south-western Papua.
Appel, John George, 1859-1929
The Griffin Theatre Company : the Australian Writers' Theatre.
Typescript history of The Griffin Theatre Company with list of productions (1979-1989) and covering letter from Noel Hodda to Margaret O'Hagan (1 p.).
Hodda, Noel, 1954-
Letter, 1920 Mar 6 : Boys' Grammar School, Ipswich, to Prof Stable.
Handwritten letter to Professor Stable asking his advice about going to Oxford for postgraduate study.
Thomson, A. K. (Andrew Kilpatrick)
Letter, 1957 Aug 12 : Clayfield, to A.K. Thomson.
Typescript letter to A.K. Thomson from Wendy Stephens, Secretary of the University of Queensland Dramatic Society thanking him for his help as Patron for 1956-1957.
Stephens, Wendy