Parcel 1
Folder 19: “Alphabetical list of authors followed by list of collections of several authors”
Folder 20: Correspondence, 1962 and 1990
Folder 21: Clippings and newsletters pertaining to youth-related activities

The series is comprised mostly of correspondence relating to publishing and publishers, and literary associations.

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Item 22: 22 Sep 80, 1p, authorising photocopying of unpublished material in the Meanjin collection in Baillieu Library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 mostly consists of correspondence between Shearston and University of Queensland Press (UQP) during his time with them, from 1977 to 1998. Included are the memorandum of agreements for his first three works of fiction published with UQP.

Material consists mostly of correspondence from Father Hayes to his sister Mary (Mrs Ambrose Brown) and his niece Jean Brown. Other correspondence includes letters from Daniel Augustine O'Brien.

Correspondents include Gregory Alcock, Peter Atkins and Dana Atkins, Lincoln Austin, Bart [?], Peter Besley, Leonard, Brown, A M Brustead, Chris Capper, Milton Cater, Elizabeth W Colton, Greg Colwill, Arthur Creedy, Mary Creedy (nee Fraser), Malcolm Enright, Joe Felber, Jill Godfrey, Kathryn Gow, Brother Gregory of the St Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Jon Haigh, Nigel Hall, Miles Hall, Rosemary Heritage, Margaret Hockey, Martyn Hope, Warwick Hunter, Ian [Friend?], Leonie Sue Johnson, Kevin King, Ildiko Kovacs, James Lecesne, Dalky L’Estrange, Carlson Loke, Rick Loveridge, lan Matthews, John McPhee, Jacques Montredon and Denise Montredon Dromard, Bernadette O’Shea, Sean Phillips, Gwyn Pigott (Gwyn Hanssen Pigott), Diana Post, Luke Roberts, Etienne Roy, Elvis Seman, Brendan Smith, Madonna Staunton, Margaret Summerville, Lida Zannier.

43 letters.

Correspondence to John Beston from many Australian authors relating to his research on Patrick White. Authors include Patrick White, Thea Astley, Gwen Harwood, Xavier Herbert, Thomas Keneally, David Malouf, David Williamson and Judith Wright.

Fifteen letters to Wiliam Albert Amiet.