Speeches, papers, presentations authored or co-authored by John Pearn.

This series contains drafts of reviews, published and unpublished, of other authors works as well as documents for some of the literary and art awards where she was a judge.

Architectural drawings relating to government, educational, residential, commercial and ecclesiastical jobs undertaken by Robin Gibson and Partners throughout the life of Gibson's practice in Brisbane. While the vast majority of the drawings are the work of Gibson, his partners and staff, some drawings were created by engineering firms and architectural artists commissioned by Gibson.
Key to creators' initials:
RFG/RG - Robin Findlay Gibson
FR - Finn Rasmussen
CHC - Col Christ
AK - Alan Kirkwood
WSH - William (Bill) S Heather
PW - Paul Wallace

The series contains documents and architectural drawings relating to Kevin and Betty Leyshon's house at Hunt Street, Burpengary designed by Noel Robinson (as part of 'Noel Robinson + ptnrs' and later as 'Noël Robinson Built Environments Pty Ltd). There is a file with correspondence with the Caboolture Shire Council, financial information, contracts, design notes, and photocopies of plans. There are also 2 spiralbound copies of the specifications, with divergent handwritten notes and marks on each, and a prospectus for ‘Noel Robinson Built Environments Pty Ltd’, dated post 1981. Of the architectural drawings, six plans are for the original build of the house at Hunt Street: Job no. 1105 'Leyshon House Burpengary’: ‘Plans elevations’, drawing no. 1, Aug 1974; ‘Section details', drawing no. 2, Aug 1974; ‘Details kitchen utility’, drawing no. 3; ’Details bathroom’, drawing no. 4; ‘Dormitory details', drawing no. 5, Mar 1975; ‘Storage shed and chicken coop’, drawing no. 6, May 76. There are two architectural drawings for job no. 1229, ‘House extensions’: ‘Schematic’ dated Feb 1978, drawing no. 1; and “Working drawings’, drawing no. 2, Mar 78. Four of the architectural drawings are for extensions, designed by Noel Robinson Built Environments, for K.R. & B.A. Leyshon, 'House extensions', no job or drawing numbers, dated Dec 1984 to Jun 1985. Two different sets of plans for the billiard room seem to have been drawn up, one portrayed as a curved room on the end of the existing house, one as a free-standing geodesic dome.
There are six plans in A3 size, with no date or job number, titled ‘Leyshon House Burpengary’: ‘Site plan’, drawing no. 001; ‘Existing ground floor plan’, drawing no. 002; ‘Tiling and paving layout’, drawing no. 003; ‘New ground floor plan’, drawing no. 010; ‘First floor plan’, drawing no. 011; ‘Kitchen plan and sections’, drawing no. 012; ‘Kitchen sections’, drawing no. 013.

There are two photocopies of plans for the Leyshon House by James Architects, no dates, which appears to be interior design improvements for the house. Unsure if this work was done. There is no related correspondence.

Recordings of interviews given to promote the Association and its activities.

Folders of information about individual Queensland artists and their creative output.

Two bound typescripts of largely unpublished short stories, the first titled Tales Natural and Supernatural (ca.1944) and the second Goodbye to Elliott and Other Stories (ca.1947). The second typescript is mainly a redrafting of the first.

20 colour slides of students' architectural models, taken by Stephen Trotter.

Correspondence with others about Judith Wright, and other miscellaneous material collected.

Folder 2
Item 1: Judith Wright’s academic record from the University of Sydney, 1934-36 (includes photocopies from the Calendar of the University of Sydney outlining subjects studied)
Item 2: 22 Aug 80,1p, letter from Les Murray to Shirley Walker in response to a request to review The Poetry of Judith Wright, intended for publication in the Armidale Express
Item 3: Photocopy of the review by Les Murray of The Poetry of Judith Wright considered too contentious to publish in the Armidale Express
Item 4: 5 Jun 80, 1p, handwritten postcard from Les Murray to Shirley Walker regarding review of The Poetry of Judith Wright
Item 5: 3 Nov 93, 1p, handwritten postcard from Les Murray to Shirley Walker
Item 6: 19 Oct 83, original version of poem ‘Falls Country’ given to Shirley Walker by Peter Skryznecki, different to final version
Item 7: 15 Sep 74, 2p, letter from A.D. Hope to Shirley Walker regarding his book Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 8: 18 Jul 83, 2p, letter from Dorothy Green to Shirley Walker regarding article written by Shirley Walker on Christina Stead published in Meridian, handwritten
Item 9: 22 Oct 82, 1p, letter from Barbara Hanrahan to Shirley Walker, handwritten
Item 10: 05 Sep ?, 1p, letter from Jessica Anderson to Shirley Walker
Item 11: 24 Jan 80, 1p, letter from Jessica Anderson to Shirley Walker, handwritten
Item 12: Copy of speech by Shirley Walker at the launch of Peter Pierce’s book, Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally’s Fiction, at the ASAL Conference 1995
Item 13: 10 Jul 95, 2p, letter from Tom Keneally to Shirley Walker responding to her speech
Item 14: 28 Jul 95, 2p, letter from Shirley Walker to Tom Keneally replying to his letter dated 10 Jul 95, not answered
Item 15: 08 Jul 92, 1p, letter from Ken Goodwin regarding Vanishing Edens
Item 16: 10 Sep 79, 1p, letter from Ali Athar to Shirley Walker regarding his PhD study on Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 17: 15 Feb 80, 1p, letter from Ali Athar to Shirley Walker regarding his PhD study on Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 18: Photocopy of article by Ali Arthur, ‘Judith Wright’s mysticism: its Indo-Iranian strain’
Item 19: Photocopies of poems which appeared in the Sydney Mail 1925-29, New England Girls’ School Chronicle 1930-32, Hermes 1934, and miscellaneous poems arranged in chronological order
Item 20: Photocopies of the New England Girls’ School Chronicle 1930-1932 includes juvenilia poems and biographical information on Judith Wright

Folder 4
Item 1: 24 Dec 81, 1p, letter from Chairman, Division of Humanities, Morris College to Shirley Walker regarding article ‘Poetry of Judith Wright’
Item 2: 19 Sep 80, 2p, letter from [Peter ?] to Shirley Walker regarding references to Judith Wright in New Zealand newspapers
Item 3: 11 Mar 80, 1p, letter from Anna to Shirley Walker regarding Judith Wright poems published in An Australian Anthology
Item 4: 26 May 80, 1p, letter from Marianne Ehrhardt to Shirley Walker regarding Judith Wright poems in Fryer Library
Item 5: Wright, Judith, ‘The reef’s defenders’, The National Times, 14-20 Dec 1980, p12
Item 6: Clarke, Julie, ‘Judith Wright: Literary Ladies of Australia’, source not known, p92
Item 7: Photocopies of poems by Judith Wright:
--‘Remembered drought’, Bulletin, 17 Jan 51, p21
--‘Inheritor’, Bulletin, 19 Sep 51, p2
--‘The poet ages’, 21 Mar 56, p2
--‘The true religion’, Australian, 25 Oct 69, p15
--‘Hide or run?’, Canberra Poetry, Winter 1974, pp35-36
--‘The eucalypt and the national character’, Blacksmith, no 2, 1975, p46
--‘The emergence’, Southerly, vol 7, no 2, 1946, p84
--‘Nocturne’, Hermes, 1934, p22
--‘The crucible’, Hermes, 1934, p24
--‘Nocturne’, Hermes, 1935, p26
--‘Earth’, Australian National Review, 1 Oct 38, pp53-54
--‘City rain’, Australian National Review, Apr, 1939, pp51-52
--‘Battle-station, New Guinea’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Nov 42, p7, copied by hand
--‘Township at night’, Bulletin, 17 Feb 43, p12
--‘G.W. Australia 1827’, source not known
--‘The bubble’, Jindyworobak Anthology, 1949, p10
--‘The last classicist’, Austrovert, no 7, 1952, p7
--‘To A.D. Hope’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Nov 65
--‘Painting an orchard’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 1, no 3, 1973, p2
--‘Eve to Adam’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 1, no 3, 1973, p3
--‘After the visitors’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 2, no 1, 1973, p3
--‘Remembering Michael’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 2, no 3, 1974, p3
--‘About building’, New Poetry, vol 22, no 2 and 3, 1974, p54
--‘For M.R., in return’, Poetry Australia, vol 50, 1974, p34
--‘Dream’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 3, no 3, 1975, p15
--‘Elegy for a whale’, Nation Review, Apr 9-15, 1976, p644
--‘Learning a word’, Overland, vol 62, 1975, p44
--‘Thought control machine’, Overland, vol 64, 1976, p36
--‘The emergence’, Southerly, vol 8, no 2, 1946, p84
--‘To Hafiz of Shiraz’, Galmahra, 1960, p35
--‘The document’, source not known
--‘The city asleep’, ‘Flame-tree in a quarry’, ‘Woman to man’, ‘Woman to child’, Poetry Commonwealth, vol 2, 1948, pp2-4
--‘Hunting snake’, Luna, p10
--‘Entertainment’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p305
--‘On the beach at Hokitika’, Landfall, no 120, 1976 p304
--‘In the rail-car’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p303
--‘From the Wellington museum’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p302
--‘Canberra’, Hemisphere, vol 20, no 4, 1976, p41
--‘Campfire at evening’, Poet’s Choice, 1977, p 74
--‘End of a monarchy’, Age, 5 Feb 77, p22
--‘Elegy for a whale’, Poet’s Choice, 1976, pp61-62
--‘Power dream’, Canberra Poetry, 1976, p29
--‘Boundaries’, Age, 28 Aug 76, p120
--‘End of a monarchy’, Poems from the Age, 1979, 122
--‘Durre’, Neue Welt, 29 Aug 61
--‘To A.H., New Year, 1943’, The Moving Image, 1946, pp14-15
--‘The other half’, ‘Brush-turkey’, The Texas Quarterly Image of Australia, 1962, p 94
--‘Late spring’, Bulletin, 31 Oct 56, p34
--‘White night’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, no 1, 1972, p3
--‘Carrion beetles’, Southerly, vol 26, no 2, 1966, p93
--‘For Mariano Coreno, migrant poet’, Poetry Australia, no 6, 1995, p6
--‘The bargain’, Bulletin, 9 May 56, p2
--‘At a public dinner’, source not known
--‘Christmas ballad’, Overland, Autumn, 1973, p4
--‘The madman singing’, Poetry, no 16, pp25-27
--‘Eve scolds’, Australian, 10 Mar 73, p33
--‘Beside a creek’ and ‘The young wife’, London Magazine vol 2, no 6, 1962, pp37-38
--‘Two songs of mad Tom’, The Gateway, 1953, pp20-21
--‘The moving image’, part 3, 1962, pp4-6, source not known
--‘To A.H., New Year, 1943,’ 1962, pp14-15, source not known
--‘The unborn’, Poetry, no 18, 1946, p13
--‘The women’, Poetry, no 19, 1946, p12
--‘The garden’, Poetry, no 21, 1946, p23
--‘The clock’, Poetry, no 14, 1945, pp 13-14
--‘Two at night’, Poetry, 1947, p13
--‘Song for a drowning sailor’, The Gateway, 1953, p18
--‘That seed’, Poet’s Choice, 1971, pp4-5
--‘Halfway’, Australian Poetry, 1971, pp114-115
--City Sunrise, The Shapcott Press, Brisbane,1964, handwritten copy
--‘Value judgement’, Meanjin, 1956, p345
--‘Wings’, Australian Poetry, 1969, p33
--‘Furniture: mirrors’, Square Poets, 1971, p42
--‘Growth’, Meanjin, 1956, p240
--‘Two sides of a story’, Australian Poetry, 1969, p35
--‘The twins’, source not known

Item 1. '41st Battalion : unveiling of memorial' (clipping, Brisbane Courier, [November?] 12, 1931)
Item 2. Information for visitors to Australian soldiers' graves in France and Belgium. London : High Commissioner for Australia, undated.