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Job 526 - St Joseph's Church, Gayndah

Twenty-one architectural drawings for Proposed Alterations to St Joseph's Church, Gayndah, including reference drawing, sketch plans including floor plans, sections, and elevations; working drawings including floor plans, sections, details; and joinery plans including an altar, sacristy, and furniture plans.

Autobiographies

Goener's autobiography, in three versions:
-- 3 ledgers of his original holograph account;
-- a lengthier more complete autobiography sent to the Fryer Library in installments, as completed;
-- an abridged version, with illustrations, edited by Nancy Bonnin, then Fryer Librarian, for submission for the Oxford Quincentenary Award, 1977.

Something in the blood [short story collection] (1979)

This series contains drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings, and correspondence. Something in the blood was published by University of Queensland Press (UQP) in 1979. Consisting of fifteen (15) short stories set in Papua New Guinea before its Independence. The short story Drowning was first published in the New Guinea Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, 1975-76. Some stories contain short passages in Pidgin. The stories deal with the themes of local customs, attitudes, acts of aggression, missionaries, loneliness, and racism. Includes drafts, cuttings of reviews from journals and magazine, scripts of radio plays adapted from the stories, and related correspondence.

'Book of memory' and birthday card

"Book of memory for James Devaney, frontispiece designed and illuminated by Chas. Sherratt. Bound by the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Redcliffe (Qld.) Branch to honour the 80th birthday of James Devaney 31st May 1970." 1 item (51 l., bound, typescript and holograph, col. ill., 20.5 x 21 cm.); contains letters, poems, appreciations by famous Australian writers and friends. Accompanied by birthday card, also illuminated.

Fellowship of Australian Writers. Redcliffe Branch

Screenplays and scripts.

The series includes manuscript and typescript drafts, notes, research material, and some related correspondence Carey's screenplays, of which Bliss and Until the end of the world were produced.

Student portfolios

6 volumes of student coursework from Architecture Theory and History subjects.

Sinnamon, Ian T.

Diaries of David Malouf

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.

Sticks that kill [novel] (1983)

This series contains drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings, research material and correspondence. Sticks that kill was published by University of Queensland Press in 1983. Initially the novel was preceded by a stage play called Goaribari. This series includes drafts, handwritten notes, research material, cuttings of reviews from journals and magazines, and material removed or deleted from the novel.

The novel is set in British New Guinea and covers a very short period from 1900 to 1903. The story centers around John Rhys, newly arrived to Port Moresby, who works as clerk to the Government Secretary, Mr Ellison. During Rhys's time there the tensions of colonial government (with Britain and Australia both having responsibility for the region during this time) , missionaries, and the local population are revealed.

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