- UQFL80
- Collection
- ca. 1900-1976
Correspondence; draft manuscripts, photographs, and personal papers relating to James Devaney.
Devaney, James, 1890-1976
Correspondence; draft manuscripts, photographs, and personal papers relating to James Devaney.
Devaney, James, 1890-1976
This collection contains published and unpublished manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and some prose pieces by John Blight, correspondence with individuals including Thomas Shapcott, Judith Wright, Bruce Beaver and Barbara Giles, and organisations, newspapers and literary societies. Also included are congress and festival pamphlets and papers, newspaper clippings and family photographs.
Blight, John, 1913-
This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993
Collection of correspondence from friends and fellow writers, mostly poets, editors and critics, discussing poetry, literary journals in Australia, personal news. Also copies of poems enclosed with letters or included in them. The earliest letter is dated 31 Nov. 1933. The great bulk of letters was written in the 1960s and 1970s. In all there are over 900 letters and a large number of unsorted postcard communications. The collection also includes some of Gwen Harwood's outgoing correspondence, and mss of her poems, with some biographical material and photographs. Correspondents include: Bruce Beaver; Peter Bennie; John Beston; Kevin Bowden; Vincent Buckley; Nancy Cato; Alexander Craig; Margaret Diesendorf; R.D. Fitzgerald; Frank Green; Rodney Hall; Rex Hobcroft; A.D. Hope; Evan Jones; Frank Kellaway; James McAuley; Roger McDonald; James Penberthy; Craig Powell; Thomas Riddell; Keith Russell; Thomas Shapcott; Larry Sitsky; Vivian Smith; Norman Talbot. Includes folder of letters, with some poems, to Ann Jennings, 1959-1988. There are also some photographs and audio recordings.
Harwood, Gwen
Margaret Laura de Visme Howard Papers
Manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, photographs, correspondence.
Howard, Margaret Laura de Visme, 1912-1990
Correspondence, poetry and prose manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, and other materials relating to the life, literary output and teaching career of Bruce Dawe.
Dawe, Bruce, 1930-
Letters from Gwen Harwood and her husband, F.W. Harwood, to Alison Hoddinott and her husband W.G. Hoddinott. Includes "Sappho cards", parodies of other Australian poets, accounts of Gwen Harwood's first meetings with James McAuley and A.D. Hope, a full account of the Walter Lehmann Bulletin hoax, and manuscript poems. Also typescript for "The lion's bride", dream book, and Sappho cards to Thea Goodwin. Alison Hoddinott's book, Blessed city : the letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell January to September 1943 was awarded the Age Book of the Year in 1990.
Hoddinott, Alison, 1931-
Correspondence relating to literary awards, functions and festivals, publishers, anthology requests, eisteddfods; books of poetry collections; festival brochures and entry forms; photographs; literary magazines and newsletters; biographical statements; manuscripts of poems.
Bulk of papers 1970-1984.
Staunton, Madge, 1917
Literary manuscripts, articles, publications, a small amount of correspondence.
Manifold, J. S. (John Streeter), 1915-1985
Alexander Craig Correspondence
Sixteen postcards written by Gwen Harwood to Alexander Craig in 1962. Most of them marked by Gwen Harwood as 'Sappho cards': These cards have illustrations cut from Victorian and Edwardian books and magazines, some with conversation bubbles or annotations. Some postcards have poems by Harwood.
Item 1: 20 Jan 2019
Item 2: 23 Jan 1962
Item 3: 2 Feb 1962
Item 4: 7 Feb 1962
Item 5: 9 Mar 1962 (postmark date)
Item 6: 13 Mar 1962 (postmark date)
Item 7: 13 Mar 1962 (written date)
Item 8: 30 Mar 1962
Item 9: 3 May 1962
Item 10: 14 May 1962
Item 11: 18 May 1962
Item 12: 21 May 1962
Item 13: 1 Jun 1962
Item 14: 9 Jun 1962
Item 15: 13 Dec 1962
Item 16: 26 Dec 1962
Craig, Alexander, 1923-1996