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Boonjie : a romance of a lost tribe of Australian Aborigines, a North Queensland story

  • F3878
  • Item
  • 1940

Fictional story about Aboriginal Australians set in North Queensland. Two copies are carbon copy typescript and one is original typescript. Six black and white photographic prints pasted throughout the story. Four leaves of glossary at the end with fictionalised Australian language terms.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased, including an image of a mummified corpse (between pp. 66-67). It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Meredith, Percival Fortescue

Ian Callinan Papers

  • UQFL602
  • Collection
  • 1995-2016

Drafts of plays and books by Ian Callinan.

Callinan, Ian

Rosemary Opala Papers

  • UQFL361
  • Collection
  • 1910-2008.

Sketches, biographical material, artwork, photographs, and short stories related to Rosemary Opala's nursing career and her career as a writer of popular magazine fiction. There are 48 original artworks, some framed, primarily of plants and 830 x 35mm colour slides.

Opala, Rosemary, 1923-2008

Herb Wharton Papers

  • UQFL212
  • Collection
  • 1988-2006

Manuscript drafts of books and poetry, correspondence, diaries, speeches, notes, taped interviews, newspaper cuttings, photographs.

Wharton, Herb, 1936-

Dorothy Blewett Papers

  • UQFL660
  • Collection
  • 1930-1965

This collection is comprised mostly of papers relating to Dorothy Blewett including: drafts of playscripts, novels, short stories, and articles for published and published works; a small amount of incoming and outgoing correspondence; photographs; personal documents; documents relating to her professional activities; and theatre programs and travel ephemera relating to her time spent in the 1950s in England and Europe. There are also some papers relating to the activities of her sisters, Elizabeth Melville Blewett (born Elsie Melville Blewett, also referred to as 'Bill') and Rowena Sarah May Blewett.

Blewett, Dorothy, 1898-1965

Margot Hutcheson Papers

  • UQFL577
  • Collection
  • 1974-2010

Photographs, notebooks, correspondence, invitations, paintings and documents created by or about Margot Hutcheson.

Hutcheson, Margot, 1952-

An interview with Sadie Herbert

  • F3796
  • Item
  • 1976

Sadie Herbert, wife of Xavier Herbert, is interviewed by Fryer Librarian Nancy Bonnin while Xavier is Writer-in-Residence at the University of Queensland English Department. Audiovisual Librarian Marjorie Roe and Librarian Marianne Ehrhardt contribute. Sadie talks about various aspects of Xavier's work, life and family; about her own life; and their shared experiences in Australia and abroad.

Herbert, Sadie, 1900-1979

Nick Earls Papers

  • UQFL376
  • Collection
  • 1989-2014.

Literary drafts, correspondence, research notes, audio and video recordings, ephemera.

Earls, Nick, 1963-

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