Correspondence, poems, framed artwork. A large part of the correspondence is with David Malouf, as well as other prominent writers. Includes explanatory notes by Judith Rodriguez.

Manuscripts of poems.

Folder 1
Moll, Ernest George: Letter 30 Mar 1960 to Joan Rattner, This Week Magazine, New York re article requested, enclosing copies of verse. Attached: 2 leaves discussing Lawson’s idea of mateship, which possibly belong with this letter.
Letter, Dec 1974, from Ernest Moll’s daughter to Cecil Hadgraft with mss note from Moll.

Folder 2
Below these hills, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1957, Original notes based on discussions with his brother AO Moll, owner of “Strathdown”; draft chapters and notes.

Folder 3
Briseis [a poem] New York, Pagent Press, 1965, Manuscript with notes and draft versions.

Folder 4
Campus sonnets, Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Press, 1934, Manuscript of 9 poems published in this anthology.

Folder 5
Jonah at Ninevah [poem] 1953, Work-sheets of Jonah at Ninevah, first published in The lifted Spear, Angus and Robertson, 1953

Folder 6
The road to Cactus-land [a group of poems] Sydney, Edwards & Shaw, 1971, Manuscript with draft versions. Note: The first version was about twice as long as the final one, 17 Apr 1972.

Folder 7
Ruth [poem]. Unfinished manuscript of a poem intended as a companion piece to Jonah at Ninevah.

Folder 8
Unpublished poems beginning 9 Nov 1959, this seems to mean unpublished in book form, as
some at least have appeared in periodicals.

Folder 9
Three letters from EG Moll dated 1968 to 1973

Folder 10
Review of Collected poems 1930 – 1965, by AD Hope, New York, Viking Press, 1966, published in Northwest Review.

Folder 11
Autobiographical material: Repertory ramblings: reminiscences of the Brisbane Repertory Society and its producer Barbara Sisley, 1956. [This item has been transferred to the George Landen Dann collection, see UQFL65 Item E6]

Item 1
Notebook containing the original versions and emendations of several volumes of his poems.

Interview recordings, transcripts and correspondence.

Manuscripts, publications, personal records and framed portrait.
Most of the items in this collection are inscribed by Briggs. Multiple copies of the same manuscript title may have different binding and inscriptions.

Literary drafts, journals (diaries), correspondence, publications, cassette tapes.

Correspondence and poetry manuscripts. Includes: ‘Rain in the Pine-Wood’, by Gabriele D’Annunzio, English version by Ernest Briggs, [19--], 3p, typescript (Previously catalogued at F1992); ‘Consolation’, by Gabriele D’Annunzio, English version by Ernest Briggs, [19--], 4p, typescript (Previously catalogued at F1993).

42 letters from Judith Wright to Shirley Walker, 1973-1994. Also material collected by Shirley Walker, including Judith Wright's academic record from the University of Sydney, photocopies of the appearance of her earliest poems and letters from other writers, including A.D. Hope and Thomas Keneally, assessing her work.

Letters, postcards and photographs sent by Gwen Harwood to her friend Helen Mills.

Mainly cards and letters from Gwen Harwood to Father Alan Arthur Farrell. Includes some letters from Father Farrell to Gwen Harwood, and some cards from Gwen Harwood to other correspondents.