Letter concerns A.D. Hope's poem "Australia"

The record is in columned form with typescript headings : Date, Name of manuscript, Where sent, Accepted or rejected, Date, Payment. The record is in 2 sequences : Manuscripts sent to literary magazines and publishers, and Manuscripts sent to broadcasters (chiefly ABC, ABC TV, and two to BBC).

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

Material relating to Jean Mary Bird. Consists of colour photograph of Jean Bird, Ford Memorial Medal dating from 1958, Photocopies of Bird's poem 'Sonnet' and biography.

Letters, cards and postcards, handwritten and typed, including Gwen Harwood's last letter to Tony Riddell (29 November 1995). Includes 4 letters from other correspondents to Gwen Harwood. Also accompanied by a handwritten libretto by Harwood, entitled "Lenz: opera in one act, after Buchner" and an audiotape recording of its performance by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

Letters, cards and postcards, holograph and typescript, including last letter written to Ann Jennings two weeks before the author's death. Accompanied by typescript copies of early poems , one of which, "Gwen Harwood addresses her muse" has a final stanza unpublished in the poet's life-time.
Also accompanied by original holograph manuscript of "An impromptu for Ann Jennings".

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.

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).