• Title
  Series 02: Miles Franklin published manuscripts, 1925 - ca.1950, undated
• Call number
  MLMSS 6035/20-41
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1925-ca.1950, undated
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  100354
• Scope and Content
  ca. 1933; All that swagger. Novel. (Published 1936). Manuscript with corrections in 18 exercise books. The first book is dated 22/3/33. Also includes 2 further exercise books of manuscript which appear to be early rough drafts. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/20)
  
  ca. 1934; All that swagger. Novel. (Published 1936). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. A note dated "Feb 13 36" states that "This copy contains final revisions." A further note dated 17 Dec 1935 states that this novel was entered in the Melbourne Centenary Prize Competition in 1934. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/21)
  
  1933-35; All that swagger. Novel. (Published 1936). Three typescripts with manuscript additions and corrections. 1. "First draft". Dated 1933. 2. Early rough draft. Undated. 3. Later draft. Dated 1935. Also includes some odd pages relating to the novel. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/22)
  
  ca. 1950; Laughter, not for a cage. Notes on Australian writing with biographical emphasis on the struggles, function and achievements of the novel here in three half-centuries. (Published in 1956). Typescript with manuscript corrections. Also includes rough draft typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/23)
  
  1935-36; My career goes bung. Novel. (Published in 1946). Typescript (4) with manuscript additions and corrections. Also includes some odd pages relating to this novel.
  Undated; Pioneers on parade or Back to Sir Galahad. Novel. (Published in 1939). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections.
  Undated; Sydney Royal. A modern fairy tale - Trading in Australia as a furphy. (Published in 1947?). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. Also includes a ballad entitled The ballad of Sydney Royal. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/24)
  
  1939; Who was Joseph Furphy? Biographical essay written under the pen name of The Glowworm. Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. Also includes rough typescript draft with manuscript additions and corrections. A later version titled Joseph Furphy: the legend of a man and his book was published in 1944. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/25)
  
  1929; Back to Bool Bool. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1931). "Corrected rough typed draft" with manuscript additions and corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/26)
  
  1927; Back to Bool Bool. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1931). Manuscript. Includes prologue.
  Undated; Back to Bool Bool. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1931). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/27)
  
  Undated; Back to Bool Bool. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1931). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections.
  Undated; Back to Bool Bool. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1931). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. Also includes some odd pages. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/ 28)
  
  1936-37; Cockatoos. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1954). Manuscript with corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/29)
  
  !927-28; Cockatoos. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1954). Typescript (2) with manuscript corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/30)
  
  1937, 1947; Cockatoos. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1954). Two typescript drafts with manuscript additions and corrections. 1. "Copy of the 1927 copy bearing revisions for the 1937 copy." 2. "Copy of the 1937 version as revised and retyped during October 1947." (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/31)
  
  1928; Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1956). Manuscript with corrections. Also includes two other typescript copies both entered for the Bulletin competition, one under the title Piccadillian Pantaloons on the hoof by Brent of Bin Bin in 1928 and the other under the title Snow Daisies by Saddle Flap in 1929. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/32)
  
  Undated; Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang. A tale of Piccadilly's pants a-hoof. (Published in 1956). Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. Includes an appendix of newspaper reviews of previous books by Brent of Bin Bin. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/33)
  
  1925; Merlin of the Empiah. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin. (Published in 1950 under the title Prelude to waking). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. Also includes odd pages relating to the novel.
  1928; Ten Creeks Run. A tale of the up-country horse & cattle stations. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1930). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/34)
  
  1928; Ten Creeks Run. A tale of the horse and cattle stations of the Upper Murrumbidgee, Australia. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1930).Typescript (2) with manuscript corrections being "1st typed draft & final typed draft". (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/35)
  
  1927, undated; Ten Creeks Run. A tale of the horse and cattle stations of the Upper Murrumbidgee. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1930). Typescript (2) with manuscript corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/36)
  
  1927; Ten Creeks Run. Novel. (Published in 1930). Manuscript with corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/37)
  
  1927; Up the country. Novel. (Published in 1928). Manuscript with corrections. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/38)
  
  Undated; Up the country. A tale of the early Australian Squattocracy. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1928). Two typescript copies with corrections. 1. "Top typed copy as sent to [Henry] Paine." (Paine was an agent for authors in New York). 2. "3rd & final copy yellow paper as submitted to Bulletin." The cover and title page states that the novel is by "Squatter". (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/39)
  
  1927; Up the country. A tale of not so long ago. Novel written under the pen name of Brent of Bin Bin. (Published in 1928). Typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. The first page states "First rough draft only." An author's note at the end is signed Blake of Bin Bin as is the dedication. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/40)
  
  1962; Miles Franklin's manuscripts and type-scripts. (Catalogue No. 47). Issued to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the firm Messrs. Berkelouw 1812-1962. (Call No.: ML MSS 6035/41)
• Finding Aids
  Read transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a801.html
• General note
  
  The manuscript of All that Swagger (MLMSS 6035/20) has been preserved as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
  Digital order no: Album ID : 824180
• Exhibited in
  
  Miles Franklin: a Brilliant Career? - State Library of New South Wales (1 March - 13 June, 2004)
• Open Rosetta viewer
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