Series 01 Part 01: Stewart family - further papers of Douglas Stewart, 19---1984

MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/Boxes 1-8
MLOH 317/1-2

series

19-- - 1984

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

402199

I. DOUGLAS STEWART

1937-1984; Correspondence, being mainly letters received, with family and friends (Arranged chronologically). Literary correspondents include David Campbell, 1963; Beatrice Davis, Date unknown; A. Grove Day, 1957; Mary Gilmore, 1959; David Martin, 1961; J. K. Moir, 1948; Les A. Murray, 1967; J. C. Powys, 1937; Leslie Rees, 1954; Colin Simpson, Date unknown; Robin Slessor, 1978; Keith Wingrove, 1974; and copy of letter from Douglas Stewart to Union Fidelity Trustee Co., 30 Dec. 1969, concerning the estate of Norman Lindsay (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/1)

Date unknown; Letters received jointly with his wife, Margaret Coen, mainly from Beatrice Davis and Les A. Murray (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/1)

196--197-; Letters received jointly with his wife, Margaret Coen, from their daughter, Meg Stewart (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/1)

1945-1984; Newscuttings mainly concerning Douglas Stewart and his writing (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/2)

1913-1984; Literary papers, including literary manuscripts, proofs, notes and correspondence, being among others photocopied typed transcript selections from A. G. Stephens' diaries (?), Oct. 1896-Mar. 1919; papers concerning The Book of Bellerive [Joseph Tishler]. Brisbane: Jacaranda, 1961, including photoprint of Tishler, J. K. Moir and Edward (Teddy) Harrington, 1950, and letter recieved from Mervyn Skipper, 1961; carbon typescript of 'The Cats of Springwood' by Norman Lindsay, with MS. correction by Stewart; notes for talk concerning National Book Council dinner for 1976 Bookman's Award winner, Beatrice Davis, 3. Dec. 1976; carbon typescript of incomplete novel, Date unknown; and radio scripts by Stewart, including 'Ned Kelly', being a revised adaptation, 1954 (Call No.: MLMS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/3)

1962-1963; Diary of Eve Langley (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

1902-1966; Papers concerning Stewart and Fitzgerald families, including letters and photoprints (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

1951-1983; Legal and financial papers, including copy of his contract with Angus and Robertson, 19 Jan. 1945, concerning sale of/rights to The Golden Lover, and copy of his will, 2 June 1974 (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

1954; Papers concerning his overseas trip (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

Date unknown; Notebook (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

Date unknown; Address book (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

Date unknown; Autograph book, including William Edwin Pidgeon (WEP), Joe Lynch, Cecil L. Hartt, with draft of letter to King [Coen ?], 6 May 1975 (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

1949, Date unknown; Presentation pen & ink drawing of a young girl [a character illustaration ?] by Pixie O'Harris, 1949, and black & white caricature of Douglas Stewart by Jack Lusby, Date unknown (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

Date unknown; Original bookplates (3): (1) F. C. V. Lane by Will Donald; (2) Amy Josephine Broome by Gayfield Shaw; (3) Lillian Ruth Ball by Gayfield Shaw (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/4)

19---1984; Printed material/books, including books (3) awarded to Stewart at New Plymouth Boys' High School (NZ), 1926-1930; Harold Munro: The Augustan Books of English Poetry. London: Ernest Benn Ltd, ca. 1925; The Shakespearean Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 2, Apr. 1922; dust jacket of We Were the Rats (1944) by Lawson Glassop; program of Doila Ribush Company production of Ned Kelly by Douglas Stewart, at Union Theatre, Sydney, 30 Sept. 1944; Helping Literature in Australia: The Work of the Commonwealth Literary Fund (1967), autographed by A. Grenfell Price, Kenneth Slessor, H. (M?) L. white, Kylie Tennant, T. Inglis Moore and Douglas Stewart; collections of self-published verse (4) by R. G. Howarth, 1965-1972, being presentation copies; The Poet in Australia: A Discursive Essay (1975), being presentation copy with enclosed letter from Hasluck to Stewart, 12 Nov. 1975; and So Much for Sydney (1956) and Exit, An Empire (1957) by John E. Webb, the latter a presentation copy (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/5)

1953-1984; Printed material/books, including journal/magazine issues of Bank Notes, Quadrant and Southerly with mentions and writings of Stewart; book catalogues; and Lloyd Rees Survey Drawings & Paintings 1918-1980 (1981), being presentation copy from Lloyd Rees (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/6)

1933-1983; Printed material/books, including ephemera, invitations and journal/magazine issues of The Bulletin, The Spectator, National Trust Magazine and The Australian Outline, Nos 1-2, Dec. 1933, Feb.-Mar. 1934 (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/7)

Papers concerning Norman Lindsay:
Date unknown, 195-; Letters received from Norman Lindsay, with copy of letter from A. W. Baker to Law and Milne, Solicitors, 16 Aug. 1977, concerning the estate of Professor R. G. Howarth, and crossed cheque from Lindsay to Stewart, 19 Aug. 1945 (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

1923-1944, 1966, Date unknown; Correspondence of Norman Lindsay, being mainly letters received. Correspondents include Kenneth Slessor, 1939, expressing thanks for Lindsay's illustrations to Five Bells (1939), a copy of which is enclosed; T. Werner Laurie Ltd, Publishers, London, 1938, with enclosed Australian Customs notice of seizure for postcards advertising The Cautious Amorist; Rose Lindsay, 1966; and Howard Hinton, 1923, 1930, 1944 (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

1943-1949; Financial papers of Norman Lindsay, including bank book, 1946-1947, and income tax notices of assessment (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

193-, Date unknown; Literary manuscripts by Norman Lindsay, being verse, ca. 1938, enclosed in Norman Lindsay exhibition catalogue, The Macleod Gallery, Sydney, Oct. 1932; MS. and typescript fragments of, among others, Saturdee, and corrected and annotated typescript of a chapter (?); corrected typescript of 'Michael: The Story of a Male Prostitute'; bound copy of 'The Trunk', being corrected typescript with pen & ink, pencil and crayon drawings by Norman Lindsay (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

Date unknown; Sketchbook of pen & ink and pencil drawings by Norman Lindsay (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

Date unknown; Sketchbook of pen & ink and pencil drawings by Norman Lindsay, with one accompanying The Bulletin newscutting of a poem, 'Bill Posters', by Douglas Stewart (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

1962, Date unknown; The Garden of Ships: A Poem by Douglas Stewart, illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Sydney: The Wentworth Press, 1962. Inscribed by Stewart: 'For Molly', and autographed by David Campbell, with two pen drawings by Norman Lindsay enclosed (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

Date unknown; Watercolour, ink & crayon draft cover by Norman Lindsay for Inheritors by Brian Penton, with proof print of variant cover by Lindsay (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)
1933; Paper silhouette of Norman Lindsay, 6 Dec. 1933 (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

Date unknown; Pencil sketch by Norman Lindsay, with address in Lindsay's hand on verso, 'W. Inglis / 84A Balfour RD / Rose Bay' (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

Date unknown; Miscellaneous material, including prospectus/order form for Howard Hinton, Patron of Art, and photoprints (2) of bushrangers in the stage play Ned Kelly, Date unknown (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

1936-1981; Newscuttings mainly of articles concerning Norman Lindsay and his work, including issue of The Creswick Advertiser, 20 Nov. 1936 (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

1973, Date unknown; Album of colour photoprints of the opening of the Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum, Springwood, N.S.W., by the Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck, including photorints of Hasluck, Douglas Stewart, Margret Coen and Meg Stewart, with b&w photoprint of Lindsay and Stewart (?) at Springwood, Date unknown (Call No.: MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2085/8)

197-?; The Fire on the Snow {sound recording} / Douglas Stewart; directed by Robin Lovejoy. An Old Tote Company Production presented by Angus and Robertson (Publishers) Pty Ltd. One cassette tape. Consult Curator of Oral History for access. (Call No.: MLOH 317/1)

1974; Australian Bush Songs and Ballads {sound recording} / selected and scripted by Nancy Keesing and Douglas Stewart. Angus and Robertson (Publishers) Pty Ltd. One cassette. Consult Curator of Oral History for access. (Call No.: MLOH 317/2)

Author/Artist entries:
Campbell, David, 1915-1979
Coen, Margaret, 1909-1993
Davis, Beatrice, 1909-1992
Day, A. Grove (Arthur Grove), 1904-1994
Fitzgerald family
Gilmore, Mary, Dame, 1865-1962
Hartt, Cecil L. (Cecil Lawrence), 1884-1930
Hasluck, Paul, Sir, 1905-1993
Hinton, Howard, 1867-1948
Howarth, R. G. (Robert Guy), 1906-1974
Langley, Eve, 1908 - 1974
Lindsay, Norman, 1879-1969
Lindsay, Rose, 1885-1978
Lusby, Jack
Lynch, Joe
Martin, David, 1915-1997
Moir, J. K. (John Kinmont), 1893-1958
Moore, T. Inglis (Tom Inglis), 1901-1978
Murray, Les A. (Les Allan), 1938-
O'Harris, Pixie, 1903-1991
Pidgeon, William Edwin, 1909-1981
Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963
Price, A. Grenfell (Archibald Grenfell), 1982-1977
Rees, Leslie, 1905-2000
Rees, Lloyd, 1895-1988
Simpson, Colin, 1908-1983
Skipper, Mervyn, 1886-1958
Slessor, Kenneth, 1901-1971
Slessor, Robin
Stewart, Meg, 1948-
T. Werner Laurie Ltd
Tennant, Kylie, 1912-1988
Webb, John E. (John Edward)
Wingrove, Keith