Michael Wilding further papers, 1994-1999

MLMSS 8071

fonds

1994-1999

402358

1.36 metres of textual material (7 boxes)

The collection includes Michael Wilding's correspondence and papers relating to the composition and publication of various texts: Wildest Dreams (UQP, 1998); 'Academic Theme Park' (Academia Nuts); 'The Novelist's Assistant' (1997-1998); several drafts of short stories; and research material for Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly (1999). Other material includes his correspondence with authors, academics, postgraduate students and publishers.

This collection of chiefly folders and loose materials is described by the following box listing:

BOX 1
Letters received from academic colleagues, students, publishers and friends, 1994-1999, including references to publication of Wildest Dreams (1998) and arrangements for publication of Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly (1999). Correspondents include Alastair Fowler, Geoffrey Dutton, Ian Robinson (Oasis Books), Igor Maver, Lorna Tracy, Thomas N. Corns, David Albahari, William B. Hunter, Sokushin Ezawa, Stephen Knight, Don Graham, John Lucas (Shoestring Press), Dick McBride, Simon Curtis, Rosie Fitzgibbon (University of Queensland Press), Peter Davison, Manfred Jurgensen, Edward Fenton, H. Gustav Klaus, Bruce Clunies Ross, Robert Yeo, Bruce King, Frank Kermode, Elizabeth Webby, Elizabeth Stead

BOX 2
‘Theme Park top copy’, no date, being computer printout of Academic Theme Park, or The Last Degree

‘Theme Park (copy)’, no date, being computer printout of Academic Theme Park Theme Park, or The Last Degree

‘Go Little Book’, being manuscript notes of a speech on Academic Theme Park ?

Wilding’s review of God Speed the Plough : The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1600 by Andrew McRae, ca. 1997

Review by Donna Lee Brien of Wildest Dreams : A Selective Memoir, 1998

Additional final paragraph to Wilding’s entry on Marcus Clark for the New Dictionary of National Biography, 1998

‘ALS publishing due Dec 98’, 1997-1998, being articles, newscuttings and notes on the publishing industry

‘Kelly Biog’, being notes and research material for, and two incomplete computer printout drafts of, Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly

‘The novelist’s assistant’, being corrected computer typescript of novel

‘Original MS of new novel 1997-8 yet to be published working title The Novelist’s Assistant’

BOX 3
‘“Among Leavisites”’ - original MS a 12,000 word Memoir forthcoming Southerly Sept 1999’, 1998, being manuscript version and research material

‘Original MS of recent stories’, being manuscripts and computer printouts of stories titled ‘Nephew’s Story’, ‘The Black Rocks’, ‘His Echoing Song’, ‘Publish and Perish’, ‘How to Leave your Daughter out of your Stories; or, The Badfather’, ‘Conference’, ‘Outside the White House’, ‘Prison Poet’, ‘Poet’s Party’, ‘Bereft’ and others with no discernible title

‘Notes for history of UQP Asian & Pacific & Fiction Lists’

‘Wildest Dreams corrected proofs’, 1998

‘Last Degree Original’, being computer printout of The Last Degree, formerly titled Academic Theme Park

‘DNB’, 1997, being copy of form of agreement with, and letters received from, New Dictionary of National Biography regarding Wilding’s entry on Marcus Clark

‘D Misc’, 1998, being partial draft of ‘Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly’, and research notes and correspondence regarding research and reproductions in the novel

BOX 4
‘The True Adventures of Doctor Dee and Sir Edward Kelly’, being computer typescript submitted to The Australian Academy of the Humanities

‘M. Wilding Dee & Kelly part 2’, being computer printout of chapters 9-16

Five folders of notes and research material, including photocopies, for Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives : The True Adventures of Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly

BOX 5
‘Dee & Kelly Corrected Proofs’, being corrected page proofs of Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives : The True Adventures of Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly, enclosed in letter received from Ian Syson (Vulgar Enterprises of North Carlton, Vic., 7 Jan. 1999

Corrected page proofs of Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly, Feb. 1999

‘Corrected Proofs - Kelly: A Life article & Dee diary review’, being letter received from Rhonda L. Blair (Humanities Research Center, Avery Hall, Washington State University) 30 Mar. 1999, with enclosed photocopied page proofs of Wilding’s article, and his review of The Diaries of John Dee (1998), edited by Edward Fenton, both with corrections by Wilding

BOX 6
Notes and research material, loose and in folders, including photocopies, for Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly

BOX 7
Notes and research material, loose and in folders, including photocopies, for Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr. John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which the author has been deceased for more than 50 years