Stewart family memorabilia, correspondence and printed material, mainly relating to Margaret Coen and Douglas Stewart, ca. 1885-1990

MLMSS 8381
R 1101
R 1102
Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 1, Shelves 16 - 17. Applies to: R 1102/Item a; Item b

fonds

1885-1990

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Objects, Medals, Clippings, Photographs

404294

0.16 metres of textual material (1 box)
9 items of realia (1 box) - brass, silver
2 items of realia (1 box) - brass, cement

Writer and film maker Margaret (Meg) Stewart, was born in 1948. Her parents were newspaper journalist and poet Douglas Stewart (1913-1985) and artist and painter Margaret Coen (1913-1993). Stewart wrote a biography on her mother Margaret Coen, ‘Autobiography of my mother’, published 1985

Reference:
Library Correspondence File

MLMSS 8381
Manuscript poem by Kenneth Mackenzie, found loose in Douglas Stewart’s copy of Mackenzie’s ‘The moonlight doorway’, ca. 1944

Photograph of Douglas Stewart by Michael Elton, ca. 1975-1980

Letters to the Stewart family from Joan M Dale, Paul Hasbull, Joe, Nancy, Hal Colebatch, ca. 1966-1990

Letters to Margaret Coen from Norman Lindsay, no date

Notebook containing questions and answers to ‘AMWG General Knowledge quiz’, no date

Newscuttings, mainly obituaries of grazier R.D. Sheahan, articles relating to actors and actresses Howard Hinton, Bunney Brookes, Leo McKern in the Australian Elizabethan Theatre’s production of Douglas Stewart’s verse play ‘Ned Kelly’ with Theatres Associated handbill, ca. 1950

Printed periodical, The BP Magazine, Vol 8, No. 4, Spring, 1st September, 1941

Blank art book with letter from Michael Coen to his parents, 1885, and copy of an artwork of a woman holding a fan

Printed book with manuscript annotations, Shakespearean Tragedies Illustrated by photographs, Collins Clear Type Press, ca. 1900


REALIA
R 1101
Commemorative medals awarded to Douglas Stewart, including the Order of Australia, the OBE, the Robert Lee Frost Award, the Britannica Australia Award, the silver medallion given by the National Trust, ca. 1963-1979

Benefactor medallions also given by the National Trust to both Meg Stewart’s parents, ca. 1971

Medallion coin given to Margaret Coen’s uncle, Francis Coen following his death in the First World War, no date

Douglas Stewart’s engraved Parker pen, no date

R 1102
Literary prize trophy, 'The Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival award', awarded to Douglas Stewart, 1964

Unidentified sculpture, no date

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts Unprocessed eRecords Project 2011-2012