Series 01: Frank C. Johnson papers, ca.1906-1960

MLMSS 1214

series

ca.1906-1960

422219

Partially MicrofilmedRefer to Contents for location numbers

3 volumes and 32 boxes of textual records

Publisher of popular novels, detective stories, children's books, magazines and comics

Guide to the collection (Volume 1A)

(I). Contracts, 1932-1948 (Volume 1B)
Request Microfilm: CY 2698, frames 1-275

(II). Correspondence, 1931-1960 (Volumes 2-3)
Request Microfilm: CY 2699, frames 1-338 (Correspondence, A - K)
Request Microfilm: CY 2700, frames 1-443 (Correspondence, L - Z)

(III). Manuscripts, c.1906-1960, submitted for publication, c.1931-c.1960 (Boxes 4-33), including novels, short stories, articles and poems, MS, TS and printed extracts, c.1906-c.1960. Includes works by John Barr, E. J. Brady, P. Hopegood, J. Lawson, W. Lawson and Bee Miles. Also poems, c.1906-c.1960.

Box 22 includes the following manuscripts by Bee Miles (Item 2 has been microfilmed):
Item 2: Advance Australia fair (manuscript with typescript introduction by P.R. Stephensen), 1937: Request Microfilm: CY 1078, frames 256-400.
Item 3: A Dictionary by a bitch (typescript with manuscript annotations and signature), 19--.
Item 4: For we are young and free (typescript), 19--.
Item 5: Notes on Sydney monuments (manuscript), 19--.

(IV). Mock-ups and collections of stories etc. used in magazines, 19-- -194- (Boxes 33-34).

(V). Miscellaneous material, 19-- - 194- (Box 35), including correspondence of J. T. Kirtley, 1942-1944, notes on Willy Redstone, 1911-194-, and exercise book of Colin Ross? 1922?

Guide available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room