Collection 1: Marjorie Pizer - papers, 1941-2000, mainly concerning her book, co-edited with Drusilla Modjeska, The Poems of Lesbia Harford (1985), together with the related papers of Lesbia Harford, 1910-1927, and Nettie Palmer, 1914-1945, Date unknown

MLMSS 7428

sub-fonds

1910 - 2000

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Drawings, Photographs

441958

2 boxes - 0.34 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Textual Records - (typescript, processed)
Textual Records - (computer printouts)
Clippings
Drawings
Photographs

1917-1927; [Folder No. 1] Volume A: Unlined notebook of Lesbia Harford, being of manuscript poems, with pencil drawings (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/1/1)
1910-1920; [Folder No. 2] Volume B: Lined notebook of Lesbia Harford, being of manuscript poems, with undergraduate notes on English literature and Shakespeare's plays, ca. 1912, and photograph of Lesbia Harford, 1914 (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/1/2)
1915-1921; [Folder No. 3] Volume C: Unlined notebook of Lesbia Harford, being of manuscript poems, with notes on philosophy (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/1/3)
1941, 1982-1987, Date unknown; Folder No. 4: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, including correspondence with Drusilla Modjeska, with related notes and article, and notes on Guido Baracchi (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/1/4)
1914-1921, 1939-1945, Date unknown; Folder No. 5: Papers of Nettie Palmer, including letters received from Lesbia Harford, 1914-1921; Helen Keogh, ca. 1940; Esmond Keogh, 1939; and Madge Clark, 1939-1940, Date unknown; article about Lesbia Harford by Muir Holburn, Mar. 1945; and transcribed poems of Lesbia Harford by Nettie Palmer (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/1/5)
1961, 2000, Date unknown; Folder No. 6: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, being letter received from Pat (Patricia) Reynolds (La Trobe Library), 1961, and copy photoprints and photonegatives mainly of Lesbia Harford (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/1/6)
1964-1965, 198- , Date unknown; Folder No. 7: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, including correspondence with Esmond Keogh, 198- ; Pat (Patricia) Reynolds, 1965; and Lyndsay Gardiner (biographer of Esmod Keogh), 1986; notes of interview with Estelle Wilkins, nee Keogh, (sister of Lesbia Harford), 1964, and of phone conversation with her, 17 Nov. 1964; and notes on Lesbia Harford by her brother, Esmond Keogh, ca. 1964 (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/1/7)
1987; Folder No. 8: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, 1987, being mainly correspondence with Robert Darby and Richard Nile (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/2/1)
195-; Folder No. 9: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, being typed transcripts by Pizer and Muir Holburn of Lesbia Harford's poems (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/2/2)
1984-1985, 1996; Folder No. 10: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, being mainly correspondence with Angus & Robertson and literary agents (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/2/3)
Date unknown; Folder No. 11: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, being chronological lists of poems by Lesbia Harford (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/2/4)
1984; Folder No. 12: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, being correspondence mainly with Ralph Gibson, R. F. (Robert) Tate and Gilda Barcchi (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/2/5)
194--1984; Folder No. 13: Papers of Marjorie Pizer, being 'Interviews, certificates, correspondence, research material on Lesbia Harford and Katie Lush', including correspondence with F. H. Johnston (Registrar, University of Melbourne), 1964; Sir George Lush, 1984; A. Boyce Gibson, 1964; Norman Jeffrey, 1964-1965; Dianne Parsons, 1978; Douglas Stewart, 1964; Jessie Macleod, 1964; Bertha Walker, 1964; Frederick T. Macartney, 1964; Peter A. Ryan, 1965; Joan Rosanove, 1964; Stehen Murray-Smith, 1965, 1983; Pat (Patricia) Reynolds, 1964-1965; and Len Fox, 1987; notes of an interview with Guido Baracchi about Lesbia Harford, 20 Aug. 1964, and copy of his paper read to the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Sydney, 9 Nov. 1941, on the occasion of the publication of The Poems of Lesbia Harford (1941) by Nettie Palmer; notes by Muir Holburn; photocopied sermon by Lesbia Harford; and birth, marriage and death certficates (Call No.: MLMSS 7428/2/6)