Series 02: Ian Bevan literary papers, 1942-195-, 1976, 1980

MLMSS 7822/Box 2

series

1942-195-, 1976, 1980

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs

825797

0.15 metres of textual material and 5 photographs (1 box)

Typescript magazine and newspaper articles, and notes titled 'Consuelo Alba in Spain', ca. 1951.

Drafts, mainly typescript, of 'Limelight...a series of profile sketches of London theatrical places and personalities, factually written but treated in a light and popular way.', 195-, including 'Nudity Without Nonsense' about the Windmill Theatre.

Correspondence and incomplete transcripts concerning proposed book on Henry Handel Richardson, 1953-1954, to be published by Angus & Robertson Ltd., based on a series of talks about her held at Australia House, London, May 1953. Correspondents include Beatrice Davis, George Ferguson and Olga Roncoroni.

Papers, 1941-1950, concerning 'I Speak of Barbary: a journalist's notebook of a tour from Casablanca to Cairo', including correspondence with the Falcon Press and John F. Porteous, designer of the Garrison Church, Tobruk in Cyrenaica; and drafts and research material.

Corrected typescript of 'The Blue of Heaven & Other Poems', with enclosed letter from Bevan to his mother, 15 Dec. 1943, and five photographs of him and other soldiers

Corrected typescript of 'Those Are Not Love Songs: Collected Verses', 194-?

Typescript of 'Love in a Square, a moral comedy', 195-?

Reports (2): 'Changes in the Australian Commercial Theatre, 1976' and 'The London Theatre - Some Current Problem Areas', 18 Apr. 1980

Issue of The English-Speaking World, vol. XXVII no. 5, Aug.-Sept. 1945, including 'Letter Home' by Ian Bevan, pp. 345-347