Series 02: Keith Wood papers, 1928-1995

MLMSS 7849/Boxes 5-6, 8
MLMSS 7849/Box 7X, 9X
VT 1355
MLOH 587

series

1928-1995

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Moving Images, Clippings, Photographs, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

840151

1.02 metres of textual material (3 boxes and 2 outsize boxes)
1 videocassette (VHS) (20 mins.) - sd., col. - 1/2 in.
1 audiotape reel (14 min.) - 13 cm, 6 mm tape

BOX 5
Appointment diaries (33), 1950-1968, 1970-1977 (two diaries for 1973), 1980-1981, 1985, 1987, 1990

Address books (2)

BOX 6
Letters received from Helen Lempriere, 1954-1987

Greeting cards received from and drawn by Helen Lempriere, 1978-1981

Letters received from, among others, Guido Baracchi, 1954; Robert Haines, 1991-1992; Homer and Dorothy Thompson, no date; and Mrs Nellie Wood, and Joan, Roy and Merla Wood

‘UNESCO / Personal Action Forms etc’, 1950-1958, being mainly correspondence and documents, with including letter received from Weaver Hawkins, 6 Feb. 1958

Papers, 1950-1958, regarding the UNESCO Radio Division programs and special features, and television films available in English from European sources

Scripts of UNESCO Radio Division series, Music Round the World, 195-

BOX 7X
Scrapbook titled ‘Press Book’, 1931-1937, of Wood’s activities in the University of Western Australia Dramatic Society, The Shakespeare Club of Western Australia and inter-varsity debating competitions, including newscuttings, photographs, programs, with issues of Guinea Gold, vol. 1 no. 211, 16 June 1943 and vol. 1 no. 213, 18 June 1943

Scrapbook, 1950-1951, being album regarding Wood’s trip to the United Kingdom and Europe, beginning with letter of introduction from James McGirr, Premier of N.S.W., 31 Jan. 1950, and including postcards of Naples, Italy, Menton and other locations in France, and Spain; photographs of Wood and Lempriere with Nancy Borlase and Susanna Short, and of scenes and locations in England, France, Holland and Bombay, India; newscuttings and ephemera

BOX 8
‘Personal Papers’, 1928-1958, being folder of papers mainly regarding his education and employment, and letter received from Barbara and Linley Stafford, ca. 1958

‘Pickfords’, 1958, being folder of correspondence with removalists regarding shipping of household effects, being part of the estate of the late Mrs D.E.O. Lempriere, from Australia to London

‘R. J. Moran’, 1959-1963, being folder of correspondence mainly with Ron Moran regarding the David Mitchell Estate Ltd

Papers, 1963, regarding message by Jean Cocteau to the opening of the International Theatre Month in Australia. Includes handwritten draft message in French by Cocteau; corrected typed transcription by Andrè Josset (Secretary, International Theatre Institute) and English translation of the message by Keith A. Wood and W. Gardner Davies; and two photographs of the audience, including Wood, Lempriere and Cocteau in front row, at performance of Stuttgart Chamber Music at the Menton Festival of Music, 2 Aug. 1961

‘Casa Mare Papers’, 1964-1965, being folder of papers regarding sale of apartment at Menton

‘”Villa Soleia” 6 Cive Crescent [Bayview, N.S.W.]’, 1965-1967, being clip folder of correspondence with related accounts and receipts regarding domestic building work and maintenance

General and sundry folder, 1954-1964, of accounts and receipts; newscuttings; correspondence, including letter received from his brother Roy Wood, 29 Dec. 1958, regarding the funeral of their mother, Nellie Wood; farewell card signed by colleagues at UNESCO, Dec. 1956; Christmas card from Edouard and Violet Roditi, 1961; and photograph of Robert David Fincher (1959 Charles Lempriere Prize winner) and passport-size photographs of Helen Lempriere

Folder of miscellaneous papers, 1949, 1993-1995, no date, including letter received from Professor Joan Kerr, 28 Jan. 1995, regarding publication of Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book (1995); notes for probate of the will of Helen Lempriere Wood; contract with Farano Pty Ltd, 20 Jan. 1993, regarding Helen Lempriere Retrospective Exhibition Parts I & II, Woolloomooloo Gallery, 6-24 Oct. 1993, 6-24 July 1994, with related notes and catalogues; and draft text of documentary film, Rajarata – Land of Kings by Lemwood Productions Pty Limited

Papers, 1942-1946, regarding war service, including identification photographs, certificate of service and demobilization procedure book

Notebook [DOM247], 1958-1960, including note of expenditure for Lempriere’s exhibition at the Chase Gallery, New York, 20 Jan.-1 Feb. 1958

Pocket notebook, 1958-1960, including addresses of European film distributors and suppliers

Exercise book [WOO210], 6 Mar.-21 Oct. 1968, comprising notes on Greek, Roman, Near East and European archaeology

Unbound pocket notebook titled ‘University of London. / Greek Art & Archaeology’, including lecture notes

Red pocket notebook, including notes on the early development of writing and typed lists of Italian common phrases

1973 Desk Diary used as notebook with notes regarding invitees to French Graphics [exhibition ?], Bloomfield Galleries, 8 Dec. 1973

Passports (7): Australian (3), 1950, 1972, 1977, 1982; British (2), 1952, 1957; United Nations (1), 1954

BOX 9X
Miscellaneous papers, 1950-198-, including identification cards and photographs, particularly of Wood and Lempriere in Rome and Paris

Printed material, being exhibition catalogues: retrospective exhibition on Helen Lempriere at Woolloomooloo Gallery, 1993-1994; Women Artists from the Collection, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, 27 Jan.-30 Apr. 1995 and Australian Women Artists of the 20th Century, Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Art Gallery, 9-23 June 1995

VT 1355
1 videocassette of Helen Lempriere's paintings on exhibition at the Leicester
Galleries, London, 1965 (transferred from 8 mm film)

MLOH 587
Interviews by Keith Wood with guests at the opening of Helen Lempriere's first American exhibition at the Chase Gallery, New York, 20 January 1958