Collection 09: Gillian Mears further papers, 1941-2008

MLMSS 9381
MLOH 753

sub-fonds

1941-2008

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Photographs

845037

2.65 metres of textual material and photographs (13 boxes)
2 audiocassettes (2 hr., 38 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS
BOX 1
Drafts and scraps of the essay ‘Alive in Ant and Bee’, 2002-2007.
Drafts of the story ‘No More Beyond’, 2006-2007, with related correspondence mainly with Ivor Indyk & Robert Drewe.
‘Short Stories 2002 Acceptances'. Drafts of ‘Girandole’ with correspondence.
Drafts of story ‘Nothing Worth Recording‘, 2004, with correspondence partly re writer Nan Chauncey., 1941-2003.

BOX 2
Drafts of the play ‘The Atlantic Wedding Salt’ with related notes and correspondence, ca. 2003-06.
Drafts, notes and notebook for ‘Cradle Star’, ca. 2004, a projected novel..

BOX 3
Papers re ‘Remnant’, an abandoned novel of the 1990s, in part to be based on the life of Marie Beuzeville Byles. Includes Drafts; Notebook - 'Notes for Remnant'; Notebook/journal, 1996-1997; a diary from Varuna Writers Centre, 1997 and an essay ‘Paradise is a Place.’

‘ANT AND BEE ARCHIVES’
Being mainly correspondence with newscuttings, notes, photographs, brochures etc.
BOX 4
'2005', 2005.
'September 2005+', 1996, 2004-2005.
'November 2005+', 2005.
'January 2006+', 2005-2006.
'February 2006+ Wiradjuri Country', 2004-2006. Includes letter from Helen Garner

BOX 5
'Autumn/April 2006 + Near Bega'.
'Winter 2006+'. Correspondents include Marr Grounds.
'March 2007 Onwards+'. Correspondents include Tom McVeigh, Stephen Muecke & Peter Mears.
'May 2007+ Correspondence from the Road', 2005-2007. Correspondents include Drusilla Modjeska, Margaret Knight & Peter Mears.

BOX 6
'July 2007+ South Australia', 2005-2007. Correspondents include Drusilla Modjeska, Ivor Indyk and Tom McVeigh.
'August 2007', 2006-2007. Correspondents include Alan Close, Ivor Indyk, Drusilla Modjeska, Barbara Mobbs and Roma Koval..
'September 2007 My Last Month', 2007-2008. Correspondents include Tom Mcveigh and Ivor Indyk..
Travelling Notebooks, 2005-2007.

WRITING NOTEBOOKS
Contain journal entries, thoughts, ideas, sketches, photographs, newscuttings etc.
BOX 7
May-July 1997.
1998-May 2001.

BOX 8
May/June 2001-April 2002.

BOX 9
January 2003-February 2004 onwards.

RECIPE BOOKS
Contain recipes, notes and writings on food, photographs, ca. 2000-2007.
BOXES 10-11

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL
BOX 12
'ABC Radio Correspondence', 2006-2008.
'Ataxia Walking Sickness Things’, 2000-2001. Includes drafts of essay ‘Bush Van at “Applebox” ‘, 2001.
'Legal Action files', 2002-2007. Includes correspondence with & to Geoff Nanto.
'Judging the Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, 2002'. Correspondence and copy of judge's report.
‘Anthologies’, 2001-2002. Mainly correspondence.
‘Moon Diary’, 2005

BOX 13
‘Narra Bukulla Archives’, 2006-2007. Mainly correspondence, photographs.
17 packets of photographs. Include ‘The Quarry 2005’; ‘Jaaringga [?] N.R., 2005’; ‘Narra Bukulla 2006’; ‘Marr 2006’; ‘Claire’s Visit Jan. 2007’; ‘Marr at his Houseboat/Treehouse’; ‘Binna Burra 2006’; ‘[?] & Movement, Dorrigo, 2005’.
5 Compact Discs: ‘Binna Burra Weekend, 7-9 July 2006’; ‘Penders Easter 2007’(2); ‘Life in a Day'; ‘Jerry Wilson talks about his Circus Life 6/06’.

SOUND RECORDINGS
Series 1: Gillian Mears sound recordings, 2004-2007 (Call No.: MLOH 753)

Restricted: Access requires readers to sign a copy of the Library's Gillian Mears Archive Special Undertaking Regarding Access, Expiry Date: 2047-12-31

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