Series 04: Robert Dessaix papers, 1985-1999, relating to Secrets (1997) and (And so forth) (1998)

MLMSS 7925/Boxes 12-14

series

1961-2000

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

877411

0.45 metres of textual material (3 boxes), including some colour photographs

BOX 12
Papers relating to Secrets (1997):

Drafts of Dessaix’s contributions to Secrets, 1996-1997

Page proofs, 1997

‘Notes for Secrets’, 1995-1997, being folder of correspondence, notes and newscuttings. Includes letters received from Helen Garner, Amanda Lohrey and Drusilla Modjeska, Michael Cooke and Nikki Christer (Pan Macmillan Australia)

‘Letters on “Secrets”’, 1997-1999, being folder of letters received from, among others, Andrea Stretton

‘Secrets Reviews etc’, being folder, formerly in filing cabinet file, of magazine and newspaper reviews, with letters received from Amanda Lohrey

BOXES 13-14
Papers relating to (And so forth) (1998):

BOX 13
‘Death to Art’, 1996, being folder of corrected printout and page proofs of ‘Death to Art: Reflections on AIDS, Art and Susan Sontag’, published in Republica 4, 1996

‘Rejected for Inclusion by Nikki Christer’, 1985, 1994-1997, being folder of selected writings rejected for inclusion in (and so forth)

‘Shaping Up’, 1993-1994, being folder regarding the publication of ‘Shaping Up’ in the anthology Family Pictures (1994)

‘My Favourite Year’, 1995-1997, being folder regarding the publication of ‘My Favourite Year’ as ‘Detonations: My Favourite Year’ in (and so forth), and as ‘Fragments from a minefield’ in Good Weekend, 4 Jan. 1997

‘SMH Bruce Chatwin Review’, 1997, being folder regarding reviews of Anatomy of Restlessness by Bruce Chatwin and With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer by Susannah Clapp

‘Orientalism’, 1996-1998, being purple plastic folder regarding the publication of ‘Orientalism’, originally titled ‘Confessions of an Unrepentant Orientalist’, and ‘Wisdom and Ecstasy: The Seduction of the Orient’ to accompany the exhibition Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 6 Dec. 1997-22 Feb. 1998

‘Creative Moment’, 1995-1997, being folder regarding ‘Eros, Voice, Text’, a talk delivered at the 1997 Research and Postgraduate Conference, University of Wollongong, 11 Sept. 1997, and publication in Scarp 31, Oct. 1997, and ‘Why I Write’, notes for talk at Warana Writers’ Festival 5 Oct. 1995

‘Brodkey’, 1997, being folder regarding review of This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey

‘Showing Your Colours’, 1995, being folder regarding versions of ‘Showing Your Colours’

‘Gertrude St [Street] Seminar’, being folder of ‘Original notes [for] Showing Your Colours article in Art Monthly’

‘Anna Karenina The Age July 97’, 1997, being folder regarding article ‘Forever Anna’, published in The Age, 12 July 1997, and including letter from John Maclaren, 14 July 1997

‘Albania’, 1995-1997, being folder regarding article on Albania

‘Incommunicado (Mats) [Materials]’, 1997-1998, being folder of correspondence with, and articles by, Javant Biarujia

‘Friendship’, being folder comprising article, based on Friendship: Being Ourselves with Others by Graham Little, from ABC Radio 24 Hours, Mar. 1994

‘Saying it with Flowers’, being folder comprising article, ‘Saying it with Flowers’, from ABC Radio 24 Hours, Sept. 1993

‘Tea with Matisse’, 1991-1997, being folder regarding visit to Patjarr Aboriginal Community, Northern Territory, 18-22 Aug. 1997, including colour photographs, correspondence with artist Philip Wischer, and drafts of article, ‘Tea with Matisse’

‘Sea Change’, 1998, being folder regarding article, ‘Tea with Matisse’, published in the anthology A Sea Change: Australian Writing and Photography (1998), edited by Adam Shoesmith, and commissioned by the Olympic Arts Festivals of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

‘Travelling in Hope’, 1996, being folder regarding article, ‘Travelling in Hope’, originally published in The Australian Financial Review Magazine, Summer 1996

‘En Travesti’, being folder regarding article, ‘En Travesti: On Travesty’, published in Siglo, issue 3, 1994

‘Not Toronto’, being folder regarding article, ‘Not Toronto: Nature, Heat and Hills’, published in The Age, 6 June 1998

‘Plays Well with Others’, being folder regarding review of Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus

‘Russia’, 1996-1998, being folder regarding article, ‘Russia: The End of an Affair’, published in Australian Humanities Review, no.6 June-July 1997

‘Travel’, being folder comprising draft of article published in Sydney Morning Herald, 1996

‘Climbing Helicon Original Talk’, being folder comprising article, ‘Going Up To Helicon’, from ABC Radio 24 Hours, Oct. 1994

‘Reviews of “Seven Deadly Sins”’, being folder of photocopied reviews by others of The Eleven Deadly Sins (1993), edited by Ross Fitzgerald

‘Drafts for “Covetousness”’, ca. 1998, being folder regarding drafts of the short story published originally as ‘His Neighbour’s Ox’ in The Eleven Deadly Sins (1993)

‘Notes for “His Neighbour’s Ox’, being folder

‘Reviews of Original “Homeland”’, being folder mainly of reviews by others of Homeland (1991), edited by George Papaellinas, featuring Dessaix’s essay

‘”The Invitation”’, 1995-1996, being folder regarding the short story, ‘The Invitation’, published in the anthology Hide and Seek: Stories About Being Young and Gay/Lesbian (1996), and including letters received from the anthology’s compiler Jenny Pausacker

‘Dilaettanti’, 1991-1997, being folder regarding the essay ‘Loitering with Intent: Reflections on the Demise of the Dilettante’, published in Australian Book Review, no. 188 Feb.-Mar. 1997

‘Another Country’, being folder comprising interview with Dessaix, published in ABC Radio 24 Hours, May 1994

‘The Love List’, being folder comprising the essay ‘The Love List’, published in ABC Radio 24 Hours, Aug. 1994

BOX 14
Two sets of corrected and edited page proofs of (And so forth)

‘Editing Process’, 1998, being folder mainly of email with Judith Lukin-Amundsen and Nikki Chester

‘Permissions’, 1998, being folder email with Nikki Chester

Folder of letters received from readers, 1998-1999, including Amanda Lohrey

‘My Presentation’, being folder of notes, no date

Two plastic folders of publicity for and reviews of the book, 1998-1999