Boxes 01-20: Michael Wilding papers

MLMSS 7973/Boxes 1-20

series

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

900911

3.40 metres of textual material (20 boxes), some folders contain photographs

BOX 01
Pocket-size address book, no date

Coverless quarto-size address book, no date

‘Addresses - Subscription Lists - Review Lists’, 196- - 197-

‘Jack Lindsay’, 1961-1981, including letters received from Jack Lindsay and Bernard Smith

‘Jack Lindsay Decay & Renewal Xeroxes’, ca. 1981, no date , being mainly copies of Jack Lindsay’s essays and letter received from him, ca. 1981

‘Jack Lindsay on Norman L.[indsay]’, 1952-1981, including letters received from Jack Lindsay

‘Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd’, 1978-1980, regarding Political Fictions

‘Paranoia Book’, 1978-1980

‘Brian Turner - John McIndoe [Ltd]’, 1979

‘Earl Miner’, 1971-1977, being letters received from Earl Miner, Dept. of English, Princeton University, NJ

BOX 02
‘Uni : New Courses 1980', , 198-, being notes

‘Uni : Departmental’, 1979, no date, including material on conspiracies and the CIA

‘H. Osmond’, 1978, being letters received from American psychiatrist, Humphry Osmond,

‘Kazuko Shiraishi’, 198-, regarding the Japanese poet

‘Contracts’, 1966-1982

File of MW’s Nation Review column, 1979

‘Tape. Cassette - Video. Access TV FM Radio - Audio’, 1979

‘3rd World / Asian Pacific Revolutionary Poems’, 1977-1979

‘Bicentennial Story Book’, no date, being notes

‘Publishing Ideas’, 197-

‘Projects, Grants, Invites, Funding, Please Seends, Proposals’, 1978-1980

‘1980 Current Review Lists & Publishing Forms’, no date

‘Silkin / Stand’, 1973-82, being mainly letters received from Jon Silkin, Stand [UK literary quarterly]

‘New Yorker’, 1977-1979, being correspondence, drafts and proofs regarding story published in The New Yorker

‘Moorhouse’, 1967-1978, being mainly letters received from Frank Moorhouse

‘Ezawa’, 1979-1981, being mainly letters received from Sokushin Ezawa

‘Asian & Pacific’, 1980-1981, being correspondence mainly regarding University of Queensland Press Asian & Pacific Writing Series

‘Interviews’, 1974-81, including transcript of Hazel De Berg’s interview with MW

‘No Longer Current Curriculum Vitae Who’s Who Entries’, no date

‘Bibliographies Checklists Directories’, 197- - 1981

BOX 03
‘Vicki Viidikas’, 1982, being letters received from Viidikas and photocopied typescript of her novel Kali and the Stones

‘Short Story Embassy’, 1975-76, 1982, being mainly reviews of MW’s novel The Short Story Embassy (1975)

‘Phallic Forest Movie’, 1970-1975, being mainly newscuttings

‘Adverts & Reviews Xeroxes’, 197-

‘Ian Robinson / Oasis [Books]’, 1981, being correspondence

‘Foreign inquiries’, 1981

‘Karig’, 1978-1979, being correspondence with Sari Karig

‘We Took Their Orders’, 1871, being reviews of MW’s co-authored anti-war poetry anthology

‘Radical Reader’, 1977, being reviews of The Radical Reader, co-edited with Stephen Knight

‘Tasmanian Tour’, 1977, regarding series of poetry readings in Tasmania during Australian Book Week

‘Australians Abroad’, 1966-1967, being reviews of Australians Abroad (1967), co-edited with Charles Higham

‘Tabloid Story Pocket Book’, 1978, being advertisements for the book

‘Tabloid Story Mag[azine]’, 1972-1974, 1981, being newscuttings

‘Living Together’, 1974-1981, being mainly reviews of Living Together (1974)

‘TS [Tabloid Story] Intro’, no date, being photocopied typescript

The Paraguayan Experiment, ca. 1983, being photocopied typescript

‘Worcestershire Poems’, 1963-1972

BOX 04
Correspondence , 1982-1983, being mainly letters received from Sokushin Ezawa and MW’s parents in England, with personal financial papers

‘Civil War Poems’, being mainly photocopies

‘Marvell & Horatian Ode & Ap. [Apleton] House 1982 drafts - i.e. penultimate drafts - superseded’

‘New Social Vision material articles xeroxed’, 1979, no date

‘Winstanley’, 1977, being notes

‘C17 [17th century] anthology’, 1975, being notes

‘Lawson (Manifold) Cataldi [Lee] on Stead’, 1944, 197-, being photocopied articles

‘C17 notes’, no date

‘Xeroxes of my C17 Articles’, 197-

‘New Milton articles xeroxed’, 1962-1980

‘New Dryden articles xeroxed’, 1977-1979

‘New Browne [Sir Thomas] articles xeroxed’, 1979

‘H. Ode’, being photocopied articles, 1960-1980

‘C17 H Ode Notes’, no date

‘H Ode Article’, regarding An Horation Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland, no date

BOX 05
‘New Marvell xeroxes’, 1975-1981

‘A. H. [Appleton House]’, no date, being incomplete corrected typescript of article

‘Justa Edouardo King’, 1978, being photocopies

Photocopied article and notes re Milton, 196- - 1980

BOX 06
Notes regarding 17th century English Literature

‘Paradise Lost MS - draft 2 contains passages deleted from book’, no date, being corrected typescript/carbon typescript

‘[Samuel] Johnson on Shakespeare’, 1966-, being notes

‘Johnson’, 1965-, being notes

‘1969 Johnson Lectures’, 1969, being typescript

‘Notes on C18 [18th century] Diction’

Untitled file of notes, 1962, regarding, among others, Addison

‘Grays’s Elegy’, 1967-, being notes

‘Johnson Booksale’, 1967

‘Lectures on C18 Poetic Style’

‘Fleckno Diarium [1656]’, being photocopy

‘C17 Poems & Pictures’, being photocopies

‘Religio Medici in the English Revolution’, being various versions, including corrected typescript and photocopied typescript with MS. corrections

BOX 07
‘Religio Medici 1642 [by Sir Thomas Browne]’, being photocopy of 1883 edition

‘Marvell (‘77)’, , 1978-1982, being lectures on ‘Upon Appleton House’

‘Fiction General - More Than One Book’, 1975-1981, being mainly photocopies and newscuttings

Photocopy and newscuttings regarding Political Fictions (1980), 1980-1981

‘Milton’, 1970-1973, no date, being mainly reviews of Milton’s Paradise Lost (1969)

‘Marvell’, 1969-1971, being reviews of Marvell: Modern Judgments (1969)

‘W. M. P.’, 1981-1982, being mainly reviews of The Workingman’s Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel by William Lane, with introduction by MW (1980)

‘Academic’, 1972-1979, being photocopies and newscuttings of book reviews

‘Marcus Clarke’, 1976-1978, being reviews of Marcus Clarke (1977)

‘60s Non Fiction in Print ‘Clippings 60s’’, 1961-1969, being reviews by MW

‘70s non fiction clippings’, 1970-1980, being newscutting reviews by MW

‘Milton’s Paradise Lost’, ca. 1968, being ‘carbon of final MS tho’ still with passages later deleted’

‘Jonathan Swift’, 1965, being lectures (3)

‘Swift Lectures’, 1972, no date

‘Swift / Notes & Essays’, 1963-1965, no date

‘Johnson 3 Lectures 1965’

BOX 08
‘Asian & Pacific’, 1972-1984, regarding UQP Asian and Pacific Writing series (MW editor)

‘Pacific Highway’, 1982, being reviews of Pacific Highway (1982)

‘Aspects’,1972-1976, being reviews of Aspects of the Dying Process (1972)

‘Phallic Forest’, 1973, 1978-1979, being mainly reviews of The Phallic Forest (1978)

‘The West Midland Underground’, 1975-1976, being reviews of The West Midland Underground (1975)

‘Scenic Drive’, 1976-1977, being reviews of Scenic Drive (1976)

‘UQP [University of Queensland Press] Correspondence’, 1971-1977

‘McIntosh Otis / Horniman @ AP Watt / Anthony Sheil / M. Pollinger / S. Brook’, 1972-1981, being letters received mainly from publishers and literary agents

‘Curtis Brown till 1972’, 1967-1974, being correspondence

‘Reviews & PR : Miscell[aneous]’, 1972-1982

BOX 09
‘Novel fragments Late 1971 - early 1972 (Red & Black attempt)’

‘1971 MS Appreciations of’, being typescript and carbon typescript of ‘Those Appreciations of the Terribleness of Things’ and other stories

‘The Heady Scent of the Eucalypts’, being ‘original final version (with later MS revisions pp. 83-99)’; mainly carbon typescript

‘New Prose Dec 78', 1974-1981

‘Writings in Progress’

‘new notes : new stories’, being MS. and typescript

‘Road Movie notes’, being typescript

‘Christina Stead - Articles & Interviews’, 1968-1981

‘C. Stead’, 1966-1978, including letter received from Christina Stead, 30 Jan. 1976

‘Christina Stead Memoirs Essays etc’, 1935, 1972-1979

‘Parag [Paraguay] Op.’, being typescript

‘Weird Melancholy’, 1985, being correct typescript (2) on Marcus Clarke’s stories

BOX 10
Notebook

Black folder: ‘Notes on new novel...’

Black folder: ‘Foundation’, being ‘Notes for Foundation’

Black folder: ‘A Sense of a Place (1964)’

Black folder: ‘The Term of our Affair (1966)’, being carbon typescript

‘Scenic Drive unused drafts’

‘Abandoned Unpublished Stories’

‘Notes on Novel’, 1971-1972, no date

BOX 11
‘Radical Essays on Oz Lit’, 1980, no date

‘Material For Dope Book’, 1977-1980, no date

‘Drugs’, 1978-1981, being mainly newscuttings

‘Fan Mail’, 1974-1981, including letters received from Manning Clark and Frank Kermode

‘C17 Trans of Classical Satire - Juvenal etc’, 1971, being correspondence re translation of Juvenal’s Satires

‘Fleckno & Butler’, 1969, 1973, being notes and article re ‘[Richard] Flecknoe’s Diarium: A Source for Hudibras’

‘John Sheffield - Buckingham’, 1969-1970, being correspondence regarding note for reprint of The Works of John Sheffield (1723)

‘Paradise Lost & Hudibras’, 1969, regarding MW’s article/chapter, ‘The Last of the Epics: Paradise and Hudibras’, published in 1972

‘[Samuel] Butler articles’ for Review of English Studies and Notes & Queries, 1963-1970

‘Country Wife’, being notes for article

‘Butler Worker [?] in Progress’, 1963, being notes and drafts, and letters received from John Wilders

‘Copies of “The Medall [:A Satire against Sedition by John Dryden]’

BOX 12
‘Marvell’, 196-

‘Milton Reappraisal - notes for 1975’

Lectures/articles by MW on, among others, Milton, Dryden and George Herbert, 197-

‘Milton Lectures 83’, 1970-1983?

Lecture notes ?

‘PL [Paradise Lost book] MS cancelled passages’

‘Dryden Bibliography’

‘Milton Reprints’, 1971-1973

BOX 13
‘Dryden uncut draft one’

‘Dryden Notes’

‘Bell Dryden’, 1970-1973, regarding MW’s contribution to Dryden: Writers and their Background (London : Bell, 1972), including correspondence with the editor Earl Miner, University of California

‘Dryden Notes for Lectures and McFlecknoe article’, 1968, no date

‘Dryden - articles by other people’

‘Cassell’s Correspondence’, 1969-1970, being mainly correspondence with Cassell and Co., London, regarding 17th century English biographies

‘Photos of Documents’ regarding transcription of documents from Worcestershire Record Office

‘C17 Notes mixed’, 196--1983

Brown folder of MW’s reprints, articles, reviews, including drafts, 196- - 197-

BOX 14
‘Xeroxes : [Thomas] Browne’, 1929-1970

‘Sir Thomas Browne Notes’, 1979-1981, no date, including letters received from C. A. Patrides, University of Michigan, regarding The Ann Arbor Tercentenary Celebration of Sir Thomas Browne

‘Reception of Aust Lit Abroad’ regarding Henry Kingsley and Charles Lamb, 1985, no date, being photocopies

‘More Australians Abroad’, 1966, no date, being mainly notes and newscuttings

‘A. L. Gordon’, 1964-1974, being mainly notes, newscuttings and letters received

‘Terra Australia Incognita’, being notes

‘ABC Oz Lit 6 programmes’

‘Aust Fiction’, 196-, being mainly notes

‘Martin Boyd’

‘Inglis Moore’, 1972, re MW’s review of T. Inglis Moore’s Social Patterns in Australian Literature (1971)

‘Southerly review of Aus. Lit. reprints series S.U.P. [Sydney University Press]’, 1973

‘A.B.C. Lateline talk New Fiction’

‘Hal Porter / Patrick White’, 1966-1967, being MW’s reviews

‘Correspondence’, 1978-1980, being copies of letters sent

‘Column 1980’, being mainly notes

‘MC [Marcus Clarke]’, 1983, regarding MW’s article on Clarke’s short stories

‘Clarke Intro’, 1982

‘Clarke. Notes G. Mackinnon [?] Austral Ed.’, 1982

‘Clarke - Bibliographies & Clarke’s Book Sale’, 1874-1977

BOX 15
‘Clarke / McLaren’, 1981-1982, including letters received from Ian F. McLaren

‘Clarke / Correspondence with Ramson / Johnston / Hergenhan’, 1971-1981, being correspondence with, among others, Grahame Johnston, Laurie Hergenhan, Oxford University Press (Aust.), Leon Cantrell, W. S. (Bill) Ramson and ANU Press

‘Qantas MSS for Qantas Clarke Piece’, 1977

‘The New Australian Writing & the Old - MS /xerox’, 196- - 1981

‘The New Australian Writing & the Old - notes, xeroxes of possibles’, 1965-1976, no date

‘Pacific Hwy Promo’, 1979-1980, being mainly notes and letters received

‘Clarke / Plays’, 1978, 1980, including 1878 photo reproductions and notes

‘Clarke Miscellaneous Photocopies’, 1867-1974

‘Poole / Clarke’, 1970, regarding thesis on Marcus Clarke by J. E. Poole

‘Post Books Clarke New Work’, 1975-1980

‘M. Clarke - Original Separate Articles - pre book’, 197-

‘The Portable Clarke’, 1974-1975, including correspondence with, among others, Laurie Hergenhan

MW’s Nation Review column, 1979, being photocopies and carbon typescript

‘Adverts & originals’ for MW books from Wild & Woolley and UQP

BOX 16
‘Marcus Clarke Critical Essays’, 188- - 1978, being mainly photocopies of articles by and about Clarke

‘Marcus Clarke & N&Q’, 1874-1881, no date, being mainly photocopies from Notes & Queries



‘Clarke Old Tales Notes’, no date

‘Portable Clarke Junk & Dupe File’, 1867-1975, including correspondence, 1974-75, with, among others, Marilyn Bitomsky, Editor, UQP, and Laurie Hergenhan

‘Clarke AWATW Penult. Draft Cut & Revised MS’, no date

‘Clarke - His Natural Life’, being articles and notes

‘Poetry of Marcus Clarke’, being mainly photocopies

‘HNL Opera’, 1975

‘Clarke / Short Stories’, 1975, being MW’s article for Cecil Hadgraft festschrift, published as Bards Bohemians and Bookmen: Essays in Australian Literature (UQP, 1976) edited by Leon Cantrell

‘Clarke - general & uncategorized notes & AWATW & drafts’

BOX 17
Mainly photocopies of articles by MW and others on Australian Literature, 1952-198-

‘Xeroxes of dope articles’, 1879, 1962-1981

‘Mandrake [plant]’, 1953, being photocopied article

‘[Henry] Lawson Notes’, no date

‘Small Press Publishing / Australian Publishing & Distrib / Correspondence / Lit Board Subsidies’, 1974-1980

‘Wheelwright Book Aust Publishing New Info’, 1975-1979

‘Wheelright Xerox Ms’, 1979, no date

‘Pollution nuclear power ‘design defects’’, 1978-1979, being newscuttings

‘Guyana sects, 1978-1979, being newscuttings regarding mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana

‘UFOs’, 1978-1979, being newscuttings

‘Organized Crime’, 1977-1979, being newscuttings

‘CIA ASIO KGB etc’, 197-

‘JCL [Journal of Commonwealth Literature] Review + Aust Little Mags’, 1966-1972

BOX 18
‘Review of Bibliographies : Aust Lit Reference Guides Lock & Lawson, Andrews & Wilde’, ca. 1980

‘Media Ownership Control Regression’, 1968-1979

‘CIA file’, 1977-1979, being mainly newscuttings

‘W & W [Wild & Woolley] resignation’, 1980

‘Motor [Automatic Writings]’, 1980

‘Mass Media & Lit Crit’, 1979

‘Hollywood Ten McCarthyism’, 1977-1978, being newscuttings

‘CCF [Congress for Cultural Freedom]’, 1967-1979

‘Essays on Aus publishing’, no date

‘Exams 68’, 1960-1981, being mainly University of Sydney English examination papers and essay topics

‘Beats’, 1959-1980

‘Current’, 1981, no date, being mainly correspondence with, among others, MW’s parents and Jack Lindsay

BOX 19
‘Political Fictions Offcuts’, 197-

‘1975 reading note - sociology / political lit[erature]’

‘Thesis Writers & Questionairers [sic] & Critical Commentaries’, 1981

‘Walwyn’, no date

Small box of photonegatives and photoprints

Notebooks and address books

BOX 20
‘Multiple xerox copies -stories MSS & column’, 196- - 1979

‘1979 Writings - Early Drafts New Reworked’, 1979

Black folder: ‘Essays and Reviews on Politics, Literature & the University’, 196-

Notebooks (3), one including curriculum vitae, ca. 1969

‘Henry James Portrait of a Lady Lectures 1964’, 1964-1965

‘Portrait of a Lady the Revisions’

‘Portrait of a Lady - notes’

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