Boxes 21-40: Michael Wilding papers

MLMSS 7973/Boxes 21-40

series

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

900919

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

BOX 21
‘James Stories’, 196-, being mainly notes

‘Henry James & George Eliot’, 196-

‘Notes [for lectures] on The Ambassadors’, 1966

‘Portrait of a Lady Lectures 1965/6’

‘Polemical & Political Writings 1969, 1970’

‘60s 70s non fiction typescripts’

‘Keats & Coleridge’

‘Arnold / George Eliot’

‘[James] Joyce & Henry James’, 1967

‘Browning & Wordsworth’, 196-

‘Portrait of a Lady - 1973’

‘Rabbidge [?] notes’

‘Critical Approaches 1975’

‘Notebook mid 1964-’

BOX 22
‘Last Days selection’, 1979, no date

‘Returns 65-66’, 1960-1967, being income tax returns and related financial papers

Financial papers, 196- - 1972

Photocopies of US Government hearings/reports on narcotics and opium trade, 1975-1977

‘1970 III [?] Political Fiction [course outline /reading lists]’, 1969-1970, no date

‘Lawrence / Kangaroo’, being article regarding Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence

‘1649’, being ‘[Jack] Lindsay’s 1649, first draft of article & notes at back’

‘Bibliog[raphy] 1978 Political Fiction Bibliog[raphy]’, 1978-1979

BOX 23
Untitled folder: ‘[Social Visions] intro & bibliog.’

Social Visions, being mainly photocopied typescript with MS. corrections

‘Essays on the Novel & Society’, being mainly corrected typescript

Untitled folder: Incomplete corrected typescript of Political Fictions
(1980)

Corrected page proofs of Political Fictions (1980)

BOX 24
Photocopied typescript of ‘Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination’, 1986- by David A. Lowenstein, Dept of English, Loyola University of Chicago

Notice of the death of Leo Miller (1915-1990) received from his family in the USA, 1990

‘Bibliographies’, 197-

‘The Jokes of Michael W’

Research papers of Lyndy Abraham, 197-, including 4th Year English essay: ‘A Comparison of the Early Lives of Milton’, with a copy of Bass Songs, compiled, edited and arranged by Sydney Northcote. London : Boosey & Co., 1949

‘Tohunga Wm Lane’, being photocopies of William Lane’s Selections from the Writings of “Tohunga” (1917)

‘Price Warung Strike of 95’, being letter received from Laurie Hergenhan, 25 July 1979, with enclosed photocopies of Warung’s stories, 1893

‘Vincent’, being letter received from Vincent Plush, 14 June 1981, with choral concert programme and The Hymn of the Winstanley Levellers by Plush

‘Xeroxes - Notes taken from novel’, 1895-1979

‘WMP [The Workingman’s Paradise] intro Cancels’

BOX 25
‘Oh Paraguay Libretto - early versions’, being mainly notes

‘Workingman’s Paradise Notes’

‘Oh Paraguay / Old Working Notes for libretto’, including letter received from Vincent Plush, 12 Sept. 1979

‘Oh Paraguay libretto’, 1979, being photocopies including ‘Aurores’ from O Paraguay, a projected opera by Vincent Plush to a libretto by Michael Wilding

‘Paraguayan Novel cancels’, being discarded text

‘Paraguay Cartoons Visuals’, 189- - 1930, 197-, being photocopies

‘Paraguay : Novel : Used notes’

‘WMP [The Workingman’s Paradise] Intro Ist Draft & Cancels’

‘WMP Further Material P??t Intro / Contemp. reviews’, being reviews

‘AGS notebook + Ross’, being notes

‘Lane Project correspondence’, 1980-1981, including correspondence with Bob James, Stephen Murray-Smith, Julian Croft, Sydney University Press, Doug Jarvis, William Wilde and Longman Cheshire

‘Bibliography of New Australia Cosme’, 1977-1981, being mainly notes

‘Worker Book Fund’, being drafts

‘ADS for Lloyd Ross : Lane’, being order forms for Lloyd Ross’s William Lane and the Australian Labor Movement (1980)

‘ASAL Paper’, 1980, being conference paper on The Workingman’s Paradise by William Lane

Reader printer copies of New Australia, 1892-1894

‘Paraguay Duplicate Xeroxes’, 1894-1956

BOX 26
‘aust 1890s xeroxes 1890s’, 1898-1981, being mainly photocopies of historical articles and newscuttings

‘F.O. part 1 - first section - gone through’, 1894, inc. reader prints re The Workingman’s Paradise

Notebook partly regarding The Workingman’s Paradise

‘The Literary Pages’, being typescript

‘HNL [His Natural Life]’

‘PX Opera’

‘Stead Lectures’, draft and photocopies, inc. letter from Christina Stead, 8 July 1972

‘Furphy’, 195-1981, being photocopied article and notes re Joseph Furphy

‘Furphy’, being typescript articles/chapters

BOX 27
‘no V’, 198-, being mainly notes

‘non fiction 80s writing [Milan] Kundera reviews, articles, xeroxes’, 196- - 1989

‘final 1991 cancellations lit pages top [‘Movie Making’]’

‘Kundera’ re MW’s article ‘Sexual Politics in Kundera’s The Joke’

‘OUP (Aus) Correspondence’, 1987-1991, regarding The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Stories

‘ASA copies of OUP corres[pondence]’, 1987-1991

‘Alanut [?]’

‘The True Adventures of Doctor Dee and Sir Edward Kelly’, being computer printout

‘The True Adventures of Doctor Dee and Sir Edward Kelly’ (Chapters 1-5, pp.1-155)

BOX 28
‘The True Adventures of Doctor Dee and Sir Edward Kelly’ (Chapters 6-9, pp.1-188)

‘The True Adventures of Doctor Dee and Sir Edward Kelly’ (Chapters 10-11, pp. 189-328)

‘Current Publish[?]’, 1988-1990, being correspondence with UQP, John McLaren / Overland, Clayton Joyce, Faber and Faber (London), W. W. Norton & Company, NY, and Simon Schuster

‘Cathar [Country] Watching the ferry [come in] copies’, being short stories

‘Corresp Parag reception letters reviews The Paraguayan Expt’, 1971-1986

‘Corresp Selected Stories Promo Reviews Man of Slow Feeling’, 19851986, including letter received from David Lodge, 3? Apr. 1986

‘Under Saturn Corresp’, 1978, 1985-1989, being correspondence and reviews re Under Saturn: Four Stories (1988)

‘Transworld’, 1989, being correspondence with Transworld Publishers re Under Saturn

‘OUP Publicity Dragon Teeth’, 1987-1989, regarding Dragon’s Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution (1987)

‘Creative Writing in Programme’, 1989-1990

‘Worcs’, being photocopies from Stanley Weintraub’s Bernard Shaw 1914-1918: Journey to Heartbreak (1973)

‘Wagga’, 1988, regarding reading at Wagga Wagga Writers

‘Video PR’, 1988-1992, regarding video interviews of authors

‘Vauthier’, 1988-1991, being letters received from Simone Vauthier, France

‘Corresp. Reviews U.Q.P. 84’, 1973-1989

‘Travel - Leave reports & application’, 1987-1992

‘Writers’ cats’, 1990, no date, being newscuttings, photocopies and photoprints

‘SUP leaflets’, ca. 1989

‘C17 correspondence’, 1985-1988, being correspondence mainly with English literature academics in Australia and overseas

‘Silko’, 1985-1992, being mainly letters received from Jon Silkin

‘Singapore : Perceiving Other Worlds [Symposium] top copy’, 1989

BOX 29
‘Louise Mack’, being photocopy of The World is Round (1896) by Louise Mack

‘Ezawa’, 1983-1989, being mainly letters received from Sokushin Ezawa

‘Academy Milton/Betel’, 1938-, no date, being mainly photocopies

‘Appreciative letters 88’, 1988-1990

‘Real Fiction xerox copy - incomplete’

‘Alba’, 1985-1991, being letters received from David Albahari, Serbian translator of some of MW’s books

‘Academy’, 1988, regarding MW’s election as Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

‘ABC Intro’

‘Jonah’, 1984-1988, being correspondence with Jonah Raskin

‘Notes on Chaucer’s ‘Knight’s Tale’ & English Medieval Literature’

‘Diction’, being notes on, among others, Samuel Johnson and John Dryden

‘C20 Drama’, 196-, being notes

‘Spenser’, 196-, being notes

‘Anglo Saxon’ , being notes regarding, among others, Beowulf

The Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar in Eighteenth Century Studies, National Library of Australia, 23-29 Aug. 1970

‘Piers Plowman’, being notes

BOX 30
‘A4 Semantics Horgan Schlauch Ullman’, being notes

‘Chaucer’, being notes

Photocopy of The Workingman’s Paradise: An Australian Novel (1892) by John Miller

Galley proofs of Marvell: Modern Judgements (1969) edited by MW

BOX 31
Political Fictions, 1980, being edited photocopy of typescript

Milton’s Paradise Lost, being corrected typescript

Red folder: ‘The Heady Scent of the Eucalypts’, being corrected carbon typescript (a version of ‘Writing a Life’ Box 32)

Reading the Signs, 1984, being photocopied page proofs with MS. corrections/markings

Reading the Signs, being edited drafts and other versions

BOX 32
Reading the Signs, being mainly photocopies of revised typescript

‘Writing a Life’, being mainly corrected typescript

‘Uncollected Stories’, being typescripts/carbon typescripts

‘McCrow’, being 5 envelopes and a folder of computer printout/photocopied typescript of a novel

BOX 33
‘Classic Aus Fiction’, being computer printout of Studies in Classic Australian Fiction

Draft introductory pages of Studies in Classic Australian Fiction

Photocopies typescript of Australian Fiction: Political Readings

‘Cats Movie’, including letters received from Sean Croyston, 1987, with copies of his screenplay, ‘Don’t Go Having Kittens’, based on a short story by MW

Photocopy of corrected typescript of unpublished novel, ‘Foundation’

BOX 34
‘Used TS/MS’, being a MS version of ?

Untitled MS

MS. draft and computer printout of campus novel ?

‘Mukherjee Festschrift Studies in Literature & History ed. M. Wilding & M. Lee 1997’, 1996-1997, including edited chapters

BOX 35
Edited chapters and related papers, including 5 floppy disks, regarding History, Literature and Society (1995), edited by Michael Wilding and Mabel Lee

Campus novel [?]: Typescript inc. ‘Under Saturn’ and ‘Way Out That Summer’

Under Saturn, being collection of short stories, including ‘Under Saturn’, ‘Campus Novel’, ‘Way Out Last Summer’ and ‘Writing a Life’. Photocopied typescript with MS. corrections

BOX 36
‘Writing a Life’, being photocopied typescript

‘60s stories - originals that went to Aspects, WMU, RTS, PF’

‘Modern Melancholy’, inc. ‘Under Saturn’, ‘Campus Novel’, ‘Writing a Life’, ‘Way Out That Summer’. Photocopied typescript

‘PX Correspondence’, 1983-1985, regarding The Paraguayan Experiment with, among others, Jackie Howell, Senior Editor, Penguin Books Australia

‘MSF Correspondence’, 1984-1985, being correspondence with Penguin Books Australia regarding The Man of Slow Feeling

‘Under Saturn correspondence’, 1988-1989, being mainly letters received from Jacqueline Kent, Senior Editor, Bantam & Corgi / Transworld Publishers

‘Great Climate proofs’, 1990, being letters recieved from Faber and Faber Limited and corrected page proofs

‘GC selection’, being photocopies of selected stories

‘RTS [Reading the Signs] typescript’

‘PX [The Paraguayan Experiment]’, 1984, being galley proofs

BOX 37
‘Fynes Moryson - Erasmus’, being photocopy

‘Autobiog. tracts’, 1851, being photocopies

‘Fugger [The Fugger News-Letters]’, 1926, being photocopies

English translations from Latin texts and notes

Unidentified photocopied notes

‘H[ugh] Trevor Roper. RJW Evans - Rudolph II & Making [of the] Hapsburg Monarchy’, 1973-1979, no date, being photocopied chapters

‘[C.H.] Josten JWCI Unknown chapter’, 1965, regarding novel based on Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly

Miscellaneous articles regarding John Dee, 1947-1985

‘1995 text’, being computer printout of novel, Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly (forthcoming, 1999)

Photocopies of Latin text and MS transcriptions

BOX 38
Henry Lawson article

‘Aus Fiction George Johnston Notes & Xeroxes’, 1983, no date

‘Stead : Puzzleheaded Girl’, 140-18-, being notes and photocopied articles and newscuttings for article

‘Stead notes’, 198-, including letters received from Ron Geering, Hazel Rowley and Christine Williams

‘Lawson - ABC - Sorbonne - Carnivale’, being notes and paper presented on Henry Lawson

‘White’ regarding Patrick White Day, University of Newcastle, NSW, 8 Oct. 1987

‘MC [Marcus Clarke]’, being photocopies and draft of article

‘Clarke WeirdMel[ancholy]’, 1985, regarding MW’s essay ‘Weird Melancholy: Inner and Outer Landscapes in Marcus Clarke’s Stories’

‘Clarke. new material 86+’, 1982-1989, being photocopies, notes and newscuttings

‘Marcus Clarke Lectures 1985’

‘Lawson Notes’

‘ABR’, being photocopy of MW’s article ‘Lies that pretend to liberate’, Australian Book Review, 117, Dec. 1989

‘Facey’, being photocopies of MW’s review of A Fortunate Life by A. B. Facey in London Review of Books, 8 May 1986

‘Xerox Beasley review ALS’, being photocopies of MW’s review of Journal of an Era: Notes from the Red Letters Days (1988) by Jack Beasley in Australian Literary Studies, 14, 1989

‘H. Lawson (Sorbonne)’, 1988, being photocopied articles for French publication

‘Puzzleheaded Girl’, 1989, being photocopies of chapter by MW for Wordsmiths: A Volume for H. L. Rogers (1989), edited by G. Barnes, J. Gunn, S. Jensen and L. Jobling

‘Kundera Arts xeroxes’, being photocopies of MW’s article ‘Sexual Politics in The Joke’, The Arts, 13, 1987-88

BOX 39
‘1645 Milton Cambridge’, being corrected typescript and notes for ‘Poems of Mr Milton (1645)’

‘Xeroxes on AP House [Andrew Marvell’s Upon Appleton House], 1956-1979

‘Social Visions xerox [Part 1]’, being photocopied typescript

‘Social Visions [Part 2]’, being photocopied typescript

‘Writing in the Revolution’ regarding Dragon’s Teeth

BOX 40
‘C17’, 198-, being mainly drafts of articles on 17th century English Literature and some letters received

‘Writing in the Revolution’, being ‘complete xerox C17 penult. version’, being photocopied typescript

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