Boxes 41-60: Michael Wilding papers

MLMSS 7973/Boxes 41-60

series

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

900931

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

BOX 41
Royalty statements, 1983-1984

‘Articles’, being photocopies

Photocopies regarding 17th century topics , 1917, 1984

Photocopies of articles mainly regarding Marvell and Milton, 1953-1982, collated by Denise Cuthbert, postgraduate student, Dept. of English, Sydney University

Letter received from, with Milton article reprint by, Marshall Grossman, Fordham University, NY, 10 Oct. 1984

Letter received from, with reprint of article on English Civil War by, Thomas N. Corns, University of North Wales, Bangor, 1984

Photocopied articles on Australian folklore and Banjo Paterson, 1956-197-

Photocopy of English article on opium published in French journal, 1956

Photocopied articles by Jonah Raskin, Sonoma State University, CA, received from the author, 1983

‘Orig. Comus TS top copy’, being MW’s essay ‘Milton’s A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 : Theatre and Politics on the Border’, Trivium (University of Wales), 20, 1985

Correspondence, 1982-1985

‘Real Fiction Used early drafts’

BOX 42
Collection of short stories, ‘Bachelor Literature’ inc. ‘Under Saturn’ and ‘Writing a Life’ Photocopied typescript

‘Bachelor Literature Xeroxes 68/71 version’ Photocopied typescript

‘Letter received from Jane Palfreyman, Pan Macmillan Australia, 17 July 1992, regarding return of enclosed manuscript of ‘The Literary Pages’, being photocopied typescript

‘Vauthier Knock Knock’, 1989, being photocopies of articles (2) on MW’s stories by Simone Vauthier

‘[Bruce] Clunies Ross article’, 198-, regarding MW’s writings

‘P.R. / Reviews 1987-1988’, 1983-1989, being mentions of, reviews by, publicity regarding MW and his work, and letters received

BOX 43
‘Reviews academic book’, 1988-1991, 1998, being reviews mainly of MW’s Dragon’s Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution (1988) and personal mention in University of Sydney News, 14 May 1998

‘P.R. 90s + Reviews, biogs’, 1988-1992

‘PR 1990s’, 1982-1992

‘GC reviews interviews 90/91’, 1985-1992, regarding MW’s Great Climate

‘1992 CV Publications’, 1992-1996

Interview with MW by Nadezda Obradovic, 199-

Papers mainly regarding British Studies into the 21st Century Conference, University of Adelaide, 25-27 Sep. 1997

‘Writers Residence’ and ‘Literary Lunch’, being computer printouts of stories

‘Lit. guide notes’, 1983-1985, regarding Sydney University courses

‘Milton Areopagitica’, 1986-1987, being typescript article and photocopied printed version, and letter received from Thomas N. Corns, 10 Mar. 1986

‘Milton [Sydney] conference papers & Newcastle paper’, 1987-1988, being MW’s paper ‘Milton in the English Revolution’

‘Adamson Rickeybockey’, 1985-1989, mainly regarding MW’s 1985 Herbert Blacklock Memorial Lecture on Robert Adamson

‘Beats’, 1987-1988, including letter received from John Montgomery ? Mar. 1988

‘1990s new non fiction’, being mainly reviews by MW

BOX 44
‘Lawson full version / top copy / Klaus / Sydney lecture / Townsville add[itional pages]’

‘H.L. lectures’,being mainly MS.

‘Xerox Essays on Lawson’, being photocopies

‘Soc. Vis. [Social Visions] A?? Essays / orig & corrections 2/2’, 1987

‘SV [Social Visions] corrections’

BOX 45
‘Soc. Vis [Social Visions] original version incomplete xerox’

‘SV 89’, being mainly computer printout of ‘Social Visions: Essays in Australian Literature’

Photocopies from New Australia and The Voice, 198-

BOX 46
Early draft of and working notes for The Paraguayan Experiment

BOX 47
‘The Bell - a play for two characters, dances and pansori, by Korean writer Don’o Kim, 1988. Photocopied typescript

‘The Bell of Korea - a play’ by Don’o Kim, 1994. Photocopied typescript

Studies in Classic Australian Fiction, being corrected computer printout

‘Lit Pp. [‘Literary Pages’] Top copy 2/2’, being typescript. pp.159-295, and ‘Pioneers’

‘Thriller [?] 92 top copy’

‘URC’ regarding University of Sydney Research Grant

‘The Spiritual Transactions of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly’, 1993

‘Yeo’, 197- - 1993, being photocopies regarding Singaporean poet Robert Yeo

‘Aus. Essays Supplementary’, 196-, being photocopies of published writings by MW

‘Lit PP [The Literary Pages]’, being photocopied typescript

‘Lit Pages cuts’

‘Korean’, 1997, including MW’s speech of welcome to the Korean Writers’ Association seminar, NSW Writers’ Centre, 6 July 1997, and bilingual proceedings

BOX 48
‘Jottings’

‘Academic Theme Park’, being computer printouts (2)

‘Straits’, being typescript and carbon typescript versions

‘The Literary Pages’, being photocopied typescript

‘Real Fiction’, being photocopied computer printout (2)

‘Real Fiction Magazine xerox’, being photocopies of previously published stories and other stories

‘RF top copy all there but stories out of contents sequence’, being photocopied computer printout

‘Ox intro’, being introduction for The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories (1994)

BOX 49
Loose material, inc. unidentified draft

‘Real Fiction Originals’, being typescript and photocopies

‘Real Fiction’, being photocopied computer printout with ‘Cathar Country’, being photocopied typescript, and ‘Watching the ferry come in’, being a photocopy from Australian Book Review

‘Early uncollected originals’

‘Reading stories’, being ‘For Trees’, ‘Outlines for Urban Fantasies’, ‘Singing Birds’, ‘This is for You’, ‘Music Making’, ‘Pioneers’ and ‘I am Monarch of all I Survey’

‘RF Mag. xeroxes’

‘Cuts from Lit pp [‘The Literary Pages’]’

‘Article on Henry Lawson’

‘Ox Classic Aus Stories’, being notes

‘Gangan anthology [Vienna]’, 1989, being mainly photocopied selections

‘O.U.P.’, 1985-1989, being mainly correspondence with Oxford University Press mainly regarding Dragon’s Teeth

‘Ox Mod Story’, being photocopied selections from magazines/journals

BOX 50
‘UCSB’, 1984-1987, mainly regarding teaching stint at the University of California, Santa Barbara, including letters received from John Montgomery and other American correspondents

‘Comic’, 1989, regarding Comic Australian Stories volume and letters received from Laurie Hergenhan, Qld University for UQP

‘Utopian’, 1907-1986, regarding contribution to The Rise of Socialist Fiction, 1880-1914, edited by, with letters received from, H. Gustav Klaus

‘Q[ueensland] Community Writing Conference’, 1986

‘Wagga / Tichborne’, being notes

‘Canberra CAE Professional Writing [Course]’, 1985-1986

‘Recent Oz Writing [Don’o] Kim & [Janette Turner] Hospital’ for Working Papers in Australian Studies, No.29, 1988

‘Keneally / Gossip from the Forest’

‘88 Oz Lecture MY Brother Jack : George Johnston’

‘White Xeroxes’, 196- - 1989, regarding Patrick White

‘[Randolph] Stow’, 1975-, being notes and lectures

Article on Milton’s Paradise Lost for Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993

‘Townsville ‘92’, regarding lectures (3) for 1992 Colin Roderick Lecture Series, James Cook University of North Queensland

‘ [Patrick] White & Modernism’, 1991, being photocopied article by MW

‘Mod Aus story’, being article

BOX 51
‘PR. SA. H Ode M’s early radicalism’, being MW’s articles ‘Regaining the Radical Milton’ and ‘Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes’

‘Milton & Gender’, 1990-1993, mainly regarding papers for Fourth International Milton Symposium, University of British Columbia, 4-10 Aug. 1991

‘Notes fro Milton 1645’, 1990-1991, including letters received from Thomas N. Corns, University of Wales, Bangor

‘164[5?] Milton - Poems facs. text & xerox articles’, 1975-1990

The Paraguayan Experiment, 1987, being edited photocopied typescript, with photoprints

BOX 52
Microfilm reader prints from The Worker and of British consular records, 189-

BOX 53
‘WMP [The Workingman’s Paradise, Aust. Literary Reprints edn (1982)] intro final xerox’, ca. 1982

‘Talbot 1’, being black notebooks (2) re John Dee book and photocopies of the notebooks

Corrected typescript of notebooks and photocopies

‘Private Diary’, being photocopy of published version of ‘Dr. Dee’s Diary’

Photocopy from Life of Dr. John Dee, pp.58-322



BOX 54
Italian article on John Dee by Luigi Firpo in Rinascimento, vol.3 part 1, 1952

Incomplete photocopied computer printout re John Dee, pp.557-652

‘To Translate’, being photocopies of 1580s text regarding John Dee
Notes regarding John Dee

‘Bacon. Hooke. Disraeli. Mackay. Butler, Magus. Sitwell’, being photocopies

‘Misc. Kelly [and Dee]’, being notes

‘Typed ? Letter Fugger [News-Letters] Bacon etc’

‘Velise, Austria; Coxe, Austria; Heer, Holy Roman Empire. Tapie Habsburger’, 1856-, being photocopies

‘AWATW [Australian Writers and Their Work] Marcus Clarke’, 1976-, being edited typescript, carbon typescript and proofs

‘Literature, Politics, and the University’, being processed typescript (4)

‘TV Service - Film Libraries’, 1972

‘Adelaide Festival’, 1973-1974

‘[Vietnam] Moratorium Clippings File’, 1970

‘Birmingham Sit-In’, 1968

‘Proposals for Eng Lit Syllabuses’, 1969

‘Turning Points’, 1967, including correspondence with Curtis Brown Ltd, London

BOX 55
‘Letters re Anti-War Anthology’, 1970-1971, being letters received from, among others, Randolph Stow, Christina Stead (with corrected typescript of her ‘What Goal in Mind’), Alan Seymour, Jack Lindsay, C. B. Christesen, Martin Boyd, Kylie Tennant, Tom Keneally, Rodney Hall, Garrie Hutchinson, Craig McGregor, Dorothy Hewett, Michael Dransfield, Patrick White, Alan Marshall, Michael Dugan, A. D. Hope, David Campbell, John Morrison, Vicki Viidikas, David Martin, Graeme Kinross Smith, Dal Stivens, Charles Osborne, Peter Mathers, Oscar Mendelsohn, R. F. (Bob) Brissenden and Chris Wallace-Crabbe

‘Readers reports on MSS’, 197-

‘Acceptances’, 1969-1970, including letter received from D. Wyn-Evans, Rare Book Librarian, University of Birmingham Library, 6 May 1969, regarding deposit of literary manuscripts

‘Talks’, 1965-197-, being advertisements/publicity

‘Short Story Market - ASA talk’, 1973?

‘Centre [for Contemporary Cultural Studies, School of English, University of Birmingham]’, 1968-

‘Essays on the University’, 1962-1969

‘Sydney University Literary Society’, 1961-1965, and other talks

‘Ricks MS [‘Antomology’]’

‘Cultural Freedom’, being notes regarding Quadrant

‘UNESCO Correspondence’, 1970-1971

‘General Correspondence : Film / TV School / AFDC’, 1972

‘Censorship’, 1969-1970

‘IV H.[Honours?] Milton’, 1973, being notes re English IV (Literature) - Renaissance Studies

‘III H Novels & Entertainment’, being notes

‘Dialectics of Liberation’, 1969-1970, including ‘Literature & Politics’

Notes and WEA paper on the Mass Media

‘Draft Resisters’ Reading’, 1972, including letter received from Patrick White, 9 July 1972

‘Univs [Universities] & Arts’, 1967-1972

‘ABC Story’, 1973, being correspondence re radio stories

‘Evening Courses’, at Sydney University, 1973

‘Research Grants’, 1969-1973

‘Royalty Statements’, 1972-1974

‘Worcestershire Miscell[aneous]’, 1973, being newscuttings regarding Frederick Grice

‘Staff Club’, 196-

‘URG / ARC [Australian Resarch Council]’, 1993-1995 regarding John Dee project

BOX 56
‘Scraps’

‘earlier version of revised stories’

‘Lit. pp [‘The Literary Pages’] early drafts’, being mainly photocopied typescript

‘xeroxes of new stories’, 1987, including ‘Tales from 1001 Publishers’ Lunches’ for Assemblies (NY) 13, 1987

Incomplete photocopy of Dee MS ? (pp.524-742)

‘Lit pp’, being ‘Novel used drafts’

BOX 57
‘Lit Pages - used’, being mainly typescript and photocopied typescript

‘New stories’

‘Living Together Orig. MS.’, being corrected typescript

‘Stories from Leaves from the Phallic Forest’, being early versions

Aspects of the Dying Process, being photocopied page proofs with MS. corrections/markings

‘Living Together Notes’ regarding Living Together

‘Stories from Aspects of the Dying Process carbons, duplicates etc’

BOX 58
Black folder: The Short Story Embassy, being corrected carbon typescript

‘Stories / MSS first drafts’

‘Stories from West Midland Underground drafts’

‘Real Fiction’, being photocopied computer printout and photocopies from published versions

Oddments regarding The Paraguayan Experiment

BOX 59
Unpublished early novels inc. notebooks (7)

BOX 60
‘New and Selected Stories’, being photocopied page proofs with MS. corrections/markings and photocopies of previously published versions

Social Visions: Essays in Australian Literature, being typescript and computer printout

Dragon’s Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, 1987, being typescript and photocopied page proofs

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