Boxes 61-80: Michael Wilding papers

MLMSS 7973/Boxes 61-80

series

Textual Records, Clippings

900952

3.40 metres of textual material (20 boxes)

BOX 61
‘Book of the Reading’, being photocopies and selections

‘Answered’, 1982-1983, being letters received and financial papers

Letters received from Jeanette Hoorn, 1984, regarding Research Methodology Seminar Programme 1984, Dept of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne

‘answered corres. (Lit. ???)’, 1983-1984, being letters received from, among others, Jack Lindsay

Correspondence, 1981-1983, including letter received from Jack Lindsay and letter from Allen Ginsberg to John Montgomery, 9 Nov. 1981

‘Bibliog’

‘Religio Medici in the English Revolution’, being photocopied typescript with cut passage

‘Media 1983’, being mainly newscuttings of personal mentions

‘Unsorted 82-3’, being mainly letters received

‘Multiple copies’, being mainly of MW’s story ‘Gypsies’ in New Yorker

‘Miscellaneous’, 1981-1984, including Wild & Woolley royalty statement, Jan.-June 1984; newscuttings, 1982; MW’s reviews of The Socialist Novel in Britain (1982) by H. Gustav Klaus, Raymond Williams (1981) by J. P. Ward, and other titles for The Modern Language Review

BOX 62
‘Aus Lit’, 1982, being letter to F. Clarke, 8 Mar. 1982, with enclosed list of 100 Australian books

‘Asian Pacific’, 1982, regarding UQP Asian and Pacific Writing Series

‘1982 teaching’

‘Health Fund’, being claim form

‘[Samuel] Butler see also Miscellanea C17 file’, 196-

‘Paradise Lost lectures 1965’, 1965-1966

‘Milton in America’

‘Marvell / Dryden Flecknoe Numerology’, 1968, being notes

‘Milton’s Paradise Lost Final MS book was set from’, being edited typescript/carbon typescript of Milton’s Paradise Lost (1969)

‘Shakespeare’, 196-, being notes

‘Donne’, 196-, being notes

‘angels / war in heaven / creation’, being notes

‘Marvell published notes introduction draft’, being correspondence regarding drafts and galley proofs of Marvell: Modern Judgements (1969)

BOX 63
‘Milton Paradise Lost Sydney Studies in Literature’, 1965-1968, being promotional material

‘Milton Heaved God Christ’, 1965, being notes

‘Milton’, being notes

‘Cymbeline’, being notes

‘Paradise Lost 1966 Carbon of The Reading of the Poem’

‘Herbert’, being notes

‘Satan Hell’, being notes

‘Milton Notes’

‘Milton Voyage article’

‘Critics’, being notes

‘PL [Paradise Lost] line by line & specific points’

‘Milton chopped up proofs with lecture material mainly removed + 1969 lectures’, mainly re Milton’s Paradise Lost (1969)

BOX 64
Folder regarding Milton

‘The Fantasy Eaters [: Stories from Fiji (1988)]’ by Subramani, being photocopied typescript

Letter received from David Brooks, ? Sep. 1982, with enclosed photocopied typescript of his The Cold Front: Poems 1976-1981

Social Visions : Essays in Australian Literature, being photcopied computer printout (2)

‘pending’,1995, inc. information re Haffner family tree

‘Paul Collins [?]’, being drafts of story, ‘Creepers of the Creepy House’

‘R[P?]itsos poems’, 1992, being photocopied MS.

‘Kelly Edition’, being mainly photocopy of 1676 book

‘Lyno [?] STC / Wing’, being photocopies

‘Campus notes’ for Campus Novel, including notes regarding feminism, pedagogy and sexual harassment

‘Current’, being mainly re Sir Edward Kelly’

‘Ok to check’, being notes re Kelly book

‘Promotion’ regarding Somewhere New: New & Selected Stories and The Oxford Book of Short Stories

Reviews and interviews regarding MW and his writings, 1989-1992

BOX 65
‘Media Reviews etc 1995-’, 1994-1996, being mainly photocopied reviews of MW’s writings

‘The Last Degree’, being photocopied computer printout

Somewhere New : New & Selected Stories, 1996, being photocopied page proofs

‘Milt.[on]’, being articles by MW

‘The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories’, being mainly photocopies of previously published versions

‘O.U.P.’, 1994-1995, being correspondence with OUP regarding The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories

‘Misc. xerox articles’, 1992-1996, relating to various topics and including obituary of Professor Wallace Robson

‘Manfred’, being fax from Manfred Jurgenson to David ?, 21 May 1994, regarding invitees to launching of MW’s book

‘Dobson’, 1994-1995, regarding proposal of Rosemary Dobson for degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters, Sydney University

‘Tejpal Singh’, 1991-1992, being article by Singh on the plays of Eugene O’Neill

‘Miner / Pawley’, being photocopies of novel/stories ?

BOX 66
Correspondence, 1992-1995, including correspondence regarding the estate of Dorothea Mary Wilding

Correspondence, 1985-1992

‘H. L. early orig’ regarding Henry Lawson

‘Dryden C17’, being typescript of ‘Allusion and Innuendo in Dryden’s MacFlecknoe’

‘19 cult. disc. of Aus’ regarding paper on the nineteenth century British cultural discovery of Australia, Commonwealth Institute, London, 1 Oct. 1983

‘[T.S.] Eliot & Milton & Marvell’

‘Q visit 1989’, 1986-1989, mainly regarding MW’s George Watson Fellowship, Dept. of English, University of Queensland

‘China’, 1988-1990, being letters received from Chinese academics

‘Durel / Carey’, 1987-1992, inc. thesis on Peter Carey’s short fiction by Patrick Lionel Durel

‘Soc. Vis. Corresp’, 1986-1988, being correspondence with publisher regarding Social Visions

Notes regarding Guaranis [The Workingman’s Paradise / The Paraguayan Experiment ?]

‘Kim’, 1990, being newscutting and photocopies re Don ‘o Kim, Australia’s only Korean-born novelist

‘[Henry] Kendall’, being notes

‘Brautigan’, 1985, being Vanity Fair article on American poet Richard Brautigan

‘STK’, 1986, regarding Stephen Knight

‘Housman’, 1986, being notes and newscutting

‘Central’, 1986-1988, regarding programme on MW by Central Independent Television, Birmingham

Photocopied typescript of stories by and received from Dick McBride, 1991

‘Aus Es’, being list re MW’s Essays on Australian Writing

BOX 67
‘Simon Curtis’, 1988-1991, being letters received with enclosures from Simon Curtis

‘book copies sent’, being notes

‘Monograph & Critical Essays’, 1991, regarding Australain Writers Series (Australian Academy of the Humanities)

‘PLR’, 1991-, being Public Lending Right Claim

‘Macquarie Library / ACE [Australian Classic Editions]’, 1984-1992

‘Clarke 2nd ed.’, being reprint article/entries on Oliver Wendell Holmes by and received from Barry Menikoff

‘Clarke/DNB’, being photocopied completed DNB sheets on Marcus Clarke

‘Personal chair applic.[ation] 92’ regarding MW’s application for promotion to a Personal Chair at Sydney University

‘SASSC’, 1991-1992, regarding Sydney Studies in Society and Culture series published by the Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture

‘Asian Writing’, 1984-1987, including letters received from Alison Broinowski

‘Corres. Modern Mel [Modern Melancholy]’, 1985-1986

‘Epitaphs’ re English verse epitaphs

‘Lit. Board trans. scheme / European tran corres & ‘, 1991-1992, regarding subsidies for foreign translations of MW’s work

‘Longmans Lucas Milton’, 1992-1993, regarding chapter, ‘Milton’s Radical Epic’ for Crosscurrents: Lucas, Writing and Radicalism

‘Marvell H. Ode & Ap. House / Apples in Bermuda’, 1984, mainly regarding revised version of article for Modern Language Review

‘Milt[on] Samson [Agonistes]’, being notes and MS. draft

‘1645 Milton - Corns version + top copy’, 1991-1992, mainly regarding chapter/paper ‘Milton’s Poems (1645) and the Proper Subject of Poetry’

‘1645 Milton - long version xerox’ regarding above chapter/paper

‘Milton Equality / SASSc Epic’, 1993-1994, regarding paper ‘“Their Sex Not Equal Seem’d”: Equality and Hierachy in John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Photocopies of articles/essays by others on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Marvell, E. P. Thompson’s Marxism and J. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness’, 1976-1983

BOX 68
‘Mod. Mel’, being selected stories for Under Saturn

‘Ox. Contemp Modern Post Modern’, regarding anthology of Australian short stories, being mainly photocopies and reader’s report on Social Visions

‘Modern Aus Story Xerox’, being mainly photocopies

‘The Literary Pages’, being photocopied typescript/computer printout

‘B. Traven : the Man Who Loved Mystery’ by Jonah Raskin, being photocopied typescript, pp.81-301

BOX 69
‘Unsorted corres.’, 1984, being mainly letters received from, among others, Jack Lindsay, with Diploma in Music (Education) awarded to Lyndall Helen Halliday, 18 Apr. 1969

‘Notes for Scenic Drive’ re Scenic Drive (1976)

‘Scenic Drive Film Treatment’

Scenic Drive Proofs & Xeroxes’

‘Scenic Drive original penult’

Green folder: ‘Scenic Drive’, being ‘penultimate version [corrected typescript/carbon typescript]’

‘Pacific Highway penult.’, being photocopied typescript with MS. corrections

Green folder: ‘Pacific Highway penult. / Pieces Missing’

Black folder: ‘Pacific Highway’, being typescript

BOX 70
Purple folder: ‘Aspects of the Dying Process 1970’

Red folder: ‘The Phallic Forest’

Black folder containing untitled manuscript, being photocopy of corrected typescript

‘Penult 1’, being typescript and photocopied tpescript of and related notes and photocopies re The Paraguayan Experiment

Reading the Signs, 1984, being corrected galley proofs

BOX 71
Pacific Highway, 1982, being corrected galley and page proofs

‘People’, including ‘Report of a Statement from the Editorial & Publishing Manager’ and other short fiction

‘ASAL paper’

Untitled typescript

‘Gypsies’, being edited short story published in New Yorker, 26 Oct. 1981

‘Hector and Freddie’, being ‘original version pre Ghost of Matt Arnold’

‘Australian Concepts’, 1977, being notes and newscuttings

‘Living Together MS’, being corrected carbon typescript

‘Living Together’, 1972-1975, being mainly correspondence with UQP re Living Together (1974)

‘Scenic Drive / novel in prog. orig. drafts’

‘The Short Story Embassy Vol. I’, being notes and versions

BOX 72
‘MS Notes for Olivia Novella My Dear Edwin MS ist Draft’

‘Aspects - Stories - Promotion’, being correspondence with UQP

‘WMU Promo & Production’, 1971-1975, regarding TheWest Midland Underground (1975)

‘S.S. Embassy - Promotion’, 1974-1975

‘P.F. Promo’, 1976, regarding The Phallic Forest (1978)

‘The Super Tera????’ re untitled typescript in Box 71?

‘MSS Phallic Forest Scenario & Script Drafts’

‘Mulgrave : novella’, being notes and roughs

Notes and photocopy regarding A. H. Clough

‘Stories MS unrevised & early versions’

‘Hector and Freddy & Others’, being corrected typescript

‘Disgusting & Offensive Stories vol I’

BOX 73
‘Real Fiction’, being computer printout and duplicates

‘RF 1’, being another computer printout of ‘Real Fiction’

‘RF 2’, being ‘corrected computer printout [‘Minus Music Making’] of ‘Real Fiction’

‘The Literary Pages - 1’, being photocopied typescript/computer printout, pp.1-127

‘The Literary Pages - 2’, being photocopied typescript/computer printout, pp.128-205

Untitled folder of copies of stories

‘I like him to write’, being short story and photocopies of letters received from Christina Stead, 1970-1977, with photocopy of enclosed letter received from HarperCollins, 21 Dec. 1973, re the publication of ‘Real Fiction’,

BOX 74
Political Fictions, being various versions

BOX 75
‘Imperialism’, being mainly reading lists

‘Lord Jim’, being notes

‘Conrad Under Western Eyes’, being notes

‘Examining theses on Conrad : M.A. Flinders / Ph.D. Sydney’, 1969-1973

‘Conrad Society’, 1973-1974

‘Notes [Alan] Sillitoe’, 1959-

‘The Rainbow [by D. H. Lawrence] Lectures - 1973

‘Swift / Politics’, 1947-1971

‘MS. Among My Books - Revisions, Cancelled ?? Penult. Draft’

‘The Heady Scents of Eucalypts & Abridgements & rewrites & notes’

BOX 76
Working papers regarding Dr Dee & Sir Edward Kelly

BOX 77
‘The Fire & Mrs Bilham’, 1973, being correspondence with UQP regarding his novel, with draft fragment

Red folder: ‘Uncollected Stories’

‘The Ghost of Matthew Arnold’, being typescript of stories ‘Among My Books’, pp.123-201

‘My Dear Edwin / Among My Books’, being versions of stories

‘MS of stories in xerox of printed vs’, being photocopied typescript

‘Orig MS / xerox now reworked’, 1979-, including ‘Beach Report’, ‘Reading the Signs’, New Yorker, 4 June 1979

‘Paraguayan Expt cancelled Passages Post McC’, being typescript

‘Paraguayan Expt Notes for Add. Material ?? 7/82’

Notes and fragments regarding The Paraguayan Experiment

The Paraguayan Experiment, being photocopied typescript in two folders: pp.1-193 and pp.194-367

BOX 78
Untitled folder, inc. the story ‘Divisions’

‘Island false starts final draft TS’

‘Island outs’

‘The Paraguayan Experiment Top Copy’, being typescript

‘Paraguayan Expt Copy with revisions added (working copy for revisions 14 viii 82)’

‘Rainbow Notes’

‘[George] Meredith Lectures & Notes’, including uncorrected carbon typescript of ‘George Meredith: Beauchamp’s Career’ for Sydney Studies in Culture & Society and Chapter 2 of Political Fictions

BOX 79
‘Political Fictions I - Swift to Conrad Penult Draft’

‘Political Fictions [Jack] London to Sillitoe Part II Penultimate Draft’

‘Twain : Huckleberry Finn Articles & Lectures’, 1965-1978, including Chapter 3 of Political Fictions

‘Wm Morris’, being notes

‘[D H.] Lawrence in Australia’, 1933-1980

‘Orwell 1984 plus notes on Huxley & Wells & Koestler’

‘Swift Notes’

‘Original Articles : Studies in Political Fiction’, being mainly photocopied articles and a reprint

‘Jack London - Iron Heel Review & Clippings’

‘The Rainbow [by D. H. Lawrence]’

‘Journal Political Economy reading List’

BOX 80
Reading the Signs, including photocopied page proofs

Marked copies of MW’s books

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Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which the author has been deceased for more than 50 years