Collection 2: Desmond O'Grady further literary papers, 1964-1999

MLMSS 8019

sub-fonds

1964-1999

922950

2.06 metres of textual material (12 boxes and 1 folder)

BOX 1
Correspondence mainly regarding literary fellowships and grants, 1973-1980

Correspondence, 1974-1997, mainly with publishers and funding bodies. Correspondents include Australia Council, Copyright Agency Limited, Curtis Brown, Helen Daniel, Hale & Iremonger, Harry Heseltine, Jonathan Cape Limited, Alister Kershaw, Meanjin, National Library of Australia, Outrider, Overland, Penguin Books Australia, Public Lending Right Scheme, Quadrant, Vivian Smith, Southerly, University of Queensland Press, US Catholic, Dame Rebecca West and G. A. Wilkes

Correspondence with Australia Council, 1982-1986

Correspondence, 1964-1969, mainly regarding, and reviews of, A Long Way From Home (1966)

Correspondence, 1964-1980, mainly with Wren Publishing (Melb.) re Deschooling Kevin Carew (1974), and related reviews, with reviews of other works by DO’G, 1964-80

‘Knockbacks’, 1992-1993, being mainly correspondence with prospective publishers of The Turned Card: Christianity Before and After the Wall (1995)

Correspondence with the Australian Dictionary of Biography regarding his entry on Gino Nibbi, with drafts, 1995-1998

Letters received from Ed Campion, 1990 and HarperCollins Religious, 1991, re Caesar, Christ and Constantine (1991)

FOLDER 2
Letters received from Hal Porter,1973-79

FOLDER 2a
Barry Oakley, 1972-1981, 1998 (RESTRICTED)

BOX 3
‘Agenda/Diaries’, being mainly appointment diaries, 1969-1995

BOX 4
Telephone notebooks, 1995-1998

BOX 5
Notebooks, ca. 1995-1998

Articles, including working papers and correspondence

Book reviews, with related working papers, 1985-1998, of Dining with Princes (1995) by John Sligo, Midnight in Sicily (1996) by Peter Robb, The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams (1985) by Donald Spoto and His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of our Time (1996) by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi

BOX 6
Papers mainly regarding articles for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, 1973-1987, including. correspondence and newscuttings of articles published

Corrected typescript drafts, with related correspondence, 1992-1998, mainly regarding such topics as Australians in Italy: the painter Jeffrey Smart, Italian politics and society, the Mafia, and Vatican affairs

BOX 7
Corrected typescript and MS. drafts, 1992-1998, including interview with Saul Bellow and articles for Europe Business, 1995-1996

BOX 8
Short stories, including working papers and correspondence, 197—199-:

‘Who’s Afraid of Rupert Bunny’, ‘To Seek the Sycamore’, ‘Theo’s Lot’, ‘The Game’, ‘Going all the Way’, King of Rome’, ‘A Touch of the Megas’, ‘What’s the Score’, ‘One Prick After Another’, ‘Hindsight’, ‘The Shadow Line’ [a rewriting of Joseph Conrad’s story ?], ‘My (False) Start as a Writer’, ‘Passionfruit’, ‘Ivan Ivanovic Crosses the Border’

BOX 9
Manuscript and corrected typescript drafts of O’Grady’s English translation of the Italian novel Sorriso degli Dei (The Smile of the Gods) by Stanislao Nievo

Further research material regarding Raffaello! Raffaello!: A Biography of Raffaello Carboni (1985), 1999, no date

Reviews of, and promotional material regarding, Correggio Jones and the Runaways: The Italo-Australian Connection (1995), 1995-1996, with fax from Rosemary Goldie, first woman official of the Roman Curia, 4 Sept. 1995, being her corrections to O’Grady’s article on her

Jottings for The Victory of the Cross: A History of the Early Church in Rome (Aust. ed., 1993), ca. 1992

Articles and corrected carbon typescript for Caesar, Christ and Constantine (1991)

BOX 10
Papers regarding The Turned Card: Christianity Before and After the Wall (1995):

Correspondence mainly with publishers regarding The Turned Card, including foreign language editions, with related reviews, 1995-1996

Photocopied page proofs of Loyola Press (US) edition of The Turned Card, with the author’s corrections, ca. 1997

Photocopied page proofs of Spanish edition of The Turned Card: Las cartas boca arriba, 1996

BOX 11
Papers regarding Rome Reshaped: Jubilees 1300-2000 (1999):

Book proposals with newscuttings and printed material, 1977-1997, regarding Rome, the Vatican and Jubilee 2000

Correspondence with American, English, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish publishers, 1997-1999

BOX 12

Envelopes of draft fragments and lists of corrections, and newscuttings, 1994-1998

Incomplete corrected typescript, ca. 1998

Two variant corrected typescripts

BOX 13

‘Marked up final draft’

Corrected computer printouts of Italian translation/edition, Roma Rifondata: L’Impronta dei Giubilei 1300-2000

Photocopy of corrected computer printout of the Spanish translation/edition

Partly restricted: Applies to MLMSS 8019/ Folder 2

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