George Warnecke papers, 1907-1981, and related correspondence of Meg Sordello, 1981-1985

MLMSS 8031

fonds

1907 - 1985

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings

923839

1.02 metres of textual material (6 boxes)

Glen William ('George') Warnecke (1894-1981), journalist and editor, was born in Armidale, N.S.W.. He was the first editor of The Australian Women's Weekly, 1933-1939, and editor-in-chief of Consolidated Press Ltd, 1936-1939. He married Irish soprano and poet, Nora Hill (1899-1969), in Australia in 1924. Over the next thirty years he worked in Australia, England and the United States before settling in Ireland in 1957.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Meg Sodello is Nora Hill's Australian-born niece and inherited the papers of George Warnecke.

BOX 1
Correspondence:

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1922-1961, with, among others, W. Farmer Whyte, R. C. Packer, Voltaire Molesworth, Montague Grover, Ezra Norton, J. B. Chifley, Errol Knox, Jack Briears, H. Campbell Jones and Sir Hugh Denison

Folder 2: Telegrams, 1935, mainly with Frank Packer, and also from Alice Jackson and E. W. MacAlpine

Folder 3: Correspondence, with enclosures, ca. 1936-1980, mainly with Sir Keith Murdoch, William Dunstan (Gen. Mgr, Herald & Weekly Times), Sir Frank Packer, Billy Bourke, Otto Beeby, Colin Simpson, Chris O’ Sullivan, George R. Frazer, and correspondence, 1935-1939, mainly with Frank Packer regarding Sydney Newspapers Ltd and Consolidated Press Ltd

Folder 4: Correspondence, 1975-1985, with David McNicoll, Peter Coleman, Ita Buttrose, and Nan Musgrove, with letters received by Meg Sordello, 1981-1985, from John Briears, Nan Musgrove, 1982, including copies of Chris O’Sullivan’s correspondence regarding Warnecke’s estate, Baiba Berzins (Mitchell Librarian) and Christopher Lawe Davies

Folder 5: Drafts of speech written by Warnecke for supporters of R. Packer to oppose the Companies Amendment (Preference Shareholders) Bill, 1932

Folder 6: Memorandum and Articles of Association of Sydney Newpapers Limited (1933) and Consolidated Press Limited (1936), and Prospectus of a shares issue by Consolidated Press Ltd (1936)

Folder 7: Contracts and financial agreements mainly with Sydney Newspapers Ltd and Consolidated Press Ltd, 1929-1961, including correspondence with Hugh Denison, R. C. Packer, E. G. Theodore and J. C. Rickard

BOX 2
Papers regarding ‘The First Australian’, an unpublished biography of John Macarthur, 195--1981 in BOXES 2-4:

Folder 1: Papers, 1968-1974, no date, including two folders, the first containing letters received from Alice Jackson, newscuttings, notes and fragmentary drafts

Folders 2-9: Drafts, notes, newscuttings, and correspondence
Folder 2: ‘Hand Notes…’ includes letter received from Noel McLachlan (University College Dublin), 1979

BOX 3
Folders 1-5: Mainly drafts, including Preamble: Riding on the Sheep's Back, notes and newscuttings

BOX 4
Folders 1-10: Mainly drafts, notes and newscuttings

BOX 5
Papers mainly regarding unpublished book on the Australian labour movement in BOXES 5-6:

Folder 1: Papers, ca. 1920-1975, no date, include correspondence with Chris O’Sullivan, newscuttings, photoprints and incomplete draft chapters

Folder 2: Draft chapters of unpublished book on the Australian labour movement, with fragmentary draft chapters of ‘Miracle Magazine’, a memoir of The Australian Women’s Weekly, 197-

Folder 3: Draft chapters of unpublished book on the Australian labour movement

BOX 6
Folder 1: Annotated copies of The Labor Party in New South Wales: A History from its Formation in 1891 until 1904 (3rd edn, 1907) and (1910), and Platform and Objective (1931) of Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch)

Folders 2-3: Draft chapters of unpublished book on the Australian labour movement

Miscellaneous papers:

Folder 4: Manuscript article (?), 1942, regarding the United States and the Pacific in World War II

Folder 5: Typescript of ‘Sorrow Take The Day: Elegy in a Hospital’ by Glen Warnecke, with letter received from Macmillan & Co Ltd, London, 7 Apr. 1970

Folder 6: Typescript of selected poems of Nora Hill, with introductory note and newscutting, compiled by Glen Warnecke, 1979, and photographs (3): Glen Warnecke, Nora Hill and her mother, Rose Bay, 1928; Glen, Nora and others, Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu, 1936; and unidentified snapshot of coastal location

Folder 7: Printed material, including The Irish Journalist, vol. II no. 2, Feb. 1916 and the emergency edition of The Evening Telegraph (Dublin), Apr. 1922

Folder 8: Annotated copy of A Short History of the Saturday Evening Post (1953)

Folder 9: Printed material and newscuttings, 1969-1980, including The Mask of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley. London : Kropotkin’s Lighthouse Publications, 3rd edition, Sept. 1978

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