Collection 03: Valerie Lawson research papers for her books on P.L. Travers and Constance Robertson, 1899-2006

MLMSS 9330/Boxes 1-7
ON 572

sub-fonds

1899-2006

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

930796

Approx. 80 negatives - film: - 22.5 x 18 cm and smaller
0.90 metres of textual material & photographs (5 boxes & 1 outsize box)

I. Research material for ‘Out of the sky she came : the life of P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins' (1999).
Includes notes, newscuttings, original correspondence, photocopies of correspondence and printed material, arranged in chronological files.
BOX 1
PLT’s Australian Years (2 files).
PLT writing for the ‘Christchurch Sun’.

BOX 2
1920s. Madge Burnand, AE (George Russell).
1920s. Ireland.
1935-39. Chap. 8. AE, New English Weekly, Mayfield, Hones.
1935-39. The Hone Family and Francis Macnamara.
1940s. New York.

BOX 3
1940s. New Mexico.
1945+ Chapter 10. George Gurdjieff, Francis Burnand, the Hones.
1950s.
1959+ Disney Movie.
1960-64. Includes Japan, 1963.
Radcliffe Sept 1965. Smith College 1966.
1967-1979.

BOX 4
Various notes including 1. ‘Notes for chapter 7 on Mary Poppins & Mary Shepard, & Macnamara, from notebooks, magazine clips & books’; 2. ‘Thoughts on childhood from articles and primary sources’; 3. ‘Thoughts on childhood from books’; 4. ‘Thoughts on childhood from Mitchell Library manuscripts’.
Four notebooks.
Annotated copy of ‘Guide to the Papers of P.L.Travers in the Mitchell Library’.
Article in Qantas magazine on PLT, 1999.
Hilton Cordell’s documentary based on Valerie Lawson’s book, 2000-2006.
Material gathered in PLT’s home in Chelsea and given to Lawson by PLT’s son.
‘New Yorker’ article on PLT and resulting correspondence, 2005.

BOX 5X
Book jackets, copies of book illustrations, publishers’ brochures and publicity material, ca. 1999.


II. Research material for ‘Connie Sweetheart: the story of Connie Robertson’ (1990)
BOX 6
Correspondence and Miscellaneous Research, 1989, undated.
Correspondence, Reviews and Photographs, 1990-1991. Correspondents include Nancy Keesing, Francis James & Nancy Phelan.
David Jones History, Articles, Correspondence & Draft Chapters, 1960s-1996.
Rowe Street History & Archival Material, 1900s-2003.

BOX 7
Photographs, 1900s-1960s. Includes portraits of Connie Robertson, A.G. Stephens, Dame Mary Gilmore, Francis James, Alex Robertson; Magazine & Newspaper Pages & Farewell Cards; Sydney Social Life.
Also includes photographs for ‘The Allens Affair' by Valerie Lawson’ (1995).

ON 572
Negatives
Includes portraits of Connie Robertson; 'Connie's own farewell or return to office cards'; covers of Woman's Budget'; Sydney Morning Herald etc. mastheads, articles/drawings; menu from Romano's opening night.

Partly restricted: Applies to MLMSS 9330/ Boxes 1-5X
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