Series 01: A. T. (Alexander Turnbull) Yarwood further papers, 1880-1998

MLMSS 8054/Boxes 1-11
MLMSS 8054/Folder 12
SAFE/MLMSS 8054/Folder 13 (Safe 3/243)

series

1880-1998

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

931655

1.90 metres of textual material (11 boxes and 2 folders)

Much of the content in each box is stored loosely or in manila folders within hanging files

BOX 1
Seven Little Australians – The True Story about this story’ (4 pp.) by Ethel Turner, ca. 1930, being photocopied typescript

‘Jean & Lilian’, 1929, being photocopy of Sydney Surfing by Jean Curlewis and Harold Cazneaux

‘Pre-1889 material’, being photocopies from The Parthenon, 1889-92, with notes

‘SMH 13 Sept 1889 - Bazaar’, being photocopies from Ethel Turner’s diaries, with notes

‘Diaries 1890’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Submissions 1891’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Submissions 1892’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Submissions 1893’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Submissions 1895’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Submissions 1896’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Submissions 1897’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Submissions 1898, being photocopy of diary, with notes

BOX 2
‘Submissions 1899, being photocopy of diary, with notes

[1900 Diary], being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘E. T. 1901’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1902’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1903’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1904’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1905, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1906’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1907’, being photocopy of diary, with notes


‘Diaries 1908’, being photocopied excerts from diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1909’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

[Diaries 1910], being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1911’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1912’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1913’, being photocopy of diary

‘Diaries 1914’, being photocopies of 1914-15 diaries, with notes

‘Diaries 1915’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

BOX 3
‘Diaries 1916’, being photocopies of diary and The Australian Soldiers’ Gift Book, n.d., edited by Bertram Stevens

‘Diaries 1917’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1918’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1919’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1920’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1921’, being photocopies of diary and material re the creation of Ginger Meggs

‘Diaries 1922’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1923’, being photocopy of diary, with notes

‘Diaries 1925’, being photocopies of 1924-25 diaries, with notes

‘Diaries 1926’, being mainly photocopies of newscuttings and letters by Ethel Turner

‘Diaries 1927’, being empty folder

‘Diaries 1928’, being photocopies of 1926-28 diaries, with notes

‘Diary 1942’, including photocopied excerpts from 1929 and 1942 diaries, copies of obituaries of Ethel Turner, with notes and letter received from Helen Frizell, 29 July 1993

BOX 4
‘MLMSS 667/9’, being photocopies, 1902-1912

‘667/10 Corresp. various publishers 1911-41’

‘667/11 Theatre Coys’, being photocopies and notes, 1900-1907

‘ML MSS 667/3 Letter Books 1909-12, 1935-40 & Notebook’, being photocopies

‘ML MSS 667/4 Corresp[onden]ce with publishers 1913-39’, being photocopies

‘667/6 Corresp[onden]ce, mainly W/L 1901-9’, being photocopies

‘667/7 Corresp. 1910-17 W/L’, being photocopies

‘Corresp[onden]ce. publishers/editors 1911-40’, being photocopies and notes

‘ML MSS 667/8’, being photocopies, 1918-44

‘ML MSS 667/5 Corresp[onden]ce. 1893-1900 mainly W/Lock’, being photocopies and notes

‘Maori Project’

‘Lecture on [Rev. Samuel] Marsden Macq. Uni. 14.9.92’

‘Contracts, Permissions’, 1939-1994, including copies of correspondence of Adrian Curlewis with Eleanor Witcomb, 1970

‘Marsden of Parramatta’, 1989-1998, including talk given on 12 Mar. 1994

‘A. T. Yarwood. Richmond River Historical Society June 1994’, 1989-1994, including copy of Lismore High School 1920-1995: 75th Anniversary
(1994)

‘Marsden & Macquarie’, 1977-1994, being lecture notes

Notebooks (4), 1981-1996, mainly regarding research for Walers: Australian Horses Abroad (1989), with map of Queensland showing land tenure, June 1984, being research material for Walers, biography of Sir Raphael Cilento and history of Albert/Logan Shire, Qld

BOX 5
Photographs used in From a Chair in the Sun

Photographic research for From a Chair in the Sun, inc. correspondence

‘Acknowledgments’, being drafts for From a Chair in the Sun

‘Bibliographies’, being final draft computer printout of bibliography, with notes on sources

‘Children’s Literature’, including separate files for ‘Biography - my correspondence’, 1990-1995, being letters received from, among others, Brenda Niall, 1990; ‘Beatrix Potter’, being a newscutting regarding Beatrix Potter Art Exhibition; ‘Town and Country Jnl’, being photocopy of 1909 columns of same-titled newspaper; a copy of the exhibition catalogue Catching Sunbeams: The Life and Work of Ethel Turner (State Library of New South Wales, [1989]); ‘Yarwood ‘Marsden’ ADEB [Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography] ‘93’’, 1993-1995; and correspondence with The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books, 1997

‘Schooldays’, being empty folder

‘Churches & Clergy’, being notes

BOX 6
‘Family & Family letters’, being research material, including photocopies of Curlewis family letters, 1880-1940, and correspondence with Annette Potts, 1993-1995, and Ruth Park, 1994

‘People’, including folders on ‘Marybanke Anderson / Jan Roberts’, ‘Hay Sir John’, ‘Cambridge, Ada’, ‘Steffanoni, Sophie’, ‘Holmes. Cullens. Arthur RA’, ‘Family’, ‘People’, 1991-93; ‘Dr. R. Arthur & Cullen, Sir William Portus J H Carruthers’, being photocopied articles

‘Letters - literary editors etc’, being notes on Dowell O’Reilly Papers and William Astley

‘Legal Docts’ regarding Ethel Turner, including birth and death certificates

‘E. T. Interviews’, being empty folder

‘E. T. Novels’ regarding Seven Little Australians

‘Occasional Book E. T.’, being photocopied MS.

BOX 7
‘Pen Money’, being ‘E. T. Account book. 1896-22’, photocopy with notes

‘Homes & places’, being mainly correspondence re residences of Ethel Turner

‘E. T. Project Corresp.ce’

‘E. T. MS. Photos’

‘Short stories, reviews, articles’, being mainly notes regarding Ethel Turner

‘Kisch Case 1934’, being photocopied foreword to Australian Landfall (1968)

‘M.U.P.’, 1952-1998, being papers regarding new edition of Samuel Marsden: The Great Survivor; ‘M.U.P. Main correspondence file’, 1994-1996; and ‘Marsden ‘A few observations...’, being photocopy of Marsden’s 1807 essay

‘Penguin - Book launch(s) 1994’, 1994-1997

‘1996-7 Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books’

‘A.T.Y. Talks on E.T.’, 1884-1991, being mainly notes and photocopies

BOX 8
‘Penguin Correspondence’, 1990-1995, being mainly correspondence with Penguin Books Australia Ltd

‘Penguin Main file’, 1994-1996, being mainly correspondence regarding From a Chair in the Sun

Research material from Port Arthur Historic Site, 1995

Yarwood family correspondence, 1934-1959, including ATY’s letters to his parents, with his note regarding contents, 28 May 1998

‘Shawn and Robin’, being mainly ATY’s correspondence with his children, 1968-1988, with a letter from W. R. Boyce Gibson to ATY’s mother, 7 Dec. 1915

Correspondence, 1972-1974, with ATY’s wife, Jean, and children, and letters received from friends and academic colleagues, including Russel Ward, Ged Martin, Berry Buckley and Ken Buckley

BOX 9
Research cards regarding Ethel Turner and Walers, and notebooks (2) regarding research on Sir Raphael Cilento and Ethel Turner

BOX 10
Research cards for the book Samuel Marsden

BOX 11
Pocket, mainly appointment, diaries of ATY, 1964, 1966-70, 1974, 1979-89, 1991-95 and 1997

FOLDER 12 (RESTRICTED)
Personal correspondence, 1994-1995

FOLDER 13 (RESTRICTED)
‘Correspondence’, being letters received from Peter Radford, 1992-1994
(This folder has been removed and transferred to SAFE/MLMSS 8054/Folder 13)

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