Series 02: Correspondence and other personal papers of Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, 1942-1996

MLMSS 8091/Box 2

series

1942-1996

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera

944000

BOX 2
Folder 9
Correspondence with publishers, press clippings and book reviews relating to ‘Plankton’s Luck’, an autobiography by Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, 27 February 1986-28 August 1989. Typescripts with manuscript annotations and printed. Newscuttings

Folder 10
Correspondence with editors of literary magazines and various newspaper publishers relating to the publication of poems, 9 June 1986-12 October 1987. Includes annotated typescript copies of poems 'Reflections, Shostakovitch's Dream, Don's Party, Men Still at Work, Zoo Masks, Occasions, Draft Epitaphs, Life on a Plane, Halt, Eden, Memoirs, Shrine, God, Turning, Raider'. Typescripts and manuscripts

Folder 11
Newscuttings from ‘The Bulletin’ and ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ of stories written by Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, ABC radio guide Western Australia and cartoon by Mollner, various dates. Includes ‘The ABC of Mungo’, news article by Carmen Egan, 1988?. Printed
Poor condition – disintegrating fragments, very fragile

Folder 12
Correspondence with the A. P. Fleming, Pauline Fanning, June Pellegrino, Carol Gould and John Thompson of the National Library of Australia and Barry F. Andrews from the University of New South Wales, regarding a request for oral history and MacCallum family name corrections, 4 June 1973-24 September 1986. Manuscript and typescript letters

Folder 13
Ephemera relating to artist and sculptor Rod Dudley, 28 April 1983-16 March 1990. Includes catalogue of an exhibition held in Milan 28 April-18 May 1983 with preface by Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, invitation to an opening of an exhibition of Rod Dudley and William Ferguson at Rushcutters Bay on 6 March 1990, and postcard from Rod Dudley to Mungo Ballardie MacCullum and Polly MacCullum, 16 March 1990. Printed

Folder 14
MacCallum and Renton family history and genealogy, no date. Includes MacCallum family tree, spanning seven generations, 1763-1931, photocopy of manuscript and photocopy of ‘The Rentons of Renton’ pamphlet, printed for the author by Hazel Watson and Viney, with Renton family tree 1678-1863, genealogical information, reviews of a book of poetry by William Renton and lyrics to songs. Photocopies of manuscript and printed

Folder 15
University of Sydney printed publications and typescript letter, 1971-1972, about/by Duncan MacCallum (1920-1971), brother of Mungo Ballardie MacCallum. Includes obituary of Duncan MacCallum, published in ‘University of Sydney News’, vol. 3, no. 2, 10 March 1971, ‘Arts: the journal of the University of Sydney Arts Association, MacCallum Memorial Number’, vol. 7, 1972, with biography and obituary ‘Duncan MacCallum the man and his work’ by K. J. Cable, three articles by Duncan MacCallum and letter to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at University of Sydney regarding the death of Senior Lecturer in History, Duncan McMurray MacCallum in 1971

Folder 16
University of Sydney printed publications, 1942-1975, about Sir Mungo William MacCallum (1854-1942). Includes extract of an obituary from Sydney University newsletter, ‘The Union Recorder’, Thursday, 8 October, 1942, p. 191, ‘Southerly: the magazine of the Australian English association Sydney’, MacCallum Memorial Number, No. 2, 1944 and ‘Arts: The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association’, vol. 10, 1975

Folder 17
Typescript eulogy for Hilda Kathleen MacCallum, (1880-1981), mother of Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, spoken by the Reverend Dillon at her cremation in 1981. Includes manuscript letter to Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, dated 24 December 1996, from John Dillon, son of Rev. Dillon who delivered the eulogy

Folder 18
Thesis by Siobhan Elizabeth Jenner, 1991, ‘The Radio Plays of Mungo MacCallum: Between Icon and Symbol’, laser print typescript. Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Faculty of Arts, University of New South Wales, Kensington NSW. Includes typescript letter by Siobhan Jenner to Mungo MacCallum, 20 January 1991