Collection 6: Elizabeth Jolley further papers, 1935-1996

MLMSS 9540
ON 577
R 2157

sub-fonds

1935- 1996

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs, Drawings, Clippings

1102882

2.80 metres of textual material (19 boxes and 1 folder)
5 photographs
24 negatives - 10 x 6 cm
1 item of hair

DIARIES
BOX 1 RESTRICTED
Note: Some diaries contained additional loose material including letters, newscuttings, brochures &. notes. This material has been extracted and filed separately beside the relevant diary.
Diaries, 22 April 1940 – 14 July 1942 (10 volumes).
Diaries, 1 January 1944 – 24 August 1945 (2 volumes).
Diary, 23 December 1945 – 5 December 1947.
Diary, 3 June 1946 – 22 May 1949.
Diary, 26 May 1947 – 10 June 1949.
Diary 16 June 1949 – 4 February[?] 1950.
Gardening Diary, 19 November 1950 – 1 July 1951.
Diary 11 December 1950 – 25 August 1951.
Diary 30 January 1950 - 18 November 1950.
Diary 16 April 1952 – 20 April 1952.
Diary 19 November 1950 – 5 March 1952.

BOX 2 RESTRICTED
Diary, 15 January 1952 – October 1954; 26 May 1958 – 15 April 1962; 3 March 1960 & 6 April 1961.
Diary, 11 October 1953 – 17 May 1958.
Diary, 18 April 1962 – 23 June 1970, with additional notes, 1966-1977.
Diary, 29 September 1970 -1 April 1972, with additional notes 1970-1973.
Diary 7 April 1972 – 8 June 1974.

BOX 3 RESTRICTED
Diary, 9 June 1974 – 27 September 1977.
Diary, 23 September 1977 – 10 October 1979.
Diary, 18 October 1979 – 16 July 1983.
Diary 2 January 1984 – 19 July 1985.

CORRESPONDENCE
Mainly between Elizabeth and Leonard Jolley.
BOX 4 RESTRICTED
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, February – November 1945, undated. Includes poems and two letters to ‘Joyce and Leonard’ and ‘Mr and Mrs Jolley’.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, January – September 1946, undated.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, September – December 1946.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, April – December 1946.
Letters from Alix McSwiney to Elizabeth Jolley, 1947

BOX 5 RESTRICTED
Letters from Leonard Jolley to Elizabeth Jolley, ca. 1945-ca. 1948.
Letters from Leonard Jolley to Elizabeth Jolley, ca. 1946-ca. 1949.

BOX 6 RESTRICTED
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, January – February 1947.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, March - May 1947.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, June – October 1947.

BOX 7 RESTRICTED
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, November – December 1947.
Letters from Leonard Jolley to Elizabeth Jolley, ca. 1947.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, January – March 1948.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, April – May 1948. Include photographs of Elizabeth and Leonard.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, June – July 1948.

BOX 8 RESTRICTED
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, August – September 1948.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, October – December 1948.
Letters from Leonard Jolley and others to Elizabeth Jolley, ca. 1948.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, January – March 1949.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, April – June 1949.

BOX 9 RESTRICTED
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, July - December 1949.
Letters from Leonard Jolley (while he was in the USA) to Elizabeth Jolley, April to May 1949.
Letters from Leonard Jolley to Elizabeth Jolley, ca. 1949-1950.
Letters from Leonard Jolley and others to Elizabeth Jolley, March to September, 1950.

BOX 10 RESTRICTED
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, January – April 1950.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, May - June 1950.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, July 1950.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, August - September 1950.

BOX 11 RESTRICTED
Postcards from friends and family, mainly blank, 1950s
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, 13 Feb. 1951; Nov. to Dec. 1952; July 1953. Note: letter dated 13 Feb. 1951 is a Valentine’s Day poem enclosing a lock of Elizabeth Jolley’s hair which is now located at R 2157.
Letters from Leonard Jolley and others to Elizabeth Jolley, ca. 1952-1953
Letters and cards from family and friends to Elizabeth and Leonard Jolley, 1952-1959, with Sally Jolley’s childhood drawings/letters.
Letters and cards from family and friends to Elizabeth Jolley when she was hospitalized, July-August 1957.

BOX 12 RESTRICTED
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, July – August 1957.
Letters from Leonard Jolley and others to Elizabeth Jolley, July – September 1957, May, 1958, 1959
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, Feb., March & August, 1960, and August 1961 and from Leonard Jolley and others to Elizabeth Jolley, 1960-1962, 1965.
Letters from friends and family, 1960-64; Official U.W.A. invitations, early 1960s; ‘Recipe of the Week’ award, 1960.
Letters mainly from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, June – October 1966. Includes some letters from their children.

BOX 13 RESTRICTED
Letters from Leonard Jolley to Elizabeth Jolley, June – August, 1966.
Letters from H. Levey and others to Elizabeth Jolley, 1966.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, August 1969.
Letters from Leonard Jolley and others to Elizabeth Jolley, July - September, 1969.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley and others to Leonard Jolley (on study leave), January – June 1973
Letters from Leonard Jolley to Elizabeth Jolley, January-June 1973

BOX 14 RESTRICTED
Letters from Sarah Nelson (nee Jolley) and family to Elizabeth and Leonard Jolley, 1976-1979.
Letters from friends mainly to Elizabeth Jolley, ca. 1977-1979.
Letters between Elizabeth Jolley, Ruth Jolley (now Radley) and Richard Jolley, 1974-1979.
Letters between Elizabeth and Leonard Jolley, 1975-1976.
Letters to Elizabeth Jolley from Madeleine Blackmore (nee Knight), Charles Knight (father) and Margaretha Knight (mother), 1975-1979.
Letters from C.M. Fitzgerald and other friends to Elizabeth Jolley, 1975-1988.

BOX 15 RESTRICTED
Elizabeth Jolley - professional correspondence and newscuttings, 1975-ca. 1990.
Letters to Elizabeth Jolley from readers, with copies of book reviews, ca. 1979-ca. 1982.
Letters from Ruth Radley (nee Jolley) to Elizabeth Jolley and family, 1980-1983.
Letters from Sandra Nelson (nee Jolley) to Elizabeth Jolley and family, 1980-1985.
Letters between Elizabeth and Leonard Jolley, 1981, 1986.
Letters between Elizabeth and Leonard Jolley, July 1987.
Letters from Elizabeth Jolley to Leonard Jolley, 1988-1990

LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS
BOX 16
Various manuscripts of the novel ‘Dalton’, ca. 1996, published as ‘Love Song’ in 1997. Some sections of the novel were previously published in anthologies.

BOX 17
Early short stories, 1940s:
‘The Adventures of Waterloo Mouse’; ‘The Kitchen Ball’; ‘The Adventures of George Henry (1947); ’Nothing There’; ‘Spring Cleaning’; ‘The Visitor’; ‘A Christmas Story’; ‘The story of Backward bear and the Eskimo Doll’; ‘The Dripping Princess’; ‘The Grasshopper’s Secret; ‘The Lime Tree; ‘The Snow Baby’.
Later short stories:
‘New World’; ‘Beauty and the Beast’, 1960s; ‘My Sister Dancing’, 1994; ‘Story of Little Lewis has a Wonderful Sleep’, 1994; ‘Summer 1934’, 1994.
Undated short stories and other writings:
‘Funeral March’; ‘The New Lodger at Milly Cox’s; untitled story; ‘Nursery Rhymes for Harry and his Nursemaid’.
Book Reviews, 1994-1996.
Untitled fragments, 1990s?

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
BOX 18
Papers relating to Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) including correspondence, annual reports, newsletters etc., 1983-1986.
Papers relating to Curtin University including correspondence, annual reports, newsletters etc., 1986 -1995.
Papers relating to International P.E.N., 1984-1986.
Papers relating to the documentary film ‘The Nights belong to the Novelist’, 1987.
Papers relating to the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, 1983.

BOX 19
Autograph book, 1935-1939, 1948 inscribed ‘To Monica with love from Margaret’, ‘Monica Knight’ and ‘Bunty Knight’, containing signatures, drawings and messages from friends.
Household account books & address book, 1950-1951, 1966.
Program for the Playbox theatre production of ‘The Newspaper of Claremont Street’, 1991.
Newscuttings, 1944, 1991.
‘Girls’ Outfit List’, Sibford School, 1930s.
‘Change of Name Deed’, 14 March 1949 whereby Elizabeth Jolley changed her surname form Knight to Fielding.
Results – Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Awards for 1974.
Results – Annual National Literary Awards for 1986, announced 1987.
Notebooks belonging to Leonard Jolley.
Illustrated children’s story, 1930s?
Photographs: portrait of Elizabeth Jolley; portrait of unidentified man; 2 portraits of unidentified man and woman; group photograph including Elizabeth Jolley, ca, 1963.

BOX 20 RESTRICTED
1 folder of legal papers, including correspondence, relating to the defamation case of John Sydney Dawkins v Western Australian Newspapers Limited and Leonard Jolley, 1973-1974.

PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES
ON 577
24 negatives of unidentified scenes and people, probably Elizabeth & Leonard Jolley and children, undated, but ca. 1950s.

REALIA
R 2157
Lock of Elizabeth Jolley’s hair which accompanied a Valentine’s Day poem she sent to Leonard Jolley, 13 February 1951. The original poem is located in BOX 10 above.

Partly restricted: Applies to MLMSS 9540/ Boxes 1-15, 20

Access via appointment - Applies to ON 577 and R 2157

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple copyright owners
Approval for reproduction required: Caroline Lurie is Literary Executor of the Literary Estate of Elizabeth Jolley. Any request for reference copying or broadcasting and publishing of material created by Elizabeth Jolley must be submitted to her.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright owner

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