Gerard Windsor further literary and personal papers, 1956-2016

MLMSS 10046

fonds

1956-2016

1012132

1.76 metres of textual material (11 boxes)

Gerard Charles Windsor, Australian author and literary critic. He was educated at St Ignatius' College, Riverview and after leaving school trained as a Jesuit before realising it was not his vocation. He studied Arts at the Australian National University and Sydney University, before briefly studying medicine. He has published twelve books, including fiction and non-fiction, compilations of essays, stories and memoirs. His short stories, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous anthologies, literary magazines and newspapers. In 2005 he was awarded the 2005 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing.
Reference: Library correspondence file

Literary and personal papers, 1956-2016, including drafts of three unpublished and three abandoned novels, a number of unpublished stories, essays and articles, an unpublished history of Riverview, book reviews, correspondence with other writers, and general correspondence.

BOX 1
2 different typescript drafts of a commissioned, but rejected and unpublished, history of St. Ignatius College, Riverview. Written 1975-1976.

BOX 2
Unpublished satirical novel, 1978, written in aftermath of rejection of commissioned history of Riverview.
Riverview newsletters 1961-1963.
Letter regarding Tony Gallagher (teacher at Riverview). Melvyn Morrow flyers (teacher at Riverview 1962-?).
2 schoolboy photographs of Gerard Windsor
Poem by Gerard Windsor, 1967
Correspondence related to 2012, 50 year reunion of Riverview class of 1962.

BOX 3
Correspondence from writers, including: Elizabeth Jolley, Helen Garner, Susan Johnson, Kate Grenville, Joan London, Morag Fraser, Paul Durcan, Mary O'Donnell and New York agent, Elise Goodman.

BOX 4
Material related to 'All Day Long the Noise of Battle: An Australian Attack in Vietnam' (2011). Correspondence from readers and veterans. Talks and articles deriving from.

BOX 5
Manuscripts, typescript, notes and research material for 'The Tempest Tossed Church: Being a Catholic Today', 2017.

BOX 6
Booklets distributed at funerals attended by Gerard Windsor and his mother, Mollie Windsor (1919-2016).
Letters to Henry Joseph Windsor, grandfather of Gerard Windsor, on his Papal Knighthood 1957.
Gerard Windsor letter to his grandfather 1956.
Manuscript diary of H. J. Windsor's trip to Europe, 1957, to receive papal knighthood and revisit his homeland , Ireland.

BOX 7
Gerard Windsor letters home from Jesuit novitiate, Loyola College, Watsonia, 1963-1968.
Notes regarding Jesuit training 1968.
Letters from John Cowburn SJ and Tom Daly SJ.
Material regarding 50 year Reunion, 2013, of former Jesuit novices.

BOX 8
Unpublished fiction. 'My Sainted Aunt', 2013 novel, manuscript and typescript.
'Hard Rations', story 2010.
'My Children Would be Horrified', 'And the Children's Teeth Shall be Set on Edge', story 2008
Abandoned novel, 'Beaudesert', 2004.
Abandoned novel, untitled, 2005.

BOX 9
Letters responding to 'Heaven Where the Bachelors Sit', 1996, including from Helen Garner, Kerryn Goldsworthy.
General correspondence to Gerard Windsor, 1995-ca. 2000
Material related to Peter Alexander, including: Gerard Windsor's eulogy and obituary, correspondence, Peter Alexander's memoir.
Correspondence from Townsend family (Ralph Townsend, former headmaster of Sydney Grammar)
Letter from Gerald O'Nolan, brother of Brian O'Nolan, also known as Flann O'Brien.

BOX 10
Gerard Windsor Non-Fiction. Files related to Pilgrimage Walk to Santiago de Compostela, 2005 and 2006. Book about the walk, 'Angels Before Me', and articles related to subsequent European Peace Walk, Vienna to Trieste, 2014.
Unpublished articles, essays. Schooldays (ca. 1984), Character Sketches in Britain 1980-1981, Sharpies Golf House, Sydney, Turkey 2004, Australian Literary Culture 1980s and 1990s.
Notes for talk to Richard 111 Society, 2016.
Essay regarding Caroline Anderson (1964-2001), a medical negligence death.

BOX 11
Proof pages for 'The Harlots Enter First' (1982).
Working Notes for 'Family Lore' (1986-1988).
Long article on Gerard Windsor by Judith Matheson in Studio Connections Dec. 1988.
UQP royalty statements
Gerard Windsor reviews for Sydney Morning Herald/Age and The Australian 2014-2016

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which Gerard Windsor owns copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

The contents list is adapted from an inventory compiled by Gerard Windsor