Series 01: Gillian Mears correspondence, ca. 1972-2001

MLMSS 9999/Boxes 1-3

series

ca. 1972-2001

9585405

0.48 metres of textual material (3 boxes) - manuscript, typescript, printed

BOX 1/Folder 1
Peter Mears correspondence, mainly with Gillian Mears, February 2000-October 2001.
Letters, cards and emails regarding family meetings, the cottage on Ithilien's hill and money matters. Includes a card and drawing from Yvonne Mears to Peter Mears, cards from Gillian to Sheila and Peter Mears and a watercolour painting by Peter Mears

BOX 1/Folder 2
“Letters from old friends 1999-2001”, correspondence with people including Russell Shakespeare, Wendy Frew, Nazir Jussab, Sandy Edwards, Tracey Price, Helen Salter, Ashley Tanner, Alan Close, Diana Benzaki, Tom Carment

BOX 1/Folders 3-4
“Letters received from Shining of Mindfulness friends, 2000”

BOX 1/Folder 5
Correspondence with Tom McVeigh, including his story 'Cross roads of antiquity and modernity, pausing – clock stops – Laos' and 2 colour photographs of kookaburras and a magpie, 2000-2001

BOX 1/Folder 6
Empty envelopes from correspondence

BOX 2/Folder 1
“Book dedications on books I’ve sold”, manuscript inscriptions on extracted title pages of books no longer owned by Gillian Mears, signed by people including David Malouf, Karin Mears, Peter and Sheila Mears, Matthew Condon, Beth Yahp, Charlotte Randall, David Lodge, Vikram Chandra, Fiona McGregor, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Emma Tom, Stephen Measday, Marina Warner, Helen Salter, Alan Close, Bruce Pascoe, Beverley Farmer, Stephanie Dowrick, Judy Horacek, Brigid Lowry, Tracey Price, Darrelyn Gunzburg, Dorothy Hewitt, Jacqui Taylor, Marele Day, Christopher Cyrill, 1972-1999

BOX 2/Folder 2
“Correspondence from people I don’t really know”, miscellaneous manuscript and typescript letters and cards received, 1999-2001

BOX 2/Folder 3
Letters received from Gerald Murnane (9); photocopy of an annotated article on Murnane (The Age, 27/11/99) including Murnane’s comment that ‘Despite a few blunders Jane Sullivan’s report is one of the best of its kind I have read about myself; signed manuscript letters received from Philip Tyndall, film maker, concerning ‘Words and Silk’ (1990), a film about Murnane

BOX 2/Folder 4
Correspondence with Yvonne, Aug. 1995, 2000

BOX 2/Folder 5
Correspondence with Karin, 2000-2001

BOX 2/Folder 6
Correspondence with Sonya, 2000-2001

BOX 2/Folder 7
Correspondence with her sisters’ children, 2000-2001

BOX 2/Folder 8
Correspondence with Geof Nanto, ca. 2001

BOX 2/Folder 9
Correspondence, mainly emails, regarding ‘The Map of the Gardens’ stories including a typescript letter to Geof Nanto, sample page proofs and manuscript notes titled “1st conversation with Judith Lukin”

BOX 3/Folder 1
“Writing correspondence 2000 from old & new friends who are writers”, letters, emails, postcards and invitations. Correspondents include Drusilla Modjeska, Helen Garner, Alan Close, David Malouf, Lisa Merrifield, Gaby Naher, Susan Hampton, Ivor Indyk, Elizabeth Jolley, Jess Huon, Frank Russo, Fiona McGregor and Stephanie Dowrick. Includes edited transcript of interview with Emma Sorensen 10 Sept 1999 for honours thesis, 30pp., 1999-August 2000

BOX 3/Folder 2
“Writing correspondence 2000 from old & new friends who are writers”, letters, emails, postcards and invitations. Correspondents include Drusilla Modjeska, Helen Garner, Alan Close, David Malouf, Lisa Merrifield, Gaby Naher, Susan Hampton, Ivor Indyk, Elizabeth Jolley, Jess Huon, Frank Russo, Fiona McGregor and Stephanie Dowrick, August 2000-March 2001

BOX 3/Folder 3
“Writing friends & strangers 2001”, letters and emails. Correspondents include Susan Hampton, Gaby Naher, Helen Garner, Amanda Lohrey (RESTRICTED), Davida Allen, Drusilla Modjeska, Tom McVeigh and Russell Shakespeare, February-October 2001

BOX 3/Folder 4
Miscellaneous correspondence, including bill payments notices, publisher’s agreement, letters regarding move to appointing joint accountant, enquiries and orders for books, correspondence with M.P. Harry Woods regarding the use of native forests

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