Gerard Windsor further papers, 1918-2017

MLMSS 11868
DC 87/1-2
MLOH 920

fonds

1918-2017

9673113

2.24 metres of textual material (14 boxes)

Gerard Windsor (1944 -) is an Australian author and literary critic. He was educated at St Ignatius’ College, Riverview, where he was Dux in 1961 and 1962. After leaving school he trained for six years 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, non-fiction, compilations of essays, stories and memoirs. His short stories, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous anthologies, literary journals, and newspapers. In 2005 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing.

Compiled from the Mitchell file.

Material includes contemporary (2018) annotations by Windsor in pencil

Box 1

Photocopied ‘Friends and sometime Scholars: A History of St Ignatius College, Riverview, New South Wales’, 1975-1977
Drafts of essay 'Writing an unpublishable book’, unpublished
Correspondence relating to the ‘History’. Correspondents include Anthony Fisher, later ninth Archbishop of Sydney; Fathers O’Kelly, O’Sullivan, Kelly and Quin, and Errol Lea Scarlett, 1974-1998
Later correspondence and research relating to the ‘History’. Correspondents include Fathers Duffy, Quin and Fraser, 1979-1980, 1996; Copies of Viewpoint, 1975-1976
Jesuits’ Companion magazine issues, various 2010-2017

Box 2

Ephemera including copy of Annual Distribution of Prizes, 1961-1962 where Windsor received the D’Arcy Cobcroft Memorial Prize for Dux of the school in successive years amongst many other awards; Rules of St. Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney, 1949; Testimonial for Conduct and Application, G. Windsor, 1960. 1949-1961
Correspondence and research notes, Jesuits, 1954-1976
Edited typescript chapters, induplicate of unpublished history of St Ignatius, Riverview, 1975-1977

Box 3

3 folders containing manuscript chapters of unpublished history of St Ignatius, Riverview, 1975-1977
1 x audiocassette Gerard Windsor talk to Riverview staff ca. 1976 regarding History project (MLOH 920)
Graeme Chapman, Mark Moloney correspondence relating to ‘All day long the noise of Battle’, 2011-2016
Correspondence with and about submission to Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal on behalf of Mark Moloney et al (Note on attitude to military history Guide page for seminars at Royal Military College Duntroon on Vietnam (Windsor invited)
Reviews and reviewers article Windsor, Adelaide writers Week, 1986; review of ‘That Fierce Virgin’ by Don Anderson
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1988-2006 correspondents include Ann Lewis, Michael Smee, Lorrie Graham, Greg and Kerry Schneider, Scott McDonald, Alan Tasker

Box 4

‘Among Veterans’, manuscript draft, drafts and final typescript for article published in Griffith Review, regarding Windsor’s book ‘All Day Long the Noise of Battle’ (2011); ANZAC Day Commemoration Service Booklet, The Garrison Church, 2017
Obituary for Brian Anderson Windsor, essay (manuscript and typescript), news cutting, 2015
Manuscript and typescript story, ‘The card’ or ‘Hardly over the Moon, perhaps’, 2015
Reactions to ‘Angels before me: the road to Santiago’ by Gerard Windsor. Correspondents include Jane Burns, Terence Goodall, Edmund Campion, Pat Power, Sally McInerney, Joanna Buckingham, James Rodgers, Margaret Thomas, Bob Robertson, Ailsa Piper, Monique Mayze, Geoff Cains, Jane Searle, Kate Grenville, Chloe Liddy, Moira Bishop, F. Harding Burns, Mary Canty, 2013-2105
First draft of ‘Angels Before Me’ ca. 2006
Very early draft of ‘Angels Before Me’ titled ‘In Spain a thousand and three’
Early typescript and manuscript drafts of Family lore ‘Demerals’, 2007
Book reviews for The Sydney Morning Herald, 2015-2016
Draft manuscript chapters of unpublished novel, ‘My Sainted Aunt’, 2014
Notes and early manuscript drafts, ‘My Sainted Aunt’, 2011-2013
‘My Sainted Aunt’ manuscript sections, 2014
‘My Sainted Aunt’ manuscript and typescript sections, 2011-2013
Early typescript drafts of ‘Legacies’ and ‘Celestial Bodies’ from 'Family Lore'
'Windsor's 10 Best books for 1992' for Morag Fraser, Barry Oakley with comments
Correspondence from Max Boyce regarding Windsor’s books ‘The Fierce Virgin’ and ‘Family Lore’ 1992, 1993
Helen Herlihy, copy of eulogies delivered 21 October 2011, thank you card
Windsor material, miscellaneous speeches and mentions, 2003-2016
Sexual abuse article manuscript, February 2017 (unpublished)
Sydney Morning Herald article on Amish visit, 2008
Manuscript essay on the body, 1998-1999
‘I have Kissed your Lips’ review and book launch invitations, 2004

DC 87/1-3: 1 x DVD memories of Helen Herlihy (1926-2011)
2 x DVD on sexual abuse in Ireland ‘The Taoiseach of Ireland (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny Report on Clerical Abuse’ and ‘Vows of Silence’ (2008) and accompanying note from Deidre Grusovin, 2011

Box 5

Alphabetised research notes, 1965-73, quotations from reading at Loyola College, 1965-67, quotations from reading, 1966-72
Two folders of original writing by Gerard Windsor including short stories, poetry, limericks mostly unpublished, 1960s and 1970s
Dwyer’s Book Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 containing Windsor’s first post-Jesuit published prose, 1972
Early writing by Windsor, 1968-1971

Box 6

Typescript of works contracted to Heinemann, ca. 1990: essays, not published, and ‘Buried in the Survivors’ later published as ‘Family Lore’
Photocopies of published articles, reviews, 1980s
Correspondence, largely with Morag Fraser (editor) as Sydney consulting editor of Eureka Street, 1990-1995
[Thermal faxes requiring photocopying]

Box 7

Further correspondence from John Honner, Elzbieta Plata, Reverend Peter Hughes, Sylvia Hale and Morag Fraser, 1992-2017
Original typescript with corrections of novella, ‘That Fierce Virgin’, (Penguin, 1987)
Master of Arts thesis, ‘History as Literature: The 1916 Easter Rising’, 1974
Ireland, 1973: Names of contacts in Ireland written for Windsor by Ralph Honner MC;
‘To Make a Right Rose Tree: Reflection of the poetry of 1916’ Augustine Martin, in ‘Studies’, Spring, 1966 pp. 38-50
Examination papers, St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, 1994-1997; Notes regarding students and texts during relief teaching of Year 12 English at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, 1995
Dooley Family papers including reunion at Murrurundi material: correspondence, printed material and ephemera, 1999; and typescript eulogies for Sister Annette Dooley, 2010

Box 8

Interviews with and about members of the Australian rare book trade for a proposed book. General files and interview files A - L
Interviewees include Leo Berkelouw, Ken Hince, Louella Kerr, David Levine

Box 9

Interviews with and about members of the Australian rare book trade for a proposed book.
Interview files M-Z
Interviewees include Ron Maria, Richard Neylon, Tony Norton, Nicholas Pounder, Julien Renard, and John Thompson

Box 10

Funeral service booklets, 1987-2018
Published (positive) reviews of Windsor's books, 1985-1991
Correspondence, notes, reviews, 1985-1986
Reviews by Dr Don Anderson and related correspondence with him, 1986, 1990
‘Family Lore’ reviews and correspondence, 1990-1991
‘The Harlots Enter First’ reviews and correspondence, 1981-1982
‘That Fierce Virgin’ correspondence and reviews. 1988
Folder of correspondence re Windsor's tenure as reviews editor for National Library of Australia's ‘Voices’ magazine. Reviewers and correspondents include Margaret Coffey, Gail Joes, Mary Rose Liverani, Michael McKernan, Paul Hetherington (NLA), Jack Carmody, Morag Fraser, Barbara Masel, Imre Salusinszky, John Cody, Andrew Dullen, Ivor Indyk, Elizabeth Ellis, 1993-1994
Folder of book reviews for The Australian, mostly relating to Ireland, manuscript and typescript, including correspondence from Barry Oakley, Ruth Tarlo, 1985-1992

Box 11

Harold Park reading, 1990
Literature Board Fellowship and Reports and correspondence, 1974-1993.
Correspondence regarding manuscripts, including rejection slips 1974-1976
Correspondence re 1980 dispute with Professor Harold Oliver (UNSW, English Department)

Miscellaneous correspondence with Terry Goldie (Canada); Judith Beth Cohen (United States); Molly Culligan (United States): Ann Sarell (United Kingdom): Dorothy Johnston (Australia): Robin McGrath (Canada), Ailsa Piper, 1987-2017
Cuttings, copies of articles ‘(perhaps still relevant)’, 1986-1993
Manuscript of incipient novel, 2007-2008
Notebook, writing pad and loose-leaf manuscript notes on ideas, 1991-2017
Adelaide Writers Week Programmes, 1998
Windsor and family expired passports
Correspondence re Windsor's part-time employment, 1979, on Pocket guide to Sydney; Invitation to lecture art John Hubert Plunkett Society, 2002

Box 12

Unpublished manuscript first novel, working titles ‘Father Bobby Nash Plays Straight’ and ‘The Ganganelli Tax Dodge’, 1978-79 Chapters 1-7, 8-14, 15-epilogue. (Includes various typescript pages)
Watsonia Reunion: printed emails, 2012
Study notes by Father John Doyle SJ, 1950s-60s
Correspondence re the possible publication of Windsor's Master of Arts thesis on the literature of the 1916 Easter Uprising Correspondence with Jesuits and on Jesuit matters:
Typescript Email from Michael Grogan (Leon Timanus)
‘History of Loyola College, Watsonia', Tony James
Jesuitica: proposal to Nicholas Ingleton that his collection of Jesuit Asian material be purchased on behalf of the Australian Jesuits; committee for Jesuit reunion novices at Loyola College.

Box 13

Archival material accumulated regarding Windsor's great-uncle by marriage, the Sydney radiologist, Dr Charles de Monchaux, 1918-1976.
Professional and personal correspondence, 1918, 1923-1930
Professional and personal correspondence, 1931
Professional and personal correspondence, 1932
Professional and personal correspondence, 1933
Professional and personal correspondence, 1934-1936
Professional and personal correspondence, 1936-1950, 1968
Undated, unsigned and incomplete correspondence

Box 14

Christmas cards, postcards, other cards, 1920s-1970s
Manuscript notebook of French irregular verbs, 1916
Bills and invoices relating to the conduct of Dr de Monchaux’s business, 1934-1950
News cuttings; photographs relating World War Two, 1930s -1940s

Correspondence has been arranged in chronological order, where possible.

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