Series 3: Fine Arts Press papers

MLMSS 11971/Boxes 4-21
MLOH 926

series

1976-1990

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

9675756

2.91 metres of textual material (18 boxes, 1 folder)
1 audiocassette

Box 4

Financial Cash Management Trust ledger and salary records, 1977-1987
Financial correspondence, 1976-1977
Australian National Gallery issue, 1981-1982
Agent Subscription rates, 1982
Art and Australia Archibald Prize Summer Issue, 1982-193
Art and Australia South Australian Issue, 1980
Art and Australia overseas quotations, listing of overseas subscribers, 1979-1982
Art and Australia reference folder, 1975-1978
Art and Australia printing quotations, 1977-1979

Box 5

Art and Australia Evaluations, 1975-1982
Art and Australia procedures
Art and Australia, Australia Post reference
Australian Book Publishers Association Design Award papers, 1976-1980
Art and Australia Elwyn Lynn correspondence, 1983-1986
Fine Arts press historical documents, 1969-1989
Fine Arts Press miscellaneous papers and later correspondence, 1976-2002
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1990-1992

Box 6

Australia Council for the Arts. Working papers relating to grants through the Visual Arts Board for the period: 1973-1976; 1977-1979 and 1980-1982
‘Postcards’ publishing cards of artists’ works, in collaboration with the Australian National Gallery, 1980-1981
Working file Colorpro, 1980-1982
Business correspondence, 1970-1983 correspondents include David Bigham, Ruth Clements, Ken Giniger, Max Harris, Alexandra Kirkwood, Isabel Mackenzie, John Maggs, Alistair Morrison, Yutaka Shima, Sir Leon Trout, George Walker, Lyndal Wilson

Box 7

Correspondence with Mervyn Horton regarding his position as editor at Art and Australia, including photographs and colour transparencies of his home and artworks, 1976-1983
Working folder Murray Child and Company including reconciliation accounts, correspondence and publishing Agreement
Working folder for ‘Australian Landscape, 1802-1975’ exhibition catalogue, 1975
Working folder for National Trust publications, including 2 colour transparencies of Como, 1973-1977
Working folder for Hal Missingham books including correspondence, 1975-1977
Working folder for ‘E.G. Waterhouse of Eryldene’ reprint includes correspondence, Max Dupain photographs and colour transparencies, 1978-1982
Working folder for ‘Art in Australia’ reprint, 1981-1982
Working folder for Mary Underhill and her book on Syd Ure Smith ‘Making Australian Art 1916-1949’, 1989-1991
Working folder for ‘Golden Slipper winners Vivarchi and Fairy Walk with their 1979 foals at the Timor Creek Stud’ prints of Michael Jeffery painting, 1981
Papers relating to Sam Ure Smith’s overseas trips, 1976-1982
Working folder ‘Discovering Media’ 1992
Working papers including the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation Seminar, notes, letter from Robert Klippel, 1976-1980

Box 8

Material relating to the production of ‘Railways Relics and Romance: The Eveleigh Railway Workshops’ including final dummy book, photographs, proofs, correspondence, draft articles, production copies of photographs, David Moore negatives
Material relating to the setting up of Clyde Bank, owned by Caroline Fairfax Simpson, including proofs for stationery, 1998
Thank you letters and cards for the gifting of a book Poems of Elizabeth Riddell (1948) after her death in 1998. Correspondents include Suzanne Du Val, Cynthia Klippel, Patricia Harewood, Countess of Harewood, Andrew and Nina Reiner, Patricia Rolfe, Joyce Bowden, Penelope Nelson and Michael Kesteven, Susan and Leigh Taylor, Gwen Deamer, Sandra Forbes, Patricia Wynn, Susan Kurosawa, Peter Corris, David Marr, (Lady) Maisie Drysdale, Jean Storey, George Molnar with a copy of his painting, David GO Jones, Ian Templeman, Kate Lawson, Irma Glass, Ninette Dutton, Eve Abbey, Judy Cassab, David Malouf, Danielle Storey, Elizabeth Knight, Mungo MacCallum, Edmund Campion, Ruth Campbell, Gillian McLelland, Rose Mohi, Suzanne Falkiner

Box 9

Australia's Sydney : a celebration / helicopter photography by Ron Israel and John Barnao ; text by Bruce Elder
Press cuttings, background information, 1997
Galley proofs, dummy book by Heather Ure Smith, 1997
Correspondence, quotations, background material, 1996-2000 correspondents include Rod McGeoch and Caroline Simpson
Photographic prints of Sydney taken by Ron Israel in a helicopter, 1997, preview booklet ‘Sydney Down under: an aerial photographic journey, 1999
‘The International camellia register’ compiled by Thomas J. Savige, correspondence, artwork 1990-1992
‘Artsmart’ folder including graphics for new company, correspondence, black and white photographs of a Margaret Preston exhibition, 1988-1993
Copying machine purchase file, 1976-1979
‘E.G. Waterhouse of Eryldene’ edition, correspondence including from Sir Warwick Fairfax, Sir James Plimsoll, Sir Victor Windeyer, Sir Robert Madgwick, Hal Missingham, tributes to Waterhouse by Clarice McNamara, Helen Coleman, Jessie Marsh and a poem by Waterhouse ‘ Profession de Foi’, 1976-1979

Box 10

Comprises papers relating History of the 30th Infantry Battalion NSW Scottish Regiment, including preparatory documents for a published history.
Correspondence, memos and Situation reports relating to the 50th Anniversary of the re-raising of the 30th Infantry Battalion NSW Scottish Regiment. 1984-1985
Material relating to ‘In all things Faithfull’, an album commemorating the centenary of the 30th Infantry Battalion NSW Scottish Regiment, 1885-1985 including correspondence, press clippings, copy of letter from Buckingham Palace, 1992, photograph of Officer Training School at Studley Park, 1940, photograph of D Company, OC Captain O. Hewison, 1941-1992
Publication ‘Knox Remembers, 1939-1945’
Material relating to the centenary of the 30th Infantry Battalion NSW Scottish Regiment including correspondence, articles, printed chapters
‘In all things Faithfull’ album newspaper articles, Reveille issues, photographs for the publications, negatives, transparencies, 1985
Australian National Gallery printing – postcards includes correspondence , accounts, samples, 1980-1982
Australian National Gallery printing – Handbook includes correspondence and mock-ups, 1979-1982
Australian National Gallery printing – book and reproductions includes correspondence, quotations, Publications committee minutes and papers, 1980-1984

Fine Arts Press Working files

‘The Australiana Collection’ correspondence, list of items, photographs and photocopies of collection items, 1986-1990

Box 11
Hardy Wilson book ‘Old Colonial Architecture’ correspondence with Lachlan Hardy Wilson, 1975-1976
Copyright legislation, articles, correspondence, 1964-1975
Ken Giniger correspondence 1975-1979, book lists
Royal Art Society of New South Wales, ‘100 Years of Painting’ including correspondence and listings of artists to be represented, 1980
‘Australia and America through 200 years’ artwork and correspondence, 1976-1977
Tariff Board Enquiry papers, correspondence, 1964-1966
‘Some Southern Homes’ correspondence, 1975-1976
‘Art and Australia’ Issue 14 ¾ double issue, correspondence, schedules, 1976-1977
Miscellaneous working papers including correspondence, evaluations, exhibition notes, report on overseas trip by Sam Ure Smith, 1965-1985

Box 12

General business correspondence, 1985-1990
General business facsimiles, 1991-1992

Financial reports Fine Arts Press, 1972, 1973
Craftsman House/ Fine Arts Press correspondence, 1992-1993
Australia Post correspondence, 1965-1990

Box 13

Papers relating to ‘Jean Appleton: A Lifetime with Art’ (Caroline Simpson Press,
1998), including handmade book dummies and edited manuscript drafts of essays by Christine France and Deborah Edwards, editing correspondence, artwork, photographs, 1996-1999

Box 14

Printing plate and photographs, correspondence relating to erotica by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) ‘An Amorous Adventure’
Printed material including books relating to photographic processes, offset lithography, printing references, bibliographies, rare book and art catalogues including from Bonython Gallery, Sam Ure Smith’s copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association for Ure Smith Pty Limited, 1939-1990

Progress proofs for Art and Australia issues, 1966

Box 15

Art Monthly Australia (published by Ure Smith, 1987-89) financials, correspondence, reviews and press, 1986-1988
Papers relating to The Horwitz Group (Publications) merger including Horwitz Group reports and correspondence, 1965-1968
Horwitz Group Company Reports, 1970-1973

Box 16

Fine Arts Press financials, articles, correspondence, 1983-1997
Group Publishing agreement, blank agreements, correspondence,1975
Fine Arts Press via Hamlyn banking, financials, 1976
Correspondence relating to Australia Council grants, 1986-1989; correspondence with Daniel Thomas, 1989
Art Monthly financials, correspondence, 1987-1988
Nissha Printing Company general file, 1980-1984
‘The Charm of Hobart’ reprint, dummy book, correspondence, 1985
Knox Old Boys Over 70 Club, correspondence, lists, 1992-1993
Press clippings, 1969-2003

Box 17

Banking account reconciliation, 1996-1997
General correspondence, photographs, 1987-2003
‘Colonial Architecture of South Australia’ working papers, 1976-1980
‘Colonial Architecture of South Australia’ working papers, 1980
Typescript war diary, Major T.F. Wade-Ferrell, 1942-1946 (1983)
Department of veteran Affairs, correspondence, including copies of Sam Ure Smith service record, 1995-1999
30th Infantry Battalion NSW Scottish Regiment Officers Club, correspondence 1995
30th Infantry Battalion NSW Scottish Regiment publication, quotations, schedules, costings, article by Norman Ellison on Jerry Pentland, 1943, 1984-1985

Box 18

International Camelia Register, including material from Thomas James Savige, 1989-1990
International Camelia Register correspondence, 1990-1991
International Camelia Register, edited proofs, correspondence, 1991-1992
Janet Gough Japan trips, 1982-1984
Janet Gough Overseas file, 1980-1993
Suzie Agoston (O’Connor) correspondence, 1982-1984
Postcards, small order quotations, 1983, 1986

Box 19

‘The Years of Hope: Australian Art and Criticism, 1959-1968’ by Gary Catelano includes correspondence regarding printing delays, 1978-1981
Oxford University press, correspondence, 1976-1981
Copyright Agency Limited, bulleting, correspondence, 1977-1979
Deeds of Agreement, Art and Australia, Fairfax, Fine Arts Press, 1978-1992
Miscellaneous business correspondence, 1964-1993
Craftsman House business correspondence, 1990-1992

Box 20

Art and Australia Calendar correspondence and consent forms from Charles Blackman, Sir Daryl Lindsay, Kym Bonython, Lawrence Daws, Arthur Boyd, Elwyn Lynn, Charles Reddington, Maisie Drysdale, Russell Drysdale, Sid Nolan, Lady Maie Casey, Reinis Zusters, David Schlunke, James Clifford, Pro Hart, Grace Cossington Smith and John Olsen, 1966-1968
Elizabeth Bay House reprint, correspondence, some proofs, 1978
‘Place, Taste & Tradition’ Bernard Smith, correspondence, 1978-1979
Correspondence with Rodney Davidson, 1975
‘The Bookends‘ book trade veteran’s club papers, 1994-2002
Humorous correspondence, photographs, 1977
Miscellaneous papers from Sam Ure Smith’s desk, 1975-2001
Letters, cutting relating to a Sun Herald article by Michael Wilding and subsequent responses, 1975
Miscellaneous papers from Sam Ure Smith’s desk, including correspondence, business papers, probate papers for Sydney Ure Smith, 1949-2002
Miscellaneous correspondence from Sam Ure Smith’s desk including from Laurence Ure, William Kimber, Stanley Horowitz, Marjory and Lloyd Rees, Lou Klepac, 1943-1980s
Martin Gordon of Gordon & Breach, correspondence, 1990-1992
Geoff King correspondence, 1991-1992
Mary Pinnock promotional material

Box 21

Art and Australia and Fine Arts Press business correspondence, 1979-1993

Obituary for Mervyn Hooton by Justin O'Brien, ABC, 1983 Audio cassette (MLOH 926) [Cassette removed for digitisation]

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