Series 3: Speeches, events, essays

MLMSS 12202/Boxes 16-17

series

1984-1993

9677518

Series 3: Speeches, events, essays

Comprises undergraduate essays, speech notes for Australian and international talks, events including Sydney Opera House 'One Night Stand' from the 20th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House

Box 16

Folder 1
Undergraduate essays written at the University of Cambridge: essays on Shelley, Pope, Dante, Darley, Jonathan Swift, Herman Melville, and on the subject of Tragedy

Folder 2
Early poems written at Pembroke College Cambridge, including first Manuscript of ‘The Autumn Riot’s End’ (unpublished volume), and 34 songs with lyrics by Clive James set to music by Pete Aitkins

Folder 3
Loose manuscripts and speeches, including speech given at the Sydney Opera House in 1993, speech given at the opening of the Bulgarian Biennale, speech on the British author David Caute, article on global television for Radio Times, review of ‘Fivefathers: Five Australian poets of the pre-Academic era, edited by Les Murray’ published in the TLS, essay on Joseph Brodskey, introduction for Robin Dalton’s book, ‘Aunts Up the Cross’

Folder 4
Manuscript of speech given at a dinner for representatives of the world’s television services, organised by the BBC in Brighton, England, 1993

Folder 5
Various loose essays, short stories and speeches – ‘On the Flying Trapeze’, ‘One of the Good Ones’, ‘On From The Roots’ essay on Rock & Roll, essay on travel ‘Florence Diary’, Untitled speech given in Glasgow (1991), Untitled speech given at Edinburgh (2000), speech given at the Legal Business Awards, The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3770 with review of ‘Peregrine Prykke’s Pilgrimage’, poem read at memorial service for Joseph Brodsky, and two poems: ‘Task-force Omega’ and ‘To Margaret Olley’

Folder 6
Manuscript of essays written in New Zealand

Folder 7
Manuscript entitled ‘New York Speech’

Folder 8
Essay on Pier Paolo Pasolini

Folder 9
Speeches given in Hong Kong, at the invitation of AustCham, 1999

Folder 10
Various letters and speeches – two speeches given in New York and Washington, after the publication of ‘Fame in the 20th Century’, facsimile letter by Kingsley Amis to a young French scholar, Mlle Haimart, and original enquiry by Mlle Haimart to Amis, dated 30 November 1972

Folder 11
Miscellaneous typed essays and drafts, including essay on Larkin, ‘Pop Music and the Idea of An Elite’, review of Anthony Powell’s ‘Hearing Secret Harmonies’, and draft entitled ‘I Flew With Buddy Holly’ (on music)

Folder 12
Speeches – Speech given at the Adelaide Grand Prix, humorous speech on the topic of ‘Women’s Liberation’, speech entitled ‘Satellite with Cable’, given at Grosvenor House Hotel. 28 February 1984, letter from BBC Television regarding James’ appearance on ‘Cover to Cover’ as a panellist, November 1986, untitled Manuscript speeches and/or television monologues

Folder 13
Address to the BBC Board of Governors and Management, given at Lucknam Park, 1 May 1991

Folder 14
Speeches and scripts, likely for television and film: topics such as Formula 1, ‘The Cinema of Raymond Fark’ by Bruce Beresford, BBC Showcase Speech, Speech for Legacy

Box 17

Folder 1
Essays and Speeches – IBD Entertainment Consultation Opening Address, and Report of IBA Consultation held in Cheltenham, February 1986

Folder 2
Speeches – ‘Save Us From Celebrity’, ‘Dublin Speech’ and ‘Let’s Talk About Us’

Folder 3
Draft of ‘One Night Stand With Clive James’ at the Sydney Opera House, Sunday 31 October 1993

Folder 4
Folder entitled, ‘Sydney Movies’, miscellaneous notes, excerpts from ‘Cultural Amnesia’

Folder 5
Speech given at the State Library of NSW, entitled ‘Our First Book’, 2002

Folder 6
Miscellaneous papers – essay on Galway Kinnell, from ‘The Dreaming Swimmer’, piece on Thelonious Monk, appearing in the Cambridge review, 1966, early poems, copy Of ‘The Eagle’, St John’s College, Cambridge student magazine, June 1968 featuring early poems by Clive James

Folder 7
Folder entitled ‘Kerr on Hauptmann’ (document in German)

Folder 8
Manuscript draft speeches and dialogues, dated 1960s, Cambridge

Folder 9
Manuscript entitled ‘Cardiff Speech’ on the subject of Japanese culture and history

Folder 10
Manuscript of ‘Clive James on Fame, for The Independent on Sunday’

Folder 11
Poems, possibly compiled in ‘The Book of My Enemy’ (1986), and five poems from the Nazi Era, translated by Clive James

Folder 12
Manuscript speeches and opening addresses, undated

Folder 13
‘The Late Show with Clive James’

Folder 14
News clippings, reviews from the Times Literary Supplement, 1969-1970 and The Listener

Folder 15
Manuscript entitled ‘Edward Pygge Revue’

Folder 16
Miscellaneous articles, poems, interviews, facsimile book reviews, and a manuscript entitled ‘A Gun As Big As Mine’, 1990s-2000s

Reproduction Restricted: All papers may be consulted in the library, but any publication of them must be with the permission of the author (or the literary estate). These conditions expire 70 years after the death of the author, in accordance with standard UK copyright law.