Douglas Stewart further papers

MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2077/Boxes 1-5, 7-10
MLMSS 5147 ADD-ON 2077/Items 6X, 11X-12X

series

1913-1985, 1989, n.d.

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Clippings, Photographs, Paintings, Posters

129592

Partly Digitised

1.50 metres of textual material (9 boxes and 3 outsize items) - manuscript, typescript, clippings, printed photographs
3 audiocassettes (2 hr., 50 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Correspondence:
1939-1985, 1989, n.d.; Letters received by Douglas Stewart together with copies of letters sent. Correspondents include David Campbell, Christopher Mann Ltd, Manning Clark, Margaret Coen, Hal Colebatch, Rosemary Dobson, Phil Dorter, Geoffrey Dutton, R.D. Fitzgerald, Les Graham, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Alexandra Hasluck, Sir Paul Hasluck, R.G. Howarth, Nancy Keesing, Dame Leonie Kramer, Eve Langley, Jack Lindsay, Jane Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Percy Lindsay, Philip Lindsay, Rose Lindsay, Les Murray, A.A. Phillips, John Cowper Powys, Gloria Rawlinson, Leslie Rees, Clement Semmler, Gavin Souter, Thomas Shapcott, Joy L. Thwaite, Kenneth Slessor, Bernard Smith, D.L. Waraker, Francis Webb, Mary Whelan, Judith Wright. Includes copies of letters and other documents relating to the internment of Harley Matthews in 1942. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/1)

Literary Manuscripts:
c.1936-c.1970; Poems: Titled and untitled poems and fragments of poems. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/2)
c.1942-c.1960; Plays: Ned Kelly (various radio and television adaptations), The Golden Lover, Voyage to a Volcano, Fisher's Ghost. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/2 and 3)
c.1940-1983, n.d. ; Prose: Stories, essays, articles, memoirs. Includes: A Carrier Called Kruse; The Walking Sticks; Al-Rachid Judges of Love; The Collector of Bulls; Why Ned Kelly?; R.D. Fitzgerald - A Background to his Poetry; Kenneth Slessor; Bushfires at Springwood; The Lindsays at Springwood; Some Notes on Norman Lindsay; Norman Lindsay Centenary; Norman Lindsay on Slessor; Narration for Captain Cook Landing; The Flesh and the Spirit; The Love of Landscape; Introduction to Australian Bush Ballads; The Giant Wordsworth Part 3; Springtime in Taranaki; Notes for plays, poems, speeches etc. including Voyage to a Volcano, Glencoe, Ned Kelly, Rutherford, Sprintime in Taranaki. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/4)
1935-1982, n.d.; Manuscripts sent to Douglas Stewart by other writers: Include poems by Kenneth MacKenzie and Eve Langley; a story, The Queer Transformation of Cosmus Smitson, by Otto Rung; a novel, Tabonga Road [by Norman Lindsay]; a review of Kenneth MacKenzie's poem, Our Earth; The Birdsville Track, Notes - The Kadimakara Legend, by Roland Robinson; bush ballads for inclusion in Australian Bush Ballads, edited by Douglas Stewart and Nancy Keesing; Music by Wendy Morrissey for some of Stewart's poems; Copies of lectures by David Martin, Sir Paul Hasluck, Sir Colin Anderson and John Francis; ABC program - The Poetry of Douglas Stewart. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 1077/5)

Awards:
1953-1983; Certificates and Citations - Coronation Medal (1953); O.B.E. (1960); Sidney Myer Charity Trust Award for Australian Poetry (1967); Britannica Australia Award (1968); The Wilke Australia Award for Non-Fiction (1975); National Trust of Australia Life Membership (1983). (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/6X)
Miscellaneous Personal Papers:
1913-1984, n.d.; Includes Birth and marriage certificates; Report from New Plymouth Boys'High School (1930); Army medical certificates (1940-42); Passport and letter of introduction from Sir Robert Menzies (1954); Insurance policies; domestic notes; Income tax assessment (1960); Instructions for diet (n.d.); Wallet and contents (c.1980s). (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/7)
Invitations:
1954-1983; Invitations, mainly to official functions. Includes some dinner menus. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/7)
Theatre Programs and Miscellaneous literary material:
1942-1968; Programs for performances of Stewart's plays ( Fire on the Snow, Shipwreck, Ned Kelly, Fisher's Ghost) and poetry readings; Box Office records for performances of Ned Kelly at the Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown (1956); Publishing agreements; book jackets (Bottle's Path by T.F. Powys, The Pea Pickers by Eve Langley, Selected Poems of Douglas Stewart); Brindabella Press limited edition printings of poems by Stewart and Francis Webb. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/7)
Papers concerning The Commonwealth Literary Fund:
1955; Includes agenda, correspondence and readers' reports by T. Inglis Moore, Kenneth Slessor and A.R. Chisholm. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/7)
Papers concerning The National Trust of Australia:
1970-1984; Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum Management Committee, minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence etc.; S.H. Ervin Advisory Committee, minutes of meetings, reports, notes. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/7)

Printed Material:
1924-1985; Various books, journals, magazines and booklets. Include The Shakespearean Quarterly (1924); Franfrolica (1928); The Australian Outline (1933,34); The N.Z. Mercury (1935); The Letters of Llewelyn Powys edited by Louis Wilkinson - with MS poem by Douglas Stewart (1943); Meanjin (1945, 46); ABC Weekly (1943, 46, 52, 61); BBC Radio Times (1951, 55); The Listener (1952, 55); Adventures in Poetry edited by C. Kinsella and D. McLean (1954); The Bulletin (1955, 58); New Plymouth Boys' High School 75th Jubilee (1957); Commonwealth Literary Fund Lectures (1961); The Whistle (1961, 65); Literature by Ronald McCuaig - inscribed (1962); English Association of Townsville Papers 1962; Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival, 1964; Songs of Quiet Places by D.L. Waraker (1964); The Scribblings of an Idle Mind by Norman Lindsay (1966); Helping Literature in Australia (1967); Come Down Cunderang by John Millett - inscribed by Grace Perry (Poetry Australia 99, 1985); The Silver Candlestick by Nuri and Celeste Mass - inscribed (n.d.); theatre programmes for productions of Stewart's plays. Many of these items contain material by Douglas Stewart or about him. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/8-9)

Newscuttings:
1921-1985; Newscuttings concerning Douglas Stewart - poems, articles and reviews of his books and plays, (1943-83); concerning Norman Lindsay and Jack Lindsay (1933-85); concerning literature generally (1932-83); concerning Rev Alexander Stewart (1921, n.d.); stories by H.P. "Duke" Tritton published in The Bulletin (1958-59). (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/10)
1930-1931; Newscuttings mainly concerning Norman Lindsay and the banning of his novel Readheap. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/11X)
Pictorial Material:
1973, 1980s, n.d.; Black and white and colour photographs, mainly unidentified family(?) members, with several of Douglas Stewart and Margaret Coen; Watercolour and ink sketches attributed to Eve Langley by Meg Stewart, many are dated 1973. (Call No.: ML MSS 5147, ADD-ON 2077/12X)

Posters:
n.d.; 1. Norman Lindsay's Cats - Promotional poster produced by Macmillan. 2. Contemporary Australian Writers - contains portraits of 47 Australian writers - produced by Pat Woolley. (Call No.: Posters 722/1-2)

Audio Material:
Item 01: Douglas Stewart, 1977 Boyer Lecture about the writers of ‘The Bulletin’ magazine (Call No.: MLOH 209)

n.d.; Australian Poetry by Living Poets, read by John Clements - 1 record, 33 1/3 rpm. (Call No.: GR 254A)

1960; Australian Poets Speaking Verse, arranged by Hazel de Berg and John Thompson - 3 records, 33 1/3 rpm. Poets include Mary Gilmore, Bernard O'Dowd, Will Ogilvie, Hugh McCrae, Kenneth Slessor, R.D. Fitzgerald, A.D. Hope, Elizabeth Riddell, David Martin, Douglas Stewart, Roland Robinson, Judith Wright, David Campbell, James McAuley, Hal Porter, Rosemary Dobson, Geoffrey Dutton, Nancy Keesing, David Rowbotham, Francis webb, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Thomas Shapcott. (Call No.: GR 255)

n.d.; My Country, Australian Verse Selected and Read by Leonard Teale - 1 record, 33 1/3 rpm. (Call No.: GR 256)

AUTHOR ENTRIES:
Anderson, Colin, Sir, 1904-
Campbell, David, 1915-1979
Chisholm, A.R. (Alan Rowland), 1888-1981
Christopher Mann Ltd
Clark, Manning, 1915-1991
Clements, John, 1908-1985
Coen, Margaret, 1909-1993
Colebatch, Hal, 1943-
Dobson, Rosemary, 1920-
Dorter, Phil
Dutton, Geoffrey, 1922-1998
FitzGerald, Robert D. (Robert David), 1902-1987
Francis, John
Gilmore, Mary, Dame, 1865-1962
Graham, Les, 1942-
Guthrie, Tyrone, 1900-1971
Hasluck, Alexandra, 1908-1993
Hasluck, Paul, Sir, 1905-1993
Hope, A. D. (Alec Derwent), 1907-
Howarth, R. G. (Robert Guy), 1906-1974
Keesing, Nancy, 1923-1993
Kramer, Leonie, 1924-
Langley, Eve, 1908 - 1974
Lindsay, Jack, 1900-1990
Lindsay, Jane, 1920-
Lindsay, Norman, 1879-1969
Lindsay, Percy, 1870-1952
Lindsay, Philip, 1906-1958
Lindsay, Rose, 1885-1978
McAuley, James, 1917-1976
McCrae, Hugh, 1876-1958
McCuaig, Ronald, 1908-1993
Mackenzie, Kenneth, 1913-1955
Martin, David, 1915-1997
Mass, Celeste
Mass, Nuri
Matthews, Harley, 1889-1968
Millett, John, 1921-
Moore, T. Inglis (Tom Inglis), 1901-1978
Morrissey, Wendy
Murray, Les, 1945-
O'Dowd, Bernard, 1866-1953
Ogilvie, Will H. (Will Henry), 1869-1963
Perry, Grace, 1927-1987
Phillips, A. A. (Arthur Angell), 1900-1985
Porter, Hal, 1911-1984
Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963
Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939
Rawlinson, Gloria
Rees, Leslie, 1905-2000
Riddell, Elizabeth, 1907-1998
Robinson, Roland, 1912-1992
Rowbotham, David, 1924-
Rung, Otto
Semmler, Clement, 1914-2000
Shapcott, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1935-
Slessor, Kenneth, 1901-1971
Souter, Gavin, 1929-
Teale, Leonard
Thwaite, Joy L., 1949-
Tritton, H.P. (Harold Percival), 1886-1973
Waraker, D.L. (Doris Louise)
Webb, Francis, 1925-1973
Whelan, Mary
Wright, Judith, 1915-2000

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