Sydney Writers' Festival records, 1991-1995, being mainly literary manuscripts by authors commissioned to write the annual 'Occasional Piece for Australia Day', published by the Sydney Morning Herald

MLMSS 6103/Box 1X

fonds

1991-1995

113373

0.05 metres of textual material (1 outsize box)

Mudrooroo - 'Beached Party', 1991, being photocopied piece from Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Jan. 1991
Dorothy Hewett - 'From Time to Time', 1992, being 1. computer printout with MS. annotations, 2. photocopied computer printout, 3. photocopied piece from Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Jan. 1992
Philip McLaren - 'A Better Day for Australia', 1993, being 1. computer printout with MS. annotations and corrections (first draft) 2. computer printout and coloured printed illustration, with letter from Philip McLaren to Margaret Burke, Co-ordinator, Sydney Writers' Festival, 5 Mar. 1993, 3. photocopied piece from Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Jan. 1993
Beth Yahp - 'Wingbeats', 1994, being 1. computer printout with MS. additions and corrections, 3 Jan. 1994, 2. computer printout with MS. annotations and corrections, 4 Jan. 1994, 3. computer printout with MS. corrections (Final), 4. photocopied piece from Sydney Morning Herald, 22 Jan. 1994
Ruth Park - Untitled typescript with MS. corrections, 1995
Judith Wright - correspondence of Margaret Burke with Judith Wright and Tom Thompson, 31 July-2 Aug. 1995, concerning invitation to Judith Wright to write the 1996 Occasional Piece, which she declined
Gillian Mears - 'The Figure in the Figtree', 1995, being 1. MS. (1st draft), 2. MS. (2nd draft), 3. computer printout with MS. corrections (3rd draft), 4. computer printout with MS. corrections (4th draft), 5. computer printout with MS. annotations and corrections (# 5) 6. computer printout with MS. annotations, with letter from Gillian Mears to Margaret Burke, 5 Oct. [1995] 7. computer printout with MS. annotations (Final copy) 8. correspondence of Margaret Burke with Gillian Mears, being mainly letters received, 15, 21 Aug. 1995, 30 Oct. 1995 and 4 Nov. 1995, and copy of fax from Margaret Burke to Ian Hicks, Literary Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 Oct. 1995

Chronological

The State Library of New South Wales owns copyright in the occasional pieces by Philip McLaren, Beth Yahp and Gillian Mears