Muir Holburn - further papers, 1935 -1964

MLMSS 530 ADD-ON 2069

fonds

1935 - 1964

Textual Records, Clippings, Photographs

118253

3 boxes - 0.39 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)
Photographs

Muir Holburn was a writer and public servant. He wrote poetry from an early age and was published in various literary magazines including those produced by the English Dept. at Sydney University where he was a student; in 1951 he won the Sydney Morning Herald poetry prize. With his wife, Marjorie Pizer he edited 'Creeve Roe', a volume of Victor Daley's verse published in 1947. He worked for the NSW Dept. of Tourist Activities as a publicity officer and journalist as well as writing reviews and articles for literary magazines. Holburn was president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, 1948-1950 and was vice-president when he died in 1960. He had been working on a definitive edition of Charles Harpur's poetry for several years.

Diaries, 1937, 1940; the 1940 diary contains a review of 1939 and a few entries for 1941 and 1942, also poems, prose and notes
Notebooks (4), undated, containing poems and notes
'Muir's poems - odd copies & mss', ca 1938 - ca 1946, includes poems, songs and plays (Call No.: ML MSS 530, ADD ON 2069/BOX 1)
Exercise books (11), ca 1943 - ca 1950, containing poems, notes, drafts of letters, etc
'Muir Holburn English Course IV Thesis 1942', thesis concerning D.H.Lawrence's writing and criticism of it, written while a student at Sydney University
'Harpur correspondence', 1947-1958, between Holburn and R.G.Howarth, J.N.Rawling, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth Literary Fund concerning a proposed edition of Charles Harpur's poetry to be edited by Holburn
Index cards/research notes about Harpur's poetry (Call No.: ML MSS 530, ADD ON 2069/BOX 2)
'Muir's work articles (literary mostly)', ca 1938 - ca 1951, includes drafts of journal articles mainly re Australian literature and culture, reviews, poems, play scripts, radio talks; with poems and letter, 21 April 1946, from Ada Holman
'Muir's Tourist Dept. P.R. work', 1947, 1951-1959, being papers mainly re the NSW Dept. of Tourist Activities including various issues of its' journal, Compass which was edited by Holburn, tourist brochures, newspaper articles and 3 b&w photographs of NSW Govt Tourist Bureau window displays; with copies of articles published in Southerly and Meanjin
Miscellaneous papers including Chatswood Intermediate High School 2A Class magazine, The Pot Boiler, 1935, edited by Holburn and containing his poetry; "Modernist verse and the work of Muir Holburn" by E.J.Brady, 1945; papers, 1962-1964, re dispute over property owned by Muir Holburn and his brother (Call No.: ML MSS 530, ADD ON 2069/BOX 3)

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Some groups of papers have been named by Marjorie Pizer and these titles have been used in the description.