• Title
  Collection 1: Finola Moorhead literary papers, mainly relating to Remember the Tarantella, 1982-1996.
• Call number
  MLMSS 7809/Boxes 1-5
  MLMSS 7809/Box 6X
  
• Level of description
  sub-fonds
• Date
  
  1982-1996
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials
• Reference code
  825702
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : Diagrams, charts and schema relating to the astrological, mathematical and zodiacal systems on which Remember the Tarantella was constructed
  
• Physical Description
  1.34 metres of textual material (5 boxes and 1 outsize box)
  
• Scope and Content
  MLMSS 7809
  
  BOX 1
  Very early papers + drafts – Remember the Tarantella. Includes letters from readers and grant applications.
  
  BOX 2
  Book the First, Moon
  Book the Second, Sun
  Book the Third, Judgement
  Book the Fourth, World
  Speech given at Monash, 1980, about the function of the novel. I was going to write one the next seven years, which came to be called Remember the Tarantella
  Front & extras, Chapters 1-17
  Diagrams, poem, coloured one, envelopes, pub book
  
  
  BOX 3
  Notes
  1982 printed diary with 1986 handwritten entries
  Remember the Tarantella typescript draft, 1986
  Remember the Tarantella typescript draft, n.d.
  
  BOX 4
  2 mint copies of Remember the Tarantella, Primavera Press, 1987
  Remember the Tarantella typescript draft, 1986
  Still Murder various typescript drafts with extensive annotations, some from Moorhead’s editor
  
  
  BOX 5
  Correspondence and documents relating to a dispute between Moorhead and Paul Brennan of Primavera Press over whether Brennan’s author’s note in the Primavera edition of Remember the Tarantella had to be included in a subsequent Women’s Press edition of the book. Correspondence relating to rights and publication with The Women’s Press. Transcript of an interview at Bar Italia held July 1991 about the novel's development.
  
  BOX 6
  Diagrams, charts and schema relating to the astrological, mathematical and zodiacal systems on which Remember the Tarantella was constructed
  
  DC 1/1-11
  Series 1: Manuscript drafts of Remember the Tarantella
• System of arrangement
  Creator's arrangement preserved
• Language
  English
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Onsite access only: Applies to DC 1/1-11
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from MLMSS 5979, July 2008
  Digital order no:c045550001
• Subject
  Women authors, Australian--20th century--Correspondence.
  Fiction--Technique.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The work of art - Australian women writers and artists
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE435879

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