Collection 3: Finola Moorhead further literary papers, mainly relating to Darkness More Visible, 1991-2000

MLMSS 7824/Boxes 1-3
MLMSS 7824/Boxes 5-15
MLMSS 7824/Box 4X

sub-fonds

1991-2000

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Objects

825811

15 boxes

BOX 1
Lots of potential, a novel by Finola Moorhead, copyright June 1977, Fitzroy (typescript bound draft with handwritten pagination, corrections and edits), 163 pp. Includes 2 picture magazine cuttings inserted at front and back.
BK the First, Feb 95 – unbound typescript with some handwritten pagination
Tochterlein (little daughter) – pencil & ink unbound handwritten mss leaves
curriculum vitae, incl. cost & royalty statements for Remember the Tarantella from Primavera Press, 1997-1991
Bits of writing ’94 – speech cards, typescript poetry, some with mss annotations, photocopied book extracts, handwritten mss incl. essays, personal and business letters relating to grant applications and publication.
Untitled green folder – incomplete (begins at Chapter 4, pp. numbered 22-85) novel typescript with mss annotations.
Walking – novel typescript with mss annotations.
Sydney reading/IC – essay notes, short story drafts incl. “Moira Patricia finds a body”, “RW – a day in her life”, “Rustle C. Russell on receiving a letter” & “Harry Camponelli begins a new life”, “A little lesbian murder mystery” (under the pseudonym Rustle Frances), newscuttings, photocopied book extracts.
Journal, handwritten, from 5/5/91 – 20 Nov 1993?, 288 pp.

BOX 2
Spinifex Press 2000 edition of Darkness More Visible, inscribed by author to Mitchell manuscripts archive, 1/12/2000
2 printed copies (one with manuscript annotations) of The SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1983 editions originally published by the Matriarchy Study Group
Drawings and schema relating to the construction of Darkness More Visible
Correspondence between author and Spinifex Press regarding Darkness More Visible's publication, initially titled The Seventh Trial of Annihilation & publicity material related to the launch
Typescipt draft pages, unnumbered, titled variously The Seventh Trial of Annihilation, February 1999 and Darkness More Visible, n.d., with some manuscript annotations

BOX 3
Printed booklet re: gun law changes in NSW and new compliance requirements, 1997
Notebooks and miscellaneous jottings relating to author's creative writing but also including newscuttings and business letter drafts
Various folders of computer printout drafts, mostly undated and untitled
The Seventh Trial of Annihilation typescript draft, February 1999
Loose typescript leaves including some titled "Diaspora of Amazons", n.d.

BOX 4X
Newscuttings file, mostly unsourced and undated; miscellaneous notebooks, diagrams and schema relating to structure of Darkness More Visible; baseball cap embossed "Goninan Mining Support Services"

BOX 5
Typescript with manuscript annotations of Friends of Maria Freewoman, March 2000. Book 1:Murder, Book 2: Madness, Book 3: Mystery, Book 4: Men, Book 5: Maze, Book 6: Money, Book 7 (untitled)
Reader's report on The Seventh Trial of Annihilation by Janet Mackenzie, 7 March 2000
March 2000 Vol. 15/02 edition of Triathlon magazine
Correspondence between the author and Spinifex Press, 2000
Typescript with manuscript annotations of The Seventh Trial of Annihilation, May 1999
Miscellaneous manuscript notes and heavily annotated typescript draft of The Seventh Trial of Annihilation, 1999.

BOX 6
1999 spiral bound printed diary with manuscript entries; Typescript copy of The SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1983 edition originally published by the Matriarchy Study Group; 2 typescript copies of The Seventh Trial of Annihilation, one dated February 1999 and one undated; ephemera, newscuttings and research notes relating to the novel's composition; correspondence between the author and Spinifex Press editors regarding the editing process of the novel.


BOX 7
Typescript draft of Book 7 Mischief with extensive handwritten annotations and post-it note markers

BOX 8
Typescript draft of Book 1 Murder, Book 2 Mischief, Book 3 Mystery, with handwritten annotations and guide to chapter structure and naming system

BOX 9
Typescript draft with manuscript annotations of Book 4 (untitled), Book 5 Maze & Book Six Money

BOX 10
White Virgin - heavily annotated typescript draft, n.d.
The Seventh Trial of Annihilation, April/May 1999 - typescript draft with manuscript annotations

BOX 11
Typescript with manuscript annotations of The Seventh Trial of Annihilation, n.d.

BOX 12
Hand-drawn scale map (1cm=5km) of "Fiction Shire", copyright Finola Moorhead 3/93
Typescript with manuscript annotations of The Seventh Trial of Annihilation, n.d., including Book 1:Murder, Book 2: Madness, Book 3: Mystery, Book 4: Men and miscellaneous notes and typescript drafts with extensive manuscript annotations

BOX 13
Typescript drafts with manuscript annotations including Book 5: Maze, Book 6: Money, Book 7: Mischief; miscellaneous handwritten notes, essay fragments and correspondence

BOXES 14-15
Various typescript drafts of The Seventh Trial of Annihilation/Darkness More Visible with extensive manuscript annotations by the author and editors at Spinifex Press, 1999-2000

Though published as Darkness More Visible, Moorhead's original title was The Seventh Trial of Annihilation and most of the drafts in this collection have that original working title. Published in the form of 7 interlinked "books", the final titles for the 7 books were 1. Murder, 2. Motherhood, 3. Madness, 4. Nonsense, 5. Chemicals, 6. Transsexualism, 7. Money - however the books were sometimes named differently or unnamed during the draft stages