Series 01: Helen Lempriere papers, 1822, 1894-1990

MLMSS 7849/Boxes 1-4

series

1822, 1894-1990

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings, Posters

840130

0.60 metres of textual material (4 boxes)

BOX 1
Correspondence, 1929, 1945-1987, being mainly letters received. Correspondents include Associazione Nazionale Incisori Italiani, 1954-1955; Catherine Brink, 1987; Alexander Cambitoglou, 1969-1971; Ethel Cramp, 1954; Rosalie Crutchley, 1967; Gardner (Bill) Davies, 1985; Trader Faulkner, 1982; Helen Fenbury, 1970-1973; Helen French-Kennedy, 1975-1979; Robert Haines, 1960, 1987; Jeff Hanson [Joseph B. Hanson], 1964; Fred Klein, 1952-1961; Robert Lapthorne, 1975; Roma Lewington, 1981; Averil Lysaght, 1971, no date; F. D. McCarthy, 1956-1970; Rosalie McCutcheon, 1970; Nellie Melba, 1929; Felicia Pacanowska, 1965; Roslyn Poignant, 1956; Edouard Roditi, 1967-1968, no date; Derek Roff, 1971; Meg Rutherford, 1964; Maurice Savreux, 1957-1965; Theo Scharf, 1963-1972; Colin Simpson, 1960; Alfred Stirling, 1956; Madge Tivey-Faucon, 1965; Truong, Mealy, 1970; Joan Wood, 1962, 1985; Merla Wood, 1962-1987, no date; Nellie Wood, 1945; Zev [Daniel Albert Harris], 1965-1967, 1971

Letters received from Keith A. Wood, 1945-1964, 1971-1973, with photograph of Lempriere and Wood in Martin Place, Sydney, ca. 1940

Letters received from Charles Algernon Lempriere, 1915-1916, 1933, no date, with snapshot of Helen and her father

Correspondence, 1957-1977, with Sioma Baram and Bella Brisel,

Correspondence, 1964-1984, with art galleries regarding sales of artworks on exhibition, including David Jones’ Art Gallery and Ernest Brown & Phillips (Leicester Galleries, London)

Correspondence, 1982-1984, with Mavis Chapman and Max Germaine

BOX 2
Scrapbook [MUS181], 1954- 1965, being album regarding Lempriere’s artworks and exhibitions in England, France, New York, Netherlands and Germany, including newscuttings, photographs, catalogues, posters, and letters received from Gardner Davies, 1955; Alfred Stirling, 1956; John Terraine (British Broadcasting Corporation), 1956, and Fred Klein, 1957
[Contents in English, French, Dutch, German and Swedish]

Scrapbook [MUS182], 1965-1984, being album regarding Lempriere’s artworks and exhibitions in Sydney and Hobart, including newscuttings, photographs, catalogues, and letter received from Robert Haines, 1976

‘Helen Lemprière / Huiles, Gouaches / et Modelages / Catalogue’ [LEM184], being a manuscript register of her paintings, 1949-1984, with entries for reference works, and additional entries of slides/photographs by Keith A. Wood, 1992-

Visitors’ book [MUS175] of Lempriere’s exhibition in Utrecht, Netherlands, 4 Oct.-17 Nov. 1957

Visitors’ book [MUS176] of Lempriere’s 1st American exhibition held at the Chase Gallery, New York, 20 Jan.-1 Feb. 1958, with excised pages of guests’ names from another visitors’ book, possibly of one of her French exhibitions

Visitors’ book [MUS174] of Lempriere’s exhibition at the Chase Gallery, New York, 18-30 Jan. 1960

Notebook, being mainly notes on ‘Dry point / Copper plate’ and ‘Aqua tint / suggar & ink’

Address book, 195-

BOX 3
Australian passports (3), 1965, 1976, 1982, and identification and membership cards, 1951-1970

Clip folder of draft stories for children, being manuscript of ‘Pursy & Priscella’ and typescript of ‘Percy and Priscilla’, and manuscript of ‘Jackie-Jarra-Ja and Friends’

Folder of drafts of stories for children, being carbon typescript of ‘Jackie Jarra-Ja and Friends’; typescripts of ‘Percy and Priscilla’; book outline and illustrations for ‘Georgie Boy and Charlie Sparrow’; manuscript and corrected carbon typescript of ‘Lennie and the Magic Eggs’; and various versions of ‘Hop and Skip’; and manuscript of ‘Cira the Koala’

Folder of letters received, 1954-1959, mainly from publishers rejecting her submitted stories and from Helen Fenbury

Negative photoprint of the last will of Dame Nellie Melba, 5 Nov. 1928

Melba’s gift book of Australian art and literature. Melbourne : George Robertson [191-]. Inscribed and signed by Nellie Melba to her sister, Dora, 1921.

Observations of a musician / by Louis Lombard. Utica, N.Y., 1894. Edition: 2d ed., Signed copy of Nellie Melba

Genealogy of the Lemprieres, from A.D. 970 to 1822. London : J. McCreery, 1822, with enclosures, 1933-1957, n.d.

BOX 4
Printed material, being mainly exhibition catalogues, 1953-1990, featuring Lempriere’s work

English, Dutch, French, German, Swedish