Collection 5: Elizabeth Jolley further papers, ca. 1929-1996

MLMSS 9428

sub-fonds

ca. 1929-1996

1094359

1.35 metres of textual records (9 boxes)

BOX 1
Correspondence being letters received from, among others, Drusilla Modjeska, Peter Carey, Rodney Hall, Casandra Pybus, Carmel Bird, Ruth Cracknell, Helen Chryssides, Don Grant and Paul Hetherington. 1988, 1991-1995.

Correspondence with Australian Literary Management, being correspondence with, and letters passed on from ALM. Correspondents include ALM, Rosemary Sorensen, Lyn Tranter, John Tranter, Bruce Pascoe, Carmel Bird, Helen Chryssides, Michael Heyward, ‘The New Yorker’, Ian Hicks, Debra Adelaide, Runar Vigbisson, Ulrike Becker, Red Symons and Caroline Jones, 1993-1995.

BOX 2
Manuscript Reviews for ‘The Age’ and Ms. Article for Qantas magazine, 1995.

Papers re her 1994 Elizabeth Kenny Oration for Royal College of Nursing, Australia-Qld Chapter, Townsville Group (excludes copy of oration), 1993-1994.

Papers re her address to the Midwives’ Graduation Ceremony of the Centre for Women’s health, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Subiaco, WA (13 July 1994), 1993-1994.

Papers re her participation on judging panel for the 1994 ASAL Gold Medal for Services to Australian Literature, awarded to Louis Nowra, 1994.

Letters received from Arts Management, Darlinghurst, NSW, re 1994 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, with Jolley’s General Report, 1993-1994

Letters received from University of the Third Age, UWA Extension Service and Edith Cowan University re her speaking engagements, 1994.

Issue of ‘Loose Licks’, Vol. 2No. 2, 1976, including her short story ‘Hilda’s Wedding’, 1976.

Papers re Angus & Robertson Bookworld 1994 Prize, including correspondence with Tom Shapcott and Bryce Courtenay, and her comments on the short list, 1993-1994.

‘Correspondence from Sept 1965’, being correspondence with, among others, ABC, BBC, Angus & Robertson, Richard Attenborough, ‘Pol’ magazine, Peter Cowan, Macmillan & Co Ltd, and issues of ‘Fellowship News’, 1965-1969.

‘Correspondence from October 1969’, being correspondence with, among others, WA Parliamentarians re Abortion Law Reform and Vietnam Moratorium, ABC, BBC, Macmillan & Co and Beatrice Davis, 1969-1970.

‘Correspondence from May 1971’, being correspondence with, among others, ABC, BBC, James McAuley, Kylie Tennant, Beatrice Davis, Dorothy Hewett and issues of ‘Fellowship News’, 1971-1973.

BOX 3
Draft literary fragments and Ms. Journal entries, 1985, undated.

Ms. reviews for ‘The Age’ and ‘Sydney Morning Herald, 1993-1995.

Notes for talks, 1974-1978, undated.

Freemantle Arts Centre Creative Writing Workshop class lists, 1975-1988.

‘In a slow silent walk’, being Ms. and notes for autobiographical story for ‘The Age’, 1994.

Draft article for Geoffrey Dutton’s history of Penguin books, 1995.

Papers re Sydney Writers’ Festival, 1994.

Ms festschrift contribution for Dorothy Jones, 1995; Ms Review for ‘The Age’ of ‘The Australian Love letters of Raymond Chandler (1995); Graduation Address at Macquarie University, 28 April 1995; address for Geriation Conference, Oct. 1995.

Correspondence from Methodist Ladies College re talk given there, 1994; Royal Perth Hospital re letters & invitation, 1988; Review of ‘An imaginative experience’ by Mary Wesley, 1994; Moet & Chandon correspondence & talk, 1993-1994; general correspondence, 1994.

BOX 4
Papers re ‘The Orchard Thieves (1995):
‘3 miles to one inch / The Orchard Thieves’. Typescript, Ms., undated.

‘Finished with pages’ of ‘The Orchard Thieves, 1992-1994, and Ms. short story, ‘’3 miles to one inch’ (taken from ‘The Orchard Thieves’).

Edited typescript and correspondence with Kay Ronai, editor, 1994-1995.

Photocopied typescript with editorial emendations, 1994-1995.

Corrected page proofs (1st set), 27 April 1995.

BOX 5
Papers re ‘The Orchard Thieves (1995):
‘Master’ corrected page proofs, 19 May 1995.

Corrected page proofs, 1 June 1995.

‘3 miles to one inch’, Dec. 1993-Mar.1994, being Ms. of story and letters from ‘The New Yorker’, with corrected galley proofs of story for issue of 12 Sep. 1994.

Letters received from Heinemann Mandarin, London, with enclosed author’s corrected page proofs of ‘Three Miles to One Inch’ for ‘Best Short Stories 1995’, 1995.

BOX 6
Manuscript, notes, and drafts for sequel to (though never written), ‘Palomino’, and incomplete poetry (?) notes and lecture notes, 1974-1977.

‘A Prince of a Fellow’, being first draft with author’s corrections, of ‘Milk and Honey’, undated.

Original edited typescript with author’s additions of ‘Milk and Honey’, undated.

Early manuscript of ‘In the Jarrah Forest, 1974; letter from Hole in the Wall Theatre, Leederville, WA, 1 June ?, rejecting two of her plays; correspondence with Freemantle Arts Centre Press, 1981, re ‘The Newspaper of Claremont Street’ with enclosed readers’ reports and Jolley’s notes/analysis of reports, 1974, 1981, undated.

Talks, lectures etc., 1993-1995.

BOX 7
Essay for John Marsden’s book, 1995

Papers re ‘The Australian’ Young Authors Competition for which she was a judge. Include commissioned story by her to publicise the competition, 1992-1993.

Papers re Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) 15th Annual Conference, Perth, 1993.

Papers mainly re her participation in the Festival of Australian Literature at the Poetry Centre, New York, 1988, including related correspondence with Goodman Associates and Selma Shapiro, literary agents, and her other commitments in Chicago, 1987-1990.

Correspondence re travel/itinerary arrangements for publicity tour to London and Vienna, 1988-1989.

Letters received from American poet, Tom Disch, 1984-1993.

Papers re 1987 BHP Australian Steel Awards and Jolley’s foundation membership of Canning College Board, WA, 1985-1987.

Manuscript article for ‘New Woman’, Dec. 1994-Jan.1995.

Ms. review for ‘The Age’ of ‘Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived‘ by Penelope Lively (1994), 1994.

BOX 8
Correspondence with Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1987-1996.

Correspondence with ‘The New Yorker’ re editing of an extract from ‘Cabin Fever’ to feature as a short story, including author’s corrected galley proofs and photocopied typescript of extract, 1990.

Manuscript drafts of BBC story, ‘Strawberry Widow’; MS. review for ‘The Age’ of ‘The Showies: Revelations of Australia’s Outdoor Side-Showmen’ by Bob Morgan (1995); ‘An Intellectual Mother’, being Ms. draft of ‘The Professor Story’, 1996, undated.

Early manuscript notes for ‘The Sugar Mother’, undated.

Papers re Jolley’s nursing career, 1941-1947.

Proofs of Jolley’s entry for ‘Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series’, Vol. 1, 1984.

Letters received from Gwen Harwood, 1981-1987.

BOX 9
Letters received mainly from Tom Shapcott, with some from his wife, Judith Rodriguez, 1979-1996.

Talks, articles, lectures, book launchings and readings, 1976-1992.

Papers of the Knight and Jolley families, ca. 1929-1989. Include letters from Elizabeth Jolley to her father and mother, Charles Wilfred Knight and Grete Knight (including letters wriitten while nursing during World War II), 1934-1979 and to Father Christmas, ca. 1929; letters received from her children, Richard and Ruth, 1964, undated; letters received from her grandmother, 1939; vaccination and immunisation records of Elizabeth Jolley and Leonard Jolley and family; and lock of hair in envelope labelled ‘Aline hair cut 1 March 1989’.

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