Paul Eggert papers relating to While the Billy Boils, 1892-2013

MLMSS 9699

fonds

1892-2013

1261053

1.52 metres of textual material (10 boxes and 1 folder)

Paul Eggert, born 1951, is an editorial theorist, scholarly editor, and book historian in the discipline of English literature. He is employed as an Australian Research Council professorial fellow at UNSW Canberra, has been a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 1998, and served as the general editor of Academy Editions of Australian Literature. He received the Centenary Medal for services to the study of literature in 2003.

Reference:
UNSW Canberra http://hass.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ (accessed 3 August 2015)

This collection forms the basis of Professor Paul Eggert’s writing for ‘Biography of the book’ (2013) and ‘While the billy boils: the original newspaper versions’ (2013).

BOX 1:
Cover design trials, 2012.
Control sheets of the preparatory editing processes and proofing, 1990s-2012.
‘Biography of a book’ and ‘While the billy boils’ edition design experiments, 2012.
Trial design edition of ‘While the billy boils’, December 2010.
Transcription and collation, ca 1995.
Sample editing and typesettings, November 2006-2007.
Academy editions proposals 2004, 2006.

BOX 2:
Correspondence 1991-2013.
Correspondence with publishers of ‘While the billy boils’ volumes Sydney University Press, and Penn State University Press, including book proposals and referee’s (Professor Robert Dixon and Dr Chris Tiffin) reports. (Also read by publisher and scholar Dr Craig Munro).
Correspondents include: Andrew Brown (Cambridge University Press UK), Paul Brunton (Senior Curator, State Library of New South Wales), Dennis Bryans, John Byron, Robert Dixon, Kym McCauley (Australian Defence Force Academy), Madonna Duffy (UQP), Caren Florance, Janice Howie, Maryanne Larkin, Susan Murray-Smith, Teresa Pagliaro, Mark Pollard (Pickering and Chatto), Annette Renshaw (Harper Collins), Meredith Sherlock, Cheryl Taylor, Tom Thompson, Chris Tiffin, Jonathan Wantrup, Tessa Wooldridge, Elizabeth Webby, Elaine Zinkham (Australian Scholarly Editions Centre).
Exercise book ‘Academy Editions Lawson log book 1993-1999’.

FOLDER 3 (RESTRICTED):
Correspondence 1991-1999, relating to original Academy Editions proposal for publication.

BOXES 4-6:
Development of the edition: 52 folders, each representing one of the stories or sketches published in ‘While the billy boils’ in 1896. Each folder contains: photocopies of the relevant collated versions in newspapers, magazines, ‘Short stories in prose and verse’ (1894), ‘While the billy boils’ (1896), and ‘The country where I come from (1901); transcriptions in ASCII format; computer collations of each version. Box 3 1-13, Box 4 14-30, Box 5 31-52.

BOX 7:
Versions of the ‘While the Billy Boils’ edition’s original introduction, 2008-2009, and shorter form, 2011.
Editions, first proofs, with corrections.

BOX 8:
Versions of ‘Explanatory Notes’ and ‘Note on Equivalences’, 2008-2011.
Typesetters copy of the completed edition: front matter by Eggert, and each story represented by a transcription of the copy text (deriving from mid-1990s work) marked up by Sherlock, then by Eggert, ditto for apparatus. At end of typesetter’s copy are Webby’s explanatory notes and Eggert’s textual notes that the typesetter repositioned to create the arrangement in the published volume.

Box 9:
Edition, second proofs, with corrections.
Front pages, some with diary of transactions between Eggert and collaborators, of several versions of the edition and the monograph, but the versions themselves discarded by Eggert in June 2013 as only of minimal interest.
Printer’s proofs of ‘While the billy boils’, and ‘Biography of a book, in book format, marked up by Eggert, 18 November 2012.
Version of ‘Biography of a book’ (then called ‘The inside story of a literary classic’), chapters 1-5, April 2010.
Version of ‘Biography of a book’ lacking chapters 12-13, 11 August 2010, and published introduction, written May 2012.
Version of ‘Biography of a book’ used for checking of quotations and citation, 9 December 2011.
Version of ‘Notes for Chapter 12, Aug 2010’; chapter 13, November 2010; first version of published introduction, 16 May 2012
‘Biography of a book’ first proofs with corrections.

BOX 10:
Criticism, evaluation and assessment of Henry Lawson, 1892-2010.
Criticism of Lawson (mainly the prose), approximately 250 clippings of original reviews and mentions of ‘While the billy boils’, and other volumes in the Mitchell Library’s Angus and Robertson archive.
Promotion and reviews of the two Lawson volumes (edition of ‘While the billy boils’ and ‘Biography of a book’).
Publishers promotions of the two volumes, and reviews.

BOX 11:
Printing of electronic scholarly edition in a two hardback volumes (six copies were printed and bound by publisher): ‘John Shaw Neilson, The collected verse: a variorum edition / edited by Margaret Roberts. Canberra: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, UNSW at ADFA. 2003. (2 volumes)

14 different published versions of 'While the billy boils' were donated with these papers: H 2015/493, H 2015/494, H 2015/495, H 2015/496, H 2015/497, H 2015/498, H 2015/499, H 2015/500, H 2015/1969, H 2015/1970, H 2015/1971, H 2015/1972, H 2015/1973, H 2015/1974, H 2015/1975, H 2015/1976, H 2015/1977

Partly restricted: Applies to MLMSS 9699/ Folder 3, Expires: 2034-10-04

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Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which the author has been deceased for more than 50 years