Series 1: Babette Smith further papers, 1743-1854, 1980-2015

MLMSS 10007

series

1743-1854, 1980-2015

9591550

1.16 metres of textual material (10 boxes)

BOX 1
Papers related to Ann Woolcock memoir, 2013-15.
Notebook from group meeting December 2013 and subsequent face-to-face and telephone interviews with Ann Woolcock's collleagues.
Woolcock 25th Anniversary booklet and other source material.
Coming Up for Air, history of the NSW Asthma Foundation by Babette Smith
CDs of Oral Interviews with Ruthven Blackburn, Susan Basten and Stephen Leeder
Correspondence regarding Oral Historian Pauline Curby and transcripts of interviews
Drafts of manuscript
Miscellaneous source material, transcripts of Babette Smith interviews

BOX 2
Papers related to 'A Cargo of Women', ca 1980-1991
Folders 1-6. A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and Women of the Princess Royal. Research files and notes mainly relating to the UK particularly Nottingham.
Folder 7. Cargo of Women, background information, early drafting

BOX 3
Papers related to 'Luck of the Irish', 2011-2014
Including: Original pitch to Allen & Unwin. Manuscript of penultimate version, manuscript proof copy, index and end notes before editing, Introduction (first draft), Chapter 2 'Crimes' before editing, Indent for ship 'Hive', papers analysing indent, production correspondence with publisher, illustrations.

BOX 4
Papers related to 'A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and convicts of Princess Royal, ca 1980-1990.
Large folder, 1980s, correspondence with family historians and others about research and writing of 'A Cargo of Women' (non-fiction version). Part of the significant family history which uncovered the 'amnesia' about convict history.

BOX 5
Panton Family papers, 1743-ca 1854
William Panton free settler to NSW (1823). Pastoralist near Picton. Brother to George Panton, NSW postmaster. Includes letter to his mother on departing in 1822 and letter dated 1835 to his sister giving his reasons for returning to Scotland.
Papers relating to his family (earliest date 1743) and the will of James Pyper of which they were all heirs. Despite this, William Panton's shame about failed business dealings caused him to emigrate. Father of Anne Goodlett, nee Panton, a later 19th century philanthropist.
Letters of cousin Beatrice Panton (late Maunsell) to her cousin Ann Panton in Scotland. Beatrice was a missionary settler who emigrated with her brother Rev George Panton to New Zealand. Four letters covering 1849-1854. She married Rev. Robert Maunsell in 1853. Transcription of the letters is available from Paul Cooper who completed a thesis entitled The Philanthropy of John and Ann Goodlet published as a book 'More Valuable Than Gold, the philanthropy of John & Ann Goodlet.'
Images of William Panton's father taken from a portrait in possession of descendant Robert B.S. Macfarlan.

BOX 6
NSW Bar Association material. RESTRICTED
Folders 1-11. Includes correspondence regarding the controversial painting; Babette Smith to Justice Meagher; Babette Smith legal affairs column in the Austalian Financial Review; Miscellaneous correspondence; Stop Press (Bar newsletter) Aug 1993-May 1997; Comments about Babette Smith first Stop Press column; Correspondence regarding NSW Law Society, the NSW Law Foundation, Australian Law Council; judges and gender issues etc; 'Bar News'; Photographs. Some material sensitive. For next 20 years names should not be used without obtaining permission from Babette Smith first or failing her availability, the State Librarian

BOX 7
Papers related to Penelope Nelson and other friends from Sydney University.
Folders 1-3. Correspondence, cards, samples of writing by Penelope Nelson and comments ca 1989-2001. Includes material related to Bob Ellis.

BOX 8
Papers related to Mothers and Sons conference, ca 1995-1999
Folders 1-3. Mothers and Sons launch file: cover blurb, endorsements, launch guests. Participants' list - names embargoed for 30 years from 31 December 2015; two sample contributions - names embargoed for 30 years from 31 December 2015. Folder 2 - Mothers and Sons - speeches, papers and conferences; review in ABR 1995.

BOX 9
Papers related to 'Australia's Birthstain'
Folders 1-3. Comments, endorsements and correspondence. Names include: Lady Molesworth, A.G.L. Shaw, Miriam Dixson, Grace Karskens. Editing correspondence between Carl Harrison-Ford, Babette Smith and Elizabeth Weiss of Allen & Unwin. Visit to Cowra to publicise Australia's Birthstain. Documents demonstrating the enormous research trail in UK.

BOX 10
Papers related to writing and history activities, 1989-2010
Folder 1. Babette Smith columnist for ITA magazine. Ideas and drafts for column, correspondence with Ita Buttrose 1989-1993. Folder 2. Rough notes made on board the Bounty on Australia Day 1988.
Folder 3. 1997-98 Activities, letters regarding Aboriginal Day of Mourning and significance of the Cyprus Hellene Club Folder 4. Correspondence, research concerning Who Do You Think You Are? (Dawn Fraser's female convict ancestor.) Folder 5. Draft and edits for book review Frank Bongiorno's 'Sex Lives of Australia' . Final version published The Australian 27 July 2012 Folder 6. Sample of rejection letters from State Libraries of NSW & Victoria re grants/fellowships Folder 7. Corespondence with Dorothy Griffiths, Public Relations 2011
Folder 8. Corresondence with Frances Berrigan UK regarding possible TV development for Australia's Birthstain and other convict books 2009. Never eventuated. Possibly used as background research for BBC TV series 'Banished'
Folder 9. Draft Abstract for UK conference The Carceral Archipelago
Folder 10. Contraversial review of Alison Alexander's 'Tasmania's Convicts' including Babette Smith's analysis on reading it. Folder 11. Papers relating to Professional Historians conference on Norfolk Island 2010 - Babette Smith a keynote speaker. Speeches published within 'Islands of History' (Anchor Books 2011)
Folder 12. Papers relating to Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA) of which Babette Smith a founding member. Papers include ISAA Review containing Babette Smith 'Preamble' and explanatory notes 1999 with papers on 1998 Constitutional Convention regarding change by Australia to a Republic; ISAA journal containing Babette Smith speech 'Out of Sight: the Civic Heritage of Convict Transportation' 2008;

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