Series 3: Verna Coleman papers, including correspondence, manuscripts and research notes, 1978-2011

MLMSS 10399/Boxes 7-9

series

1978-2011

9657905

0.48 metres of textual material (3 boxes)

BOX 7
Folder 1
Correspondence, including letters to Verna and Peter Coleman from Manning Clark, 1979, and 1990 ; Sir Paul Hasluck, 1990 ; Barry Humphries, 1997 and 1998 ; Christopher Koch, 1997 ; Edgar Ross, 1995-1996 ; Peter Ryan, 1991-2007 ; and Les Tanner, no date.
“Last flight from Griffith” by Verna Coleman [a reflection on the N.S.W. state election campaign, 1978].
Correspondence from Manning Clark, 1982, regarding “Her unknown (brilliant) career : Miles Franklin in America” ; Andrew Field, 1990, and Sir Paul Hasluck, 1991, regarding and “The last exquisite: a portrait of Frederic Manning”.

Folder 2
Includes letters to and from Susan Keogh, Allison Jones, Diana O’Neil, And Brian Wilder, Melbourne University Press, regarding publication of “Adela Pankhurst, the Wayward Suffragette”, 1995-1996 ; and letters from Susan Keogh, 1989-1991, regarding “The Last Exquisite”.

Folder 3
Reader’s Reports for “Adela Pankhurst, the Wayward Suffragette” ; Verna Coleman biographical notes ; pew sheet for funeral of Verna Coleman

Folder 4
Notes and unpublished chapters on Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield, “Ineradicable Accents The Girls from Faraway” [material on the two literary cousins that Verna Coleman was working on at the time of her death].

Folder 5
Typescript manuscript, with annotations, of “Her Unknown (Brillant) Career: Miles Franklin in America” by Verna Coleman.

Folder 6
Photocopy of typescript manuscript of “War Bride: the Story of an Ordinary Woman” by Verna Coleman [based on life of Verna Colemans' sister Anita Gibbs].

BOX 8
Includes notes for “The last exquisite: a portrait of Frederick Manning” ; and research notebooks.

BOX 9
Research cards

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