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BOX 1/Folder 1
Peter Mears correspondence, mainly with Gillian Mears, February 2000-October 2001. 
Letters, cards and emails regarding family meetings, the cottage on Ithilien's hill and money matters. Includes a card and drawing from Yvonne Mears to Peter Mears, cards from Gillian to Sheila and Peter Mears and a watercolour painting by Peter Mears

BOX 1/Folder 2
“Letters from old friends 1999-2001”, correspondence with people including Russell Shakespeare, Wendy Frew, Nazir Jussab, Sandy Edwards, Tracey Price, Helen Salter, Ashley Tanner, Alan Close, Diana Benzaki, Tom Carment

BOX 1/Folders 3-4
“Letters received from Shining of Mindfulness friends, 2000”
 
BOX 1/Folder 5
Correspondence with Tom McVeigh, including his story 'Cross roads of antiquity and modernity, pausing – clock stops – Laos' and 2 colour photographs of kookaburras and a magpie, 2000-2001

BOX 1/Folder 6
Empty envelopes from correspondence

BOX 2/Folder 1
“Book dedications on books I’ve sold”, manuscript inscriptions on extracted title pages of books no longer owned by Gillian Mears, signed by people including David Malouf, Karin Mears, Peter and Sheila Mears, Matthew Condon, Beth Yahp, Charlotte Randall, David Lodge, Vikram Chandra, Fiona McGregor, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Emma Tom, Stephen Measday, Marina Warner, Helen Salter, Alan Close, Bruce Pascoe, Beverley Farmer, Stephanie Dowrick, Judy Horacek, Brigid Lowry, Tracey Price, Darrelyn Gunzburg, Dorothy Hewitt, Jacqui Taylor, Marele Day, Christopher Cyrill, 1972-1999

BOX 2/Folder 2
“Correspondence from people I don’t really know”, miscellaneous manuscript and typescript letters and cards received, 1999-2001

BOX 2/Folder 3
Letters received from Gerald Murnane (9); photocopy of an annotated article on Murnane (The Age, 27/11/99) including Murnane’s comment that ‘Despite a few blunders Jane Sullivan’s report is one of the best of its kind I have read about myself; signed manuscript letters received from Philip Tyndall, film maker, concerning ‘Words and Silk’ (1990), a film about Murnane

BOX 2/Folder 4
Correspondence with Yvonne, Aug. 1995, 2000

BOX 2/Folder 5
Correspondence with Karin, 2000-2001

BOX 2/Folder 6
Correspondence with Sonya, 2000-2001

BOX 2/Folder 7
Correspondence with her sisters’ children, 2000-2001

BOX 2/Folder 8
Correspondence with Geof Nanto, ca. 2001

BOX 2/Folder 9
Correspondence, mainly emails, regarding ‘The Map of the Gardens’ stories including a typescript letter to Geof Nanto, sample page proofs and manuscript notes titled “1st conversation with Judith Lukin”

BOX 3/Folder 1
“Writing correspondence 2000 from old & new friends who are writers”, letters, emails, postcards and invitations. Correspondents include Drusilla Modjeska, Helen Garner, Alan Close, David Malouf, Lisa Merrifield, Gaby Naher, Susan Hampton, Ivor Indyk, Elizabeth Jolley, Jess Huon, Frank Russo, Fiona McGregor and Stephanie Dowrick. Includes edited transcript of interview with Emma Sorensen 10 Sept 1999 for honours thesis, 30pp., 1999-August 2000

BOX 3/Folder 2
“Writing correspondence 2000 from old & new friends who are writers”, letters, emails, postcards and invitations. Correspondents include Drusilla Modjeska, Helen Garner, Alan Close, David Malouf, Lisa Merrifield, Gaby Naher, Susan Hampton, Ivor Indyk, Elizabeth Jolley, Jess Huon, Frank Russo, Fiona McGregor and Stephanie Dowrick, August 2000-March 2001

BOX 3/Folder 3
“Writing friends & strangers 2001”, letters and emails. Correspondents include Susan Hampton, Gaby Naher, Helen Garner, Amanda Lohrey (RESTRICTED), Davida Allen, Drusilla Modjeska, Tom McVeigh and Russell Shakespeare, February-October 2001

BOX 3/Folder 4
Miscellaneous correspondence, including bill payments notices, publisher’s agreement, letters regarding move to appointing joint accountant, enquiries and orders for books, correspondence with M.P. Harry Woods regarding the use of native forests

Series 01: Gillian Mears correspondence, ca. 1972-2001

CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence includes letters and emails with family, friends, publishers and other writers as well as photographs, newscuttings and drafts of short stories.
BOX 1
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, August 2007-June 2008. Correspondents include Tom McVeigh, Delia Falconer, Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Peter Mears.
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, July- August 2008. Correspondents include Tom McVeigh, Peter Mears, Tom Carment.
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, September-October 2008. Correspondents include Gerald Murnane, Peter Mears.

BOX 2
 ‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, November-December 2008. Correspondents include Peter Mears, Gerald Murnane, Tom McVeigh.
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, January-June 2009. Correspondents include Helen Garner, Frank Moorhouse, Tom McVeigh.
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, March-July, 2009. Correspondents include Frank Moorhouse, Geoff Page.

BOX 3
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, July-October 2009. Correspondents include Gerald Murnane, Geoff Page.
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, November –December-2009. Correspondents include Robert McFarlane.
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, October 2009-February 2010. Correspondents include Alan Close.
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, February-May 2010. Correspondents include Alan Close.
‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, May-July 2010. Correspondents include Bruce Pascoe.

BOX 4
 ‘Mt Barker Correspondence’, July- October 2010. Correspondents include Ivor Indyk ‘The Cat with the Coloured Tail’ Correspondence, December 2007-February 2010. Correspondents include Barbara Mobbs, Helen Garner.
Correspondence with Claire Aman, 2008-2010.

BOX 5
Letters to Marr Grounds (includes photographs and a CD), 2005-2010.
 ‘Red Balloon Photo & Essay for last ‘HEAT’ journal’. Correspondence with photographer Vincent Long & Ivor Indyk, 2008-2010.

BOX 6
 ‘The Easter Cake’, letters and drafts to Ivor Indyk, 2008.
 Drafts for ‘The Easter Cake’, ca. 2007.
‘Gentamicin & BrainPort’, Correspondence 2009.
‘Venezuela, Dr Valentin’ multiple sclerosis, Correspondence 2008-2009.

NOTEBOOKS
Include diary entries, thoughts, notes, newscuttings, brochures, photographs.
BOX 7
‘April 30th 2004 –‘
‘December 2004 –‘
‘Mainly 2006 –‘
‘November 2006 –‘
‘Ant and Bee, May 2007 –‘

BOX 8
‘August 2008 –‘
‘November 2009 –‘
‘Gillian and Yvonne in Nederland, Colorado August 2010 –‘
DIARIES
2006 -2009.

Collection 10: Gillian Mears further papers, 2004-2010

BOX 7/Folder 7
“Phone calls September 2006-“, summaries of phone conversations with her sister Karin, Marr Grounds and Kaye Watkins, 2006-2007

BOX 7/Folder 8
1. “Stories for A.W Salt”, diary written from Bacolod, Manila and Baguio, the Philippines, with loose pages “My experience in Philippines Jan. 2004” in which she describes Didi and the family she is staying with, the miracle healers Nony Erning, James and Nening, their belief that her MS is the result of a curse, their treatments and predictions that she will walk in a week, her plans for the future, reminiscences and musings on life, 23 January -23 February 2004

2. “Philippines 2004”, diary in which she describes the days in Sydney with Sandy Edwards before arriving in the Philippines, her feelings of frustration and anger at the indignities of MS, doubts about the treatments, descriptions of nails and ants being drawn from her body,  memories of life at Applebox in Nymboida, self examinations and introspections, with inserted photographs of Gillian whip-cracking at Grafton, at Elizabeth Island and with Sandy Edwards. Includes miscellaneous notes and a draft letter to Andrew Hall, 22 January- ca. 11 February 2004

BOX 7/Folder 9
1. “The end of 2007 & the Ant and Bee road”, diary in spiral notebook written from Ant and Bee and Adelaide and while looking for house to rent in Adelaide, with notes, jottings, shopping lists, copies of messages from family and friends including Karin, Sandy Edwards, Sharon Jones, Marr Grounds, her thoughts, the end of her relationship with Marr Grounds, with photographs (2), 4 October -27 November 2007

2. “The Cat With the Coloured Tail Nov. 20th 2007-“, diary in spiral notebook written from ‘Ant & Bee’, from Mt. Barker, South Australia, while in Sydney, Dec. 2007, and visiting family in Grafton, Apr. 2008. Includes rough notes and jottings, shopping lists, copies of text messages from family and friends, disappointment at not getting grant to write ‘The Cat With the Coloured Tail’, notes for the book and worries about finances, November 2007-June 2008

BOX 7/Folder 10
1. “The Cat With the Coloured Tail June 2008- a notebook marking all the high hopes for Cat w C Tail then their destruction followed by the realization that I’d have to write Foal’s Bread after all”, spiral notebook with notes, shopping lists, copies of text messages from family and friends including Helen Garner, Sandy Edwards, Tom McVeigh, Sharon Jones, Tracey Price, intermittent diary entries including visit to Melbourne, staying at Strathalbyn Showgrounds in ‘Ant and Bee’ Jan. 2009, thoughts on Tim Winton novel ‘Breath’, notes from meditation, yoga, massage, ‘axial alignment’, and ‘quantum balancing healing’ treatments and thoughts of travelling to Venezuela for MS treatment, 2008-2009

2. “February 2009-“, diary in spiral notebook, mainly written from ‘Ant and Bee’ and from Royal Adelaide Hospital Oct. 2009, with copied text messages from friends and family, rough notes and jottings, shopping lists and Leonard Cohen poems and cuttings, February-October 2009

BOX 8/Folder 1
“Sth America December 2009-“, diary written while in Venezuela seeking a cure from MS, with descriptions of her surroundings, ‘healing’ rituals and medicinal herbs, notes on the treatment made Dec. 2009 and annotated Oct. 2010 and her disillusionment with the treatment, with an inserted folder containing advertisements for Dr Valentin Hampejs and the Shamanic medicine cure and the draft of a letter supporting Bryan Carman’s writing, an inserted folder containing notes to Valentin, lists of medicines, travel notes, pressed leaf from Joan Carpenter and Bryan Carman and map of Venezuela. Also includes examinations of her relationships with her sister Yvonne and others, ruminations on her past, with a letter to be posted to her family in case she should die, letters to her family, Claire Aman, Sandy Edwards, Sharon Jones, Philip Hearnshaw, Stephen Muecke, Victor Barker, December 2009-October 2010

BOX 8/Folder 2
1. “December 2009- Venezuela despair – CWCT despair – Phillip Hearnshaw Babe & Happy Feet producer loved CWCT“, diary in spiral notebook, mainly written while in Venezuela Dec.-Feb. 2010 with Joan Carpenter and Bryan Carman seeking treatment for MS, describing medicinal baths and herb treatments, with notes, shopping lists and copies of text messages from people including her sisters, Roy Bowling, Joan Carpenter, Sandy Edwards, Robert McFarlane, Claire Aman, Gaby Naher. She writes of her planned visit to Marr Grounds, Aug. 2010, plans to see Jane Siberry with her family, the Vincent Long Red Balloon photographic session, her anxiety about lack of agent’s response to ‘Foal’s Bread’, draft letters to Barbara Mobbs, family responses to Foal’s Bread and plans to sell ‘Ant and Bee’, 18 December 2009-August 2010

2. Diary in spiral notebook with ‘Ant and Bee’ party invitation on cover, with inserted and loose cards, letters, photographs, clippings, vehicle maintenance and fishing tips, mobility parking scheme card and other ephemera, meditations on ants, notes on gas and fuel consumption and mechanical repairs, emails from people including Helen Garner, an accident in ‘Ant and Bee’ July 2010, her sadness at selling the van, 2004-December 2011  

BOX 8/Folder 3
“January 2011-“, diary in exercise book covered with brown paper and pressed flowers, written while bed-bound at Ray Orr Drive, Mt Barker. She writes of the comfort her cat Milparinka gives her, her frustrations with living, sending final draft of ‘Foal’s Bread’ for editing, preparing to leave the Ray Orr house. Includes loose photographs taken at Marr Ground’s place in 2006, card made for Marr Grounds Dec. 2009, and inserted photographs of her cat and herself, 26 January-11 November 2011 with pressed flowers and notes dated December 2011, March and August 2013

BOX 8/Folder 4
1. “June 2011-“, diary in spiral notebook in which she describes being in Royal Adelaide Hospital for pressure sores, reserving her burial plot at Upper Copmanhurst Cemetery, entries interspersed with rough notes and jottings, drawings, budgets, shopping lists, memories of childhood and young adulthood, copies of text messages from family and friends, notes for Indigenous Literary Fund fundraiser speech in Melbourne Aug. 2012, notes for Foal’s Bread prize acceptance speech and thoughts on her talk at a euthanasia forum, 26 June 2011-January 2013

2. “love oh Wisdom Wisdom Cats please purr for me!”, diary in spiral notebook, with thoughts on dying and funeral costs, the Sydney Writers Festival May 2013, the Vincent Long documentary, the spreading of MS symptoms to her hands, moving back to Ithilien, her treatments while in India with her carer Varsha Bapat, her pain on the death of Varsha, with notes for her speech at her father’s 80th birthday, March 2013-May 2014

BOX 8/Folder 5
1. “Poonthottam Dec. 2013”, diary written while in India, a few pages of entries describing the massage treatments given by Dr Remil, with lists of Ayurvedic medicines, 17 – 27 December 2013

2. Dairy written while at Poonthottam Hospital with a small number of entries and notes about her treatments, 4-28 December 2013 

3. “2014”, moon diary with brief entries and post-it notes for medical appointments, daily events and thoughts on life, December 2013-January 2015

BOX 8/Folder 6
1. Moon diary with heart on cover, brief entries and post-it notes in which she writes of the death of her cat Paul Gallico, her relationships with her family, a note “16.5.16 is a day to die if nothing has changed 4 me”, January 2015-January 2016

2. Small address book, no date

Series 02: Gillian Mears diaries and notebooks, 2004-2015

BOX 1/Folder 1
“Family letters & stuff 2002-03”, letters and cards to Gillian Mears from her sisters, sisters’ children, Stella Graeme and family, Margaret and Peter, Peter Mears and Dot. Includes letter written by Peter Mears to social worker ‘Notes on health status of Ms G.D. Mears ...’ and circular letter from Peter Mears never sent, January-July 2003 and undated

BOX 1/Folder 2
“Family correspondence 2003 & mixed”, letters and cards from family and friends, including invoices and receipts sent to Gillian, a medical referral letter from Dr Pridgeon to Dr Varley, a letter to Peter Mears regarding the Sheila Mears Award for Literature, a letter to Donna Dodson from Sheila Mears, 1991 and part of a letter to Yvonne and Ratna, 1991, 2002-2003

BOX 1/Folder 3
Letters and photographs from Clare Mahon, 2002-2004

BOX 1/Folder 4
Letters, cards and emails written by Gillian Mears, including letters regarding the purchase of a vehicle, a homoeopathy record with her notes, a torn page from last will and testament, Jan. 2002 and an informal will, 2004, brief notes and jottings, 2002-2005

BOX 1/Folder 5
“Old Grass Sister correspondence with Karin, 1995-", Nov. 1992; April-May 1993; June-Nov. 1994; Jan.-Feb. 1995; June-Aug. 1995; Oct. 1995, March 2000 and letter fragments, undated

BOX 1/Folder 6
“Gillian to Karin remnant letters of 1989-2002”, letters from Gillian to Karin, Sept.-Dec. 1989; Feb. 1990; Oct. 1990; Aug. 1991; Dec. 1991; Feb.-Sept. 1992; Feb. 1993; March-Sept. 1998; March-April 1999; Sept. 2000; July-Nov. 2001. Also, a letter from Gillian to Sonya, Sept. 2001, letter from Stephen Tatham to Peter and Sheila Mears Dec. 1985 and copy of a letter from Stephen Tatham to ‘Sheila, Peter and families’, Dec. 1989

BOX 2/Folder 1
“Correspondence with Barbara Mobbs 2002”, December 2000-August 2002

BOX 2/Folder 2
“Correspondence with Barbara Mobbs 2002”, 2003

BOX 2/Folder 3
Geof Nanto correspondence, emails and manuscript, mainly with Gillian Mears, 10 March-26 October 2002 including email from Peter Mears to Barbara Mobbs, August 2002, a note titled ‘Town-Fri. 5 April 2002’, sketch of a wallaby and photographs of Geof Nanto and Gillian Mears taken for publicity for ‘Map of the Gardens’, April 2002

BOX 2/Folder 4
“Nanto”, mainly letters by Gillian Mears to Geof Scott/Nanto, including a letter to Gillian and Geof from Peter and Dot, ca. May 1999-2002 and undated

BOX 2/Folder 5
“Geof Nanto correspondence 2002/2003/4”, mainly correspondence between Gillian Mears and Geof Nanto, April 2002-December 2003 and undated, with photographs (8) of Geoff Nanto 1965-1966, 1999
	
BOX 2/Folder 6
Correspondence with Jess Huon, with 4 stories and essays written by Jess Huon, 2002

BOX 2/Folder 7
“Jess Huon’s letters 2000/2001”, letters mainly from Jess Huon to Gillian Mears, November 1999-November 2002 and undated

BOX 2/Folder 8
Letters from Jess Huon to Gillian Mears, February-November 2003 in a folder with photograph on front captioned “Jess at Ngintaka April 2002”, including copies of photos and colour photograph of Jess Huon and story by Jess Huon “The Invisible Boy’

BOX 3/Folder 1
“Letters from writing friends & strangers … 2002”, correspondents include Davida Allen, Drusilla Modjeska, Susan Hampton, Kate Grenville, Gaby Naher, Jess Huon, Emma Sorensen, Alan Close. Includes a hand made folder titled “Snips from Jess Huon 2001/02” with small booklet and poem fragments, 1997-April 2002

BOX 3/Folder 2
“Writing friends & strangers 2002/3”, correspondents include Judy Horacek, Geoff Page, Helen Garner, Ellen Rodger, Sandy Edwards, Jess Huon, Annette Bezor, Russell Shakespeare, October 2002-June 2003

BOX 3/Folder 3
“Writing friends & strangers 2003”, correspondents include Stephanie Dowrick, Sandy Edwards, Judy Horacek

BOX 3/Folder 4
“Peter M. letters 2002”, Peter Mears correspondence including scientific papers written by Peter Mears and photograph of him with the Murphy children, 1985-July 2002

BOX 3/Folder 5
“Family correspondence Autumn/Winter 2002”, correspondence mainly with Peter Mears and from her nieces Helen and Juliette, with draft letters and papers concerning the sale of property, April 1993; March-December 2002

BOX 3/Folder 6
“Letters from new friends, 2002-04”, letters, cards and photographs, correspondents include Cindy Hattingh, Pam Baker, Anna ‘P’, Gordon Reid, April 2000-February 2004

BOX 3/Folder 7
“Letters from old friends, 2003-04”, letters and photographs from correspondents including Emma Sorensen, Russell Shakespeare, Margaret Knight, Trace, Susan Hampton, Dawn Martin, Gordon Reid, Abby Howells, Christine Sharman, June 2001-March 2004 and undated

BOX 4/Folder 1
“Writer friend letters 2002”, letters, photographs and cards, correspondents include Sandy Edwards, Ivor Indyk, Gerald Murnane, Davida Allen, March-August 2002 and undated. Includes article from Heat 3 ‘New writing’ by Michael Meehan

BOX 4/Folder 2
“Writing correspondence 00-02”, letters, photographs and cards, correspondents include Susan Hampton, Pam Baker, Sandy Edwards, Drusilla Modjeska, Alan Close, Judy Horacek, January 2000-February 2002 and undated. Includes loose pages of Reiki seminar diary, questionnaire on Clarence Valley environmental concerns and Native Title petition with signatures

BOX 4/Folder 3
“Letters from people I don’t know 2003-4”, correspondents include medical staff who nursed Gillian, Gordon Reid, David Holloway, Paul Belasik, 10 April 1996, October 2000-December 2003 and undated

BOX 4/Folder 4
“Family & body stuff 1998-02”, cards and letters mainly concerning medical issues, including Sonya Mears’s case study of Gillian Mears for a  remedial massage assignment, 1993-2002

BOX 4/Folder 5
“Van to House and Back travelling file/Family letters 2001/early 2002”, letters from Gillian to her sister Yvonne and letters to Gillian from Juliette, Karin, Sonya and Peter Mears, January 2001-February 2002 and undated. Includes stories by Alan Close and others from Literary Quarterly 8, Oct. 1987 and stories by Sheila Mears published in the Land magazine and Town and Country Farmer, 1988

BOX 4/Folder 6
“Letters from Anjali Yardi 2002-2004”, correspondence with Anjali Yardi, 30 July 2002-4 March 2004, including article ‘Living From the Inside Out’ by Petrea King from Living Now magazine

BOX 5/Folder 1
“Correspondence from Lisa Merrifield 1999-2001”, letters and cartoons, March 2000-November 2001

BOX 5/Folder 2
“Last Lisa Merrifield letters 2002-", letters and colour photographs (15), including story by Lisa Merrifield ‘One Lovely Thing’, July 2002-May 2003

BOX 5/Folder 3
“Tom McVeigh letters 2002”, including letters from Gillian Mears 18 October, 2 December, 11 December 2001, 25 July 2001-September 2002 and undated. Includes colour photographs of Temora and district (12), Carnarvon and Hinchinbrook (31) and uncaptioned (3), also ‘Coaching Australia’ newsletter

BOX 5/Folder 4
“Tom McVeigh correspondence 2002-2003”, including letters from Gillian Mears 4 February, 30 March 2003, with story by Tom McVeigh ‘Talking Horse Sense’, clippings and colour photographs (8) of Tom McVeigh harvesting wheat and pyrethrum in Tasmania, July 2002-March 2003, April-May 2004

BOX 5/Folder 5
“Tom McVeigh letters of 2003”, with pressed flowers and clippings, May 2003-January 2004; September 2005

BOX 5/Folder 6
“Mainly my letters to Margaret Knight 2000-2003”, including photographs (5), December 1999-August 2005

BOX 5/Folder 7
“Shining of Mindfulness friends 2002”, correspondence with Margaret Knight, Cindy Hattingh, Sandy Edwards, Russell Shakespeare, with photographs (7) and postcards, October 2001-June 2003 and undated

BOX 6/Folder 1
“Shining of Mindfulness friends”, letters, cards, photographs, clippings, poems, information on multiple sclerosis, travel documents and information for Jan. 2004 Philippines trip. Correspondents include Margaret Knight and Ratna, husband of Yvonne Mears, November 2002-June 2004 and undated

BOX 6/Folder 2
Correspondence, mainly letters and cards received by Gillian Mears while in hospital, correspondents include her sister Sonya and her sisters’ children, Sandy Edwards, Margaret Knight, Tom Carment, Victor Barker, Gaby Naher, Cindy Hattingh, Russell Shakespeare, Susan Hampton, Alan Close, Anjali Yardi, Geoff Page, May 2000-September 2002

BOX 6/Folder 3
“Hospital mail etc 2002-2003”, including letters sent to hospital staff and letters and cards from her sister Yvonne and her sisters’ children, Sandy Edwards, Margaret Knight, Tom Carment, Pam Baker, Russell Shakespeare, Susan Hampton, Jess Huon, Anjali Yardi, Emma Sorensen, Kerri Francisco, Geoff Page, October 2002-January 2003 and undated

BOX 6/Folder 4
“Alternative medicine correspondence & info 2003-4”, emails and letters, advertising brochures, receipts & invoices for Ayurvedic medicine and Centerpointe Research Institute, flyers & promotional material for the ‘Holosyne Solution’, Junk Food Anonymous emails, lists of foods, 2002-2004

BOX 6/Folder 5
“Correspondence with Gentamycin damaged people, www.wobblers, 2004”, mainly correspondence concerning harmful effects of Gentamycin with lists of contacts for the ‘Wobblers’ support group and medical papers on vestibular disorders, 2002-2004

BOX 7/Folder 1
Correspondence and papers regarding Gillian Mears’s medical condition, including letters, emails, hospital discharge papers, newsletters and booklets on multiple sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis Society information pack, notes and shopping lists from Gillian Mears to community nurses, September 2002-December 2003 and undated

BOX 7/Folder 2
 “Loose ends April 2004”, rough notes and jottings, brochures for hand operated cereal grinder and satellite navigation system, book order and notes regarding van repairs. Includes workshop chart and cassette tape 

BOX 7/Folder 3
“Mannatech abandoned yippee”, brochures, receipts and promotional material for the Mannatech products claimed to be a treatment for multiple sclerosis

BOX 7/Folder 4
“Letters 2004 pre ambulance trip”, including letters and cards from Susan Hampton, Emma Sorensen, Pam Baker, Peter & Dot Mears, Helen Salter, Drusilla Modjeska, Josie Ellem, Margaret Knight, with notes & jottings, clippings, drafts of farewell party invitations and short story ‘Howard’s Way’ by Pam Baker, February 2003-May 2004 and undated

BOX 7/Folder 5
“Emails & letters July 2004-“, correspondents include Peter & Dot Mears, Barbara Mobbs, Sharon Jones, June-July 2004 and undated

BOX 7/Folder 6
“Mentorship correspondence with Ellen Rodger ‘From the Fake to the Real’ 2002-2003”, letters and emails during the mentorship period and while Ellen was in residence at Varuna Writers’ Centre April 2-13, including application form for the Australian Society of Authors’ Mentorship Program 2001, with pages from ‘From the Fake to the Real’ and colour photograph of Ellen Rodger, July 2001-April 2002

BOX 8/Folder 1
Mentorship correspondence with Pam Baker, including application form for the Australian Society of Authors’ Mentorship Program with sample writing from ‘Dark Glass’ and Varuna newsletter, March-December 2001

BOX 8/Folder 2
Literature Board correspondence and other papers including clippings and applications for the Literature Board of the Australia Council grant with proposed budget and the New South Wales Writers Fellowship with proposed budget, correspondence with publishers of ‘Contemporary Authors’, March 2001-October 2002, March 2004 and undated

BOX 8/Folder 3
“PLR stuff”, letters and papers regarding the Public Lending Right scheme, December 1994-January 2003

BOX 8/Folder 4
“Map of the Gardens correspondence 2002”, mainly regarding copyright permissions, publicity and book covers, emails regarding proposed article for the Weekend Australian series ‘Inspirations’ with draft of article and clipping from Weekend Australian March 2002; correspondents include Nikki Christer, Christine Mattey, Peter Mears and Janet Hawley, August 2001-March 2002

BOX 8/Folder 5
“Map of the Gardens correspondence 2002”, correspondents include Janet Hawley regarding proposed article for Good Weekend magazine, Pam Baker, David Holloway, Cindy Hattingh, Victor Barker, Emma Sorensen, Nikki Christer, Tom Carment, March-December 2002

BOX 8/Folder 6
“Map of the Gardens correspondence 2003”, includes letters regarding the Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award, correspondents include Jim Knight, Nikki Christer, Victor Barker, January-November 2003

BOX 8/Folder 7
“Ant & Bee archives”, correspondents include Anjali Yardi, Tom McVeigh, Gaby Naher, Gerald Murnane, with copy of his story ‘The Angel’s Son’, Victor Barker, Robert McFarlane, Ellen Rodger, Drusilla Modjeska, Jess Huon, Clare Mahon (with 4 colour photographs). Includes essay by Rachael Quigley ‘Gillian Mears: Geography of a Heart”, story by Rachael Quigley ‘The Mandalay Queen’, story ‘For Beauty’, and article from Antipodes, ‘The Unflinching Gaze: in Conversation with Gillian Mears’ by Emma Sorensen, April-July 2003, May-June 2004 and undated

BOX 9/Folder 1
“Ant & Bee archives”, correspondence with Tom McVeigh (with 2 colour photographs), Susan Hampton, George Reid, Anjali Yardi, Peter Mears, Gaby Naher, George Papaellines, Viniita (with 4 colour photographs of Viniita and Gillian Mears at the grave of Sheila Mears), June-November 2004 and undated

BOX 9/Folder 2
Ant & Bee archives”, correspondence with her family, Tom McVeigh, Ashley Tanner, Anjali Yardi, Pam Baker, Gaby Naher, Warfarin Care, the Department of Fair Trading regarding her van purchase, with copy of Susan Hampton’s prose story ‘The Kindly Ones’ and clipping of article ‘Nothing Worth Recording’ from Limelight 69, November – December 2004 and undated

BOX 9/Folder 3
“Ant & Bee archives”, correspondents include her family, Tom McVeigh, Susan Hampton, Barbara Mobbs, Sandy Edwards, Russell Shakespeare, George Field, with letters written to doctors regarding early diagnoses of her medical condition, ‘Camp Creative’ information sheets and childrens’ drawings, January-August 2005

BOX 9/Folder 4
“Ant & Bee archives”, correspondents include Bronwyn Purvis, Claire Aman, Stephen Muecke, Peter Mears, Victor Barker, Tom McVeigh. Includes photographs of Gillian Mears (4), clippings and copies of 'Here is the Heartflower' and 'The Third Triplet', with a few annotations, May- September 2005

BOX 9/Folder 5
Envelopes from Gillian Mears’s correspondence

Series 01: Gillian Mears correspondence, ca. 1989-2005

LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS
BOX 1
Drafts and scraps of the essay ‘Alive in Ant and Bee’, 2002-2007.
Drafts of the story ‘No More Beyond’, 2006-2007, with related correspondence mainly with Ivor Indyk & Robert Drewe.
‘Short Stories 2002 Acceptances'. Drafts of ‘Girandole’ with correspondence.
Drafts of story ‘Nothing Worth Recording‘, 2004, with correspondence partly re writer Nan Chauncey., 1941-2003.

BOX 2
Drafts of the play ‘The Atlantic Wedding Salt’ with related notes and correspondence, ca. 2003-06.
Drafts, notes and notebook for ‘Cradle Star’, ca. 2004, a projected novel..

BOX 3
Papers re  ‘Remnant’, an abandoned novel of the 1990s, in part to be based on the life of Marie Beuzeville Byles. Includes Drafts; Notebook - 'Notes for Remnant'; Notebook/journal, 1996-1997; a diary from Varuna Writers Centre, 1997 and an essay ‘Paradise is a Place.’

‘ANT AND BEE ARCHIVES’
Being mainly correspondence with newscuttings, notes, photographs, brochures etc. 
BOX 4
'2005', 2005.
'September 2005+', 1996, 2004-2005.
'November 2005+', 2005.
'January 2006+', 2005-2006.
'February 2006+ Wiradjuri Country', 2004-2006. Includes letter from Helen Garner

BOX 5
'Autumn/April 2006 + Near Bega'.
'Winter 2006+'. Correspondents include Marr Grounds.
'March 2007 Onwards+'. Correspondents include Tom McVeigh, Stephen Muecke & Peter Mears.
'May 2007+ Correspondence from the Road', 2005-2007. Correspondents include Drusilla Modjeska, Margaret Knight & Peter Mears.

BOX 6
'July 2007+ South Australia', 2005-2007. Correspondents include Drusilla Modjeska, Ivor Indyk and Tom McVeigh.
'August 2007', 2006-2007. Correspondents include Alan Close, Ivor Indyk, Drusilla Modjeska, Barbara Mobbs and Roma Koval..
'September 2007 My Last Month', 2007-2008. Correspondents include Tom Mcveigh and Ivor Indyk..
Travelling Notebooks, 2005-2007.

WRITING NOTEBOOKS
Contain journal entries, thoughts, ideas, sketches, photographs, newscuttings etc.
BOX 7
May-July 1997.
1998-May 2001.

BOX 8
May/June 2001-April 2002.

BOX 9
January 2003-February 2004 onwards.

RECIPE BOOKS
Contain recipes, notes and writings on food, photographs, ca. 2000-2007.
BOXES 10-11

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL
BOX 12
'ABC Radio Correspondence', 2006-2008.
'Ataxia Walking Sickness Things’, 2000-2001. Includes drafts of essay ‘Bush Van at “Applebox” ‘, 2001.
'Legal Action files', 2002-2007. Includes correspondence with & to Geoff Nanto.
'Judging the Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, 2002'. Correspondence and copy of judge's report.
‘Anthologies’, 2001-2002. Mainly correspondence.
‘Moon Diary’, 2005

BOX 13
‘Narra Bukulla Archives’, 2006-2007. Mainly correspondence, photographs.
17 packets of photographs. Include ‘The Quarry 2005’; ‘Jaaringga [?] N.R., 2005’; ‘Narra Bukulla 2006’; ‘Marr 2006’;  ‘Claire’s Visit Jan. 2007’; ‘Marr at his Houseboat/Treehouse’; ‘Binna Burra 2006’; ‘[?] & Movement, Dorrigo, 2005’.
5 Compact Discs: ‘Binna Burra Weekend, 7-9 July 2006’; ‘Penders Easter 2007’(2); ‘Life in a Day'; ‘Jerry Wilson talks about his Circus Life 6/06’.

SOUND RECORDINGS
MLOH 753  RESTRICTED
(Not to be issued – master tapes only. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History)
1. Readings by Gerald Murnane.
2. Dance Interview with Susan Armstead, 29 Aug. 2007.

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Series 01: Gillian Mears correspondence, ca. 1972-2001

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Collection 10: Gillian Mears further papers, 2004-2010

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Series 01: Gillian Mears correspondence, ca. 1989-2005

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