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PXD 1472/BOX 1
1. Untitled drawing by Clare Mahon, 1993
2. Untitled watercolour by Peter Mears, on rear “Dad’s picture for me, to make me feel better when he said I couldn’t rent out Bryimby”
3. ‘Paris, 1992’, drawing by Liz Ashburn
4. ‘Paris 1993’, watercolour of Gillian Mears
5. Sketch of Gillian Mears by Clare Mahon, 1993
6. ‘To Fillyjonk from Yvonne and Kari’, pen & watercolour drawing
7-10. ‘Beatrix’s pics for ‘Bonnie the Best’’, watercolour illustrations by Beatrix Lindlar
11-13. Drawings and tracing of ‘Bonnie’
14. ‘The Grass Sister – 1st rough’, coloured drawing for book cover with watercolour on rear signed Yvonne, 1992
15. ‘The Grass Sister – 2nd rough’, on rear “From Yvonne who hated me but still tried”
16. ‘The House of the Fillyjonk’, watercolour by Yvonne Mears
17. ‘Bark Beach – Diggers Headland’, watercolour by Peter Mears, 1996
18. Untitled watercolour by Peter Mears, 1997
19. Untitled watercolour by Peter Mears, 1998
20. Untitled watercolour by Peter Mears, 1995
21-22. ‘The Endeavour at South Port’, watercolour by Peter Mears, 1996 with coastal scene on rear
23. ‘Binna Burra Aug. 93’, watercolour by Peter Mears
24. ‘Ithilien Guinea Fowl’, on rear “My most favourite Yvonne picture, depicting us, the 4 Mear girls, as guinea foul …”
25. Untitled watercolour by Yvonne Mears
26. ‘Lilydale May 94’, watercolour by Yvonne Mears
27-28. Untitled watercolours, n.d.
29. ‘Diggers Camp Nov. 93’, watercolour by Yvonne Mears

PXD 1472/BOX 2
1. ‘Clare’s self portrait’, oil on cardboard by Clare Mahon
2. ‘Gillian’, watercolour by Clare Mahon, 1995
3. Painting by Tom Carment on exhibition poster, 1995
4. ‘To Gillian’, painted card
5. ‘Sanctuaire’ by Sean Kelly, oil on board, on rear “To Gillian from Sean & Sharyn, 1992’
6. ‘Afterthoughts’ by Vivienne Dadour, 1992
7. Drawing by Clare Mahon, on rear “Clare’s illustration for SMH 1999 The figure in the fig tree”
8-13. Drawings “from Yr 10 My art project”, ca. 1979
14-20. Untitled drawings and watercolours by Yvonne Mears and unsigned, ca. 1992
21. Small drawings of members of the Mears family as mythical creatures with nicknames
22-63. Drawings and paintings by Helen and nephews and nieces, and unsigned

Series 06 : Gillian Mears pictorial material, ca. 1979-1999

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

1. Newspaper clippings and articles, ca. 1982-1995
2. Published scientific papers by P.T. Mears and others, 1974, 1991
3. ‘Literary Newspaper of Grafton High School’, 1997
4. ‘The Graftonian, Magazine of Grafton High School, 1981
5. Home made calendar, n.d.
6. Dolphin calendar, 1997
7. Sketch book, n.d.
8. Year 10 school book of art work
9. Empty envelopes from correspondence files

Series 03: Gillian Mears miscellany, ca. 1982-1997

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 1/Folder 1
Correspondence with Kate Grenville, 2005-2013

BOX 1/Folder 2
“The Ant and Bee Wisdom Quilt correspondence with participants 2005-“, correspondents include her sisters Karin & Sonya, her nephews, Robert Dessaix, Anjali Yardi, Susan Hampton, Sandy Edwards, Drusilla Modjeska, Jess Huon, Sharon Jones, Gerald Murnane, Gaby Naher, Amanda Drucker, Claire Aman, Tom McVeigh, Peter & Dot Mears, 2005-2007 

BOX 1/Folder 3
 “The Ant and Bee Wisdom Quilt correspondence with participants 2005-“, 2007-2014

BOX 1/Folder 4
 “The Ant and Bee Wisdom Quilt correspondence with participants 2005-“, undated

BOX 1/Folder 5
 “Wisdom Quilt, beginnings and workings, thoughts”, with letters and updates to participants in the making of the quilt, including letters and photographs from her sisters, Gerald Murnane, Amanda Ducker,  Mike Ladd, Claire Aman, Fran Clayton, Sharon Jones, with writing fragments, notes and jottings, July 2005-October 2010 and undated

BOX 1/Folder 6
 “The Ant & Bee Quilt 2”, correspondents include Tom McVeigh, Pam Baker, Susan Hampton, Kate Herd, Ivor Indyk, Alan Close, Jacque Flavell, Sandy Edwards, Ellen Rodger, Robert Dessaix. Includes children’s drawings, photographs (5), an embroidered cat fabric patch, clippings, notes & jottings, 2007-2014 and undated

BOX 2/Folder 1
 “The Ant & Bee Quilt 3”, correspondents include Nazir Jussab, Sharon Jones, Gaby Naher, Phillip Adams, Susan Hampton, Helen Garner, Sonya Mears, with fabric patches and photographs (6), 2012-2014 and undated

BOX 2/Folder 2
Email correspondence with Helen Garner, including clipping of Helen Garner’s review of ‘United 93’, a film by Paul Greengrass, 2007-2014

BOX 2/Folder 3
Correspondence with her sister Yvonne, 2008-2015

BOX 2/Folder 4
Correspondence with Margaret Knight, including drafts and copies of ‘The Cat With the Coloured Tail’, photographs and copies of Gillian Mears’s acceptance speech for the 2012 Colin Roderick Literary prize, 2006-2014

BOX 2/Folder 5
Correspondence with family, friends and Family & Community Services, June 2012-2015 and undated

BOX 2/Folder 6
Letters and papers concerning family matters, including court submissions, 2012-2015 

BOX 2/Folder 7
Correspondence with family and friends including her sister Karin and father, Sharon Jones, Helen Salter, Alan Close, Chris Wells, Tom McVeigh, emails with Bruce Nicholson regarding setting up her web page, with copies of Les Murray poems, typed manuscript of short story ‘Heartstone’, notes and jottings, 2010-2015 and undated

BOX 3/Folder 1
“Linley Point correspondence, February 2014-“, letters and emails, including emails regarding her 2014 Ambassadorship of the Clarence River Valley and emails after the death of Varsha, her carer from August 2012-February 2014. Correspondents include Dr. Remil in India, Stephen Tatham, Nazir Jussab in Africa, Gaby Naher, Varsha Bapat, Juliette Murphy, Ellen Rodger, 15 January -30 April 2014 

BOX 3/Folder 2
 “Sydney correspondence winter 2014”, correspondents include family, Jim Conway, Claire Aman, Gaby Naher, Nazir Jussab, Phillip Adams, Robert Dessaix, Robert McFarlane, Sandy Edwards, Helen Salter, David Walsh. Includes clippings of reviews of Susan Hampton’s poems ‘The Kindly Ones’ and a poem ‘The Still Dark’, notes for her 50th birthday speech and notes for speech as 2014  Ambassador for the Clarence Valley, February-July 2014

BOX 3/Folder 3
“Correspondence to Grafton May-November 2014”, letters and email correspondence with family and friends including Susan Hampton, Tom McVeigh, Jim Conway, Nazir Jussab, Gaby Naher. Also letters written May-June 1997 to the premier Bob Carr protesting the exclusion of ‘Fineflour’ from the H.S.C. prescribed texts, 1997, 2012-2014 and undated

BOX 3/Folder 4
 “Grafton letters & emails & SMS November 2014-“, correspondents include Tom McVeigh, Helen Garner, Susan Hampton, Gaby Naher, Robert McFarlane, Sharon Jones, Jess Huon. With record of Ithilien Farm Management Meeting at Byimba, Dec. 2014 and copy of ‘La Moustiquaire’ by Gillian Mears, December 2007-November 2014 and undated

BOX 3/Folder 5
“Grafton letters & emails & SMS November 2014-“, correspondents include Tom McVeigh, Helen Garner, Susan Hampton, Gaby Naher, Robert McFarlane, Sharon Jones, Jess Huon, December 2014-February 2015

BOX 4/Folder 1
Correspondence with family and friends, mainly emails, including Susan Hampton, Fiona McGregor, Gaby Naher, Jane Pelfryman, Tom Carment, Chris Wilson, Kate Herd, Claire Aman, Bruce Nicholson, Jim Conway, Nazir Jussab, Alan Close, with letters and emails regarding her application for an Australia Council grant and the launch for ‘Cat with the Coloured Tail’, January-July 2015

BOX 4/Folder 2
Correspondence with family and friends, mainly emails, including Susan Hampton, Fiona McGregor, Gaby Naher, Jane Pelfryman, Tom Carment, Chris Wilson, Kate Herd, Claire Aman, Bruce Nicholson, Jim Conway, Nazir Jussab, Alan Close, with letters and emails regarding her application for an Australia Council grant and the launch for ‘Cat with the Coloured Tail’, August-December 2015 and undated

BOX 4/Folder 3
Letters and emails, Grafton, including printouts of iphone messaging with carers and family, letters from Alan Close, articles and clippings, article on Gillian Mears by Wendy Frew, fabric patch embroidered by Dot Mears, July 2015-January 2016 and undated

BOX 4/Folder 4
“Grafton letters/emails general autumn 2015-May”, correspondence with family and friends including Fiona McGregor, Tom Carment, Claire Aman, January-April 2015 and undated

BOX 4/Folder 5
Phone message printouts of correspondence with family and friends, February-June 2014

BOX 5/Folder 1
Phone message printouts of correspondence with family and friends, June-November 2014

BOX 5/Folder 2
Phone message printouts of correspondence with family and friends including Robert McFarlane, Sandy Edwards and her carers, November 2014-April 2015

BOX 5/Folder 3
Phone message printouts of correspondence with family and people including Stephen Tatham, Sandy Edwards, Robert McFarlane, Susan Hampton, 2015

BOX 5/Folder 4
“July 2010- responses to Foal’s Bread”, letters and emails mainly with Gaby Naher, Jane Palfreyman, Ben Ball, Alan Close, Jess Huon and her family regarding the book’s representation and publication, September 2009-May 2013

BOX 5/Folder 5
“Foal’s Bread letters Feb. 2014-“, mainly emails regarding the proposed screen treatment of ‘Foal’s Bread’, correspondents include her family, Lois Randall, Robert McFarlane, Vincent Long, Gaby Naher, Belinda Chayko, October 2013-October 2014

BOX 5/Folder 6
“Foal’s Bread Dec. 2014-“, email correspondence with her family, Fiona McGregor, Gaby Naher, Jane Palfreyman, Tom Carment, December 2014-June 2015

BOX 5/Folder 7
“Ant and Bee’s Wise Quilt letters Dec. 2011”, letters, cards and email correspondence with people including Helen Salter, Susan Hampton, Peter Mears, Geoff Nanto, Blake, Fletcher Barns, Kate Grenville, Gaby Naher, Claire Aman, 2002-2015 and undated, also letters from ‘Jonathan’ to ‘Nancy’, 1995-1997
 
BOX 6/Folder 1
“The Cat With the Coloured Tail Feb. 2014-”, letters and emails, correspondents include family, Jim Conway, Robert McFarlane, correspondence with Vincent Long regarding his documentary including a contract with Gillian Mears and clipping of an excerpt of ‘Into a Turquoise Pool’ by Gretchen Shirm, March 2008-October 2014

BOX 6/Folder 2
“The Cat With the Coloured Tail Nov. 2014-”, letters, cards, phone messages and emails, correspondents include her publishers and illustrators, Fiona McGregor, Helen Garner, with draft of ‘The Cat With the Coloured Tail’ and printed instructions for the care of her cat Milpie, November 2014-November 2015 and undated

BOX 6/Folder 3
 “The Cat With the Coloured Tail”, letters and emails mainly regarding the publication and launch of the book, with drafts of acknowledgements and letter of thanks to Tim Winton for his endorsement. Correspondents include Sue Whiting, Bruce Nicholson, Anjali Yardi, Helen Garner, January-May 2015

BOX 6/Folder 4
 “The Cat With the Coloured Tail letters May 2015-”, letters, cards and emails, many regarding the death of her cat Paul Gallico, with clippings and photographs (3). Correspondents include Fiona McGregor, Sue Whiting, Robert McFarlane, May-August 2015

BOX 6/Folder 5
 “The Cat With the Coloured Tail launch replies and cards”, from people including Sharon Jones, Stella and Graeme Wilson, Shirley Sampson, with clippings and drawings, February 2011—July 2015 and undated

BOX 7/Folder 1
 “The Cat With the Coloured Tail launches, replies, arrangements, gallery, felt cat-making 2015”, mainly email correspondence with people including Kate Herd, Phillip Adams, Dinalie Dabarera, Sonya Mears, August-December 2015

BOX 7/Folder 2
 “Byron Bay launch Nov. 2015”, emails regarding publicity for ‘The Cat With the Coloured Tail’, correspondents include Gaby Naher, Stephanie Whitebook, Susan Brophy, October- December 2015

BOX 7/Folder 3
“Correspondence re editing of ‘Cat With a Coloured Tail’ with Karin”, cards and emails regarding editing, the ‘Dying with Dignity forum’ and Karin’s Uluru story with photographs of herself and son Bodhi in Central Australia, 2012-2013

BOX 7/Folder 4
“Early CWTCT thoughts & inspirations”, correspondence with people including Tracey Price, Helen Garner, Fletcher, with clippings, notes and jottings, diary fragments, ‘Ippy the autobiography of a cat’, ‘Reader’s Report: The Cat With a Coloured Tail’ by Nicola Robinson, 2006-2014 and undated

BOX 7/Folder 5
Correspondence with publishers and agents, including Fiona Inglis, Tim Curnow, with copy of the story ‘Eileen’s Christmas Fudge’ and 1997-1999 royalty statements, May 1999-February 2002

BOX 7/Folder 6
“The owl teapot”, letters and photographs concerning the sale and re-purchase of the family silver teapot, 1998-ca. 2010

Series 01: Gillian Mears correspondence, 1995-2015

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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