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The mouth / Carmel Bird ; Anita Mertzlin.

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PAPERS RELATING TO 'DARK PLACES'
BOX 1 
First drafts, Research notes, Notes and ideas, and typed version of Draft 2, 1985-89.

BOX 2
Draft 3 – Draft 5, Notes for early draft and for Draft 6, 1989-91.

BOX 3
Draft 6 – Draft 10, 1991-92.

BOX 4 
Draft 11 – Draft 15, 1992-93.

BOX 5
Draft 16 – Draft 18, and Final rewrites, 1993.

BOX 6
Final edit notes, Final version, marked up manuscript, and  'Fillets of Albion' being extracts for separate publication as stories, 1993-95

BOX 7
Typeset galleys, Publishing proposals from various publishers, and Cover roughs.


PAPERS RELATING TO 'JOAN MAKES HISTORY'
BOX 8
‘Great Moments in History’ being ‘a small-scale prototype of the novel’, Draft 1- Draft 3, and Notes and fragments, 1984-87.

BOX 9
Draft 4 - Draft 5, Final revision bits, revised version of Draft 5, and Final draft with marked up edits, 1987.

BOX 10
Page Proofs #1 with author’s and editor’s corrections, 1987

Page Proofs #2 with minor corrections, 1987; also Australian Bicentenary Commission Certificate of participation, 1988.

PAPERS RELATING ‘WRITING FROM START TO FINISH’
Box 11
Research and notes, Outline, and Draft 1 – Draft 8 #1,1999-2000.

BOX 12
Draft 8 #2 - Draft 12, 2000.

BOX 13
Notes & ideas for blurbs, design, index etc., Copy of typescript with annotations and notes, Edited manuscript, Notes & ideas for design and illustrations, and Proofs annotated by the author, 2000-01.

PAPERS RELATING TO ‘THE WRITING BOOK’
BOX 14
Notes by the author and Sue Woolfe towards a planned collaboration, ca. 1987-88.

Notes and ideas, 1989-90.

Draft 1 – Draft 3, ca. 1991

Draft 4, ca. 1991-92.

Edited manuscript, ca. 1992.

Final marked up manuscript, ca. 1992-93.

Design samples, 1993.


PAPERS RELATING TO ‘LILIAN’S STORY’ AND ‘DREAM HOUSE’
BOX 15
A.‘Lilian’s Story’
Notes, Fragments of writings, Research notes re Bea Miles, Notes for propsed inserts, Invented family tree, Possible characters’ names , and ‘Invented interviews, 1982-83.

Drafts 5 & 7 of screenplay for film version of ‘Lilian’s Story, 1992, 1994.

 Vogel Award acceptance speech, 1984, Speech at launch, 1985, and invitation to premiere of film, 1996.
 
Copy of first 96 pages of a draft, ca. 1983-84.

Exercise book containing first draft material and notes, Earliest fragments of ‘Dark Places’, and review of unnamed book by Jane Bowles, 1983-84.

Rewrites for US edition, 1985, and fragments of an early draft.

Notes & ideas, possible titles and research material.

B. ‘Dreamhouse’
Early draft, ca. 1983.

Drafts of three scenes, ca. 1983-84.

Fragments of very early draft, 1981-82.


ARTICLES AND REVIEWS BY KATE GRENVILLE
BOX 16
Articles written for ‘London Australian Magazine’, 1977-79.

Book reviews mostly for Australian publications with related material, 1985-2001.

Articles written for magazines, newspapers and radio and material prepared for interviews with related correspondence and newscuttings, 1985-2002.

Correspondence, research material and newscuttings relating to Kate Grenville’s website, 1998-2000.

Drafts of stories published in periodicals, 1989-2000.

Two ‘Australian Literary Calendars’, 1986 and 1989 featuring Kate Grenville and 3 copies of University of Queensland Press poster of Kate Genville with photograph of her by William Yang.
Transferred to POSTERS COLLECTION.


MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL RELATING TO KATE GRENVILLE”S LIFE AND CAREER
BOX 17
Fragments of ‘Lilian’s Story’ later recycled in ‘Joan Makes History’; Writers considered for inclusion in ‘Making Stories’.

Papers relating to MA at University of Colorado, 1980-82.

Draft for animated film in which one of the characters is based on Kate Grenville, 1987.

Draft script for proposed film based on ‘The Test Is, If They Drown’, a story by Grenville, ca. 1983 with related correspondence.

Research material relating to ‘Get-a-Job’ video project, 1974.

Material relating to Grenville’s applications for employment, 1982-85 with versions of her CV.


CORRESPONDENCE
BOX 18
General writing correspondence, 1976-82. Correspondents include Julian Friedmann.

General writing correspondence, 1983-86. Correspondents include Rosemary Creswell, Drusilla Modjeska, Michele Field, Robert Dessaix, Jill Hickson and Geoffrey Dutton.
General writing correspondence, 1987-88. Correspondents include Tim Curnow, McPhee Gribble, Dale Spender, Geoffrey Dutton, Kate Llewellyn, Jacqueline Kent, Stephen Murray-Smith, John Tranter,  Manning Clark and Helen Daniel.

General writing correspondence, 1989-93. Correspondents include Helen Daniel, John Tranter, Robert Dessaix, Roger McDonald, Dale Spender, Carmen Callil, Beth Yahp. Also includes a photograph of Hazel Hawke.

BOX 19
Correspondence with publishers, literary festivals and events, magazines, newspapers, radio and television, 1994-97.

Correspondence with Australian Literary Management, 1983-96.

Correspondence with sub-agents of Australian Literary Management, 1984-96.

Correspondence with Readers, 1985-2003. Correspondents include Thea Astley, Gillian Mears, E. Annie Proulx, Elizabeth Jolley, Max Boyce, Faith Bandler,  Anne Summers, Jessica Anderson and Debra Adelaide.

BOX 20
Correspondence  with Heinemann, 1988-90.

Correspondence with British/American Publishing, 1988-95.

Correspondence with Viking/Penguin, 1985-90.

Correspondence and other material relating to feminist publisher Redress Press, 1984-85. Includes letters from Glenda Adams, Elizabeth Jolley and Olga Masters.

Correspondence with Harcourt Brace, 1993-2002.

Correspondence with Pan Macmillan, 1993-96.

Correspondence with University of Queensland Press, 1983-96.

Correspondence with Allen and Unwin, 1983-2001. Includes letters from Tim Winton, Jessica Anderson, Helen Garner, Elizabeth Harrower, Shirley Hazard, Carmel Bird, Beverley Farmer and Kathy Lette.


PERIODICALS
BOX 21
Copies of literary and other periodicals containing articles or short stories by Grenville or for which she acted as co-editor, 1980-91.

Kate Grenville further literary papers, 1974-2003

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