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I. LESLIE REES
 
A. CORRESPONDENCE, 1936-1999 
 
1936-1996;  Correspondence, A-Z
(Arranged alphabetically)
Correspondents include D. A. S. Campbell (Australian Institute of Political Science), 1952;  David Carver, 1971;  Doris Chadwick, 1952;  Clem Christesen, 1951;  Joan Clarke, 1981;  Enid Conley, 1974;  Dorothy Cubis, 1974;  School of Communication and Cultural Studies, Curtin University (Brian Dibble and Don Grant), 1988;  Dymphna Cusack, 1953-1954;  Frank Dalby Davison, 1936, 1958;  Catherine Duncan, 1944;  Allan Edwards, 1951;  Brian Elliott, [1946?];  John K. Ewers, 1953;  David Fleahy, 1964;  A. P. Fleming, 1970;  Mem Fox, 1990-1991;  Irina Golovnya, 1968, 1990-1991, with letter from Clem Christesen to Leslie Rees, 1990;  Nancy Gray, 1953;  Bill Harney, 1960;  Paul Hasluck, 1951;  Ernestine  Hill, 1959;  Dorothy Irwin, 1947;  E. W. (Bill) Irwin, Date unknown;  Barbara Jefferis, 1964;  John Sands Pty. Ltd., 1944-1966;  Virginia Kirby-Smith, Date unknown;  Leonie Kramer, 1978-1979;  Ray Lawler, 1957?;  Patsy Millett, ca. 1995;  John La Nauze, 1981;  Walter Murdoch, 1966;  D'Arcy Niland, 1952;  Nettie Palmer, 1942, 1960;  Vance Palmer, 1951, 1958, Date unknown;  Alfred Pick (High Commissioner for Canada), 1945;  Katharine Susannah Prichard, 1959;  Vic Rees, 1951;  Gwen Ringland, 1957-1958;  Hugh Robson, 1970;  Colin Roderick, 1946, 1953, 1996;  Clement Semmler, 1992;  Douglas Stewart, 1981;  Alrene Sykes, 1971, 1978;  Ric Throssell, 1954;  J. E. Tickell (Australian Book Society), 1946, 1948;  William Collins Sons, 1950, 1954;  David Williamson, 1990;  and Frank Zeppel, 1987;  followed by unidentified correspondents and school children  (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/1/1)
1955, 1966-1967;  Correspondence, being mainly tributes received from playwrights, concerning Rees' retirement from the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1966. Correspondents include Richard Lane (President, Australian Radio, Television and Screen Writers' Guild), Ruth Park, D'Arcy Niland, George Landen Dann, John Gray, Campbell Howard, Walter Brooksbank, Barbara Jefferis, Oriel Gray, Robert Amos, John Hepworth, David Martin, Douglas Stewart, Joan Morgan, Paul O'Loughlin (Director of Drama, A.B.C.), 1967, Alrene Sykes, Catherine Shepherd, Alexander Turner, Neil Hutchison and Cole Turnley (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/1/2)
1986, 1996, 1999;  'Frank Davidson', being correspondence concerning West Australian journalist and friend, Frank Davidson, including letter received from Davidson, 1986, with enclosure of unpublished talk, and obituary of Davidson (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/1/3)
 
B. LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, WITH WORKING PAPERS, ca. 1932-1998
 
i. History
 
ca. 1978;  Australian Drama in the 1970s: A Historical and Critical Survey (1978), being edited typescript (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/1/4)
1943, 1968-1971;  Research material for The Making of Australian Drama (1973), later revised as A History of Australian Drama: Vol 1 (1978), including notes, newscuttings and letters received from M. L. (Marlis) Thiersch, 1969-1970 (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/1/5)
1947-1971;  Research material for The Making of Australian Drama (1973), later revised as A History of Australian Drama: Vol 1 (1978), including notes, newscuttings and correspondence mainly with Alrene Sykes, Wal Cherry, Phil Mann (Editor of Drama, A.B.C.-T.V.) and L. Heman (Vice-Chairman, N.S.W. Humanist Society) (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/2/1)
1967-1971;  Research material for The Making of Australian Drama, later revised as A History of Australian Drama: Vol 1 (1978), including notes, newscuttings, letter received from Ric Throssell, and corrected carbon typescript of Rees' review of Theatre Comes to Australia (1971) by Eric Irvin (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/2/2)
1969-1971;  Research material for The Making of Australian Drama, later revised as A History of Australian Drama: Vol 1 (1978), including notes, newscuttings and letter received from Robert Quentin (University of N.S.W. Drama Foundation) (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/2/3)
 
ii. Novels
 
Digit Dick and the Magic Jabiru (1979), being annotated and corrected typescript, and edited typescript (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/1)
Digit Dick and the Zoo Plot (1982), being edited typescript (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/2)
Digit Dick on the Barrier Reef (ca. 1932), being corrected carbon typescript (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/3)
The Seagull Who Liked Cricket (1998), being 'Revised Version', corrected computer typescript with manuscript note and signed by the author (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/4)
The Story of Kurri Kurri the Kookaburra, being 'The Original Typescript', corrected typescript (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/5)
The Story of Russ the Kangaroo, being 'Original Typescript', annotated and corrected typescript (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/6)
Research material on the discovery of gold at Mount Morgan, Qld, 1955-1956, Date unknown, for an intended novel (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/7)
 
iii. Radio and stage plays
 
'Lalor of Eureka', being early versions (2), corrected typescript (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/8-9)
'Lalor of Eureka', being adaptation for radio and broadcast on A.B.C., processed typescript (Series: The Rise of Social Drama - Adventures in Drama,  First Term 1943) and corrected typescript of Act One Scene Four, with introduction by Rees, typescript of play, 'Mother's Day' (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/10)
Harp in the South: A Play in Three Acts (1949) by Ruth Park and Leslie Rees, being carbon typescript, with programme of production at the Independent Theatre, North Sydney, first performed 3 Mar. 1949, and notes by Rees, 1992 (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/3/11)
 
iv. Radio script
 
'Boy Lost on Tropic Coast', adapted for radio by Rees from his book and broadcast on A.B.C. National Children's Hour: Episodes 1-32, 25 Nov. 1968-30 Jan. 1969 (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/4/1)
 
v. Interview
 
Notes for interview conducted by Rees' daughter, Megan Wintle, 198- (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/4/2)
 
C. REVIEWS RECEIVED AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE, 1943-1987
 
1943-1945, 1972-1973;  Digit Dick on the Barrier Reef (1943), being 'Reviews and Letters About the First Edition 1943', with papers concerning other Digit Dick books, 1972-1973. Correspondents include Vance Palmer, Nettie Palmer, Marjorie Barnard, Victor Rees, Muriel Bird, Nancy Creagh (Phelan), John Sands Pty. Ltd., Marjorie Clarke Anderson, Molly Calder (Mary E. Calder), Jess Clarke Gregg, Catherine Shepherd, Ken Wilkinson, Frank Dalby Davidson, Jean Devanny and Kitty Young (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/4/3)

1949-1951;  Harp in the South (1949), including correspondence, notes and reviews. Correspondents include Kathleen Smith, Muriel Burton (Secretary, Brisbane Repertory Theatre), Brett Randall (Melbourne Little Theatre), Gwen Harrison (Secretary, Playwrights' Advisory Board), I. A. Johnston (Secretary, Adelaide Repertory Theatre), F. A. Gunnell (Secretary, Theatres Associated, Adel.), John Sykes and Jesse Collings (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/4/4)
1953;  Towards an Australian Drama (1953), including correspondence, notes and reviews. Correspondents include H. L. White, George Landen Dann, Tom Inglis Moore, Catherine Shepherd, Irene Greenwood, Godfrey Thomas. John K. Ewers, K. S. Prichard, Vance Palmer, Clem Christesen, H. M. Green and Nettie Palmer (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/4/5)

ca. 1965, 1973-1974;  The Making of Australian Drama (1973), including correspondence and reviews. Correspondents include Mona Brand, Tom Inglis Moore, George Landen Dann, John H. Lawrence, George Cassidy, David Rowbotham, Barbara Stellmach, Colin Badger, Ric Throsssell, Alrene Sykes, Richard Walsh (Angus & Robertson), Suzanne Mourot (Mitchell Library), Gwen Harrison, Lindsay Parker and Helen Wilson (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/4/6)

1977-1978;  Here's to Shane (1977), including correspondence and reviews. Correspondents include Dora Birtles, Molly Kealy (Mary E. Calder) and E. W. (Bill) Irwin (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/4/7)

1982-1986;  Hold Fast to Dreams: Fifty Years in Theatre, Radio, Television and Books (1982), including correspondence and reviews. Correspondents include Charles Moses, Molly Calder (Mary E. Calder), Derek Wintle, Frank Davidson, Elizabeth Perkins, Catherine Duncan, Irina Golovnya, Irene Greenwood, Prof. Daniel Taylor, E. W. (Bill) Irwin, Rose Watson, Bert Vickers, Catherine Langston, Edwin Owen, Megan Wintle, Dominic Serventy, Adrian Wintle, Leonie Kramer, Colin Roderick and D. K. Cleaver (Alternative Publishing Co-operative Limited) (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/5/1)

1987;  Australian Drama 1970-1985: A Historical and Critical Survey (A History of Australian Drama, Volume 2) (1987), including reviews and letters received from Megan McKittrick, Mona Brand and Adrian Wintle  (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/5/2)
 
D. AUSTRALIAN DRAMA, 1938-1992
(Includes material on Leslie Rees' career) 
 
1938-1992;  Folder of papers, including newscuttings, reviews, articles, theatre programmes, publicity material and typescript of 'Twenty Years' Hard Labour: Personalities of the Playwrights' Advisory Board', 1957, by Jill Lyons  (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/5/3)

1979-1982;  'Australian Drama 1980-1982 (May)', being folder of papers, including newscuttings, theatre programmes, reviews and letter received from Alrene Sykes, 1980, with enclosures (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/5/4)

1948-1992;  'Cuttings re Australian Drama', being folder of papers, including newscuttings, notes and incomplete talk, 'A Plea for Australian Drama', ca. 1955 (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/6/1)

1955-1960;  Scrapbook of newscuttings concerning Ray Lawler and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Richard Beynon and The Shifting Heart, Barbara Vernon and The Multi-Coloured Umbrella, and Hugh Hunt and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/6/2)
 
E. COLLECTED PAPERS, 1920-1961
 
1920-1928, Date unknown;  Scrapbook No. 4 of William Moore, being mainly letters received and newscuttings of his writings, with notes by his widow, Dora Wilcox. (Scrapbook bequeathed to Leslie Rees)
Correspondents include Harry Tate, Ambrose Patterson, Herbert Brooks, Percy Crisp, Fred Johns, W. Farmer Whyte, Bernard O'Dowd, Harry Wilson (Sir Henry Francis Wilson), Tom Roberts, A. H. Chisholm, W. E. Fuller, Howard Hinton, Hans Heysen, Kenneth Macqueen, George Gordon McCrae, Hugh McCrae, E. Rosa Sawtell, Sydney Tomholt, Will Ashton, Arthur Jose, Malcolm Fraser (New Zealand Government Statistician) and Joseph Gordon Coates. Inscribed photograph of bust of William Moore by C. Web Gilbert is enclosed. (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/6/3)

193--194-;  'Australian Plays of the 1930s-1940s', being folder comprising 
'The Invisible Circus [A Play in Three Acts]', 1945, by Sumner Locke-Elliott, being two carbon typescript versions, including a corrected one
'A Spring Song: A Comedy', by Ray Mathew, being annotated and corrected carbon  typescript
'Awake My Love' by Max Afford, being carbon typescript
'Daybreak' by Catherine Shepherd, being corrected typescript (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/6/4)

1955;  'Danger Patrol', being radio dramatisation of the book by Rees, but not adapted by him:
Episodes 1-20, broadcast on A.B.C., 12 May-2 June 1955 (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/6/5)

Episodes 21-40, broadcast on A.B.C., 6 June-7 July 1955 (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/7)
 
F. PLAYWRIGHTS' ADVISORY BOARD, 1940, 1950-1971
 
1940, 1955-1957;  Folder of papers, including 'First List of Australian Plays Recommended by the Board for Production 1940';  correspondence, including letter received from Oriel Gray, 1957;  and note from Dymphna Cusack to Gwen [Harrison] with attached carbon typescript of 'Shallow Cups: A One-Act Play' (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/7)

1955-1963;  Folder of papers, including correspondents, lists of playwrights, newscuttings and theatre programmes. Correspondents include Richard Beynon, Peter Randall (Melbourne Little Theatre Ltd.), Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Norman McVicker (Pocket Playhouse) and Kenneth Slesssor (President, The Journalists' Club) (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/7)

1955-1971;  'Competition & Correspondence', being folder of papers, including correspondence, notes and printed material. Correspondents include Robert Quentin, Bob Amos, Peter Randall, Hugh Hunt, Catherine Duncan, Barbara Vernon, Oriel Gray, Ray Lawler, George Cassidy and E. M. Tildesley (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/7)
 
G. PRINTED MATERIAL, 1938-1950, 1983
 
Includes copies of The Man with the Money: A Comedy (1948) by Phillip Abson;  Wait Till We Grow Up: A Comedy for Children (1948) by Coralie Rees;  Silent His Wings [1947?] by Coralie Clarke Rees;  Interval: A Play in Three Acts (1947) by  Sumner Locke-Elliott;  Sons of the Morning: A verse Play in Three Acts (1946) by Catherine Duncan;  While Freedom Lives [1938?] by Frank Dalby Davison;  issues of The West Australian, 5 Jan. 1983 (150th Anniversary Supplement);  Sydney Morning Herald, 16 Aug. 1945 and The Sun, 15 Aug. 1945;  issues of Walkabout, 1941-1950, featuring articles by Coralie and Leslie Rees;  copy of Australian Wild Flowers (5th ed.), 1 Nov. 1945, with enclosure of article, 'Car-Camping in Tasmania' by Leslie Rees from The B.P. Magazine, 1 Mar. 1940;   (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/7)
 
H. ARTWORK, ca. 1945, ca. 1948
 
ca. 1945;  Original drawings, being crayon, gouache and watercolour, by Walter Cunningham for The Story of Sarli the Barrier Reef Turtle, with mock-up of the  book (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/8X)

ca. 1948;  Trial drawings, including pencil and pen & ink, for Mates of the Kurlalong, by Bernard Hesling, and original drawings, including pen & ink, by Alfred Wood for Mates of the Kurlalong (Call No.: MLMSS 7682/9X)
 
II. CORALIE AND LESLIE REES
See attached record

Author/Artist entries:
Author/Artist  : Afford, Max, 1906-1954
Amos, Robert, 1920-
Anderson, Marjorie Clarke
Angus & Robertson
Ashton, Will, 1881-1963
Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
Badger, C. R. (Colin Robert), 1906-
Barnard, Marjorie, 1897-1987
Beynon, Richard, 1927-
Bird, Muriel
Brand, Mona
Brookes, Herbert, 1867-1963
Brooksbank, Walter
Burton, Muriel
Calder, Mary E.
Campbell, D. A. S. (David A. S.)
Cassidy, George
Chadwick, Doris
Cherry, Wal, 1932-1986
Chisholm, Alec H. (Alec Hugh), 1890-1977
Christesen, C. B. (Clement Byrne), 1911-2003
Clarke, Joan, 1920-
Cleaver, D. K.
Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943
Collings, Jesse
Conley, Enid
Cousins, W. G., d. 1948
Crisp, Percy, d. 1954
Cubis, Dorothy
Cunningham, Walter
Cusack, Dymphna, 1902-1981
Dann, George Landen, 1904-1977
Davidson, Frank, 1904-1996
Davison, Frank Dalby, 1893-1970
Devanny, Jean, 1894-1962
Dibble, Brian
Duncan, Catherine, 1915-
Edwards, Allan
Elder, James A. M., Sir, 1869-1946
Elliott, Brian, 1910-1991
Elliott, Sumner Locke, 1917-1991
Ewers, John K. (John Keith), 1904-1978
Fleay, David, 1907-1993
Fleming, A. P. (Allan Percy), 1912-2001
Fox, Mem, 1946-
Fuller, W. E. (William Edwin), 1886-1960
Gilbert, C. Web
Golovnya, Irina
Grant, Don
Gray, John
Gray, Nancy
Gray, Oriel, 1920-
Green, H. M. (Henry Mackenzie), 1881-1962
Greenwood, Irene, 1899-1992
Gregg, Jess Clarke
Gunnell, F. A.
Harney, W. E. (William Edward), 1895-1962
Harrison, Gwen
Hepworth, John, 1921-
Hesling, Bernard, 1905-
Heysen, Hans, Sir, 1877-1968
Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972
Hinton, Howard, 1867-1948
Howard, Campbell
Hunt, Hugh, 1911-1993
Hutchison, Neil
Irwin, Dorothy
Irwin, E. W.
Jefferis, Barbara, 1917-
John Sands (Firm)
Johns, Fred, 1868-1932
Johnston, I. A.
Jose, Arthur W. (Arthur Wilberforce), 1863-1934 
Kirby-Smith, Virginia 
Kramer, Leonie, 1924-
La Nauze, J. A. (John Andrew), 1911-1990
Lane, Richard
Langston, Catherine
Lawler, Ray, 1921-
Lawrence, John H.
Low, David, 1891-1963
Lyons, Jill
McCrae, George Gordon, 1833-1927
McCrae, Hugh, 1876-1958
McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935
Macqueen, Kenneth, 1897-1960
McVicker, Norman
Mann, Phillip
Martin, David, 1915-1997
Mathew, Ray, 1929-
Millett, Patsy
Mitchell Library (N.S.W.)
Moore, T. Inglis (Tom Inglis), 1901-1978
Morgan, Joan, 1905-
Moses, Charles, Sir, 1900-1988
Mourot, Suzanne
Murdoch, Walter, Sir, 1874-1970
Niland, D'Arcy, 1920-1967
O'Dowd, Bernard, 1866-1953
O'Loughlin, Paul
Owen, Edwin
Palmer, Nettie, 1885-1964
Palmer, Vance, 1885-1959
Park, Ruth
Parker, Lindsay
Patterson, Ambrose McCarthy, 1877-1966
Perkins, Elizabeth, 1933-2004
Phelan, Nancy, 1913-
Pick, Alfred
Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 1883-1969
Quentin, Robert, 1917-1979
Randall, Brett, 1884-1963
Randall, Peter, 1915-1971
Rees, Victor
Ringland, Gwen
Roberts, Tom, 1856-1931
Robson, Hugh Walker, 1914-
Roderick, Colin, 1911-2000
Rowbotham, David, 1924-
Semmler, Clement, 1914-2000
Senior, Margaret
Serventy, D. L. (Dominic Louis), 1904-
Seymour, Alan, 1927-
Shepherd, Catherine, 1912-1976
Slessor, Kenneth, 1901-1971
Smith, Kathleen
Stellmach, Barbara, 1930-
Stewart, Douglas, 1913-1985
Sykes, Alrene
Sykes, John
Tate, Henry, 1873-1926
Taylor, Daniel M.
Thiersch, Marie Louise Mathilde, 1916-1992
Thomas, Godfrey
Throssell, Ric, 1922-1999
Tickell, J. E.
Tildesley, Evelyn, d. 1976
Tomholt, Sydney, 1884-
Turner, Alexander, 1907-
Turnley, Cole, 1919-
Vernon, Barbara, 1916-1978
Vickers, F. B. (Frederick Bert), 1903-
Walsh, Richard, 1941-
Watson, Rose
White, Harold Leslie, Sir, 1905-1992
Whyte, W. Farmer (William Farmer), 1879-
Wilcox, Dora, 1873-1953
Wilkinson, Kenneth, d. 1950
William Collins Sons & Co.
Williamson, David, 1942-
Wilson, H. H. (Helen Helga), 1902-1991
Wilson, Henry Francis, Sir, 1859-1937
Wintle, Adrian
Wintle, Derek
Wintle, Megan
Wood, Alfred
Young, Kitty
Zeppel, Frank

Leslie Rees further papers, 1920-1999, together with literary papers and photographs of Coralie Rees and Leslie Rees, 1929-1973

[Newspaper cuttings and correspondence including the obituaries of notable Australian Jews dated from 1852-1946] / collected by Percy J. Marks.

Series 02: James McAuley correspondence and subject files, 1932-1997

LITERARY PAPERS
BOX  1:  'Screw Loose drafts' 
'2nd draft and creative editing'. 
'Publishers Note' - later version with corrections and legal advice re individuals in the manuscript. 
Final chapters and pictures section.
Computer printout with further manuscript corrections, 4 Feb. 1997.
Copy of editorial report on manuscript by Carl Harrison-Ford, 5 April 1995.

BOX 2: 'Screw Loose (Schedule, Promotions, Oddments)'
Includes:
'Early Draft Lyn Tranter corrections' - letter from Nickki Christer with edited computer printout of the book, 1995-1996.
'Early Draft Sacha Soldatow's editing'. 
'Correspondence, Promos, Reviews etc' - early drafts and correspondence with Lyn Tranter, Hilary McPhee, Nikki Christer and others, 1992-1997.
'Virginia Fraser editorial suggestions 95-96' - letters from Virginia Fraser, notes, newscuttings re Manning Clark's History of Australia: The Musical, 1960-1996.
'Research Oddments' - chapter drafts, notes and letters from Clive Blazey, Jonathan King and others, 198--1996.. 
'Good Weekend SMH promo etc' - articles by and about Blazey and related correspondence, 1994-1995.

BOX 3: 'Love Cries manuscripts (PB editor), Jeff Kennett Diary stuff (PB editor/author)' 
'Love Cries' - correspondence, edited computer printout of the book and Blazey's copy of the book, reviews and some drafts, 1990-1996.
'Jeff Kennett Secret Diary' - correspondence, reviews and a copy of the book, 1992-1994.

BOX 4 
'PB Articles 80's' - photocopies and newscuttings of Blazey's articles and reviews mainly for The Australian, The Bulletin and The National Times, with some literary drafts, 197- -1986.
'Yarranabbe Media, Kakadu, P. Blazey Producer' - records of Program Development, a division of Agnate Holdings Pty Ltd with related correspondence, film contracts, 1981-1987.

BOX 5 
'Peacock Ministerial Speeches' - mainly copies of speeches by Minister for the Army, Andrew Peacock, 1968-1971.
'Bolte Last Interview, PB's articles on death' - papers re Blazey's biography of Sir Henry Bolte, 196--1996.
'Bolte Scrapbook' - newscuttings re Sir Henry Bolte, 1968-1969.

BOX 6X 
Collection of newscuttings re Sir Henry Bolte, 1970s-1980s.
Scrapbook of Bla'Go Se', 1966, 1978-83.
Scrapbook mainly of Blazey's articles, personal mentions, newscuttings, photographs and letters received, 1977-1979.

BOX 7: 'Friends in Arts & Journalism'
'Olde New York1978-80'- mainly notes and drafts of story/articles re Blazey's stay in New York, 1978-1980.
'Chelsea Hotel' - research material re the Chelsea Hotel, New York, 1991-1994
'Portsea/Harold Holt chapter stuff' - photocopied newscuttings including Blazey's memoir published in Outrage, 1967-1968, 1999?
William Yang - printed material and photocopies, 198--1996.
'C. Pearl' - mainly photocopies of legal papers re estate of Cyril Pearl and related correspondence, 1974-1990.
'Keith Looby' - research material including draft of Blazey's article 'Keith Looby: The Backyard Looking Prophet', 1984-1995.
'Paul Taylor' - letters from Paul Taylor, copies of his journalism and Blazeys notes and drafts re Taylor, 1969-1992.
'Juan Davila', mainly articles re Davila, 1980s.
'P. Steedman Aide Memoire' - notes re Peter Steedman, 1980s.
'Goddard, Martyn' [Editor Outrage Magazine] - mainly re AZT in HIV therapy, 1993-199.
'Ade Rawlins' - manuscript notes, 1992- 
'Bea Faust' - letters from Beatrice Faust and articles and essays by Faust, 1982-1996.

BOX 8:  'Pan Macmillan - commissions, Peter Blazey fiction & Early Gay Anthology - editing' 
'Richard Neville' - includes typed transcript of Blazey's talk with Richard Neville and Julia Clarke re their book 'The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj', 1980-82, 1995, undated. 
'Sam Aboud' - manuscript and shorthand notes, 1994
'Germaine Greer' - correspondence of Program Development with Greer and her literary agent re film based on her book 'Matriarchs', 1982. 
'Judith Hall' - correspondence, 1964-69, 1995-96. 
'Brenton Heath-Kerr'- Blazey's obituary of Heath-Kerr, performance artist and costume designer, 1994-1995. 
'Chris Pearl' - correspondence with Pearl, letters from Cyril Pearl, and Blazey's draft excerpt from 'Screw Loose', 1975-1996.
'Book Commissions Pan Macmillan' - papers mainly re revised edition of Blazey's biography of Sir Henry Bolte; 'The Secret Diary of Jeffrey Kennett Aged 45 1/4'; correspondence with Australian Literary Management and Pan Macmillan, 1988-1995. 
'Peter Blazey fiction (inc. poetry & plays)'- manuscripts mainly of short stories, and notes, 197-.
'Blazey Gay Reader - Top of the Bunch' - Blazey's requests for contributions to anthology of gay fiction in 1970s, 197-
'Blazey Gay Reader - Consider', literary submissions, 1977-1978

BOX 9 
‘Oddments 80’s’ – including notes, interviews  and literary drafts & photographs of Nymboida trip, 1970s-1980s.
‘PB Articles 1990s’- drafts and photocopies and newscutting s of articles, 1991-1994.
Photocopies of Blazey’s ‘Intelligencer’ column & articles for ‘The Bulletin’, and corrected typescript of article, ‘Hawke, the Greenies and the New Right’, 1985-1986.
‘Queer Lit’ – papers re 2nd Queer Lit Conference, Sydney, 26-27 August 1995.
‘Outing’ – papers re outing and Father James Murray’s article, 1995.
‘Aide Memoire 1960> Previous’- newscuttings, 1968-1969.
‘Aide Memoire 1990s’ – including articles, newscuttings, speech,interviews, 1990s.


AIDS AND GAY MATERIAL
BOX 10: 'Gay Arts, Hollywood' 
'Gay Arts' - theatre programs, conference papers, book and art exhibition catalogues, 1992-1995 
'Hollywood Homophobia' - American media coverage, 1992-1995.
'Hollywood Chapter'- research material re the Hollywood district of Whitley Heights, 1988.

BOX 11: 'AIDS alternative complement stuff'
'D. Cooper [Prof. David Cooper] Mainstream View', 1992-1995. 
'Alternative View HIV/AIDS' - papers re alternative HIV health care including correspondence with John Lauritsen and medical researchers, 1995-1996.
'DNCB & Fred Shaw'- papers re anti-HIV/AIDS therapy, 1994-1996. 
'AIDS & AZT vs HIV' - correspondence , medical literature and journal articles, 1993-1995.
'Recent HIV HEAL [Health Education AIDS Liaison] Dissent' - correspondence, medical literature and journal articles, 1995-1996.. 
'Natural Therapy PD [Peter de] Ruyter & Stuart B[ennett])', 1993-1996, 

BOX 12:  'Gay 70's & Aide Memoirs'
'1978' - mainly re gay culture and Nimbin with notes and first press release for 1978 Mardi Gras, 1972-1978.
'Gay 78' - articles, newscuttings, 1978-1995.
'70's memorabilia, Telex & stuff' - mainly papers re Blazey's canditature for the Gay Liberation at the 1970 Earlwood by-election, 197--1994. 
'70's - Aide M' - notebook, 197- 
'70's Gay Lib stuff' - mainly printed material, 1967-1979. 
'Richie Finger [alias Cindy Pastel drag queen], Mood Memoire for 80's' - mainly notes and transcripts of interviews with Finger, 1980-1981.

BOX 13 
'Gay Media, 90's letters, Mentions etc, columns' - issues of gay newspaper 'Capital Q'; literary drafts and copies of letters to newspapers, 1995-1996.
'HIV/AIDS Info' - mainly printed material including issues of 'With Compliments: The Official Newsletter of the HIV Therapies Collective', 1994-96; and medical/AIDS literature, 1991-1996.


CORRESPONDENCE  
Box 14   RESTRICTED
‘Correspondence 70s -’. 
‘Correspondence 1980s’, being letters 1984-1990.
 
BOX  15   RESTRICTED
'Correspondence 1992-[1996]'.
'Last Months 96-97 correspondence’. 


DIARIES & NOTEBOOKS
BOX 16 
Mainly diaries, appointment diaries, notebooks 1969-1976

BOX 17
Mainly diaries, appointment diaries, notebooks, 1976

BOX 18
Mainly diaries, appointment diaries, notebooks, 1970s-1977 

BOX 19
Mainly diaries, appointment diaries, notebooks, 1977-1980, 1990 

BOX 20
Mainly diaries, appointment diaries, notebooks , 1980-1982
 
BOX 21
Mainly diaries, appointment diaries, notebooks , 1983-1987

BOX  22   RESTRICTED
Mainly diaries, appointment diaries, notebooks, 1988-1997 


PERSONAL PAPERS
BOX 23
Blazey’s  passports, 1967-1991
‘PB/School & Uni’ being miscellaneous papers including birth certificate, BA degree, academic record and notes re secondary school, 1939-.
‘Taylor Square (Private Clinic]/ Details/ Medical Details’ being papers mainly re medical and income tax matters, ca. 1991-1996.


BLAZEY FAMILY PAPERS
BOX 24
Miscellaneous papers of Lorna Blazey, including letters received, programs, newscuttings,  and certificates, 1931-1970.
Lorna Blazey – address book and ‘History of Visual Arts’.
Diary of Lorna Bradford Smith (Blazey), 1936.
‘Maternal, Paternal’ – Blazey family letters, 1937-1970.
Letters of Alan Blazey in New Guinea to his family, 1944.
‘War Letters’ – letters from Alan Blazey to Lorna Blazey, 1944-1945.
‘Wartime Letters – letters from Alan Blazey, mainly in America, to Lorna Blazey, 1944-1945
‘Slouch Hat – ACB – War Letters’ – corrected carbon typescript of ‘Slouch Hat at Whitehall’, a collection of wartime letters from Alan Blazey to his wife, Lorna (with some original letters); a crayon sketch of an AIF officer by F. Edwards; and a letter from the Australian Army Soldier Career Management  Agency, 31 August 1992 re Alan Blazey’s war service, 1940s, 1992, undated.
Papers re the war service of Alan Blazey, 1942-1950.

BOX 25
Papers of Alan and Lorna Blazey, being letters received from their sons, Antony and Clive, from Geelong Grammar School; with an studio photograph of one son as a baby, 1952-1957.
‘Lorna Blazey Short Stories’,  being literary papers including course notes and bulletins from Mayne School of Authorship, 1945-1945.
‘Lorna’s Litteraire’, being short stories and radio plays by Lorna Blazey, 1945-1946.
‘Lorna’s First Draft’, 1945?
‘LJB Plays’, 1945-1946.
‘Brad – File’, being personal, financial and legal papers of Alan and Lorna Blazey re i.a. estate of Alan Clements Blazey, 1925-1991.
Clive Blazey’s papers re the Blazey genealogy, 1987.


 ‘HORTICO, ROSEMARY FOOT, WARREN ANDERSON’  
BOX 26  RESTRICTED
Papers re Hortico Ltd and related letters from Virginia Fraser, 1980-1996.
‘R.I.F. Revisions Aug. 96’, being papers re Rosemary Foot for ‘Screw Losse’ chapter, 198—1996.
‘Rosemary Foot’, 1982-1993.
‘Anderson Hermitage’, including copies of Foot’s speech in the Legislative Assembly, 23 Feb. 1984, and statutory declaration by Peter Blazey, June 1984, 1984.
‘Warren Anderson’, 1983-1985.


‘BOOKS ANNOTATED BY BLAZEY AND/OR INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS’
BOX 27
Denis Altman, ‘Coming Out in the Seventies’ (1979) and ‘Homosexual’ (1971); Peter de Ruyter, ‘Living with HIV/AIDS’ (1996); Denis Gallagher, ‘Love and Death: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose’ (1987); Robin Gerster & Jan Bassett, ‘Seizures of Youth: The Sixties and Australia (1991); Jonathan King, ‘Waltzing Materialism’ (1978); Philip Knightley, ‘The First Casualty’ (1978); Jill Neville. ‘Swimming the Channel’ (1993); Barry Pearce, Jeffrey Smart, ‘Paintings and Studies 1988-1995’ (1995); Sasha Soldatow, ‘Mayakovsky in Bondi (1993) and ‘Private – Do Not Open’ (1987); Garry Wotherspoon, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-Culture’ (1991)

BOX 28
Vincent Buckley, ‘Cutting Green Hay’ (1983); T.S. Eliot, ‘Murder in the Cathedral’  and ‘Four Quartets; John Lauritsen, ‘The Aids War’ (1993); Peter Blazey, ‘Bolte’ (1972); Barry Cohen, ‘Life with Gough (1996); Tim Herbert, ‘Angel Tails (1992); Palinurus, ‘The Unquiet Grave’ (1973).


COMPUTER DISKETTES   
BOX 29  RESTRICTED
‘Screw Loose’ drafts , 1995-1997 (14 disks).
Diaries and Journalism, drafts, notes and correspondence re ‘The Secret Life of Jeffrey Kennett Aged 45 ¼’, 1993-1997 (10 disks). 


SOUND RECORDINGS  
MLOH 717  RESTRICTED
Audio cassettes (18), 1975-1995:
Interview with Adrian Rawlins, Apr. 1995
Interview with Edmund White, Feb. 1995
Interview with Chris Wallace-Crabbe, ca. 1995
Interview with Jan Sharp, 22 Oct. 1994 or 1995
Interview with Christopher Pearl? and Philip Noyce; Interview with Jan Sharp
Interview with Danny Aboud Aug. 1994 (2 tapes)
Interview with Michael Keating, 8 May 1994
Interview with Christopher Pearl, 30 Dec. 1993
Interview with Christopher Pearl, 10 Nov. 1993?; Radio National program, ‘In the Box Seat: Frederico Garcia Lorca; Interview with William Yang, ca. 1993
Interview with Stephen Dunne, ca. 1993
Interview with Liz Fell, ca. 1993
Interview with David Marr, July? 1991
Peter Blazey’s monologue, reporting from Los Angeles-Hollywood, May 1990
Interview with Vicki Viidikas, 22 July 1984 (2 tapes)
Gough Whitlam addressing the National Press Club, Canberra, Dec. 1975
Interview with Philip Knightly 12 April 1994

Not to be issued - master tapes only. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History.

Peter Blazey papers, 1930s-1997, with papers of the Blazey family, 1930s-1992

1. Clancy, Desmond, 1966
2. Clarabut, R.W., 1968-1969
3. Claremont Teachers' College, WA, 1947
4. Clark, B.C., 1949
5. Clark, Charles Manning Hope, Prof., 1946-1969
6. Clark, Colin, 1938-1939, 1957
7. Clark, E., Mrs, 1966
8. Clark, G.A., 1969
9. Clark, Gregory, 1967
10. Clark, H. Picton, 1964
11. Clark, Myrth (Mrs Norman Clark), 1949
12. Clark, (Reginald) Marcus, Sir, 1939-1941
13. Clarke, Albert N., 1967
14. Clarke, Barry S., 1966
15. Clarke, C.H.D., 1969
16. Clarke, H.F., 1967
17. Clarke, Hugh V., 1967
18. Clarke, K.W., Mrs, 1967
19. Clarke, Marcus, 1949
20. Clarke, Marion Marcus, 1937
21. Menzies Clarke & Co., accountants, Wellington, 1950-1964
22. Clarke, Peter, 1966
23. Clarke, Una E., Mrs, 1966, 1969
24. Clay, Geoffrey, 1967-1968
25. Berneville-Claye, Douglas, 1965
26. Cleary, Jon, 1943-1962
27. Cleaver, D.K., 1966
28. Clegg, Eric, 1962-1968
29. Clement & Elmore, manufacturer’s agents, Vancouver, Canada, 1950
30. Clements, Barbara, 1966
31. Clements, Charles T., 1966
32. Clements, Frederick William, 1940-1949
33. Clifton, Paul, 1963-1964
34. Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia, 1948
35. Clough, R.J., 1969
36. Clouston, Pauline S., 1964
37. Clout, N.M., Rev., 1967
38. Clouten, Neville H., 1969
39. Clowes, Mark, 1969

Volume 186: Angus & Robertson correspondence files for Clancy, Desmond - Clowes, Mark, 1937-1969

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Leslie Rees further papers, 1920-1999, together with literary papers and photographs of Coralie Rees and Leslie Rees, 1929-1973

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[Newspaper cuttings and correspondence including the obituaries of notable Australian Jews dated from 1852-1946] / collected by Percy J. Marks.

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Series 02: James McAuley correspondence and subject files, 1932-1997

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Peter Blazey papers, 1930s-1997, with papers of the Blazey family, 1930s-1992

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Volume 186: Angus & Robertson correspondence files for Clancy, Desmond - Clowes, Mark, 1937-1969

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