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The flow of culture : Tasmanian studies / edited by Michael Roe.

Pamela Beasley papers, 1930-1983, with associated papers and records, including Mumbulla family papers, 1971-1989

Four centres of classical learning in Renaissance Italy / [by] A.J. Dunston.

This collection further documents Gerard Windsor's literary activities, including his correspondence with editors, publishers, literary agents and fellow writers, and manuscripts for his books I Asked Cathleen to Dance (1999), I’ll Just tell You This (1999), The Mansions of Bedlam (2000) and I Have Kissed Your Lips (2004). Also included are articles, essays, obituaries and reviews for literary magazines, journals and newspapers; and talks and related papers on Ireland, Catholicism, writing and various other topics delivered at literary festivals, seminars and writers' residencies.

The following box listings have been chiefly compiled from the titles of folders in each box.

BOX 1
Papers relating to the History of Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview. Include final draft, being photocopied typescript, correspondence, notes, articles, newscuttings and article by Windsor on ‘Riverview’s Origins & Style’ in Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 1976 (First draft of History transferred from Safe 3/161 and added to BOX 1)

BOX 2
Printed material, including invitations and programmes, and funeral orders of service for John Edward Fletcher (1940-1992), Clare Agnes de Monchaux (1900-1995), Imelda Stuart (1938-1993), Kathleen Joan Ward (d. 1994), Anthony Edward (Tony) Cahill (1933-2004), Clare Elizabeth Rose Nott (1988-2002), Patrick Francis Scanlan (1911-1997), Martin Francis Robinson (1984-1998), Annette McKenzie Windsor, Colin Campbell Macnaught (1919-1996), Richard Victor Hall (1937-2003), Father Geoffrey J. James SJ (d. 2003), Geoffrey Meredith Hughes (1945-20070, Morson Alexander Clift (1911-2007), Kathleen Margaret Ryan (1904-2006), Norman Helmore (d. 2001), Father Charles Fraser SJ (1913-2004), Joan Veronica Graydon (1915-2005), Desmond Harrison Burfitt (1914-2006), Phillip Francis Kurts SJ (1921-2006), Roger Barnes (1936-1990) and Sasha Soldatow (1947-2006)

‘Typescript versions of stories for Memories of the Assassination Attempt’

‘’Not a Christmas Sermon’ in Adelaide Review, Dec. ’92 (part reworked & included in Heaven Where [the Bachelors Sit]’)’, including copies of letters to Christopher Pearson

BOX 3
I Asked Cathleen to Dance (UQP, 1999):

Set of yellow page proofs

Set of blue page proofs

‘Correspondence etc re publicity for I Asked Cathleen to Dance 1999-2000’

‘1988 Reviews of I Asked Cathleen to Dance’

‘Correspondence re I Asked Cathleen … re publication etc’, being mainly correspondence with Rosie Fitzgibbon (UQP) and Rebekah Scott

‘Letters re [I Asked Cathleen to Dance] from John Carmody, Fr Tony Doherty, John Ryan, James Rogers, Tony James’

I’ll Just tell You This (UQP, 1999):

Set of white page proofs

Set of blue page proofs

BOX 4
I Have Kissed Your Lips (UQP, 2004) in BOXES 4-7:

Edited computer printout

Set of yellow page proofs

Sets of blue corrected page proofs, including author’s set

BOX 5
Reader’s report by Rebekah Scott

‘LIPS Publicity / Launch, 26 Sept. 2004’

‘I Have Kissed Your Lips Reviews 2005’

‘Correspondence (extensive) re promotion of I Have Kissed Your Lips 2005’

‘2002/2003 Notes etc for ‘I Have Kissed Your Lips’

Mutiple folders of drafts of chapters and sections of the book

BOX 6
Folders of drafts of sections of the book and revisions:

Poster of presentation by Woollahra Library: Gerard Windsor in conversation with Andrea Streetton about I Have Kissed Your Lips, 3 Mar. 2005

BOX 7
‘Crying for Her Children’ ( 2 copies)

‘Might a Man Enter the Womb a Second Time’ (3 copies)

‘I Have Kissed Your Lips or The Moon as Blood’ (1 copy)

BOX 8
The Mansions of Bedlam (UQP, 2000) in BOXES 8-9:

Computer printout

Edited computer printout

‘Intro to ? 2000 Omnibus (Bedlam)’

BOX 9
Corrected computer printout

Edited computer printout

Set of blue page proofs

‘‘There in Writing’ included in Mansions of Bedlam. Correspondence about its first appearance in Voices including letters from Morag Fraser, [Capt.] Harry Windsor (1945 – copy)’

‘The Mansions of Bedlam 2000 Reviews, award. Card from Cath Kennedy’

‘The Mansions of Bedlam Correspondence re publication’ with Rosanne Fitzgibbon, Rebekah Scott, Leonie Tyle and Carol Davidson

Issue of The Adelaide Review, no. 203, Aug. 2000, including ‘The second Christening’ by Gerard Windsor

BOX 10
‘Irish Catalogue / Article for The Australian 6/7 July 1991 on ‘International Writers’ Conference’ in Dublin

‘Notes for talk on Irish Drama to Yr 12 Drama Students [at] S.I.C. Riverview 2003 & PLC Croydon 2004’

‘Essay/obituary for Aust. Financial Review of Prof. Patrick O’Farrell [1933-2003]’, including correspondence with Michael Mckernan and newscutting of letter from George Cardinal Pell to the Australian Financial Review, 30 Jan. 2004

‘Prof. Patrick O’Farrell articles etc by & correspondence …’, 1975-2004 

‘‘Grafting Ireland onto Australia – Some Literary Attempts’ Paper given [at] Humanities Research Centre Conference ‘Nationalism & Culture in Ireland’ ANU 5-7 Nov. 1980’, including notes, drafts and correspondence with Prof. Ian Donaldson, Oliver MacDonagh and Pauric Travers

‘Prof. Oliver MacDonagh’, 1990-2002 including letters and papers received from Oliver MacDonagh

‘Mason, Clara / re ‘Irish Contemporary Writing Day’ April 1999 - notes from organiser Clara Mason – examples of work by visitor Harry Clifton’, 1999-2000

‘Notes for talk on ‘Irish Books & Australia’ [at] Irish Studies Seminar Newman College University of Melbourne Oct 2001’, including correspondence with Professor Elizabeth Malcolm and earlier unpublished essay ‘Green Bookshelves’

‘’Collecting Irish Books’ St Patrick’s Day talk to Aisling Society 23/3/91 …’

‘Talk for ABC radio National ‘Books & Ideas’ (Producer Jan Garrett) late 1970s ?’, being Windsor’s first broadcast

‘Proposal to Penguin Books 1986 for a collection of essays, articles on Catholicism. Irish-Australia, Jesuits etc. (not taken up by Penguin – mercifully) some pieces eventually included in The Mansions of Bedlam (UQP, 2001)’

‘’Stripping the Bride of Christ’ review article for Quadrant March 1983 re Edmund Campion’s Rockchoppers & David Lodge’s Souls and Bodies’, 1982-1983, including drafts, notes and correspondence with Lee Shrubb and Patricia Rolfe

‘1980 Review of 2 Tas[manian] School Histories for Journal of Religious History & letter from ed. Tony Cahill’, 1979-1980, being Windsor’s first review in academic/secular press

‘Article on ‘Australian Literature & Catholicism’ for Australasian Catholic Record April 1981’, including notes, drafts, printed copy and letter received from Fr Frank Mecham

BOX 11
folders of reviews for Fairfax publications:

‘Reviews for Sydney Morning Herald 20001-2005’, 1999-2004, including correspondence with Susan Wyndham, Angela Bennie and Suzy Baldwin

‘Article for Aust. Financial Review on publishing upmarket books on Aust. History, Architecture etc.’, 2002

‘Long (2-3,000 words) articles for Australian Financial Review … ‘, May 2001-Jan. 2003, including drafts, typescript and print copies of 11 articles, and correspondence with Review editor, Hugh Lamberton, Peter Craven, Helen Garner and Rev. Dr Bruce Kaye

‘9 review/articles for Aust. Financial Review, April 2003-Dec. 2004’, including correspondence with Hugh Lamberton and Katharine Brisbane

‘4 essays/articles for Australian Financial Review 2005’

BOX 12
Folders of articles:

‘Fr Charles Fraser S.J.’, 1994-2005, including obituary, funeral order of service and correspondence with Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview relating to Fr Charles Fraser SJ (1913-2004)

‘Review article on Martin Boyd for Times Literary Supplement Oct. 2004’, including drafts, notes and correspondence with Nicola Walker relating to the article

‘Essay/article on David Malouf’s Quarterly Essay Made in England Dec 2003 … Published in Aust. Fin. Review’

‘Libraries (Personal) / Essay/article for ‘Good Weekend’ in SMH & Age April 2003 on Private Book Collections … ‘, including correspondence with Sally McInerney (photographer for article)

‘Robert John Schneider [1941-2003]’, including funeral eulogy, obituary by Windsor, and letters received and writings from Robert Schneider, 1996-2003

‘Article (2 Part) in The Australian 1989 ‘Separating the Fiction from Fiction’, 1986-1989, including letters received from Trevor Shearston, Penguin Books Australia and Barry Oakley

‘’The Writer as Puppet’ essay for Voices Mar. 1996 & relevant cuttings & 2 SMH reviews … for 1995’

‘Foreign Affairs Booklet 2001 / … Entry on Australian literature for Australia in Brief 2001’

‘July 1986 article for The Bulletin re ABC Television’s ‘The Book Program’, including letter received from Noel Price (ABC TV Drama), 1986

‘Speech … to Aisling Society of Sydney, St Patrick’s Day 2005 re ’50 Years of Ireland & Australia’

‘Article for Aust. Fin Review Aug. 2001 on films of Bob Connolly/Robin Anderson …’, 2001-2002

‘Article on Sicily for Eureka Street April 2003’

BOX 13
Folders of unpublished material and miscellanea:

‘Unpublished speech in blank verse, given [at] Riverview 19/5/02 to mark death of Roger Leach, old boy actor etc. Night prepared & composed by Melvyn Morrow & Nick Enright’

‘Unpublished long essay on ‘Australian Cultural Consciousness’, 2001-2002

‘Drafts etc of unpublished article on ‘The Australian Short Story’ commissioned by T.L.S. [Times Literary Supplement] but not used … ‘, 2005, including correspondence with Nicola Walker

‘Unpublished speech given as guest speaker [at] Sydney Grammar School Speech Day 4/12/2004’

‘Unpublished talk [at] St Ignatius Riverview c. March 2004 on ‘Literature as Pleasure’ & Correspondence’

‘Unpublished talk on ‘(Not) Reading Australian Books’ Adelaide Writers week 2002

‘Unpublished papers read [at] National Biography Award Seminar, SLNSW [State Library of New South Wales], Aug. 2004

‘Unpublished paper ‘The Decline of Aust. Catholic Culture’ delivered to National Council of Priests Mildura 19-23 Sept. 1983’

‘Unpublished essay ‘Vivisection’ on writing about the living late 1997’, including drafts; ‘long letter of comment from Ivor Indyk’, 5 Jan. 1997; and notes for talk at State Library of NSW, 27 Nov. 1998

Miscellaneous folders:
Copyright Agency Ltd Statements etc.’, 1986-2006

‘Notes of interviews [with] Sister Gertrude Joyce by Fr Godfrey Ainsworth esp. about her relationship to her brother James Joyce’, being photocopied typescript

‘Annual Reports etc of the Aisling Society of Sydney’, 1994-2005

‘Designs (illustrator unknown) for G.W. story published in The Adelaide Review c. 1990’

Miscellaneous newspaper mentions etc of G.W.’, 1985-1987

‘Notes for projected anthology of Aust. military fiction c. 1980s (never realised)

‘Grogan, Wayne (novel)’, being comments on Grogan’s first novel published as Junkie Pilgrim (2003) and Grogan’s response

Journal of Dr Harry Windsor recording banking details 1979-1982

BOX 14
Folders of contributions to literary festivals:

‘Byron Bay Writers Festival 2005’ including correspondence and administrative material

‘Notes for panel at Byron Bay Writers Festival 2005 ‘A Momentary Deviation from Good Can Take a Lifetime to Repair’, including email correspondence with Rachael Kohn (ABC)

‘Notes for panel on ‘Writing about Sex’ [at] Byron Bay Writers’ Festival 2005 & emails from Gabrielle Morrissey’

‘Talk given [at] Melb. Writers Festival 2003 [at] panel on ‘Fathers’’

‘Brisbane Writers Festival 2003 programs [and] correspondence’

‘Unpublished talk re ‘eulogies’ on panel ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ – Bris[bane] Writers Festival 2003’

‘Correspondence re ‘lure of the Exotic’ panel [at] Bris. Writers’ Festival 2003 with Tobsha Lerner [and] Michelle de Kretser’

‘Unpublished paper on ‘New & Established Writers’ Bris. Writers Festival 2003’

‘Correspondence, programs etc for Sydney Writers Festival 2002’

‘Unpublished talk [at] Adelaide Writers Week 2002 during a panel on ‘Ivanhoe’’

‘Canberra Word Festival 2001 Correspondence re participation, & notes for talks at’

‘Correspondence re Adelaide Writers Week 2002 … ‘

‘Notes for talk [at] 2001 Annual Fair of Aust. & N.Z. Association of Antiquarian Booksellers’

‘Correspondence re Nat. Biog. Award Writers tour [at] Wagga Wagga 2000’

‘Notes & relevant material for talks to boys [at] Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare, Ireland Feb. 2003’

‘Unpublished talk [at] Melb. Writers Festival 2003 ‘Short Stories – Big Ideas’

‘’Notes for talk [at] Conrad Treasury Hotel, Brisbane, April 2003 on topic ‘Making History’

‘Correspondence, Schedules re G.W.’s participation in Melb. Writers Festival 2003’

‘Notes for panel talk ‘Constraints on the Australian Voice’ [at] Syd. Writers Festival 2001’

‘Correspondence, info. re Byron Bay Writers Festival 2005’

‘Notes for Seminar for Society of Women Writers [at] Sydney Writers Centre June 2003 on ‘Sharing a Landscape - & Celebration of Difference’, including letters received from Jennifer Rumsey (President, Society of Women Writers NSW)’

‘Panel on ‘Criticism and the Artist’ chaired by G.W. [at] Sydney Writers Festival 2003’

‘Notes for talk [at] Sydney Writers Centre, Sept 2004, on topic ‘Writing the City’

‘Controversy re ‘Are There Australian Classics ?’ May 2001 – G.W.’s notes for his talk on panel at Sydney Writers Festival … ‘

‘Notes, Material for Workshop on ‘Writing Autobiography’ [at] Byron Bay Writers Festival 2005

BOX 15
Folders relating to occasional talks and writers' residencies:

‘Notes for talks [at] award of ‘Inaugural Headmaster’s Literary Award’ 1987 [at] Marist Brothers, Pagewood (prize winner chosen by Patrick White)’

‘G.W. [at] Sydney Grammar 2003-4 – Notes for talks – Suggested questions for ‘Headmaster’s Exhibition’ Prize’, including correspondence with English Master and writer, John Hughes

‘Documents relating to his being ‘Scholar in Residence [at] Sydney Grammar School 2003 - & letter from architect Howard Tanner’

‘Dorfman / review of Ariel Dorfman’s ‘Speak Truth to Power’ performed at Riverview Nov. 2002’ including correspondence regarding production

Correspondence regarding and notes for talk at Spirituality in the Pub, Blue Gum Hotel, Waitara, 19 Sept. 2001

‘Notes for 3 postgrad[uate] seminars, Englist Dept, University of Sydney on G.W.’s own books The Mansions of Bedlam [and] I Have Kissed Your Lips & correspondence with Sue Woolfe (Convenor)’

‘AFTRS / re 3 month attachment to Aust. Film Television & Radio School 1989 – administrative material’

‘Writer in Residence fortnight-long seminar [at] Saint Aloysius College 1996’, including correspondence with Robert Schneider

BOX 16
Folders of correspondence:

‘Correspondence re GW’s appearance in anthologies 1986-2000’, 1985-2002, including letters received Black Inc., Penguin Australia, University of Queensland Press, Ken Spillman, Kate Grenville, Garry Disher

‘Correspondence etc. [with] ABC 2000 – ‘, 1996-2004, including fax from Morag Fraser (Eureka Street), 1996

‘Correspondence [with] Rebekah Scott editor [at] UQP c. 2001-2003 & original work by R.S.’

‘Correspondence re talk on ‘Nicknames’ to Riverview Fathers Sept 2004’

‘Correspondence [with] Jamie O’Neill (Irish novelist) 2002’

‘Correspondence re tour of Australian battlefields Turkey & France/Belgium 2004’, mainly with Michael McKernan

Correspondence with Sally McInerney, 2003-2006

Letters received from Alec Bolton, 1993-1996, and Rosemary Dobson, 1996, and funeral order of service for Alec Bolton

Letters received with typescripts of unpublished prose from Jeremy Nelson, 2002

‘Correspondence with Society of Women Writers re Seminar on Reviewing Aug. 2003’

‘1999 letter & card from Dulcie Stretton’

Folder regarding Nick Enright (1950-2003), 2002-2003

Letters received from Peter Kelly (former Jesuit and Australian Jesuit Provincial) ‘from his post-Jesuit years in retirement in Adelaide’, 1994-2002, with typescript of unpublished story by Peter Kelly

Canada ’86 / Badlands Conference on Aust & Canadian Lit[erature] [at] Uni. Of Calgary & Reading (by GW) [at] Harbourfront, Toronto’, including correspondence with Alan Lawson and Greg Gatenby, and photograph of some of participants at conference barbecue

Correspondence with Professor Harry Heseltine and L. R. Hard regarding Australian Defence Force Academy literary archives, 1986

‘1987 Correspondence [with] Ray Willbanks, Editor of Antipodes ‘A North American Journal of Australian Lit[erature]’ re publication of ‘Her Practice’

’27 Notes [and compliments slips] to G.W. from Ian Templeton [at] NLA [National Library of Australia] re Voices’, 1992-1997

‘Draft version of ‘a Biography for Michael Scott’ & letters between G.W. and Morag Fraser’, 1993-1994

‘Correspondence 1990s GW & Morag Fraser’

‘Correspondence between G.W. & Morag Fraser 1990s’

FOLDER 17 (RESTRICTED)
‘National Biography Award 2005’, 2004-2005, including correspondence between the judges

FOLDER 18 (RESTRICTED)
‘Letters of Protest, Threatened Legal Action over I Asked Cathleen to Dance 2001’, 2000-2001

FOLDER 19 (RESTRICTED)
‘Public Lending Right Payments’, 1996-2006					

FOLDER 20 (RESTRICTED)
‘Royalty Statements’, 1988-2004								

FOLDER 21 (RESTRICTED)
‘Correspondence, royalty statements etc [with] Lyn Tranter, G.W.’s agent 1993-2006’

Gerard Windsor further literary papers, 1945, 1975-2007

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