Series[UMA-SR-000000275] Correspondence files of Clement Christesen as editor of MeanjinAccession[2005.0004] MEANJIN EDITORIAL RECORDS OF C B CHRISTESENIdentifierUMA-ITE-2005000400650Scope and ContentPerson and organisations named: Ian Maxwell, William Heinemann, Ltd.
Amongst the topics most frequently discussed in the correspondence are Dymphna Cusack's travels abroad, her political activities and sympathies, her contributions to Meanjin, the publishing and critical reception ofher novels and plays and her and CB Christesen's friends and colleagues in the literary world.
Eight scripts by Dymphna Cusack: 'Australia and the yanks' (article, transcript, 1 3pp.); 'Best-sellersdon't pay' (article, transcript, 8pp.); 'Criticism and critics' (article, transcript, 10pp. Reader's report by Chris Wallace-Crabbe attached.); 'I talk of my country' (article and copies, transcript,25pp.); 'Letter from Peking' (article, transcript, 5pp.); 'Miguel-Angel Asturias' (article, transcript, 8pp., 2 copies.); 'My friends the Palmers' (tribute, transcript, 4pp.); 'Jean-Paul Sartreand the Nobel Prize' (galley-proofs of article).
Press cuttings include reviews of Cusack's books and her impressions of her overseas trips. Miscellaneous items: notes 'to Mr Gyde' on possibilities of libel action following publication of 'Come in spinner' (transcript, 1 p.); notes on background of writing 'Come in spinner' (transcript, 1 p., 3 copies.); review of 'Say no to death' (Flora Eldershaw? transcript, 3pp.); Extract from article on 'Black lightning' by Andre Wurmser in 'Les lettres francaises' 1966 (transcript, 1p.); report on manuscript of DAILY TELEGRAPH prize-winning novel 'Come in spinner' by Sydney Wyborne (transcript, 1 p.). Publicity brochure for 'Come in spinner', including extracts from reviews, and biographical notes on Cusack and Florence James (transcript, 2 pp.); Extract from novel (transcript, 1 p.) and 'Monica Stirling' (biography, transcript, 3pp.).
Note on file: For references to Cusack, see also the following files: Bert Vickers (4 August 1965), Walter Stone (June 1971), Lewis Bennett (22 April 1951), Harry Hooton (28February 1942), Edith McKay (1 April 1958), William Heinemann Ltd (between CB Christesen and Arnold Gyde, 1949-1951), Irina Golovnya (re Dymphna Cusack in Moscow for Russian production of 'Heatwave in Berlin'), William Van O'Connor (3 December 1948), Alan McCulloch (28 July 1955) and Henrietta Drake-Brockman (31 October 1952).Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest itemUnit2005.0004 Unit 0088
