Series[UMA-SR-000000275] Correspondence files of Clement Christesen as editor of MeanjinAccession[2005.0004] MEANJIN EDITORIAL RECORDS OF C B CHRISTESENIdentifierUMA-ITE-2005000401258Scope and ContentCorrespondents and other persons named: Stephen Murray-Smith.
Typescripts of the folllowing poems: Agony column, Ascent into Hell, Australia, Bachelor flat, The bed, Captain Carter's farewell, Conquistador, Dragon music, extracts from Dunciad minimus,Easter hymn, The elegy, The endof a journey, The explorers, Flower poem, Four poems in a dithyrambic mode, Giving it up, Heldensagen, A jubilate for the late council, The judgement, Lying on the lawn, The mystic marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Phallus, Rawhead and bloody bones, Sonnet on first looking into Gerard ManlyHopkins, Speak parrot!, Three romances, Totem tanz: the coquette, A windy afternoon. Typescripts of the following articles: 'Australian literature and the universities' (7pp., 2 copies.); 'The Australian scene - literature and drama' (14pp.); 'Confessions of a zombie' (6pp.); 'Henry Handel Richardson : Maurice Guest' (18pp.); 'H.M. Green: the man and his work' (2 copies, 3pp. & 7pp.); 'Literary magazines: an open letter to the Commonwealth Literary Fund' (2 copies, 2pp. & 3pp.); 'The new Cratylus or perception and poetry'. 'Notes on poetry' (14pp.); 'Poetry chronicle' (3pp.); 'The prose of Nettie Palmer' (5pp.) Review of Harold Stewart's Phoenix wings: poems 1940-46 (2pp.); Lecture notes on Australian literature: introductory lecture (6pp., 1945); Lecture notes on Henry Lawson (5pp., 1945); Lecture notes on Gavin Casey (5pp., 1945); Lecture notes on Frank Clune (4pp., 1945); Lecture notes entitled 'Australian writers speak' (4pp., 1946). 52 press cuttings of items or reviews either by or about ADH. The four earliest press cuttings are located in Meanjin I 2005.0004.01812 (p. 177) & Meanjin II 2005.0004.01813 (pp. 8, & 10). Eight miscellaneous items including publicity brochures for ADH's books and Meanjin readers' reports on ADH's poems. Five items relating to an art exhibition held by Emily Hope.
Note on file: A.D. Hope was a major contributor and editorial advisor to Meanjin in its early years. For references to him see also the following files: M. Aurousseau (Jul-October 1962), M. Barnard (28 July 1956), Audrey Beecham (12 March 1958 & 26 August 1959), Peter Bennie (30 June 1948), Robert Burns (2 June 1972), Alex Craig (24 January 1949), Dorothy Green (6 December 1970), J.K. Ewers (22 July 1945), Rodney Hall (28 July 1966), W. Hart-Smith (24 October 1943), WM Heinemann Pty.Ltd. (Clem Christesen to H.L. Hall, Oct-December 1948), Harry Hooton (10 July 1943 & January 1956), R.G. Howarth (2 January 1943 & 10 August 1943), Margaret Jarvie (in Workshop File, 9 June 1947), Humphrey McQueen (Sep-October 1971), David Martin (25 & 27 June 1954), Joan Mas (24February 1964), Ian Milner (11 July 1958), R.H. Morrison (Jan-March 1956), Vance Palmer (20 June 1946), A.A. Phillips (13 October 1955), Geoffrey Sawer (23 June 1947), Bernard Smith (13 April 1953), Noel Stock (2 April 1955), Walter Stone (8 September 1962), Derek Van Abbe (14 June 1947 & 22 June 1956). Also See Meanjin II 2005.0004.01813 Item 26 (p. 8) & Item 274 (p. 104).Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest itemUnit2005.0004 Unit 0178
Christesen, Clement B., Hope, A.D. (1942-1974), [UMA-ITE-2005000401258]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 08/12/2025, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/293750
