Series[UMA-SR-000000275] Correspondence files of Clement Christesen as editor of MeanjinAccession[2005.0004] MEANJIN EDITORIAL RECORDS OF C B CHRISTESENIdentifierUMA-ITE-2005000401870Scope and ContentCorrespondents and other persons named: R.D. Wright, Panzee, Brian Fitzpatrick, E.K. Sinclair (Ed. AGE). The correspondence is mainly between Clem Christesen, Brian Fitz- patrick and R.D. Wright and E.K. Sinclair, the editor of the Age.
The majority of material is a comprehensive collection of unsorted press cuttings. File 1. Correspondence and scripts: Script by Brian Fitzpatrick: 'An injustice has been done' (ts., 8pp., c.1961); Script (by Clem Christesen?): 'Newspaper situation' (a report on which newspapers have published letters concerning the Orr case; 3 copies, c.1961); Two letters to the editor, SMH, from R.D. Wright (24 June 1961 & 29 June 1961); Letter to P.D. Phillips, Q.C. from R.D. Wright (16/1961); Letter to the editor, the Age, from Clem Christesen (15 July 1961); Letter to the editor, the Age, from Brian Fitzpatrick (16 June 1961); Two letters to Clem Christesen aand BF from E.K. Sinclair, (editor, the Age, 19 July 1961); 2 letters to E.K. Sinclair from Clem Christesen and BF (26/1961); Letter to Clem Christesen from E.K. Sinclair (27 July 1961); Letter to Orr and R.D. Wright from W.H.C. Eddy (20 July 1961); Letter to Orr from Clem Christesen (15/1966); Copies of telegrams to Orr and his family from Clem Christesen on Orr's illness and death, (1966); Bereavement card to Clem Christesen from Orr family. (1966). File 2 - Scripts and publications: Script: 'The challenge of the Orr case - an Open Letter to Andrew Dorsett' by W.H.C. Eddy (30pp.). University of Tasmania Staff Association Bulletin, No. 5, Nov. 1955); Transcript of the judgment in Orr v. University of Tasmania (19pp.). Galley-proof of Brian Fitzpatrick's 'An injustice has been done'; THE FREE SPIRIT, Vol. 4, No. 10, August 1958 (the Bulletin of the Australian Association or Cultural Freedom); A special issue on the Orr case; 'The struggle for justice and the preservation of a heritage' by Prof. S.S. Orr. (Offprint of an article from DIOGENES, Tasmanian University magazine, 2 copies, inscribed by Orr to Clem Christesen and Brian Fitzpatrick); 'The dismissal of S.S. Orr by the University of Tasmania' (Statement issued in pamphlet form by the Vice- Chancellor, University of Tasmania,53 pp.). Files 3 & 4 - press cuttings: Files contain several hundred press cuttings of articles on the Orr case, 1956-1966.
Note on file: For further references to the Orr case see also the following files: John Reynolds, Arthur Miller, Bert Vickers (July, 1961), E. Morris Miller (1956 & 1961), Robert W. Smith (11 October 1956), Marge Holburn (October 1956).Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest itemUnit2005.0004 Unit 0255
Christesen, Clement B., Orr, Sydney Sparkes (The Orr case) (1956-1966), [UMA-ITE-2005000401870]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 11/08/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/294362
