Series[UMA-SR-000000275] Correspondence files of Clement Christesen as editor of MeanjinAccession[2005.0004] MEANJIN EDITORIAL RECORDS OF C B CHRISTESENIdentifierUMA-ITE-2005000401873Scope and ContentOf the total of 406 letters, 310 are by Nettie Palmer. In addition there are another 127 items of correspondence - none of them by NP - that relate to the publication of 'Fourteen years'.
Scripts by NP: 'Bernard O'Dowd (ts., 3pp.); 'The collected poems of Bernard O'Dowd' (article, ms., 5pp.); Review of 'The collected poems of Bernard O'Dowd' (article, ms., 5pp.); 'Advance Australia - where?' (ts., one page only);Lecture 1: England, Scotland and Ireland' (lecture text, University of Queensland Commonwealth Government Lectureship in Australian Literature, 1942 ts., 12pp.); Lecture 2: France' (lecture text, details as above, 1942, ts., 12pp.); 'Lecture 3: Italy and the Mediterranean' (lecture text as above, 1942, ts., 11pp.); 'Lecture 5: The USA' (lecture text as above, 1942, ts., 1p.); Review of 'The fortunes of Richard Mahony' (ts., 4pp., 1947); Extract from 'Fourteen years' (ts., 5pp., 2 copies); 'Gabriela Mistral' (article, ts., 2pp., 1946); 'Henry Handel Richardson: her work' (article, ts., 14pp.); 'Hugh McCrae' (article, ts., 4pp.); 'Joyce Eyre Phillips' (tribute, ms., 3pp.); 'Letter to Tom Collins: Furnley Maurice and his work' (extract fom article, 1 page only, ts.); 'Living France' (article, ts., 4pp.); 'Louis Lavater' (tribute, ts., 5pp.); 'New Zealand and Australia' (article, ts., 7pp.); 'Notes from a diary' (meetings with H. Handel Richardson in 1935, ts., 10pp.); Notes on Picot's 'Footprints' (ms., 1p.); Notes on reality in art (ms., 1p. also 2 ts. copies); 'Remembrance of things past: 1914' (ts., 5 copies); Review of Sidney J. Baker's 'The Australian language' (ts., 6pp.); Review of 'Six Australian poets' (ts., 8pp.); 'Some news of writers and publishing' (ts., 2pp., Undated note to Judith Wright at foot); Review of David Martin's 'Spiegal the cat' (ts., 2pp.); Tribute to Furnley Maurice (ms., 4pp.); 'A voice from war-time France' (article, ts., 4pp.); Review of C.S. Montgomery's 'Shakespearean afterglow' (ts., 6pp.). Press cuttings: There are only four press cuttings in this file; see also the Vance Palmer files for press cuttings relating to NP. Miscellaneous: there are ten items which include notes on D.H. Lawrence and Joseph Furphy (one page) and notes titled 'Vance's facts' - biographical notes on VP with a notation by Clem Christesen (ms., 2pp. nd).
Note on file: For further references to NP see also the following files: Allan Ashbolt (16/ Nov/1964), George Ashton (1 October 1959 & 16 December 1960), Kate Baker(May 1942 & 9February 1949), John Barnes (22 October 1964), John Barry (1959), James Devaney (11 June 1974), WM Heinemann (Clem Christesen to Hall, 10February 1950 & Arnold Gyde 7 October 1949 & 3 November 1950), Esther Levy (2 March 1965), Edith Mckay (9 November 1958), E. Morris Miller (12 March 1960), Barrett Reid (Undated, mid 1940S) & Price Warung.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest itemUnit2005.0004 Unit 0257
