Series[UMA-SR-000000275] Correspondence files of Clement Christesen as editor of MeanjinAccession[2005.0004] MEANJIN EDITORIAL RECORDS OF C B CHRISTESENIdentifierUMA-ITE-2005000401917Scope and ContentJames Picot, one of the four founding editors of Meanjin, was an Englishman who migrated to Australia in 1923. He died in 1944 in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in ThailaUndated. Clem Christesen, a close friend, published a volume of his poetry 'With a hawk's quill' in 1953. The letters here belong to 5 groups: letters by James Picot to his friends in Australia (1930s- 1942); typescript copies of his letters to his brother and sister back in England (dating from 1923); letters betweenClem Christesen and Aimee andHenri Picot (1945-1973); letters and testimonials received by Clem Christesen from fellow inmates of Picot in the prisoner of war camp in Thailand (1946-1953) & correspondence concerned with the publication of 'With a hawk's quill'. Some of Picot's correspondence to Clem Christesen is in Meanjin I 2005.0004.01812 (pp. 36, 100,111, 127, 185).
Note on file: For references to Picot see also the followingfiles: Russell Hill, Paul Grano (13 August 1945, 30 January 1946 & 10 August 1973), Edith McKay (1945 &1954), Walter Stone (23 July 1954, 24 November 1955 & 1 December 1955), Norman Bartlett (February 1954), James Devaney (August & September 1952), Tom Inglis Moore (20 July 1953), R.D. Fitzgerald (1953), Harry Hooton (23 June 1941, In Meanjin I, p 82), Joseph O'Dwyer (May 1945 & late 1953), Walter Murdoch (6 October 1943 & 7 December 1948), Bruce Dawe (undated) & F.W. Robinson.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest itemUnit2005.0004 Unit 0268
Christesen, Clement B., Picot, James (1923-c.1953), [UMA-ITE-2005000401917]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 18/01/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/294409
