MS 1007
Papers of John Meredith


Box 1

Folder

1

Notes on field recordings of Australian folk songs and music made by John Meredith, 1953-56.

NLA receipt for collection of recordings.

Folder (large)

Folk song transcripts (the Meredith Collection), pp. 1-162

Addition 8 March 1985

Box 2

Folder

1

Letters received by John Meredith ,1955-56, 1981-85 (including Hugh Anderson, Mary Gilmore, Vance Palmer)

2

Letters received, 1983-85

3

Correspondence, 1982-84

Addition 27 February 1986

Folder

1

Letters received, 1984-86

Addition 25 May 1989

Folder

1

Letters received, 1986-88; letters from John Meredith to Russel Ward, 1954-55; folk song background notes and transcript; miscellaneous cuttings

2

Letters received, 1984-88

3

Letters received, 1985-88

4

Original music copies, bibliography and other notes for Duke Tritton manuscript

Box 3

Folder

5

Correspondence concerning Duke of the out back, 1979-82

6

Duke of the out back, drafts (deleted items)

Meredith, John

Duke of the out back, draft (photocopy duplicate)

Meredith, John

Collected and edited by Send round the hat; Duke Tritton - by his mates

Meredith, John

Duke of the outback revised and condensed version, 1983 (duplicate)

Addition 3 August 1989

Folder

1

Letters received by John Meredith, 1985-87 (including congratulations on appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia)

2

Correspondence 1988-89

Addition 9 May 1991

Box 4

Series 1 - Correspondence, 1970-80

Correspondents include Hugh Anderson, Gwenda Davey, Charles Edward, Martin Fitzgerald, John Low, Stephan Williams, Pamela Rosenberg, Yvonne White (publisher O.U.P.)

Folder

1

1970-88 and undated

2

Feb.-Dec. 1989

3

1990-91

Series 2 - Typescripts and manuscripts

This series includes photocopies, cuttings and correspondence.

Meredith, John

More than a life (and that's only the half of it!); an autobiography: in four parts

Box 5

Meredith, John

More than a life (and that's only the half of it!); an autobiography: photographs in four parts - 1832-1947, 1948-59, 1960-80, 1981-90

Meredith, John

The last Kooradgie final draft (duplicate), plus indexing copy from publisher;

Correspondence, 1984-88 (including Memorandum of Agreement with publisher); notes (including correspondence 1982,1988); notes (Returns of aboriginal natives and letter 1986); 'Moyengully and the Gundungurra People': paper read at The Oaks Historical Society, 1984;photographs and negatives

Box 6

Meredith, John

Oedipus rocks; a ballad opera: draft and notes (including correspondence 1981-82)

Meredith, John

King of the dance hall; Frank Bourke and his White Rose Orchestra: final draft (duplicate)

Notes (including correspondence 1985); photographs and negatives

Meredith, John

The pure merino fandango; a burlesque of old Botany Bay: revision December 1984 plus draft

Notes (including corresponding 1986-87) (50 negatives PIC/8573 transferred to Cold Store Pic Mer A)

Box 7

Meredith, John

Gallant Peter Clark: plus proof and draft

'Data' - notes (including correspondence 1983-88), cuttings, 'The ballad of Peter Clark'; new introduction for special reprint, notes (including correspondence 1986-88); additional notes for second edition;'illustrations' - photographs and photocopies

Box 8

Meredith, John (editor)

The Australian adventures of John Bairstow plus photocopy duplicate Notes (including correspondence 1984)

Meredith, John

How many miles from Gundagai?; a bush-ballad opera

Meredith, John

The coo-ees; March of the men of Gilgandra plus notes

Meredith, John

Old Jack Lang; a handbook of Australian rhyming slang plus notes to second edition, Dinkum Aussie slang and letter 1990

Meredith, John

Collected and edited by 'Authentic Australian bawdy ballads & etc' unpublished

Box 9

Meredith, John

Folk songs of Australia (three volumes)

Meredith, John, Covell, Roger & Brown, Patricia

Folk songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them Volume Two: (four volumes)

Box 10

Clarke, Joan & Meredith, John

The wild colonial boy; an Irish-Australian ballad opera of the convict days version (1955) and revisions

notes (including correspondence 1965, 1981-83); bibliography; photographs of Donahoe country

Meredith, John & Dengate, John

Here's luck; an Australian ballad opera draft (and telegram 1969)

Series 3 - Miscellaneous

A rose of no-man's land: bibliography and notes

'Sundry articles': mainly duplicates

Box 11

Notebook typescript, handwritten and printed articles from papers of Brian Loughlin (foundation member of The Bushwhackers band) c. 1950s

Tune books and transcription of tunes recorded by Ted Valance for John Meredith

Scrapbook of press cuttings 1952-56

Box 12

Scrapbook of press cuttings 1956-81

Scrapbook of press cuttings 1979-83

Scrapbook of press cuttings 1984-90

Addition October 1992

Boxes 13-14

Seven volumes of field notes compiled by John Meredith during the 1950s containing the words and sometimes the scores of hundreds of folk songs. The volumes are interleaved with additional comments prepared by W.N. Scott in 1992. One of the volumes is an anthology of Ned Kelly songs and tales.

Addition 22 January 1997

Box 14

Additional material on John Stanley concertinas added to Box 14.

Box 15

Letters received by John Mededith relating to folklore, 1990-1994

Folder

1

1990 + undated

2

1991

3

1992

4

1992

5

1993

6

1994

Addition 18 May 1998

Box 14

Additional material on John Stanley concertinas added to Box 14.

Box 16

Folder

1

Letters, newspaper cuttings, post cards, programs relating to folklore, 1982-97

2-4

Articles, papers about folklore, bush music. Includes John Meredith bibliography

Addition 16 April 1999

Correspondence (1978 - 1999) and the typescript of a talk by Meredith entitled "The night the Japs came over".

Addition 9 January 2003

Typescript of "How many miles from Gundagai?".

For details of boxes 17-30 please contact the Manuscript Branch of the Library.

Guide prepared March 1993