MS 4809
Papers of Humphrey McQueen (1942- )
Summary
| Creator: |
McQueen, Humphrey, 1942- |
| Title: |
Papers of Humphrey McQueen |
| Date range: |
1964-2003 |
| Reference number: |
MS 4809 |
| Extent: |
14.14 m. (101 boxes); plus 1 folio item |
Access
Part available for research; part requires permission for research; part not available for research. Not for loan.
Provenance
The collection was partly donated to the Library by McQueen and partly purchased by the Library from him in several instalments between 1974 and 2003.
Scope and Content
The collection includes personal and business correspondence, cuttings, notes, diaries, photographs, notebooks and reviews of some of McQueen’s books. There are also research material, drafts and typescripts relating to A new Britannia (1975), Social sketches of Australia, 1888-1975 (1978), The black swan of trespass (1979), Gone tomorrow (1982), Social sketches (1991), Tokyo world (1991), Japan to the rescue (1991), Tom Roberts (1996), Suspect history (1997), Temper democratic (1998) and The essence of capitalism (2002). The collection also includes papers relating to McQueen’s activities as a visiting lecturer and the 1998 exhibition and conference ‘Typically? Australian’ at the Brisbane City Gallery.
The major correspondents include Neil Beckhaus, Ruth Blair, Clem Christesen, Peter Curtis, Jenny Darling (McQueen’s agent), Tom Fitzgerald, Dorothy Green, Nick Jose, Joan Kerr, Henry Mayer, Brian Laver, Kathy Lette, Caroline Lurie, Stephen McDonald, Ben McGuire, Judy McQueen, Nicholas Pounder, Graham Rowlands and Walter Struve.
The subjects of the correspondence includes McQueen’s work as a freelance writer/ book reviewer/art critic and independent scholar, his travels, comments on politics, operas, concerts, art exhibitions, books he read and personal news.
Box / Folder List
First Instalment October 1974
BOX 1 Permission required for research
Folder
1 Correspondence with Brian Laver, 1970-71
2 Correspondence with Clem Christesen, 1971-74
3 Correspondence with John Hooker re a New Britannica
4-6 Correspondence with Henry Mayer, 1969-74
7 Correspondence with Penquin Books regarding Connexions, 1972-74
8 Correspondence concerning legal questions regarding A New Britannia
9 Max Teichmann's review of A New Britannia
BOX 2 Permission required for research
Folder
10 Copies of letters to Henry Mayer, n.d.
11 Correspondence with Kelvin Rowley, 1971-74
12 Correspondence regarding Connexions, 1971-74
13 Letters regarding Teichmann's review of A New Britannia
14 Correspondence regarding A New Britannia
15 Correspondence with John Hooker concerning A New Britannia, 1969-70
16 Newspaper critiques regarding A New Britannia, 1971
Addition 1975
BOX 3 Available for research
Typescript and reviews of A New Britannia
BOX 4 Permission required for research
Folder
17 Copies of letters to Clem Christesen, n.d.
18 Copies of letters to Brian Laver, n.d.
19 Copies of letters to Kelvin Rowley, n.d.
Addition 1976-1977
BOX 4 Permission required for research
Folder
20 Various correspondence and newspaper cuttings, 1964-1976
21 Correspondence regarding article on Spanish Influenza, 1972-73
22 Correspondence with Dennis Murphy, 1969-76
23 Correspondence concerning Comic Books, n.d.
24 Correspondence and type draft of 'What's wrong with Australia'?
25 Correspondence with Penguin Books, 1970-76
BOX 5 Available for research
Folder
26 Draft: The Black Swan of Trespass
27 Typescript: Social sketches of Australia, Part 1
28 Typescript: Social Sketches of Australia, Part 2
29-31 Typescript: Australia's Media Monopolies
32 Typescripts: 'Statements on freedom', and other articles
BOX 6 Available for research
Folder
33-34 Typescript of The Black Swan of Trespass, annotated by Bernard Smith, Chapters 1-8
35 Photocopy of typescript draft of The Black Swan of Trespass, Chapters 1-3
36 Photocopy of typescript draft of The Black Swan of Trespass, Part 2
Two copies of A New Britannia, 1970 and 1971 editions
BOX 7 Available for research
Folder
37 Photocopy of typescript draft The Black Swan of Trespass, Chapter 7
38 Photocopy and typescript of The Black Swan of Trespass, Part 4
Typescript of A New Britannia in two loose leaf folders
Addition 1978
BOX 8 Permission required for research
Six diaries, 1970-75
One notebook, n.d.
BOX 9 Permission required for research
Folder
39-41 Correspondence, 1965-78
42 Letters of Neil Beckhaus, 1965-77
43 Correspondence with Darce Cassidy, n.d.
BOX 10 Available for research
Folder
44 ANU History III. A Course syllabus 1972-74 (pass level) and 1974 (Honours)
45-6 Typescript Social sketches of Australia
47-8 Typescript History of Australia, Vol.2
49 Publishing notes for Social Sketches of Australia
Addition 1979-1980
BOX 11 Permission required for research
Folder
50 Tax returns and assessments, 1972-76
51-52 Account books, 1975-77
53 Correspondence, 1977-78
54 Financial papers, 1977-80
BOX 12 Available for research
Folder
55-57 Annotated typescript of The Black Swan of Trespass: the emergency of modernist painting in Australia up to 1944
BOX 13 Permission required for research
Folder
58 Correspondence with John Lonie, 1978-79
59 General correspondence, 1979
60 Correspondence concerning The Black Swan of Trespass, 1976-79
Addition 1981
BOX 14 Available for research
Folder
61 Photocopy of Eleanor Dark's Slow dawning (287 pp. lacks last page;
original held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney)
62 Poem and drafts of McQueen's What is literature
63 Typescript draft (with minor alterations) of McQueen's Gone Tomorrow: Australia enters the eighties
64 Research notes of women's magazines
BOX 15 Permission required for research
Folder
65 Financial papers and tax returns for 1977-78
66 Correspondence and draft of Jimmy's brief life, 1980
67 Margaret Preston Exhibition, 1977-79
68 Letters concerning McQueen's review for Sydney Morning Herald, drafts of review of Abroad and letters to Michele Field, 1981
69-70 Queensland Trip: containing administrative correspondence and some course notes
Five bank books (cancelled), three diaries and two cash books, 1976-78
One diary: a record of my political and public experience and impression, 1962
BOX 16 Available for research
Folder
71 Drafts of Gone Tomorrow
72 Correspondence related to McQueen's Meanjin article on C.J. Dennis
73 Draft of Pilbara's Progress
BOX 17 Available for research
Folder
74-76 Draft of Gone Tomorrow
BOX 18 Available for research
Folder
77 Draft of The Black Swan of Trespass
78 Draft of Gone Tomorrow, Chapter 7
Addition 1982
BOX 19 Permission required for research
Folder
79 Correspondence relating to 'The Conciliation and Arbitration Bill' (1963)
80 Miscellaneous correspondence between McQueen and organisations including the Council of Adult Education, ANZAAS, Warana and Commonwealth Festival, Island magazine, as well as with other writers, 1979‑82
81 Miscellaneous correspondence on personal and literary matters. (c.400 letters)
BOX 20 Permission required for research
Folder
82 Correspondence, mainly between McQueen and Angus and Robertson about publishing Gone Tomorrow, 1979-82 (published 1982)
83 Correspondence with APCOL (Alternative Publishing Co-Op Ltd.) concerning publications, meetings, notices and circulars, 1979-82
84 Correspondence concerning McQueen's articles and reviews for the National Times. Copies of some articles are also included.
85 Financial records, 1979-81
Exercise Book with personal expenditure, n.d.
86 Correspondence with Fremantle Arts Centre Press, mainly about A.B Facey's
A Fortunate Life, 1981-82
87 Correspondence with Michele Field concerning articles for the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Typed drafts of reviews of Red Shelby, notes for reviews and articles, 1980-82
88 Correspondence about his term as Writer in Residence at the University of Queensland, September-October 1981.
Correspondence with Penguin, for whom McQueen is a consultant, including lengthy literary critical comments, 1978-84
Addition 1984
BOX 21 Available for research
Folder
90 Biography of Tony Twigg, 1953-82
91 Miscellaneous circulars and newspaper cuttings, 1980-82
92 Draft typescript, with minor annotations for the printer, of Gone Tomorrow (Angus and Robertson, 1982)
BOX 22 Permission required for research
Folder
93 Envelope labelled 'MacLeod Pix': six black and white photographs intended to appear in Bowyang, including pictures of Lord and Lady Loftus and scenes from Tichborne Trial.
94 Bowyang: administrative and routine editorial matters, soliciting book reviews and financing. Some letters contain discussion on the content and direction of Bowyang.
96 Photocopies of articles mailed in July 1982 by Barry York to individuals involved in the production of Bowyang.
Articles mainly from New Left Review on subject of peace and nuclear disarmament.
97 Article 'Report on shipment of gift consignment of pigs to India, on behalf of those who have less' by B.K. Roberts, Flowerdale, Tasmania, 1 Jan.1967.
98 Article on 'Trees, their influence on human behaviour patterns', December 1982
Addition 1987
BOX 23 Permission required for research
Folder
99 Darling Harbour Bi-Centennial Exhibition, 1985
100 Correspondence with Roger Milliss, 1982-85
101-3 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1983-84
Two posters.
BOX 24 Permission required for research
Folder
104-6 Correspondence regarding Tasmanian tour, 1982-84
107-9 General correspondence, 1985-87
110 Correspondence with Fontana Paperbacks,1980-82
111 Correspondence with Widescope International Publishers Pty. Ltd., 1976‑1981
BOX 25 Permission required for research
Folder
112 Newspaper and magazine cuttings, 1986-87
113 Correspondence with Caroline Lurie and Australian Literary Management, 1982-86
114 Correspondence with German friends: Peter Stummer and Johannes Dietrich, 1985-86
115-18 General correspondence, 1982-86
BOX 26 Permission required for research
Folder
119 Correspondence with Allen and Unwin, 1982-86
120 Correspondence with Jim Davidson, 1981-84
121-22 Correspondence with Penguin Books, 1982-87
123 Correspondence with Nicholas Pounder, 1979-84
124 Correspondence regarding the George Munster Awards, 1982-86
BOX 27 Permission required for research
Folder
125-26 Personal correspondence, 1985-86. Correspondents include David Marr and Jack Hibbert
127 Correspondence with Henry Mayer, 1971-83
128 Correspondence with the Literature Board of the Australian Council, 1978-86
128 Correspondence with A.B.C., 1982-86
130 Correspondence, with Redgum Music Pty Ltd., 1980-1982
131-32 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1985-1987
BOX 28 Permission required for research
Folder
133 Correspondence other than ABC, 1982-1987
134-5 Tom Roberts T.V. series: research notes, drafts and correspondence
136 Correspondence with A.B.C., 1982-83
137-8 Typescript Virgin Ground, episodes 1-2
BOX 29 Available for research
Folder
139-40 Newspaper cuttings of McQueen's reviews, 1976-86
141-5 Tom Robert's - T.V. series: typescript and drafts, 1981
BOX 30 Available for research
Folder
146-51 The Facemaker: draft of novel about Tom Roberts, 1973
BOX 31 Not available for research
Folder
152-55 Correspondence with Peter Curtis, 1984-87
BOX 32 Not available for research
Folder
156-59 Correspondence with Judy McQueen, 1981-87
Addition 1988
BOX 33 Permission required for research
Folder
160 Correspondence with Neil Beckhaus, 1982-87
161 Correspondence with Angus and Robertson, 1982-85
162-63 Correspondence concerning 'Bologna', and drafts of 'Short story of Australia'
164 Correspondence with Australian Society , 1984
165 Corespondence with Ruth Blair, 1985-88
166 Correspondence with David Buchanan, 1981-86
167 Correspondence with Tim Bonnyhady, 1979-84
168 Correspondence with Manning Clark and one photograph, 1983-85
BOX 34 Permission required for research
Folder
169 Correspondence with Peter Cochrane, 1975-87
170 Correspondence with Steven Cooper, 1981-86
171 Correspondence with Stephen McDonald, 1986-88
172 Correspondence with John Farrow, 1979-82
173 Correspondence with Tom Fitzgerald, 1981-88
174 Correspondence with friends in Germany, 1987-88
175 Correspondence with Eric Dunn, 1980-86
176 Correspondence with Drew Cottle, 1982-87
177 Correspondence, 1982-85
BOX 35 Permission required for research
Folder
178 Correspondence with John Lonie, 1978-86
179 Correspondence with Kathy Lette, 1984-87
180 Correspondence with Nick Jose, 1985-87
181 Passport
182 Correspondence concerning articles for Island magazine, 1987
183 Correspondence with Dorothy Green, 1981-84
184 Correspondence Joan Kerr, 1979-87
185 Correspondence with David Jaffe and others, 1980-82
BOX 36 Permission required for research
Folder
186 Newspaper cuttings, 1987-88
187-88 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1987-8
BOX 37 Permission required for research
Folder
189-94 Financial papers, 1984-87
BOX 38 Permission required for research
Thirteen appointment diaries, 1979-88
BOX 39 Permission required for research
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195 Correspondence with Gerry Sinclair, 1981-88
196 Correspondence with Tony Twigg, 1982-86
197 Corresondence with Graeme Sturges, 1982-86
198 Correspondence with Sydney Morning Herald, Margaret Jones and Michele Field, 1984-87
199 Correspondence with Bernard Smith, 1981-88
200 Correspondence with Kosmos Tsokatias and Alex Vintila, 1981-87
201 Miscellaneous personal correspondence, including Leo Schofield, 1982-87
202 Correspondence with Graham Rowlands and Tim Rowse, 1980-88
203 Correspondence with Meanjin and Heather Radi, 1981-87
Addition 1990
BOX 40 Not available for research
Folder
204 Correspondence with Louise Adler, 1989-90
205 Correspondence with Australian Book Review, 1988-89
206 Correspondence with Australian Society, 1988-89
207 Correspondence with Neil Beckhaus, 1988-89
208 Correspondence with Robert Darby, 1988-90
209 Correspondence with Jim Davidson, 1988-89
210 Correspondence with Tom Fitzgerald, 1988-89
211 Correspondence with Ruth Blair, 1988-89
212 Correspondence with Manning Clark, 1988-90
BOX 41 Not available for research
Folder
213 Correspondence with German friends: Elke and Klaus, 1988-90
214 Letters from Adam, 1988-90
215 Correspondence with Dorothy Green, 1988-90
216 Correspondence with Bob Hincksman, 1988-90
217 Correspondence with Tom Horton, 1988-90
218 Correspondence with Nick Jose, 1988-90
219 Correspondence with The Independent
220 Correspondence with friends in Japan, 1988-89
BOX 42 Not available for research
Folder
222 Correspondence with Judy McQueen, 1988-89
223 Correspondence with Mark Lazeros, 1988
224 Correspondence with Kathy Lette, 1988-89
225 Correspondence with Caroline Lurie, 1988-90
226-28 Correspondence with Stephen McDonald, 1988-90
229 Correspondence with Penguin Books, 1988-90
BOX 43 Not available for research
Folder
230 Correspondence with Nicholas Pounder, 1988-90
231 Correspondence with Jack Radley, 1988-89
232 Correspondence with Graham Rowlands, 1988-90
233 Correspondence with Tony Twigg, 1989
234-37 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1988-90
BOX 44 Not available for research
Folder
238-41 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1988-90
Folders 242-254 contain research material, notes and newspaper cuttings relating to McQueen's research for a book on the Japan-Indonesia-Australia triangle, 1988-90
Folder
242 Newspaper clippings on Association of South East Asian Nations, politics and diplomacy, 1987-89
243 Brunei
244 Christmas Island
245 Gaiusho
246 Indonesian foreign affairs
BOX 45 Not available for research
Folder
247 Indonesian economy
248 Indonesian oil
249 Japan and the Netherlands East Indies
250 Newly industrialised economies
251 Oil, Timor Sea
252 Piracy
253 Straits
254 Trade
BOX 46 Not available for research
Folder
256-57 Correspondence, notes etc. 1988-90
258-60 Correspondence, 1988-90
261 Two appointment diaries, 1988-89
262 Four diaries, 1988
263 Typescript of diaries (used as base for Tokyo World)
Box 47 Not available for research
Folder
264 Correspondence regarding publishing of Tokyo World, 1991
265-70 Typescript of Tokyo World, 1988-89
271-72 Typescript of Japan to the rescue, Chapters 1-8
Box 48 Not available for research
Folder
273-75 Typescript of Japan to the rescue, Chapters 9-18
Addition 1993
Box 48 Not available for research
Folder
276-280 Annotated typescript of Japan to the rescue
Box 49 Not available for research
Folder
281-84 Typescript of Tokyo World
285 Galley proof of Tokyo World
286 Correspondence concerning Tokyo World
Box 50 Not available for research
Folder
287-91 Typescript of Suburb of the sacred
Box 51 Not available for research
Folder
292-300 General correspondence, January - November 1990
Box 52 Not available for research
Folder
301 Correspondence, December 1990
302 Correspondence with Mark Worne , July - September 1990
303 Correspondence with Australian Literary Management, May - June 1990
The principal correspondents in Folders 304-367 are:
Suzy Baldwin, Neil Beckhaus, Ruth Blair, Katharine Brisbane, Manning Clark, Peter Cochrane, Jenny Darling, Sara Dowse, Tom Fitzgerald, Adam Hughes, Nicholas Jose, Jenny Lee, Caroline Lurie, Judy McQueen, Drusilla Modjeska, Nicholas Pounder, Henry Rowland, Leo Schofield, Bernard Smith, Rosemary Sorenson and Max Suich.
Box 52 Not available for research
Folder
304-308 Correspondence, January - May 1991
Box 53 Not available for research
Folder
309-16 Correspondence, June - December 1991
Box 54 Not available for research
Folder
317-23 Correspondence, January - September 1992
Box 54 Not available for research
Folder
324-26 Correspondence, October - December 1992
Box 55 Not available for research
Folder
227-29 Correspondence, January - May 1993
330 Miscellaneous: printed items, newspaper clippings and other papers
Addition May 1996
Box 56 Not available for research
Folder
331-39 Correspondence, January-September 1993
Box 57 Not available for research
Folder
340-42 Correspondence, October-December 1993
343-49 Correspondence, January-July 1994
Box 58 Not available for research
Folder
350-54 Correspondence, August-December 1994
355-58 Correspondence, January-April 1995
Box 59 Not available for research
Folder
359-67 Correspondence, May-December 1995
Box 60 Not available for research
Folder
368-71 Letters to The Australian, concerning McQueen's articles, 1991-94
372-74 Correspondence with Alexander Wightman, 1991-94
Box 61 Not available for research
Folder
375-84 Correspondence with Stephen McDonald, 1990-96
Box 62 Not available for research
Folder
385-91 Annotated typescript of Tom Roberts: A Shropshire Lad
Box 63 Not available for research
Folder
392-99 Annotated transcript of Tom Roberts (second version)
Box 64 Not available for research
Folder
400 School reports from St Mary's Marist Brothers College, 1956-57
Examination reports and degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, 1957-66.
Reports from the Australian Music Examination Board, 1955 and Trinity College of Music, London, 1952-58
401 Photograph album and envelope with photographs, c.1940-50
402 Postcards and letters to Mrs McQueen (mother), 1983-93
403 One autograph book, 1956-59 and one appointment diary, 1993-94
404 Six scrapbooks, 1962-76
Addition September 1996
Humphrey McQueen donated the papers in this addition in September 1996. They comprise subject files containing typescripts, notes and research material for his books A new Britannia (1975), Gone tomorrow (1982) and Tom Roberts (1996). There are also papers relating to Labor politics.
The Library has preserved the arrangement of papers within the files and the file titles.
Boxes 65-88 are not available for research until access is determined
A new Britannia (1970)
Box 65
Folder
405-6 Aborigines
407 Aborigines in textbooks
408 Aborigines from 1900: school history
409 Attitudes to defence and the War (but not conscription)
410 Aviation
411 Boer War
412 Economic background
Box 66
Folder
413 1888 to the present: ideas for photos
414 Emigrants: biographical details
415 Land
416 The left before 1920
417 Liquor
418 Militarism
419 Racism in Victoria
420 Rising gentry
Gone tomorrow: Australia in the 80s (1982)
Box 67
Folder
421 Arbitration
422 Aborigines, 1960+
423 Bushrangers
424-5 Sir Roderick Carnegie, 1973-1986
426-7 Convicts
428 Sir Charles Court and Lang Hancock, 1970-1980
Box 68
Folder
429 Democracy
430 Malcolm Fraser
431 Gold
432 W.A. Holman
433-4 Walter Hurrell
435 W.H. Irvine
436 Sir John Kerr
Box 69
Folder
437 Land
438 William Lane
439 [Karl] Marx in Australia
440 Nationalism
441 Navy
442 New Zealand
443-4 Racism, 1888-1971
445 Socialist thought
Box 70
Folder
446 South Australia
447 J.O. Stone, 1980-1981
448 Tasmania
449 W.A. Trenwith
450 Union list
451 Unions
452 Western Australia
453 Gough Whitlam
Subject files (Boxes 71-76), unsorted notes (Boxes 77-78) and typescripts (Box 79-80) for Tom Roberts (1996)
Box 71
Folder
454 Dorset to 1869
455 Melbourne 1869-1881
456 Art training 1870s
457 London 1881-1883
458 Roberts in Spain 1883 and Europe 1881-1885
459 Paris c. 1884
460 England 1884-1885
461 1885-1886
Box 72
Folder
462 1886-1887
463 Melbourne 1888-18889
464 Tasmania from 1880s
465 [Shearing the] rams Sept. 1889
466 Sydney 1890s
467 Melbourne 1890-1893
468 New England: Clarence
469 Sydney 1894-1896 (not Newstead)
Box 73
Folder
470 Sydney 1896-1901
471 England 1903-1906
472 1907-1908
473 Hampstead 1909-1914
474 OZ 1920
475 G[reat] B[ritain] 1921-1922
476 OZ 1923-1927
Box 74
Folder
477 Kallista, 1926-1927
478 Death 1928-1931
479 Armistice
480 Big Picture
481 Big Picture, London
482 Block
483 Bourke Street
484 Break away
Box 75
Folder
485 ‘Bulldog’
486 Como
487 Exodus
488 Family tree
489 Heidelberg Group exhibiting 9 x 5
490 Newstead
Box 76
Folder
491 9 x 5 including J.A. McNeil Whistler
492 Pictures and visuals
493 Portraits
494 Reputation
495 Riverina and Roberts (not [Shearing the] Rams)
496 Shropshire
497 World War I
498-9 Bibliography
Box 77
Item
500-3 Unsorted notes
Box 78
Item
504-7 Unsorted notes
Box 79
Item
508-9 Typescripts
Box 80
Item/ Folder
510-11 Typescripts
Notes and other papers relating to the unpublished novel ‘Tom Roberts’
Box 80
Folder
512 Correspondence details (comprising notes and extracts taken from various letters)
513 Dialogue
514 Episode one 1885-1888
515 Episode two 1889
Box 81
Folder
516-17 Notes for novel
518 Street addresses in Oz
519 ‘Things to look up and to get etc’
Folio item
520 Large card
Papers (mostly notes, bibliography and some cuttings) relating to Humphrey’s research on the Labor Party
Laborism
Box 81
Folder
521 The Age
522 Argus
523 Commonweal
524 Education
Box 82
Folder
525 H.B. Higgins
526 Melbourne Trades Hall Council members
527 New Zealand influences
528 Notes from theses
529 The Tocsin, 1899-1901
530 The Tocsin, from 1901
531 Tom Mann
532 Victorian Labor
533 Victorian unionism
Laborism in 20th Century
Box 83
Folder
534 Bibliography
535-6 Labor Party
537 Living off Asia
538 New South Wales
539 Queensland
540 Unionism
Box 84
Folder
541 Victorian electoral information
542 Miscellaneous
Labor men
Box 84
Folder
543 L.H. Barnard
544 Jim Cairns, 1969-1977
545 Arthur Calwell, 1971-1972
546 Gough Whitlam, 1970-1975
Lectures on 20th Century Australia
Box 84
Folder
547 Arbitration
548 Aviation
549 The base – superstructure model
Box 85
Folder
550 The black swan of trespass
551 Campion Society
552 Collins House
553 Conscription / defence
554 Convicts
555 Defending Australia
556 The dialectic of class and nation
557 Down on the farm
558 Electrification plus secession = capitalism
Box 86
Folder
559 Fit for heroes
560 For love alone
561 Historians versus Aborigines
562 Lecture outlines
563 Literature and racism
564 Nationalism: the debate
565 1934
566 Out of sight
567 Papua New Guinea
Box 87
Folder
568 Politics: 1919
569 Positivism
570 Racism
571 Radio
572 Red Ted
573 Rise of racism
574 Sawdust Caesars
575 Smoothing the pillow
576 Spanish flu
Box 88
Folder
577 Suburbanisation
578 Suburbanisation II
579 Sugar bag days
580 Tora, Tora, Tora
581 The triple abyss
582 Violence: 1919
583 Versailles
584 White Australia
585 Women in fiction
Addition September 1998
The Library purchased the papers from Humphrey McQueen in September 1998. They comprise correspondence, literary papers (including drafts of Suspect history), appointment diaries, two cassettes and papers relating to Thelma McQueen.
The subjects of the correspondence include McQueen’s work and books (Tom Roberts (1996), Emerging pluralism in Asia and the Pacific (1997), Suspect history (1997) and Temper democratic: how exceptional is Australia? (1998)), the Manning Clark Courier Mail controversy, an exhibition at the Brisbane City Gallery curated by McQueen entitled ‘Typically? Australian’ in 1988 and personal news.
The correspondents include Bruce Anderson, Neil Beckhaus, Brisbane City Gallery, Adrian Chan, Grace Cochrane, Jenny Darling (McQueen’s agent), Geoffrey Dutton, Wayne Harrison, Jean Hart, Kathy Lette, Chris McConville, Ben McGuire, Hisayuki Mitsuo, Graham Rowlands, Daniel Thomas, Dawn Williams and Yamamoto Yasushi.
Boxes 89-93 are not available for research until access is determined
Box 89
Folder
586-7 Papers relating to Thelma McQueen, 1995-1996
588-9 Correspondence with Neil Beckhause, 1972-1997
590 Business correspondence, 1995-1997
Box 90
Folder
591 Business correspondence, 1995-1997
592-4 Correspondence, 1996
Box 91
Folder
595 Correspondence with Yamamoto Yasushi concerning Emerging pluralism in Asia and the Pacific (1997)
596-7 Reviews, draft and correspondence relating to Suspect history, 1997
598 Correspondence, 1997
Box 92
Folder
599 Correspondence, 1997
600-1 Correspondence mostly concerning ‘Typically? Australian’ exhibition and conference, 1997-1998
602 Draft and correspondence concerning Temper democratic: how exceptional is Australia?, 1998
603 Correspondence with Chris McConville concerning a series of lectures by McQueen at the Sunshine Coast University College, 1998
604 Four appointment diaries, 1990, 1995-1997
Box 93
Folder
605 Cuttings of articles with references to McQueen, reviews of his books (including Tom Roberts and Tokyo world, an Australian diary) and book review by McQueen, 1979-1996
606 Miscellaneous paper
607 Two cassettes: ‘Saved from the wreck Dorothy Green’ (soundtrack, 1982) and recording of a Heritage lecture by McQueen (name of venue not given), 1996)
Addition March 2001
The Library purchased this addition from McQueen in March 2001. It comprises personal and business correspondence (1996-2001), a copy typescript of The essence of capitalism: the origins of our future (2001) and other papers.
Subjects of the correspondence include McQueen’s visit to the US, his illness, his work as a writer and reviewer, politics, Bach Festival in Melbourne, books read and personal news.
The main correspondents are Kathy Bail, Christie Beckhouse, Ruth Blair, Jenny Darling (McQueen’s agent), Michael Dunn, Andrew Franklin (Profile Books), Graham Gully, Rodney Hall, Ken Inglis, Caroline Lurie (Hodder Headline), Peter Lyssiotis, Kathy Lette, Ben McGuire, Judy McQueen, Hisayuki Mitsuo, Nicholas Ponder, Graham Rowlands and Walter Stuve.
Boxes 94-97 are not available for research until access is determined
Box 94
Folder
608 Letters and cuttings from Graham Gully, 1996-2000
609 Correspondence with Walter Struve, 1996-2001
609 Correspondence concerning The essence of capitalism, 1997-2000
611 Correspondence, Jan-July 1998
Box 95
Folder
612 Correspondence, Jan-July 1998
613-4 Correspondence, Jan-June 1999
615 Correspondence, July 1999-July 2000
Box 96
Folder
616-7 Correspondence, July 1999-July 2000
618-9 Correspondence, July 2000-Feb 2001
Box 97
Folder
620 Appointment diary (1998), notebooks and notes relating to McQueen’s travels in East Germany (1987) and US (1983)
621 Miscellaneous drafts, notes and cuttings (1963-1996)
622 A copy typescript of The essence of capitalism
Addition May 2003
The Library purchased the May 2003 instalment from Humphrey McQueen. It comprises personal and business correspondence, typescript and reviews of The essence of capitalism (2001), reviews of Tom Roberts (1996), get well cards, photographs and other papers.
The correspondence gives a good picture of McQueen’s work as a freelance writer//book reviewer/art critic and independent scholar, his travels, comments on politics, operas, concerts, art exhibitions, books and personal news.
The main correspondents include Peter Applegarth, Kathy Bail (editor of The Bulletin where McQueen is its art critic), Peter Cochrane, Jenny Darling (McQueen’s agent), Eva de Jong, Kate Evans (ABC Radio National), Herbert Feith, Ben Genocchio, Anna Gray, Susan Hall (National Gallery of Australia concerning McQueen’s contribution to Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia), Nathan Hollier (Overland), Joan Kerr, Peter Kingston, Kathy Lette, Caroline Lurie, Ben McGuire, James Murdoch, Nicholas Pounder, Graham Rowlands, Peter Stasny (of the Jewish Museum in Vienna, which commissioned McQueen to write an essay on the Austrian-born sculptor Karl Duldig) and Black Rose Books (Canadian publishing house which published The essence of capitalism for the North America market).
Boxes 98-101 are not available for research until access is determined
Box 98
Folder
623 Correspondence with Judy McQueen, 1996-2003
624 Correspondence, 1999
625 Correspondence with Walter Struve, 1999-2003
626 Get well cards and letters, 2001
627 Correspondence, 2001-2002
Box 99
Folder
628-30 Correspondence, 2001-2002
631 Correspondence, 2002-2003
Box 100
Folder
632-4 Correspondence, 2002-2003
635 Typescript of 1997 diary
636 Two notebooks, 2002
Box 101
Folder
637 Reviews of Tom Roberts, 1996
638-9 Typescript of The essence of capitalism
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