MS 9093
Papers of Walter Stone


Box List

Box 1

Item  
  Miscellany, volumes 1-6 (indexed)
1-2 'Books and writing, mainly Australian, 1916-81' (vols 1-2). Includes autographs of Australian literary figures including Will Ogilvie, Vance Palmer, Dorothea Mackellar, and C.J. Dennis.
3 'Cuttings, ephemera and letters, mainly on Australian literary matters, together with some photographs, 1935-79' (vol. 3).

Box 2

Item  
4 'Australian writers, books and publishing, 1947-81' (vol. 4). Includes letters of Kylie Tennant and James A. Meagher.
5 '1925-77 being mainly Australian 1973-77 exhibition catalogues' (vol. 5). Includes a broadcast by Stone entitled 'The good old days'.
6 'Book collecting and book publishing, exhibition and other catalogues, 1975-77' (vol. 6).

Box 3

Item  
7 'Australian literary miscellany, c.1953-62' (indexed). Includes ABC scripts, a set of Commonwealth Literary Fund lectures by P.R. Stephensen, background papers for a residential school on Australian Folk Music and other items.
8 'Australiana cuttings', 1824, 1855, 1931, 1937-38

 

  Archer Russell scrapbooks
9-10 'Australian literature and literati', 1912-71. Scrapbook of cuttings, mainly 1930s and 1940s, with some additions by Stone.
11 'Banjo Paterson'. Archer Russell's scrapbook of cuttings, 1933-58 with Stone's drafts of talks and other items, 1953-78.

Box 4

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12 'Australia: the land and its history', 1929-40 (vol. 1)

Box 5

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13-14 'Australia: the land and its history', vols 2-3, 1930-56. Contain loose cuttings and notes from volume 1.
Last updated 9 October 1997