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Collection Summary

Creator
Masyln Williams
Title
Papers of Maslyn Williams
Date Range
1850-1995
Collection Number
MS 3936
Extent
12.3 metres (70 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 7 map folios)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The collection includes material about Williams' World War II service and items pertaining to the photographer Damian Parer; research notes and manuscripts relating to publications about Asia; research note and manuscripts relating to Australian historical research and other writings; research notes and manuscripts relating to the history of the British Phosphate Commission; papers relating to the founding of the National Music Camp Association; other papers including drafts of writings.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1791626) for the access conditions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Maslyn Williams, National Library of Australia, MS 3936, [box number and series and/or folder number]'.

Arrangement

The National Library has been collecting material from Williams since 1966. The material was allocated separate collection numbers; in September 1986 the papers were amalgamated under one of the collection numbers, MS 3936.

Material that was received in April 1968 and previously catalogued as MS 2069 is now MS 3936, Box 4, Folders 19-25.

Material that was received in November 1968 and previously catalogued as MS 2217 is now MS 3936, Box 4, Folder 26.

Material that was received in December 1966 and previously catalogued as MS 1818 is now MS 3936, Box 1, Folders 1-4.

Material that was received in March 1970 and previously catalogued as MS 2009 is now MS 3936, Box 2, Folders 5-12 and Box 3, Folders 13-18.

Material that was received in 1974 is in MS 3936, Box 18, Folders 120-125.

Material that was received in May 1978 is in MS 3936, Box 19, Folders 126-127.

Material that was received in April 1986 is in MS 3936, Boxes 20-30.

Material that was received in January 1988 is in MS 3936, Boxes 31-36.

Material that was received in September 1988 is in MS 3936, Boxes 37-42.

Material that was received in November 1989 is in MS 3936, Boxes 43-46.

Material that was received in July 1989 is in MS 3936, Boxes 52-56.

Material that was received in January 1990 is in MS 3936, Boxes 47-51 and Folios 1-2.

Material that was received in October 1992 is in MS 3936, Boxes 57-60.

Material that was received in November 1994 is in MS 3936, Boxes 66-68.

Material that was received in April 1996 is in MS 3936, Boxes 68-70.

Item Descriptions

Class. Consignments received from December 1966 to May 1978

New Guinea notes - Travel notes taken on various trips to New Guinea in connection with the production of documentary films (File 1-5) - Box 1-2

Notes on William Macgregor (File 6) - Box 1-2

Notes on annexation dispute in Papua and New Guinea (File 7) - Box 1-2

Notes on the history of the New Guinea region (File 8) - Box 1-2

"Vergus" - unpublished excerpt from Stone Age Island (File 9) - Box 1-2

"The Empire Makers" - a novel (File 10-12) - Box 1-2

Documentary script for "New Guinea Patrol" (File 13) - Box 1-2

"The Duna Patrol" continuity script (File 14) - Box 3

"The Duna Patrol" notes (File 15) - Box 3

Notebook made during a trip to Cambodia in 1968 Background for The Land In Between (File 16) - Box 3

Indonesian diaries - basis for book Five Journeys from Jakarta (File 17) - Box 3

Notes on China visit - Typescript draft with manuscript annotations and instructions to the printer of his account of a three month trip to China (File 19-25) - Box 3

Notebooks filled during a trip to China April-June 1966 Basis for book The East is Red (File 26a) - Box 4

Material relating to the non-fiction book Faces of my neighbours (File 26b) - Box 4

Material cut from original typescript (File 27) - Box 5

Original manuscript (i) (File 28) - Box 5

Original manuscript (ii) (File 29) - Box 5

The t/s after publisher's cuts - marked up for printing (File 29a) - Box 5

An uncut t/s as completed by the author (File 30-31) - Box 5

Section dealing with Japan and Korea (with author's revisions) (File 32) - Box 6

Photocopy of unabridged draft (i) (File 33) - Box 6

Photocopy of unabridged draft (ii) (File 34) - Box 6

Section dealing with the Philippines (with author's revisions) (File 35) - Box 6

A file of pages revised or eliminated (File 36) - Box 6

Korea - work copy no.2 complete with prologue and epilogue (File 37) - Box 6

Japan-revised copies (File 38) - Box 7

South Korea (File 39-41) - Box 7

(research material): Three folders of papers, mainly from private sources, dealing with human rights problems and religious persecution in South Korea - used as resource material in writing Faces of my neighbour. Listed in the folders.

Philippines (File 42-44) - Box 7

(Research Material): Three folders containing material collected in the Philippines: Subjects: Human rights (individual case histories); Church opposition to the Marcos regime; Grass-roots social work; Plight of the sugar workers; Cultural and historical material

Travel notebooks - Japan, Korea, Indonesia (File 45) - Box 8

Indonesia (File 46-47) - Box 8

(research material) (not used in Faces of my neighbour):

Two folders of paper, one contains

- mainly from private sources

- material dealing with various political and sociological problems.

"The Story of Indonesia" - First complete draft (File 48) - Box 8

Cambodia - Land in between: (File 49-52) - Box 8

General research material dealing mainly with the cultural and political history of the Khmers;

(from the pre-Communist takeover period).

Travel-Diary-notes (File 53) - Box 9

Handwritten notebooks covering journeys to the Philippines in 1975/1976 to gather material for the book Faces of my neighbour: journeys in 1978 to Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Vienna, and France to gather material for a novel My life revisited (not yet published) and to look into possibilities for Cultural Exchange arrangements on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs: journeys to Greece, Israel, Vence (S. France) and Cuttack (India) to gather material for short stories, radio plays etc. Journey to China as leader of a tour by the Australian Youth Orchestra (1979); also to Israel, Greece, France (Vence); Paris; UK (Surrey); India.

One brown ringlock binder containing typewritten notes (no other copy) of travels in the Philippines (with index) - covers Easter ceremonies on the Island of Marinduque; guest of Minister for Immigration and his political wife; Fort Santiago; interview with Foreign Minister; visit to the Moslem province of Minandao; more in Manila; interviews with various politcos, religious and academic; tour of the province around (File 54) - Box 9

Cebu; Manila - slums and slum workers; Cardinal Sin (total about 100 pages); also notes on travels in Japan (1975) indexed - Tokyo; general impressions over the social and cultural spectrum; interviews (File 54) - Box 9

Press cuttings and reviews of Five Journeys from Jakarta (File 55) - Box 9

Bundles of reviews: (File 56-60) - Box 9

Three large envelopes containing reviews etc. of MW publications.

Parer film (abortive): (File 61) - Box 9

Comments and suggestions from MW, commissioned by Feature Film Producer/writer team Mason-Morphett, on a film script. Gives an extensive view of Parer's record and intimate observations on his character.

Notes: from Richard Mason (film producer) to MW on the subject of making a film about Parer.

Damien Parer film script (File 62) - Box 10

Damien Parer film - second version of script (File 63) - Box 10

Correspondence with Angus and Robertson (File 64) - Box 10

Damien Parer (File 65) - Box 10

(memorabilia);

One Manila folder containing:

a. A dozen private (wartime) photographs

b. Notes on a TV script - The Legend of Damien Parer, with copy of the Award Certificate.

c. Some press tributes to Parer after his death at Pelau.

d. A black and white drawing by War Artist Harold Herbert shows Parer and Williams putting a film together in their studio/flat in Cairo 1941.

e. List of other Parer material donated by MW to the National Library in August 1977.

f. One envelope containing letters (with explanatory notes) written to or by Parer during the war.

g. Some valedictory press clippings (Parer)

Copies of items held at NFSA (File 65a) - Box 10

Ilora - Paper letter (opened October 2002) (File 65b) - Box 10

Correspondence with US literary agent Paul Reynolds (File 66) - Box 10

This folder has been "cancelled" The numbering jumps from Box 10 Folder 66 to Box 10 Folder 68 (File 67) - Box 10

Correspondence with US Publisher's Editor, John Willey (Morrow Co.) 1964-1979 - refers to various projects (File 68) - Box 10

"The Innocence of Donald Spotwich" - drafts (File 69-73) - Box 11

History of Indonesia (unpublished): by a longtime Australian resident and political activist, part of an English translation of a 19th century Javanese epic, and a typescript of The Story of Indonesia by MW (File 74) - Box 12

Mike Stefani: (File 75) - Box 12

Award winning film 1950:

One large envelope contains:

a. Stills from the film

b. Eulogies and synthesis

c. Dialogue sheets used for translations

Correspondence and working notes on 2 aborted projects: (File 76) - Box 12

Book on Cambodia (up-dated edition) TV film series in New Guinea

A fiddle for Willi: (File 77) - Box 12

First novel - not submitted for publication. First attempt at a novel (1956) after returning from a film-making stint in Germany. Project put into the bottom drawer. (one copy only).

Belinda (File 78) - Box 12

Unfinished novel: 143 pp typescript - original sent to US publisher Morrow (comments in Morrow correspondence file).

Subject: The US 'takeover' of Australia. Project 'put aside for a while'. Date 1971.

Moonboy: (File 79) - Box 12

Sketches for a Fantasy with Music - for film or theatre (young people).

Put aside because of cost problems.

Folder includes some correspondence with entrepreneurs.

Berrima District: (File 80) - Box 12

Historical bits and pieces of material relating to the history of the Berrima/Moss Vale district.

War material from the middle east (1941): (File 81) - Box 12

(Recently unearthed in the War Memorial in Canberra). Although only photocopies there may be only one other set in existence. The material, describing episodes during the war that were filmed by the Australian Official Film Unit of which MW was the producer-writer. Interesting examples of his journalistic work

Press cuttings and reviews of books (File 82) - Box 12

Non-official documents relating to the BPC History: (File 83) - Box 13

Including item 1,

Commissioner H.B. Pope: Notes taken at interviews with two of his daughters and an ex-colleague.

Note: Pope was appointed by Hughes in 1920, and dismissed by Bruce in 1926 after a Royal Commission into differences between Pope and the other Phosphate Commissioners.

There are no other copies of these notes in existence.

Letter (19/5/1900) Ellis/Naylor: (File 83) - Box 13

Note: Having confirmed the existence of huge phosphate deposits on Ocean Island, Albert Ellis went on to prospect Nauru, leaving his young assistant, Naylor, to safeguard the find and consolidate relations with the natives. This letter (copy) sets out his instructions. (Item 2)

Naylor's diary and work report: (File 83) - Box 13

May/August 1900, Pp26.

No other copy of this document known to exist. (Item 3)

Story of Nabetari: (File 83) - Box 13

An epic voyage made by a young Gilbertese of a series of stories published in association with the South Pacific Commission in 1959. (Item 4)

A History of Nauru: (File 84) - Box 13

written by the German Medical Officer on the island in 1913. Printed at the Evangelical Mission House.

This is the first history of Nauru to be published. (Item 5)

An English translation of the history (including some notes by MW) (Item 5a) (File 84) - Box 13

Donaldson diary: (File 85) - Box 13

Donaldson went to work on Nauru in 1914 and eventually became head of the BPC Chipping Division in Melbourne. The diary covers the declaration of war in 1914 and the subsequent 'occupation' of Nauru by Australian troops. The original diary is in the possession of the family and may become available when Donaldson dies (he is now 93).

Meanwhile this is the only photocopy in existence. Some correspondence included (Item 6)

Notes on Research Interviews: (File 86) - Box 13

with Sir Alexander Waddell (UK Commissioner) Sir Wm. Dunk (Australian Commissioner), Professor Harry Maude (ex Resident Commissioner of the G. & B. Islands), plus biographical notes on Wm. Groves (ex-Director of Education on Nauru) elicited from his daughter. (Item 7)

An account (1937) by Head Chief Detudano of how Christianity came to Nauru (Item 8) (File 86) - Box 13

Bridget Tothill's Diary (origins of this copy unknown to MW): (File 86) - Box 13

An account by the volatile wife of the BPC Medical Officer on Nauru, of life on the island from 1939 until the evacuation in 1942; then a journey to the Wolfram mines in Central Australia with Chinese miners evacuated from the island (28 pages) (Item 9)

The Ellis Diary: (File 87) - Box 13

This is a typescript 58 pages of the hand-written diary that Ellis kept on his historic prospecting trip in March 1900 (so far as MW knows the original is with the Australian Archives). For the first part of the trip he was accompanied by his newly married wife Florence (Flo). (Item 10)

Joan (Ellis) Milne: (File 87) - Box 13

Copy of an article written by Ellis's daughter (only child) of her life on Ocean Island as an infant between 1903/1909, at which time her mother died and lies buried on the island (Item 11)

Letter of condolence to Ellis from the Acting Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert Islands, Souche. (Copy). (Item 11a) (File 87) - Box 13

A paper by Ellis written during his return voyage from the UK to NZ, after the inaugural meeting of the British Phosphate Commissioners in 1920. Gives a chronological account of the previous 20 years of the phosphate operations. (Item 12) (File 87) - Box 13

Letter from Lord Balfour of Burleigh: (1912), Chairman of the Pacific Phosphate Company to Ellis, offering him the position of Local Director in Australasia, NZ and the Pacific Islands. (Item 13) (File 87) - Box 13

Essays on Christmas Island written around 1958 by past and present residents. (Item 14) (File 87) - Box 13

H.B. Pope: Booklet on Nauru and Ocean land (41 pages) by the first Australian Commissioner, published in 1921 soon after the founding of the BPC. (Item 15) (File 88) - Box 13

A biography of Sir John Murray, founder of the Christmas Island enterprise, by H.L. Burstyn of the Carnegie-Mellon University (33 pages) (Item 16) (File 88) - Box 13

Copy of a 'History of Christmas Island' by Sir John Murray: Sets of the chain of events which led to the discovery of the phosphate deposits, and the negotiations between Murray and the Clunies Ross family to exploit them jointly. (I know of no other copies) - (Item 17) (File 88) - Box 13

Collection of eye-witness accounts of events on Ocean Island and Nauru during the Japanese occupation. Includes a copy of the diary of Patrick Cook, a mixed-race young man (41 pages) - (Item 18) (File 89) - Box 13

Constitution of the Nauruan Patriotic Society, formed under the guidance of Police Inspector Cude in 1939 to support the Red Cross war effort. (Item 19) (File 89) - Box 13

Papers abstracted from the Singapore Government archives relating to a mutiny by the Indian Garrison on Christmas Island in 1942, and the arrival of the Japanese occupation forces. (Items 20/20a) (File 89) - Box 13

Papers relating to Gaze family: includes instructions to the staff of the family Tourist Business in England in the 1890's (fascinating); notes on the family history by A.E. Gaze, a grandson. Eulogy on the death of A.H. Gaze - mainspring of the British Phosphate Commissioners. (Item 21) (File 89) - Box 13

A collection of papers and copies of documents relating to Scoutmaster Hurst of Geeland who had himself appointed Scout Commissioner for Nauru and became a thorn in the flesh of the Australian Administration. This collection includes Hurst's Blue Print (the Pacific Islander) for the postwar future of Nauru. (Item 22) (File 89-90) - Box 13

The Banaban Saga. the original of an extended essay (111 pages) commissioned by Maslyn Williams, giving the history of the controversy and subsequent litigation between the Banaban people of Ocean Island and the BPC and the UK Government - compiled by D. Inglis, an official observer during the course of the litigation. This will be a basic resource document for many years to come (Item 23) (File 91) - Box 13

T.G. McMahon FRGS etc. Visits to Nauru, Ocean Island, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and the Marshall Islands in 1918. Article plus extract from lecture, and press comments on his views on the future of the Pacific region (Items 24/24a) (File 92) - Box 14

A summary (compiled by MW) of BPC/CIPC Board Minutes 1920/1977 (Item 25) (File 92) - Box 14

MW Research Material - Essential to an understanding of the nature of the phosphate operation from its inception: Extracts and annotations on the correspondence between Lord Stanmore and J.T. Arundel between 1900/1911. Covers the anxious days following upon the discovery of the deposits. (Item 26) (File 93) - Box 14

Selected extracts from Company correspondence 1910/1911, with annotations: These cover the 'conflict' situations arising from (File 93) - Box 14

(a) Joint Anglo/German management on Nauru and

(b) differences between the Company and the British Civil administration on Ocean Island.

Includes a detailed account of the total island's operation. (Item 27)

Outline, by MW, of matters to be looked into during a research visit to the UK. (Item 28) (File 93) - Box 14

Comments by Dr Crocombe (Pacific Research Centre) and Professor Maude (ANU) on a thesis, written by a Banaban and giving the 'Native' view of the exploitation of the Ocean Island deposits. (Item 29) (File 93) - Box 14

Nauru - Independence Day booklet (1976) 31 pages (File 94-95) - Box 14

Nauru - Legislative Council - 1st Meeting (debates) 1966. 56 pages Oceana (Sept. 1936) Notes on Nauruan Culture and Customs by E.Stephens. (Stephens was marooned on Nauru as a boy of 14 in the 1870's and remained there until he died in the early 1930's) 63 pages (File 94-95) - Box 14

Oceana (Sept. 1936): Camilla Wedgwood - report on anthropological research work on Nauru (2 parts = 66 pages) (File 94-95) - Box 14

Deakin, Prof. J.W.: Article on Nauru, from Walkabout 1935. 4 pages (File 94-95) - Box 14

T/s copies of early accounts of visits to Nauru (File 94-95) - Box 14

2 quaint letters addressed to Police Inspector Cude (File 94-95) - Box 14

Report of the Japanese Government to the League of Nations (1927) on its administration of the South Sea Islands under Japanese Mandate (Item 30) (File 94-95) - Box 14

Folder containing: (File 95) - Box 14

a. An account of the sinking of BPC's Triadic 8/12/1940, by a passenger. 10 pages

b. Official memorandum: Appearance of a German raider at Nauru 8/12/1942: from Police Inspector to Administrator (with hand-written notes).

c. A chronology of Chief Events on Nauru during the Japanese occupation 1942/1945 (compiled by NAI FAI MA - Chinese Interpreter?)

Very enlightening and useful.

d. The Japanese occupation of Nauru as recounted by mixed blood Nauruan, Gus Rasch. 3 pages.

e. Account of the Japanese surrender ceremony - handwritten notes by Police Inspector Cude. 4 pages (handwritten).

f. Copy of charges made against Nauruan Police Inspector Harris (mixed race) on his dismissal by the Japanese (Cude-handwritten) Copy of instructions to Nauruan girls employed at the Japanese Officers' Club.

A Farewell Speech to Japanese dignitories (significance not clear) A biographical sketch of Nauruan Head Chief Detudamo with special reference to local church politics, by T. Cude (Police Inspector). 7 pages (Item 31) (File 95) - Box 14

Harold A. Gaze: General Manager of the British Phosphate Commissioners; (File 96) - Box 14

a. Copy of handwritten diary (partly transcribed) covering his first postwar visit to the phosphate islands in November 1945. (103 pages)

b. T/s copy of Gaze diary, covering his visit to NZ in February 1946. (18 pages)

Originals are in the Australian Archives. the 1945 diary gives a detailed description of war damage plus industrial and administrative problems arising. (Item 32)

Gaze/Ellis: Originals of private correspondence concerning their colleagues and the affairs of the BPC 1925/1926 and June/November 1928 (File 97-99) - Box 14

Covers the secret activities leading up to the Pope Royal Commission. (Item 33) (File 97-99) - Box 14

Copies of official NZ documents relating to the political struggle for control of the Nauru phosphate deposits prior to, and during, the 1918 Peace Conference. (Item 34) (File 100) - Box 15

Two blue binders containing a photocopy of an unpublished biography of Pacific Pioneer J.T. Arundel (1841/1919) (File 100-102) - Box 15

It was written by Mrs A.D. Bright of NZ in the 1920's and is based on Arundel's unpublished diaries.

The original (I think) is in the possession of Professor H.E. Maude.

This copy is indexed by Maslyn Williams. (Items 35/35a)

Several Chapters of early drafts of Part 3 of the BPC History, written by (Dr) B.K. Macdonald of Massey University, with detailed editorial comments by MW interleaved. (3 folios) (Items 36/38) (File 103-109) - Box 15-16

Full 'B' draft of Part 1 and 2 of the BPC History by MW Includes pages of comments from the Commissioners, a chapter content index, and contains all inset rewrites, plus deleted pages. (2 folios and a folder). (Items 39/40) (File 110-118) - Box 16-17

Mary Ann Brownlow research notes. Research material for Florence Copley of Romney (File 119) - Box 18

Florence Copley of Romney (Research Material): (File 120-127) - Box 18-19

My most financially successful novel - based on the tragedy of Mary Ann Brownlow (nee Guise) who murdered her husband at Gundaroo in 1855, and having been tried by Justice Stephen was hanged at Goulburn Gaol. These papers give and indication of the amount of research that went into the writing of this novel (translated into several languages). Contains some very interesting letters.

Notes of trips to Japan, The Philippines and Indonesia, 1975-1976 (File 128) - Box 19

Notes of trips to Japan and Korea, 1975-1976 (File 129) - Box 19

Class. B.P.C. research material

Series. Papers from Box File No. 1

7.2.1900. Lord Stanmore's speech at the Board Meeting, 7.2.1900 (Item 1) - Box 20

(Deals with serious setbacks suffered by the Company).

3.5.1900. Copy of Agreement between Pacific Islands Co. and the natives of Ocean Island. (arranged by Ellis) (Item 2) - Box 20
17.7.1900. Arundel to Pacific Island Co. London. Re. Ocean Pleasant Islands - negotiations with natives, prospects, etc (Item 3) - Box 20
26.2.1901. Denson to Arundel. Huge market for fertiliser in South Australia (Item 4) - Box 20
18.4.1902. Pacific Islands Co. Ltd. Memorandum of Association Pacific Phosphate Co (Item 5) - Box 20
9.1.1905 - 17.2.1905. Gaze Snr to Pacific Islands Co. (Pp 45 - detailed account of the phosphate operation) Report on visit to the islands (Item 6) - Box 20
2011.1905 -2.1.1906. Gaze Snr. to Pacific Phosphate Co. London. Report visit to the islands, No. 2. Later in 1905 Gaze made another visit to Ocean Island to try to sort out differences of opinion between Ellis (and his advisors) and a French phosphate mining expert on question of methods (Item 7) - Box 20
12.12.1913. Dickinson to Schonian. Sampling of Angaur phosphate (from a deposit being worked by the Germans) (Item 8) - Box 20
31.1.1914. Schonian to Dickinson. Sampling of Angaur phosphate. References to typhoon damage at Angaur Makatea (Item 9) - Box 20
Sec. PPC to Gaze Snr. 13.2.1914. King to be joint representative with Gaze. (Gaze is anxious that this appointment does not jeopodise his son's future prospects) (Item 10) - Box 20
Gaze to Sec. PPC 19.3.1914. Acknowledges letter on appointment of King. (attached to 10) (Item 11) - Box 20
8.1914. Extract from the Official War History: Capture of German colonies: Samoa, Nauru (Item 12) - Box 20
Precis of the confused Australian/Japanese situation in 1914. (Maslyh Williams) (Item 13) - Box 20
Extract from Fitzhardinge: The Little Digger - 1914-1918 situation (Item 14) - Box 20
Extracts from Fitzhardinge Souter - Australia Nauru 1914-1918 Deals in detail with Australian apprehension about Japanese intentions (Item 15) - Box 20
15.7.1915. Article from the Standard: Future of the Pacific. Japanese ambitions (Item 16) - Box 20
23.11.1915. Minutes of the PPC (Extract) The Company already anxious about Pustralia's Pacific ambitions. Position of Ocean Island and Nauru after the war (Item 17) - Box 20
30.11.1916-2.5. 1918. Correspondence between PPC London and PPC Melbourne. Garrison and (wireless station on Nauru -19 These extracts all reflect the PPCoy;s concern about the UK Government maintaining an Australian garrison and radio crew on Nauru (Item 18-22) - Box 20
21.1.1909. Pacific Phosphate Guano Contract with Australian manufacturers. This was made in 1909 with a supplement in 19: (Item 23) - Box 20
16.7.1920. The Times: company meetings. Sale of the PPCoy (Item 24) - Box 20
Balding, Bernard (Item 25) - Box 20

Extracts from papers and letters from the Bodleian Library - cover a number of related subjects.

The Worlds Work, June 1919 (Item 26) - Box 20

article: British Phosphate Enterprise: by T.J. NcNagib F,R,G,S, after two visits,

Notes on the Coconut islands leased by Arundel at the end of the 19th century for his copra and guano business (Item 27) - Box 20
Heath, Charles (Item 28) - Box 20

Early beginnings of the phosphate industry. (a summary prepared for research purposes).

Series. Papers from Box File No. 2

A group of letters, mostly flimsies, written in May/June 1900 and dealing principally with his discovery of the phosphate deposits on Ocean Island (Item 1) - Box 20
An early typescript of the instructions left for his assistant when Ellis went on from Ocean Island to Nauru to complete his prospecting trip (Item 2) - Box 20
A letter of condolence to Ellis from the office of the Resident Commissioner on the Gilbert Islands on the death of Florence, his first wife, who was the first white woman to live on Ocean Island. Ellis subsequently married her sister (Item 3) - Box 20
Copy of two confidential letters passing between Dickinson and Ellis in 1920, at the time when it seemed certain that the Phosphate Company was going to be taken over by the three governments. Dickinson advises Ellis to apply for the job of NZ Commissioner. Ellis thinks that the job will go to the NZ Director of Agriculture (Item 4) - Box 20
From Ellis to the PPC office in London saying that he is not keen on being the NZ Commissioner (Item 5) - Box 20
Extracts from the Balding papers at the Bodleian Library dealing with a scheme to drum-up a gratuity for Ellis (as the discoverer of the phosphate deposits.) (Item 6) - Box 20
A series of flimsies from the 1926 period, belonging to the Personal and Confidential series of communication which passed almost weekly between Gaze and the UK NZ Commissioner (Item 7) - Box 20
In 1929, when Dickinson made a claim for extra remuneration for 'special services rendered' in connection with the Commissioners' dealings with 'outside buyers'. Ellis opposed the claim and Dickinson wrote this frank letter chiding him for his ingratitude (Item 8) - Box 20
Letter from the High Commissioner's Office in Fiji instructing the Chief of Ticopea Island to give Ellis every assistance on a prospecting trip (Item 9) - Box 20
Copy of diary kept by Ellis on the way to Ocean Island and Nauru to witness the Japanese official capitulation in 1945 (Item 10) - Box 20
Biographical notes on Ellis written by the late James Bissett who became Ellis's office boy in 1924 and went on to become General Manager of the BPC and a Christmas Island Commissioner (Item 11) - Box 20
An autobiographical sketch of pp 11 tracing Ellis's 64 years in the phosphate industry written just before he died (at the time he had not finally decided to retire, hoping to stay on long enough to become the first Christmas Island Commissioner.) (Item 12) - Box 20
The script of a Radio talk given by Ellis for a NZ series on people who had contributed to the national development (Item 13) - Box 20
Copy of a letter written by Lady (Nellie) Ellis to a friend in England. Comments on references made about Ellis's discoveries on Ocean Island made by Sir Arthur Grimble in his book, Pattern of Islands. Also family chit-chat (Item 14) - Box 20
Notes by Maslyn Williams on Ellis's book Ocean Island and Nauru (Item 15) - Box 20
Notes by Maslyn Williams on Ellis's book Pacific Outposts (Item 16) - Box 20

Series. Papers from Box File No. 3

1851 Webster, John: The last cruise of the Wanderer Extract p 39-50 (Item 1) - Box 21
Miscellaneous correspondence with Telfer Campbell, Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in which he and Arundel refer to Australian ambitions in the Pacific and the 'White Australia Policy' (Item 2) - Box 21
20.7.1901. Power, F. Danvers: Report on Ocean Island - mining prospects etc (Item 3) - Box 21
31.12.1902. Indenture: Rights of the Pacific Phosphate Co. on Ocean Island (Item 4) - Box 21
28.9.1907. Coane Report 1907 on Ocean Island management (Item 5) - Box 21
11.1910. Mahaffy, A.W.; Article on Ocean Island in Blackwoods Magazine (Item 6) - Box 21
Eliot, E.C. Broken Atoms: Ocean Island affairs, 1913-1930 (Item 7) - Box 21

(published 1938)

25/6/1920. Nauru Agreement - Ocean Island in relation to (Item 8) - Box 21
31.12.1920. Indenture of 1920 whereby the PPC sold its assets (Item 9) - Box 21
5.1.1925. Pilling report on the Chinese riots, November-December 1925 (Item 10) - Box 21
4.5.1931. Christian to Gaze: Delay in Chinese repatriation (Item 11) - Box 21
23.5.1931. Grimble to Manager BPC, Ocean Island. Chinese embarkation delay problems. (attached to 11) (Item 12) - Box 21
23.5.1931. ? to BPC NZ Commissioner: Chinese embarkation delay (Item 13) - Box 21

Series. Papers from Box File No. 4

Eliot's plan 1913 on Banaban land issue (Item 1) - Box 21
Copy of Agreement based on Eliot's plan and signed by all Banaban land owners, 1913 (Item 2) - Box 21
Ordinance No. 4 of 1928 to regulate the right to mine and work minerals in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Item 3) - Box 21
Extracts and letters on Banaban resettlement December 1945 to April 1946. Report on Ordinance No. 2 of 1945 to provide for resettlement of Ocean and Rabi Islands (Item 4) - Box 21
23.1.46. Extract from 'Spectator', Melbourne: Rehabilitation in Pacific (Item 5) - Box 21
10.68. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London: The Ocean Islands phosphates - discussions (Item 6) - Box 21
18.1.73. Notes on meeting in Sydney concerning Ocean Island unleased land (Item 7) - Box 21
16.2.81. Banaban Litigation, note for the Australian Commissioner (Item 8) - Box 21
Banaban litigation, judgement - extract (Item 9) - Box 21
Examination of Rotan Tito and Rev. Rotan Tebuke (biographical details) (Item 10) - Box 21
Future of the Banaban Population - a memorandum by H.E. Maude. Chief Lands Commissioner (Item 11) - Box 21
29.9.48. The Weekly News - photos of Ocean Island (Item 12) - Box 21
Langdon, Robert. The Ocean Islanders - article notes, 1965-1966 (Item 13) - Box 21
Silverman, The Transformation of Ocean Island (early period) extract and notes (Item 14) - Box 21
Scarr, Deryck. Fragments of Empire - extract re Pacific Islands Co. affect on Ocean Island (Item 15) - Box 21

Series. Papers from Box File No. 5

Simpson's comments, Nauru in the 19th century, Harris the beachcomber (Item 1) - Box 22
Letter from Arundel to PIC discusses what to do about Nauru (Item 2) - Box 22
2.11.1899-6.1901. Correspondence between Arundel and Jaluit Gessellschaft. Negotiations with Germans for Nauru (Item 3) - Box 22
17.1.1901. Power, F. Danvers (Item 4) - Box 22
29.4.1907 1.5.1907. Dickinson to Cayford. Visit to Nauru (Item 5) - Box 22
22.5.1907-6.12.1907. Gaze report on visit to Nauru, 1907 (Item 6) - Box 22
8.10.1907 - 7.1.1908. Dickinson to PPC. Visit to Nauru. (correspondence indexed) (Item 7) - Box 22
12.11.1907. Gaze Snr. to Secretary PPC. Supplement to report on Nauru, Dickinson's first visit (Item 8) - Box 22
Full set of documents relating to arrangements made between the German Government, the Jaluit Gesselscharft and the PIC for the right to mine the phosphate on Nauru. Comprises a series of Agreements stretching from 1888 to 1905 (Item 9) - Box 22
A personal report from R. Leydon, Administer of Nauru, to C.E. Barnes, Minister for Territories, on a meeting between Nauruan leaders and members of the UN visiting mission (Item 10) - Box 22
Two press reports on the Independence issue including a NY Times interview with DeRoburt (Item 11) - Box 22
A paper from Dr. Varsanyi (University of Adelaide) on the steps leading to Nauruan Independence (Item 12) - Box 22

Series. Papers from Box File No. 6

27.9.1919-2.2.1920. Telegrams between Hughes and secretary of State for the Colonies. Negotiations for purchase of Pacif Phosphate Co (Item 1) - Box 22
31.3.1920. Gaze to London. Labour problems on Ocean Island, Ellis visit might help (Item 2) - Box 22
21.6.1920-28.10. 1920. Selection of communications - Commissioners, Gaze, Hughes, etc (Item 3) - Box 22
11.1.1921. Power of Attorney for A.H. Gaze (Item 4) - Box 22
Pope to PM 11.3.1921. Nauru and Ocean Island - first visit of the Commissioner (Item 5) - Box 22
26.8.1921. Ellis and Pope: Report on visit to Nauru and Ocean Island, July/August 1921 (Item 6) - Box 22

(two copies)

20.10.21. Dickinson to Gaze. Re Gaze's report on island visit (Item 7) - Box 22
21.11.1921. Ellis to Reakes. Payment of Nauru O.I. royalties (Item 8) - Box 22
7.1.1922. Ellis to Reakes. Payment of Nauru O.I. royalties (Item 9) - Box 22
10.8.1922. Macfarlane to Gaze. Nauru Chief, life on Nauru (Item 10) - Box 22
15.9.1922. Franck: Report on New Guinea recruit. (Plus notes and other correspondence on this subject) (Item 11) - Box 22
21.11.1922. Chambers to Major Piesse. Recruitment of New Guinea natives (Item 12) - Box 22
15.12.1922. Carter (Board of Trade) to Piesse. Nauru mandate commission (Item 13) - Box 22
9.2.1923. Pope to Piesse. Mandates Commission (Item 14) - Box 22
30.6.1923. Statement of sundry profits (Item 15) - Box 22
30.9.1923. Memo for the Commissioners: Accounts for year ended 30 June, 1923 (Item 16) - Box 22
Article from The Argus 5.3.1924. Control of Nauru (Item 17) - Box 22
Russel to Pope 8.4.1924. Agreement, 2.7.1919 (Item 18) - Box 22
4.6.1925. Gaze to the Commissioners. Letter of resignation (Item 19) - Box 22

Series. Papers from Box File No. 7 - Box 23

The private letters covers the key period between the finalisation of the Paint Case in August 1925 (after which both Gaze and Chambers threatened to resign) and the termination of the Royal Commission in July 1926.

They give a fascinating 'behind the scenes' view of the intrigue and the utilisation of political, commercial and bureaucratic pressures that were brought into play in order to force a political decision upon Prime Minister Bruce.

Perhaps, more importantly, these letters reveal the vulnerable human being that was kept hidden behind the facade of unemotional and unflustered efficiency which was the public facade of Harold Gaze the brilliant Manager and Administrator.

They reveal, too, the nervous sensitivity of Prime Minister Bruce to his own weaknesses as a cockpit politician.

In the handwritten correspondence most of the central characters mentioned are identified simply by a single letter of the alphabet.

Thus Pope is 'A', Dickinson is 'C', Bruce is "J", Reakes (the main NZ official concerned in the affairs of the Commissioners) is "V", and the proposed move to Auckland is referred to only by the letter "W". I am less sure about some of the other identification letters but would guess that "U" is the NZ Prime Minister, "R" is one of the leading figures in the Phosphate Industry (possibly Haynes of Mt. Lyall who was a bit of a politician). As a long shot I would suggest that "O" is the Secretary of the Australian Prime Minister's Department, Percy Deane, but this is guesswork.

This collection of personal and confidential correspondence mainly from Gaze to Ellis, is typical of a separate and uniquely significant stream of communication regarding most major aspects of the Pacific Phosphate operation in the critical 1925/1926 period.

The most interesting section is that which deals in a surprisingly frank manner with the intrigue surrounding the conspiracy to get Pope dismissed.

The rest of the collection reveals the informal and private attitudes of the Commissioners and senior staff to matters that were dealt with in a more circumspect fashion in 'open' correspondence and formal reports.

Note: Quelts, referred to in these letters, were a form of coded telegraphic cabled communication used by the conspirators to keep Pope in ignorance of various aspects of their activities.

Series. Research Material Volume 1

The discovery of the deposits and efforts to obtain the mining rights (Item 1) - Box 23
Secret surveys of the deposits (Item 2) - Box 23
Pressures exerted on the UK and German Governments (Item 3) - Box 23
Reaching agreement with the natives (Banabans) of Ocean Island, and the official annexation of the island by the UK (Item 4) - Box 23
Arrangements for labour and shipping (Item 5) - Box 23

Ellis busy pioneering the Ocean Island operation

A flow of instructions to Ellis from Sydney (Item 6) - Box 23

He is sent to make a furtive estimate of the deposits on Nauru.

In London (early in 1900) the Company Chairman, Loud Stanmore, gives a gloomy run-down on the state of the company's fortunes. Good news comes from Sydney (Item 7) - Box 23
New managerial blood brought in from London. The previous manager sacked (Item 8) - Box 23
The directors have reservations about the competence of Ellis and his team to handle the enlarged operation. An expert consultant engineer brought in (1900/1903) (Item 9) - Box 23
Arundel writes to London defending Ellis (who is a relative) (Item 10) - Box 23

A letter written by Ellis in 1910 gives a retrospective look and an assessment of progress made (he retired from the Ocean Island job in 1912)

Deals with difficulties of the 1901/1904 period in connection with shipping, acquisition of land, law and order etc (Item 11) - Box 23
Arundel correspondence (1904) with the UK High Commissioner in the Pacific and the resident Commissioner on land matters, and relations with the natives (Banabans). Also (1907) grave fears of an Australian take-over (Item 12) - Box 23
A series of extracts from the Company's Annual Reports dealing mainly with financial matters deaths and changes in the Board, and concern about the post (1914/1918) war status of the Company in view of its German connections (Item 13) - Box 23

Series. Research Material Volume 2

Negotiations for mining rights on Nauru 1900/1901. Documents listed (Item 1) - Box 24
1897/1908. These papers relate to the financial and managerial structure of the old Pacific Islands Co. and the Pacific Phosphate Co. and have been copied from papers that are the private collection of the late Sir Alwyn Dickinson in England (Item 2) - Box 24
Lever's early involvement (1901 et seq) Biographies of PPC Chairman, Lord Stanmore and his successor, Burleigh of Balfour (Item 3) - Box 24
Planning the Nauru mining operation (1902 et seq) Engagement of key staff (Item 4) - Box 24
The wet phosphate problem, 1902/1903 (Item 5) - Box 24
Moorings 1901/1904. Early problems at Ocean Island (Item 6) - Box 24
Relocation of the PIC office to Melbourne, 1903/1906 (Item 7) - Box 24
Recruitment of Asian and Pacific labour, 1903/1920 (Item 8) - Box 24
1906. Arundel reports on progress being made to bring Nauru into production (Item 9) - Box 24
UK Colonial Office report on the G. E. Protectorate a suggestion that the administrative H.Q. be transferred from Tarawa to Ocean Is (Item 10) - Box 24
Public criticism of the E. G. Administration and the effect of the phosphate operation on the 'natives' (Banabans), 1909-1939 (Item 11) - Box 24
Letter Stanmore/Dickinson 1910. Concern about who is to be the new High Commissioner in the Pacific (Item 12) - Box 24
Age newspaper cutting 1.2.1912 - criticism of Stanmore (Item 12) - Box 24

Series. Research Material Volume 3

A favourable article on Ocean Island published in Blackwoods magazine in 1910 (Item 1) - Box 25
The PPC's early interest in Christmas Island dating back to 1899 (Item 2) - Box 25
The PPC involvement in the Makatea phosphate operation, 1902/1922 (Item 3) - Box 25

Resume of the PPC French connection (Makatea).

Confusion and concern over Japanese naval activity in the Pacific at the outbreak of the war in 1914 (Item 4) - Box 25
Australia agitated by the UK policy of expediency. Ocean Island defence force formed (Item 4) - Box 25
1914 - The effects of the outbreak of the 1914/1918 war on the Phosphate operation on Nauru, with particular reference to the Zambezi incident (Item 5) - Box 25
In the first few weeks of the war the shipping activities of the PPC were thrown into a confusion compounded by the promulgation of laws which prohibited trade and communication between Australia and enemy territory. Nauru, being a German possession, came under this heading but the Company had an obligation to continue to maintain the operation and the workforce of over 1000 people. This brought the Company into an embarrassing conflict situation with the navy. There are further references to this situation in Item 6, particularly in regard to the charter ship 'Messina' (Item 5) - Box 25
1914 - Deals with Australian occupation of Nauru; removal of German nationals, raising of British flag; take-over of Administration by UK officials; resumption of the phosphate operation (Item 6) - Box 25

Series. Research Material Volume 4

1915. Disagreements between the PPC and the Australian navy about the cost of the Australian take over (of Nauru) operation (Item 1) - Box 26
1915. UK Government paper giving details of the allied military operations against the Germans in the Pacific Islands (Item 2) - Box 26
Manoeuverings between the UK, NZ and Australia (1915-1919) over the issue of the mandate for Nauru (Item 3) - Box 26
Letter from Lord Balfour to the Colonial Office requesting that the phosphate islands, including Nauru, remain under the jurisdiction of the UK (Item 3) - Box 26
The parts played by Hughes and Massey in the creation of the BPC (Item 4) - Box 26
UK Documents relating to the granting of the Nauru mandate to the Empire (1919) (Item 5) - Box 26
A collection of material, mainly from Lord Milner's papers giving an account of the negotiations between Milner, Hughes and Massey for the three government take-over of the Pacific Phosphate Company (1919) (Item 6) - Box 26

Note: Lord Milner was the Sec of State for the Colonies, and the UK negotiator over the Nauru mandate issue.

Extracts from Ellis correspondence (1917/1918) with the London office underlining NZ's determination to gain a share in the Pacific phosphate deposits (Item 7) - Box 26
Includes a relevant letter from Chambers in Sydney to King in Melbourne (Item 7) - Box 26
Other correspondence relating to the sale of the company to the three governments (Item 7) - Box 26
are Hansard Reports from Australia (8) New Zealand (9) and the UK (10) of debates on the Nauru Island Agreement Bill, 1919 (Item 8, 9, 10) - Box 26

Series. Research Material Volume 5

Notes on the effects of the war on PIC share prices and dividends (Item 1) - Box 27
1917/1921. Reports to shareholders on the steps leading to the take-over, and the financial arrangements to be made (Item 2) - Box 27
18 July, 1919 - Special Resolution (Item 2) - Box 27
Relates to Balfour's part in the PIC attempt to prevent the take-over (Item 3) - Box 27
Negotiations over the amount to be paid for the takeover (Item 4) - Box 27
1914/1915. Summary of 1st World War period leading to the formation of the BPC (Item 5) - Box 27
Memorandum giving details of the 1919 'battle for Nauru' and the move to establish a three-Government Phosphate Commission (A.R. Dickinson to the Directors of the PPC) (Item 6) - Box 27
An account of the negotiations between the Company and the governments of Australia, New Zealand and the UK for the acquisition of the Nauru mining rights (Item 7) - Box 27
Memorandum prepared by Dickinson (1920) on the subject of compensation for loss of office by PPC directors and senior staff (Item 8) - Box 27
Draft agreement between the PPC and the three governments, as submitted by Dickinson (Item 9) - Box 27
1819-1920. Chronological summary of the main events in the 1918/1920 period which led to the formation of the BPC (Item 10) - Box 27
Notes on an agenda for the First Board Meeting of the BPC prepared by Alwin Dickinson, 1920 (Item 11) - Box 27
Notes on various financial arrangements between the BPC and the three Governments (Item 12) - Box 27
Relates to Royalty Payments to the Germans not yet settled, 1920/1921 (Item 13) - Box 27
Record of Proceedings at the final meeting of Shareholders of the PPC, 1925 (Item 14) - Box 27
Dickinson gives a final accounting of his activities as liquidator of the PPC, 1925 (Item 15) - Box 27

(Underlines the role played by Prime Minister Hughes in the demise of the PPC).

Documents dealing with the transfer of land rights on Nauru from the German Company to the Commissioners, 1920/1924 (Item 16) - Box 27
Two letters from Winston Churchill to W.M. HUGHES (1920) on the subject of Nauru royalties (Item 17) - Box 27
Purchase of the Nauru Chief - report from Chambers to Gaze, 1922 (Item 18) - Box 27
Letters relating to the appointment of Ellis as NZ Commissioner (in 1920) and his despatch to London for the first Commissioners' meeting. (From the NZ files) (Item 19) - Box 27
Summary of the main developments and events, 1921 1925 (Item 20) - Box 27

Series. Research Material Volume 6

Deals with Pope's early career as an employee of the Pacific Island Co. and the Pacific Phosphate Co (Item 1) - Box 28
Pope's influence already evident in 1921 when Gaze recommends that Pope's younger brother be appointed BPC Representative in Hong Kong (Item 2) - Box 28
The matter of buying out Germany's right to claim a royalty on phosphate shipped from Nauru (Item 3) - Box 28
Sales and Markets (Item 4) - Box 28
The Allotment issue: difficulties of implementing the 42/42/16 allotment in terms of the Nauru Agreement (Item 5) - Box 28
Sales to Japan: their legality under the terms of the Nauru Agreement (Item 6) - Box 28
The validity of Majority Decisions (Item 7) - Box 28

Series. Research Material Volume 7

Dickinson's intransigence over the matter of installing cantilever loading at Nauru (Item 1) - Box 29
Continuous conflict between Pope and his colleagues about the purchasing of phosphate from the French company at Makatea (Item 2) - Box 29
Dickinson's opposition to the purchase of a second vessel for the Commissioners' business (Item 3) - Box 29
The Paint Case scandal (Item 4) - Box 29
Conflict between Pope and Gaze over the dismissal of Capt. Evans for negligence (Item 5) - Box 29
Conflict between Pope and Gaze over Pope's wish to dismiss Ocean Island Manager, McFarlane, for 'ineptitude.' (Item 6) - Box 29
Pope accuses his colleagues of various misdemeanours including bribery and connivance (Item 7) - Box 29

Series. Research Material Volume 8

Disagreement over the location of the Australian Commissioner's office (Item 1) - Box 30
Opposition from the UK and NZ Commissioners to Pope interfering in Management matters particularly in relation to shipping (Item 2) - Box 30
Two memos on the subject of Pope's concern about the relevance of New Guinea weather reports to Phosphate Islands shipping (Item 3) - Box 30
Press reports on 'differences between the Commissioners'. Dickinson believes that they are inspired by Pope (Item 4) - Box 30
Pope's adversaries 'fix' a Board Meeting in Vancouver at which Pope is out-voted on almost every key issue (Item 5) - Box 30
A general summary in essay form of events leading to the Royal Commission into the affairs of the Phosphate Commissioners (Item 6) - Box 30
Letters from NZ records reflect the Ellis/Reakes participation in the Anti-Pope intrigue. Notes by NZ historian Dr. Macdonald on this subject (Item 7) - Box 30
Lead-up to the Royal Commission. Documents include transcript of ministerial interviews with Pope (Item 8) - Box 30
Bruce attempts to get the other governments to participate in a Public Enquiry but they leave him to stew in his own juice (Item 9) - Box 30
Bruce initiates an Australian Royal Commission but Gaze and Chambers refuse to attend (Item 10) - Box 30
Transcripts of the most relevant sections of evidence given at the Royal Commission (Item 11) - Box 30
A copy of the Royal Commission Report (Item 12) - Box 30
Pope's dismissal (Item 13) - Box 30

Class. Consignment received January 1988

The conflict between the native Nauruan people and the Australian Administrator of the Island, Mark Ridgway, during the immediate postwar period. This led eventually to Ridgeway's removal (File) - Box 31-32

(2 folders)

Also dealing with the postwar period but in this case with relations between the Phosphate Commissioners and the Nauruans; the Commissioners and the fertiliser industry; shipping matters and postwar reconstruction (File) - Box 31-32

(3 folders)

Early drafts of the history (The Phosphateers) in two bundles. Some handwritten (File) - Box 31-32

(4 folders)

A catalogue of papers collected from the Ellis family in New Zealand (Ellis discovered the Ocean Island and Nauru deposits in 1900). These papers are probably in the Australian Archives in Melbourne (last seen by me in 3 tea chests) in the basement of Phosphate House in Collins Street, long since demolished (File) - Box 31-32

(2 folders)

8 bundles of papers relating to the principal considerations and events concerning the BPC during the years 1926-1946 (File) - Box 32-35

These papers are additional to those contained in the main volumes of documents.

Four (4) of these bundles contain extensive summaries covering the 1926-1942 period. Each summary is accompanied by a collection of related documents. These summaries and back-up papers provide a chronology of the significant highlights in the history of the Phosphate Commissioners, particularly in regard to inter-government and inter-personal relationships between the three partner countries in their mining, shipping, distribution and political activities.

There are four (4) other bundles without summaries. These contain documents relating to principal events and issues during the years. 1942-1946.

Documents relating specifically to wartime events in the Islands during 1941-1942 are in Box 3. (19 folders)

5 items. Two bundles relating (a) to the shelling of Nauru and the sinking of phosphate ships by German raiders and (b) to the subsequent evacuation of the Islands, are supplementary to papers covering the same period (1941-1942), and deal only with these two special events (File) - Box 35

(3 folders)

A third bundle - in a brown envelope marked Gaze - Special - contains private and confidential correspondence between Gaze, Ellis and Dickinson (UK Commissioner) during the early months of 1926 when the Commissioners were in a crisis situation. An explanatory note is taped onto the envelope and an index of contents, month by month, is included. It is not known whether copies of any of this correspondence exists (File) - Box 36

2 box files relating to Christmas Island matters and phosphate shipping matters (File) - Box 36

(5 folders)

Class. Consignment received September 1988

Series. Damien Parer material

Correspondence with Neil McDonald and 2 taped interviews relating to Parer by M.W (File 1) - Box 37
Parer, a screenplay by John Duigan (1st 2nd drafts). These drafts have been annotated by M.W (File 2) - Box 37

Series. British Phosphate Commission

Back up documents used in research additional to main groupings, 1934-1938 (File 1) - Box 39-40
Papers 1931-1933. Supplementary set (File 2) - Box 39-40
Papers - Christmas Island box file (File 3) - Box 39-40
Papers - Commissioners biography (File 4) - Box 39-40
Papers - Phosphate and manufacture (File 5) - Box 39-40
Papers - Nauru from 1919 (File 6) - Box 39-40
Papers - WW II (File 7) - Box 39-40
Papers - Administration of Nauru and independence (File 8) - Box 39-40
Papers - Biographies of various personalities (File 9) - Box 39-40

Series. National Music Camp Association

Cultural exchange programmes in Asia, 1970s (including Musica Viva material) (File 1) - Box 40

Series. Photographic collections

Maslyn Williams Papua New Guinea Collection Item 2. Colour transparencies (Supplement to b w prints received in 1987). Some identification (File 1) - Box 41-42
An album of coloured and black and white transparencies (File 2) - Box 41-42

Including:

a) From research for MW's The east is red. (70)

b) Australian Youth Orchestra tour of China 1979 (32). These are valued more highly because of their Australian interest.

b) Japan 1976 - from research for Faces of my neighbour (18).

Maslyn Williams in China (File 3) - Box 41-42

Including:

a) Set 1 (Prints with negatives)

MW in China 1965/1966

(First stage of the Cultural Revolution). (73 prints).

b) Set 2.MW in China 1966 and 1979, Orchestral tour.

Cultural revolution and Australian youth orchestra reception. (34 prints)

The Philippines Collection (File 4) - Box 41-42

Including:

a) The Moriones Festivale

6 slides

6 b & w prints

b) The opening of the National Art Centre in 1977 - 15 black and white prints. One very interesting print showing Mrs Marcos and Dame Margot Fonteyn among others.

c) The first Asian music camp (21 slides)

d) Rizal Park in Manila (13 slides)

e) Portrait of Maslyn Williams by Emily C. Pena, done in 1976 - black and white pencil sketch.

File of photographs relating to Prince Sihanouk and Cambodia, including people, cities and Angkor Wat, temples and statues (File 5) - Box 41-42

Many photographs identified, dating from 1941 (approx) (Portrait of the Prince) to 1960s (24 prints)

Cambodia 1968 (File 6) - Box 41-42

Including:

a) Black and white prints and negatives, related to his The land between

Various pictures relating to Prince Sihanouk and Phnom Penh (72 prints)

b) Miscellaneous set of prints c1966 (38 prints)

c) Cambodia - Phnom Penh, 77 coloured slides 1968.

These are particularly rare and historical photographs of buildings, places and people pre-devastation in Cambodia by Pol Pot's regime.

Indonesian collection. These are chiefly coloured slides (File 7) - Box 41-42

including:

a) 39 miscellaneous

b) Maslyn Williams in Indonesia in 1963, (19 slides)

c) Indonesian research for his Five journeys from Jakarta (60 Black and white prints)

d) Indonesia 1963-1964 Black and white negatives and proofs relating to Five journeys... Images include scenes of Java, Sumatra, Selewesi and West Irian. They were taken as "reminder" pictures to complement the diaries already held (Box 3 folder 17).

e) There are 6 sheets of negatives and contact prints.

Class. Consignment received November 1989

Series. His Mother's country: winner of the Fellowship of Writers' Award and the NSW State Award for non-fiction, 1989

2 bundles of working drafts, hand-written and rough-typed (1987) (File 1-9) - Box 43
Research material and correspondence from researcher Melanie Oppenheimer, descendent of the pioneer Niverson family of Walcha (File 1-3) - Box 44
One bundle of general research material including details of areas of research covered (File 4-6) - Box 44

Series. The Postman's Daughter

Consecutive drafts of a radio play from preliminary drafts to finished script as produced by the ABC (File 7-9) - Box 44

Series. The Holy Virago

A novella yet to be published (a radio version has been produced by the ABC).

Bundle containing a series of drafts of the novella (File 1) - Box 45

Series. Ilona/Fabian: also referred to as Elegy for a friend

This story is based on personal experiences during the Greek campaign of 1941.

Working papers on three versions of a novella not yet published (1988) (File 2-10) - Box 45
A film treatment of Ilona/Fabian written by English writer/actor Michael Mundell (which Williams rejected) (1988) (File 1-5) - Box 46

Class. Consignment received January 1990

Series. My life revisited; later renamed The Waterfall

original typescript (one page missing) (File 1) - Box 47
photocopy of original sent to Penguin (File 2-4) - Box 47
pages taken from first version and replaced by rewrites (File 5-6) - Box 47
background material (File 7) - Box 47
penultimate draft (File 8-10) - Box 47
prelude and chapters 1-10, working manuscript (File 1-4) - Box 48
chapters 11-17, and epilogue (File 5-8) - Box 48
final draft, 1980 (File 9-10) - Box 48

Series. Faces of my neighbours

typed version containing amendments before it was published, 1978 (File 1-3) - Box 49

Series. A dialogue with God

draft material (File 4-5) - Box 49
copy 2 (File 6) - Box 49

Series. Molly

short story with notes for revisions (File 7) - Box 49

Series. The greening of young Stevie: a radio play based on Molly

drafts with corrections, 1976 (File 8-9) - Box 49
copy delivered to ABC on 15.4. '86 (File 1) - Box 50

Series. The Postman's Daughter

radio play, 1984 (File 2) - Box 50
photocopy of typed short story (File 3) - Box 50

Series. Leini

short story with notes for amendments (File 4) - Box 50
typed short story, 1988 (File 5) - Box 50

Series. The woman in the brown outfit

draft with notes (File 6) - Box 50
revisions and deletions from first clean draft, 1988 (File 7) - Box 50
draft, with corrections (File 8) - Box 50
final version (as at 20/2/88), copy 2 (File 9) - Box 50
section of a diary written in English, by a Japanese friend - Hiroshi Kibori - of Tomigaoka, a suburb of Nara. Hiroshi was, at the time, an up-and-coming executive in a major insurance company (22 July 1975-8 June 1976) (File 1-3) - Box 51
Three printed reports to the United Nations on the administration of Nauru (thought to be useful in confunction with records in Williams collection on the B.P.C.), 1928, 1960-1961, 1964-1965 (File 4-6) - Box 51
Maps of Ocean Island and Nauru. One hand traced, two printed. Annotated by B.P.C. with details of Japanese occupation and gun emplacements (File 1) - Folio 1
Map (printed) showing area of South Pacific Commission territories (File 2) - Folio 2

Class. Consignment received July 1989

Comprising BPC Research Material.

Series. Research Material Volume 9

14. 7.1932. Nauru (Item 1) - Box 52
6. 7.1933. Nauru (Item 2) - Box 52
10.10.1935. Nauru (Item 3) - Box 52
27. 3.1937. Nauru (Item 4) - Box 52
7/8.3.1939. On board M.V. Awatea Wellington/Sydney (Item 5) - Box 52
10, 11, 12 31 January and 1 February 1940. Melbourne (Item 6) - Box 52
18/19.7.1940. Nauru (Item 7) - Box 52
4/5. 6.1941 10 29 July, 1941. Melbourne (Item 8) - Box 52

(No conferences between 1941 and 1945 owing to the war)

Series. Research Material Volume 10

30.11.1945. Ocean Island (Item 1) - Box 52
9 20 September 8 October 1946. Melbourne (Item 2) - Box 52
4. 4.1947. Aboard the Trienza Ocean Island (Item 3) - Box 52
23 October 3 4 December, 1947. Melbourne (Item 4) - Box 52
16 17 29 30 November, 1948. Melbourne (Item 5) - Box 52
January 1950. Melbourne (Item 6) - Box 52
16/17/1/1951. Melbourne (Item 7) - Box 52
April, 1951. Melbourne (Item 8) - Box 52
16.10.1951. Christmas Island (Item 9) - Box 52

Series. Research Material Volume 11

April/May, 1953. Island Managers (Item 1) - Box 53
2/3.2.1954. Ocean Island (Item 2) - Box 53
September, 1955. Melbourne (Item 3) - Box 53
22.3.1956. Ocean Island (Item 4) - Box 53

Series. Research Material Volume 12

1920/1921 (London) (Item 1) - Box 53

In augural meetings. Preceded by four single papers relating to the appointments of Ellis and Dickinson.

1925 (Vancouver) (Item 2) - Box 53

The conflict meeting which led, eventually, to the dismissal of Pope, the Australian Commissioner.

1926 (London) (Item 3) - Box 53

Clearing the air and making a fresh start. (indexed)

1931 (Melbourne) (Item 4) - Box 53

Retirement of Dickinson and General business.

a. A departmental run-down on the background of the BPC and an assessment of its activities to date.

b. Papers setting out the history and resolution of differences between the three Governments over the matter of 'foreign'sales and purchases of phosphate (not clearly defined in the Nauru Agreement of 1920).

c. The purchase of a ship for the Commissioners' business.

1947 (New Zealand) (Item 5) - Box 53

Considers from post-war moves to acquire Christmas Island.

Increased royalties to be paid to the Nauruans.

The matter of acquiring more land for mining on Ocean Island.

The BPC to join the Baltic Exchange and do its own chartering of ships.

Staff salaries.

Other general matters.

1949 (Melbourne) (Item 6) - Box 53

The take-over of Christmas Island Financial matters.

Staff retirements, payments, wages etc.

Island staff and labour arrangements.

A suggestion that the BPC become a body corporate.

Correspondence (indexed) underlining the continual differences of opinion between the 3 partner governments on financial aspects of the phosphate operation. (From 1922-1932) (Item 7) - Box 53
Dickinson to Ellis, 21.9.1922 (Item 8) - Box 53

A forthright letter warning Ellis that he is making a mistake in supporting the Hughes/Pope policy of aiming to get the phosphate operation into the hands of Australia.

Correspondence (indexed) tracing the history of conflict between the Commissioners in the area of allotments and sales of phosphate, 1920-1935 (Item 9) - Box 53
Documents relating to points of conflict between the Commissioners on the question of imported labour for the phosphate operation (Australia, having acquired the New Guinea mandate, was anxious to use New Guinea labour on Nauru to replace labour from the Marshall and Caroline Islands, newly under Japanese jurisdiction (period 1920-1926 the 'Pope' era) (Item 10) - Box 53
Some matters concerning the relationship between the EPC and civil officials of the Western Pacific High Commission (Item 11) - Box 53
Documents relating to the repayment of Interest and Sinking Fund (Item 12) - Box 53
Two letters concerning the possibility of a New Zealander succeeding Griffiths as Administrator of Nauru (Item 13) - Box 53
Notes on the connection between the old PPC people and Dickinson in connection with Makatea and the Anglo-French Phosphate Company (Item 14) - Box 53
Correspondence (1926-1929) relating to the proposed purchase by Australia and New Zealand, of the Christmas Island Phosphate operation (Item 15) - Box 53

Also includes a technical report on the Christmas Island operation prepared by the BPC Chief Engineer, Thompson, for Harold Gaze in 1932 when negotiations were again under way for a take-over bid.

Documents relating to the appointment of Commissioners over the years (Item 16) - Box 53

Series. Research Material Volume 13

1939/1940 Australia and New Zealand Governments attempt to prevent the requisitioning of their Phosphate Ships by the UK Government for carrying wheat to the UK (Item 1) - Box 54
1940. Nauru is attacked by a German raider and several phosphate ships are sunk (Item 2) - Box 54
Difficulties of maintaining phosphate shipments during the war (Item 3) - Box 54
1941/1942. The planning and execution of the evacuation operation. An extraordinary correspondence within the various departments of the UK Civil Service about what to do about 'the natives' could have been taken from a satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh (Item 4) - Box 54
1942/1943. Chinese labourers, evacuated from Nauru and Ocean Island, were taken to work at the wolfram mines in Central Australia. Conditions at the mine are described in vivid detail by Mrs. Briget Tothill, wife of the BPC doctor who went with them (Item 5) - Box 54
Makatea 1934/1949. The French Pacific Island of Makatea became the main source of phosphate for New Zealand during the war. Divided loyalties on the island made relationships somewhat strained (Item 6) - Box 54
The postwar rehabilitation of Nauru (Item 7) - Box 54
Relates to the 'humanitarian' activities of a Geelong Scoutmaster, H.H. Hurst, who organised a flow of Nauruan lads before the war to be trade apprentices in Geelong. In 1944 he published a blueprint for the advancement and ultimate achievement of independence of Nauru (Item 8) - Box 54
1947. On the initiative of Dr. Evatt a conference was held in Canberra to establish a South Pacific Commission. Includes a detailed report of the proceedings (Item 9) - Box 54

Series. Research Material Volume 14

Papers relating to the evacuation of Nauru and Ocean Island in 1942 (Item 1) - Box 54
Three Years of War - a paper distributed by Gaze in 1942, setting out the effects of the war on the operations of the BPC (Item 2) - Box 54
Seven Eventful Years - a complementary paper written in 1951, taking in the period of reconstruction and the effect of the 'winds of change' upon relations with the Nauruans, the Banabans and the imported Labour Force. Note: These matters are dealt with in various reports contained in this volume (Item 3) - Box 54
Chinese Riots on Nauru. Protest from the LMS pastor, Robinson, regarding police brutality, 1948 (Item 4) - Box 54
Industrial unrest among the European employees in the islands, 1948 (Item 5) - Box 54
Gilbertese labour force strikes on Ocean Island. They are repatriated and replaced by Chinese, 1948 (Item 6a) - Box 54
Banabans wish to work on Ocean Island, 1968 (Item 6b) - Box 54
Test run for an Air Service between Sydney and Nauru, 1948 (Item 7) - Box 54
Visit of acting Minister for External Territories (Chambers) in 1949. Principally an investigation of Nauruan complaints against Administrator Ridgway (Item 8) - Box 54
Report (1950) from W. Bott. (Islands Superintendent) on a visit to Hong Kong in connection with changes in the labour recruiting and repatriation procedures. Includes comment on the effects of the political situation in China (Item 9) - Box 54
Reports on a recruiting and rehabilitation trip to Hong Kong in 1952 (Item 10) - Box 54
Records of interviews with Government officials and business people. Detailed figures on comparative cost of living as between Hong Kong and the phosphate islands (Item 10) - Box 54

Series. Research Material Volume 15

Young goes to Singapore to check on the maintenance of 'The Islander', 1953 (Item 1) - Box 55
1954. Report by R. Greene (BPC Admin) on the recruitment of Chinese Labour in Hong Kong. Compares BPC wage structures etc. with those paid elsewhere in the region (Item 1a) - Box 55
1956. Greene visits Hong Kong and Singapore to look into labour recruitment problems (Item 2) - Box 55
1957. Greene visits the phosphate islands and Hong Kong on labour recruiting problems (Item 3) - Box 55
Concern over the high incidence of TB among Chinese labourers (Item 3a) - Box 55
1958. W. Marston (BPC Admin) goes to Singapore to discuss (a) the BPC Provident Fund in relation to Singapore's Social Security System (b) the chartering of a ship for the Singapore/C.I. run (Item 4) - Box 55
1595. Greene goes to Hong Kong to discuss recruiting matters including health, dental care and wages. Includes detailed lists of wages scales applied in Hong Kong relating to the employment of Chinese Labour in industry. These were used by the BPC in working out their wage scales for Chinese employed on the Phosphate Islands (Item 5) - Box 55
Reports from UK Commissioners to the UK government on BPC matters (Item 6) - Box 55
Correspondence covering the 1936/1955 period in which UK/BPC Commissioners have tried to come to terms with the Allotment-Problem inherent in the Nauru Agreement whereby the UK was entitled to 42% of the Islands phosphate but couldn't make use of i it (Item 7) - Box 55

Series. Research Material Volume 18

Note: This volume deals (a) with the general history of the Banabans of Ocean Island since the discovery of the phosphate deposits, and with the ambivalent relationship between them and the 'exploiters'. On the one hand there was a mutual familial affection and on the other a feeling among the Banabans that they had never been given a fair deal.

During WW2 most of them were removed from the island by the Japanese, and in 1945/1946 were brought back from exile and settled on a more fertile island (Rambi) in the Fiji group.

A general history of relations between the Banabans of Ocean Island and the BPC in relation to land matters and royalty payments from 1900 until 1965 (Item 1) - Box 55
Questions asked in the UK parliament (Item 2) - Box 55
Correspondence dealing with land matters and the idea of the Banabans moving to another island (Item 3) - Box 55
1945/1946. The Postwar move to the Fijian island of Rambi (Item 4) - Box 55
1946. An account of meeting between the Banabans on Rambi and BPC/UK officials (Item 5) - Box 55
Report submitted to Gaze by his delegate H.B. Maynard (Item 5) - Box 55
In 1947 Maynard, on behalf of BPC, accompanies a party of Banabans to Ocean Island to mark out family land boundaries. Returning to Rambi the party gave an account of what they had done (Item 6) - Box 55
Public meeting on Rambi at which Maynard answers queries about land and financial matters. Sir Albert Ellis is present and gives an account of the early days. A memorial is erected to him by the Banabans (Item 6a) - Box 55
1955. BPC officials Bridges Greene pay a goodwill visit to Rambi. Report on the situation. Includes a report on the Banabans' economic situation by Carleen O'Laughlin, an (Item 7) - Box 55

Series. Research Material Volume 17

Following upon the Pacific War there was a period when it seemed that the USA had assumed the role of Pacific region dictator, and there was a brief period of concerned activity when a suggestion was made that the US Navy was going to take over the phosphate mining on Nauru. The matter was complicated by the fact that the US Navy was able to dictate when and how Nauru (and Ocean Island) were to be recovered from the Japanese. A flurry of diplomatic activity got under way while at the same time BPC officials were briefing the US Command as to the best way to plan an assault on the islands (that never came off) (Item 1) - Box 56
Deals with the 1945/1948 negotiations between the BPC and The Christmas Island Phosphate Company for the purchase of the Christmas Island project (Item 2) - Box 56

Anticipating a vastly increased postwar demand for fertiliser in Australia and New Zealand the BPC was anxious to get its hands on another major supply to boost the Nauru and Ocean Island output, with special attention to the needs of Western and South Australia. Faced with extensive postwar reconstruction costs the C.I.P.C. was not averse from selling, but the shareholders wished to see no diminution of the dividend incomes and set their price at ten million pounds. After nearly three years of hard bargaining and the pulling of political strings the Australian and New Zealand Governments acquired the Christmas Island rights for 2.75 million pounds.

With the postwar formation of the United Nations Organisation the question of mandates and the rights of 'colonial' people came under scrutiny and much ideological discussion. The case of the Nauruans and the rights to mine their phosphate was debated at length and with partisan bias, and for a time it seemed that the operations of the BPC might be declared-illegal. Although this was avoided the first step had been taken towards Nauruan Independence and the takeover, 30 years later, of the phosphate operation by the Nauruans (Item 3) - Box 56

Series. Research Material Volume 18 - Box 56

These papers deal mainly with Postwar differences between the UK and the other two partner governments in the phosphate enterprise, mainly in the financial area. It was a period when Postwar Commissioners representing the UK and NZ were beginning to take more independent initiatives, at first questioning the authority of Gaze and, after his death, asserting themselves with more vigour than formerly.

1953/1957. The new UK and NZ Commissioners seek to restrict the authority of the General Manager in financial matters (Item 1) - Box 56
UK views on postwar Nauruan moves towards independence and ownership of the phosphate enterprise (Item 2) - Box 56
Labour problems on the Islands. Also various references to a visit of inspection by Colonial Office Labour Advisor, Geo. Foggon (Item 3) - Box 56
A UK proposal to send a Technical group to the islands and advise how the operation should be run for the remainder of its life. (1965) (Item 4) - Box 56
Differences between the partner Governments about sharing out the proceeds of the sale of the Nauruan Phosphate operation (Item 5) - Box 56
The Australian/NZ Commissioners, supported by BPC Management, seek to shift the distribution side of the business over to the CIPC, thus eliminating UK influence (Item 6) - Box 56
The sale of BPC's assets on Nauru to the Nauruans (Item 7) - Box 56
Proposed changes in financial arrangements between the BPC and the Nauru Administration to make provision for a continuation of the administration after the mining operation has ceased, 1939 (Item 8) - Box 56
The BPC involvement in attempts by the international phosphate operators to establish high-grade and low-grade cartels, 1932/1939 (Item 9) - Box 56

Note;. The war put an end to this.

Class. Consignment received October 1992

British Phosphate Commission research material Volume 10 (File 1-4) - Box 57

BPC research material Volume 12 (File 5-8) - Box 57

BPC research material Volume 14 (File 9-12) - Box 58

Miscellaneous Cude Papers (File 13) - Box 58

BPC research material - Christmas Island (File 14) - Box 58

BPC History: Correspondence [Volume 1], October 1981 - December 1982 (File 15-16) - Box 58

BPC History: Correspondence, Volume 2, January 1983 - May 1987 (File 17-20) - Box 59

BPC Correspondence between joint authors, Maslyn Williams and Barrie Macdonald, July 1981 - October 1984 (File 21-22) - Box 59

BPC History: Contracts (File 23-24) - Box 59

BPC History: comments on various drafts (File 25-26) - Box 60

The Phosphateers, Part 2 - final typescript with amendments and inserts (File 27-29) - Box 60

Class. Consignment received November 1994

Series. My life revisited

The bulk of this instalment relates to a project in which Williams was working on from 1980 to 1990 - a novel based on various incidents in his life, thought not necessarily autobiographical. The work went through several revisions and was variously titled: 'The waterfall', 'A ladder so high', 'The Jonas notebooks', 'My life revisited' (umbrella title) and 'The prima donna's daughter'. The final titles were Book One: 'The Jonas Road', and Book Two: 'The prima donna's daughter'.

Under these headings there are notes, drafts, revisions, retypings, abandoned chapters and some editorial letters. In folder 30 is a letter in which Williams describes the background to the project.

'A ladder so high' - first and second drafts of Chapters 16-21 (File 30-31) - Box 60
"A ladder so high (Jonas)' - first revisions and first draft rewrites (File 32) - Box 60
'A ladder so high (Jonas)' - first revisions (continued) (File 33-34) - Box 61
'A ladder so high (Jonas)': first draft rewrites (File 35-36) - Box 61
'The waterfall': working drafts (File 37) - Box 61
'The waterfall': copy for revising (File 38-40) - Box 61
'My life revisited': handwritten drafts and notes made during the 1992/1994 revision of novel which later became 'The Jonas notebooks'. (The 1992 revision was titled 'A ladder so high') (File 41-44) - Box 62
'Jonas': early notes, 1990 (File 45) - Box 62
'Jonas': working drafts for early revision, 1989-1990 (File 46) - Box 62
'Jonas': handwritten drafts of early chapters (File 47-48) - Box 62
'Jonas': first drafts chapters 1-14 as at March 1991 (File 49-50) - Box 63
'Jonas': first drafts, chapter 16-18 (File 51) - Box 63
'Jonas': first draft revisions, chapters 1-8 (File 52) - Box 63
'Jonas': pages removed from first processed copy (part one) for revision (File 53) - Box 63
'Jonas': (part two) first draft for retying as amended (File 54) - Box 63
'Jonas': handwritten chapter drafts, revisions and notes, 1991-1992 (File 55-56) - Box 63
'Jonas': Handwritten chapter drafts, revisions and notes, 1991-1992 (cont.) (File 57-59) - Box 64
'The prima donna's daughter': synopses of chapter contents of the various rewrites as finally sent to agents in London and Sydney in 1994 Editing notes from Jacqueline Kent. 'These comments were used as guidelines for subsequent re-writes'. There are also letters from other people such as Jean Bednall, Morris West, Edmund Campion, copies of MW's letters to them and to Nancy Keesing (File 60) - Box 64

Series. His mother's country

Correspondence, 1980-1991 (File 61-63) - Box 64
Reviews (File 64) - Box 64
Agreements with MUP (File 65) - Box 64

Series. Plays, short stories, screenplays, article

'The Holy Virago': script for ABC play (File 66) - Box 65
'The 47 Ronin': script for ABC radio play - first, second and final drafts (File 67-69) - Box 65
Short stories: 'The pear tree', 'My husband and I', 'Molly', 'Leini', draft of prelude for 'My Life Revisited', plus sketches for other stories (File 70) - Box 65
'Five stories', including 'Leini' and 'The holy Virago' (File 71-72) - Box 65
'Sihanouk and the God-Kings' - ABC radio play Film treatment of a short story 'Fabian/Ilona', 1988 (File 73) - Box 65
'The Calvary of Jose Rizal' (Filipino hero) - radio play. Several drafts with numerous amendments, plus typed and handwritten notes, synopsis, background articles and correspondence, 1984 (File 74) - Box 65
'The Cavalry of Jose Rizal' (Filipino hero) - (cont.) (File 75-79) - Box 66
'An article on Damien Parer' - Notes and drafts for Eureka Street article, 'My Friend Parer', October 1994 (published November 1994). MW comments on the image of Parer presented in biographies by Neil McDonald and Niall Brennan. Drafts and notes on points to be inserted (File 80) - Box 66

Series. Miscellaneous material, correspondence, business papers

Copy of typed transcript of diary by Annie Ellis of voyage to Australia in 1864. Typed history of Ocean Island by Ko-Na-Mauri (2 short typescripts) (File 81) - Box 66

'Recollections of Angau': typed manuscript of diary of Tom Grahamslaw, 1942-1944. Lent by Mrs Grahamslaw to Albert Speer for copying

Reviews of The Phosphateers 1985-1956; (one envelope) Map of Nauru, printed 1923 (File 82) - Box 66
Potential or incomplete projects (File 83-87) - Box 67
Correspondence with Collins publishers,about various projects; includes agreements, and copies of MW's letters, 1963-1986 (File 88) - Box 67
Correspondence with McPhee-Gribble and Penguin, 1981-1988 (File 89) - Box 67
Correspondence regarding publication of 'The temple'/'The innocence of Daniel Spotwich', 1981-1983 (File 90) - Box 67
Correspondence with publishers and literary agents regarding the non-publication of 'My Life Revisited', 1980-1983 (File 90) - Box 67
Original correspondence and proposal for the establishment of a national youth orchestra by the National Music Camp Association. Letters to and from Ruth Alexander and John Bishop, 1954 (Alexander's file) (File 91) - Box 68
Also drafts of letters from MW, 1988-1989, to Margaret Greene and Sharman Pretty on the NMCA Articles of Association (File 91) - Box 68
Agreements and royalty statements, 1967-1978 (File 92) - Box 68
Records of expenses for research projects, 1981-1983 (3 account books) (File 93) - Box 68

Class. Consignment received April 1996

Comprising papers relating to 'My life revisited'.

'A ladder so high': Part 1, Chapters 1-8; Part 2, Chapters 9-15 (1992). From birth to arriving in Australia (File 94-95) - Box 68

'A ladder so high': part 4-5 with revisions (File 96-97) - Box 68

'The Jonas Road': revision of 1992-1993 version from beginning until the end of World War I (File 98-99) - Box 69

'Jonas': unrevised copy of original version (File 100-101) - Box 69

'Jonas': notes and draft revisions (File 102) - Box 69

'Jonas': revisions of seafaring section, 1993 (File 103) - Box 69

'Jonas': 1993-1994 revision, Chapters 16-24 (File 104-105) - Box 69

'Jonas' 1993: Chapters 19-31, spares and extracts with revisions (File 106) - Box 70

'Jonas', 1993-1994 (File 107) - Box 70

'Jonas': 1994 version. Book One as revised for retyping (File 108-109) - Box 70

'Jonas': miscellaneous material, 1994-1995 version (File 110) - Box 70

'Jonas': 'notes for total rewrite', 1993-1995 (File 111) - Box 70

Extracts from 'My life revisited' to go into 'The prima donna's daughter' (File 112) - Box 70


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