MS 6083
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Palmer, Helen G.
- Title
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Papers of Helen G. Palmer
- Date Range
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1918-1996
- Collection Number
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MS 6083
- Extent
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4.92 metres (1 ms box + 24 archive boxes + 1 medium folio box)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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National Library of Australia
Introduction
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2594499) 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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Helen G. Palmer, National Library of Australia, MS 6083, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Item Descriptions
Class [unnumbered]. Original Consignment
Series. Personal and Correspondence
Correspondence (File) - Box 1-3
A vast correspondence consisting of family and business letters and letters from other writers. Also included are copies of many of Helen Palmer's letters to other people.
A list of the Palmer Collection of Books and Pamphlets (File) - Box 4
(Completed by N.L.A.)
Correspondence (File) - Box 4
Material on H.B. Higgins (File) - Box 4
Notebooks of Helen Palmer (File) - Box 4
Photographs (File) - Box 4
Air Force Pay Books (File) - Box 5
Cheque Butts; 1940 diary of Ina Higgins (File) - Box 5
Notebooks, including some of Vance and Nettie Palmer's diaries (File) - Box 5
Photo Albums; Holograph of Martin Victor Kennedy's work: Bernard O'Dowd (File) - Box 5
Manuscripts of The Shark Arm Mystery by H.G. Palmer (File) - Box 6
Drafts of Poetry (File) - Box 6
Scripts of Beneath The Southern Cross A.B.C. Broadcasts (File) - Box 6
Manuscript of Fencing Australia by H.G. Palmer (File) - Box 6
Manuscript of After the First Hundred Years by H.G. Palmer (File) - Box 6
Series. Subject Files
Education (File) - Box 7
(2 folders)
Labor Teachers, 1958-1960 (File) - Box 7
(5 folders)
Crown Employees (Teachers') Award, 1964 (File) - Box 7
The Depression (File) - Box 7
China Visit (File) - Box 8
South Africa Defence and Aid Fund (File) - Box 8
Outlook Editorial Board (File) - Box 8
Labour History (File) - Box 8
Grace Bardsley Aboriginal Fund (File) - Box 8
Shark Arm Case (File) - Box 8
Society of Authors (File) - Box 8
State Aid to Education (File) - Box 9
(2 folders)
Religion in N.S.W. Primary Schools (File) - Box 9
Religion in Schools - Victoria and other states (File) - Box 9
Education and the Wyndham Report (File) - Box 9
Education - Crisis and Opportunity in Schools (File) - Box 9
History Teachers' Association (File) - Box 9
Wyndham Scheme (File) - Box 9
Labor Teachers (File) - Box 9
New G.R.I. Syllabus (File) - Box 9
Labour History (File) - Box 10
(3 folders)
The Second Reformation by H.O. Chapman (File) - Box 10
(2 folders)
Education (File) - Box 10
(3 folders)
Vance Palmer (File) - Box 11
Miscellaneous (File) - Box 11
Nationalism, Communism and Socialism (File) - Box 11
Outlook Material (File) - Box 11
Stefan Heym and Ian Hart (File) - Box 11
Newscuttings (File) - Box 11
Enter the Squatter (manuscript) (File) - Box 11
Assignments for Bachelor of Education (File) - Box 11
Published Material on H.B. Higgins (File) - Box 12
Socialism (File) - Box 12
Democratic Centralism (File) - Box 12
Banjo Paterson (File) - Box 12
Human Rights In South Africa (File) - Box 12
South Africa Defence and Aid Fund (File) - Box 12
(2 folders)
Outlook History (File) - Box 12
Series. Published material - Box 13-22
Includes complete set of Outlook, many issues of Current Affairs Bulletin and numerous other publications. There is also an M.A. thesis submitted to the University of Sydney in 1967 by S.B. Clark entitled: Vance Palmer: A consideration of his career in Australian letters.
Class [unnumbered]. Consignment received October 1980
Photographs of the Palmer and Higgins families. Also includes two medals in boxes.
Photographs and medals (File) - Box 23-24
Photographs and medals (File) - Folio 1
Class [unnumbered]. Consignment received March 1998
Correspondence, articles, obituaries and other papers relating to Helen Palmer, 1959-1996. The correspondence includes letters from Katharine Susannah Prichard, 1959-1969, discussing Vance and Aileen Palmer; and correspondence between Helen Palmer and Rhona and David Ovedoff, 1963-1966. Also included is the transcript of a conversation with Helen Palmer recorded in 1965 and the forward she wrote for a proposed new edition of Nettie Palmer's book on Higgins. One of the five tapes contains an account of Aileen's early years.
Correspondence and related papers (File) - Box [25?]
Science Show. Science & Politics, including interview with Tony Benn [cassette tape], 1979 (Item) - Piece NLA.MS-SAV000273
1 item
Letters and draft of foreword to Higgins book, Paper for DMB read for Helen [cassette tape] (Item) - Piece NLA.MS-SAV000274
1 item
Letter Bad/Day I Year? [cassette tape] (Item) - Piece NLA.MS-SAV000275
1 item
The Bad Year [cassette tape] (Item) - Piece NLA.MS-SAV000276
1 item
Early Years or AYP (also HGP at PLC(?) The bad(?) year (Reminiscences?) [cassette tape] (Item) - Piece NLA.MS-SAV000277
1 item
