Guide to the Papers of Carmel Bird
MS 958, MS Acc06.204, MS Acc15.118, MS Acc22.151
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Bird, Carmel
- Title
- Papers of Carmel Bird
- Date Range
- 1957-2022
- Collection Number
- MS 958, MS Acc06.204, MS Acc15.118, MS Acc22.151
- Extent
- 5.31 metres (31 ms + 1 folio box + 1 packet + 1 folder + 14 audiovisual carriers + 5 digital carriers)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The papers in MS 958 comprise letters and cards of Barbara Hanrahan, a typescript titled "The world you are walking upon: a tribute to Barbara Hanrahan" and photocopies of articles on Hanrahan, including her orbituary. In her letters, Hanrahan discusses her writings, including Flawless Jade, her art, people they know and Carmel Bird's writings. Also included are papers relating to The Penguin century of Australian stories, which was edited by Bird and published by Penguin in 2000. They mostly comprise correspondence, biographical notes and permission to publish forms received from authors approached about contributions to the anthology (15 boxes, 1 large folio box). The Acc06.204 instalment comprises further papers relating to the editing of The stolen children: their stories: including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, which was published in 1998 (1 box). The Acc15.118 instalment comprises correspondence received by Carmel Bird 1980-1999. Correspondents include Bruce Pascoe, Frank Morehouse, Gerald Murnane and Bird's students (2 boxes). The MS Acc22.151 instalment comprises book and short story drafts, speeches, essays, research notes, reviews, correspondence, and documents relating to the Literature Board, 1970s-2022. Correspondents include Marion Halligan, Gillian Bouras and Gerald Murnane (13 boxes, 1 packet, 1 folder, 14 audiocarriers, 5 digital carriers).
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Carmel Bird, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file/item numbers(s)'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The original consignments were donated to the Library on 2 May 1995 and August 2005. Further papers were received in 2006 and 2015.
Related Materials
The Library holds a number of Bird's published works, together with a biographical newsclippings file.
Arrangement
The collection has been largely left in original order.
Collection Retrieval Advice
Please note: each consignment in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there are multiple Box 1's). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.
Finding Aid Source (s)
Please note: This finding aid contains descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Biographical / Historical
Carmel Bird is an Australian novelist. She lives in Central Victoria, having grown up in Tasmania. She has written nine literary novels and six collections of short fiction. She has also written three books on the art of writing, and has edited six anthologies of essays and stories. She has taught fiction writing at the Universities of Melbourne, Deakin, Latrobe, Monash, Swinburne and RMIT. She has spoken at major literary events throughout Australia, as well as in England, Canada, USA, France and Spain. For works of this author under a pseudonym see: Power, Jack, 1940-
Item Descriptions
Class MS 958. Consignments received 1995-2005 - Box 1-15 (MS 958), Folio-Box unnumbered (MS 958)
2.85 metres,These instalments contain letters and cards of Barbara Hanrahan, a typescript titled "The world you are walking upon: a tribute to Barbara Hanrahan" and photocopies of articles on Hanrahan, including her orbituary. In her letters, Hanrahan discusses her writings, including Flawless Jade, her art, people they know and Carmel Bird's writings. Also included are papers relating to The Penguin century of Australian stories, which was edited by Bird and published by Penguin in 2000. They mostly comprise correspondence, biographical notes and permission to publish forms received from authors approached about contributions to the anthology.
Comprises 16 boxes (MS 958 Boxes 1-15 + Folio box (unnumbered)).
Class MS Acc06.204. Consignment received 2006 - Box 1 (MS Acc06.204)
This instalment comprises further papers relating to the editing of The stolen children: their stories: including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, which was published in 1998. Contained in 1 box (MS Acc06.204 Box 1).
Class MS Acc15.118. Consignment received 2015
This consignment features correspondence, mostly handwritten or typed letters, postcards or notes but also including some faxes, a few published items and a photograph. Most of the correspondence consists of letters sent to Carmel Bird but there are some copies of letters written by her. The correspondents include Australian literary figures, friends, former students and readers interested in Carmel Bird's work.
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1985-1994 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Robert Dessaix, Helen Daniel, David Duggan and Garry Disher, Jenny Digby and Tim Doyle
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1991-1995 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Jolley, Barry Jones, Rod Jones and Gail Jones
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1992-1995 (File 3) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Diana Baillieu
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1989-1993 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Berenice Eastman, Eltham Shire, Marian Eldridge, Chester Eagle and Margot Estcott
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1985-1994 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Don Anderson, Debra Adelaide, AnaMaria Beligan, Ray Allen and Nan Albinski
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1986-1995 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Mem Fox, Suzanne Falkiner, Roseanne Fitzgibbon, David Foster and Sandra Forbes
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1984-1996 (File 7) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Kate Grenville, Helen Garer, Kerry Greenwood, Andrea Goldsmith, Greg Gatenby, Ian Gelbeck, Kay Gregory, Alison Lesley Gold, Barbara Giles and Katherine Gallagher
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1985-1994 (File 8) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Terry Lane, Joan London, Lance Loughrey, Joyce Lee, Roslaeen Love, Susan Lever, Claire Larriere, Alexandra Long, Kate Lion and Ian Laurenson
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1986-1996 (File 9) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Gerald Murnane
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1983-1995 (File 10) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from David Brooks, Bruce Beaver, Ron Blair, Sandra Birdsell, Merle Brooks, John Bryson, Anamarie Beligan, Sue Braint, Mara Bormanis, Connie Barber, Gillian Bouras, AM Barradell Smith, Kevin Brophy, Jenny Barrington, Shirley Burns and Damien Broderick
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1987-1994 (File 11) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from David Malouf, Drusila Modjiska, Brian Matthews, Alex Miller, Frank Moorhouse, Hilary McPhee, Rosemary Marriott, Joan Maxwell, JL Malone, Sheena Mackay, Jan McKemmish, David Myers, Honour Moore, Margaret McClusky, Gail Mahon, Ian Maddison, Helen Meikle and Linda Murray
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1986-1994 (File 12) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Ramona Koval, Michael Kitson and Matthew Kelly
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1990-2009 (File 13) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Marion May Campbell
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1992-1996 (File 14) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Margaret Coombs, Helen Chryssides, Anna Couani, Laurie Clancy, Paul Collins, Miriam Cosic, David Cohen and Matthew Condon
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1988-1994 (File 15) - Box 1 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Marion Halligan, Frank Hardy, Gillian Hanscombe, Robert Holden, Fiona Heylal, Kristin Henry, Lucy Halligan, Darren Hill, Mabel Hurley, Lyn Hard, Michael Hulse, Jamie Forbes, Kathy Hunt, Laurie Hergenhan, Helen Heritage, Catherine Harboe Ree, Elva Howard, Kenneth Harvey and Barbara Hanrahan
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1986-2001 (File 16) - Box 2 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Ida West, Moira Watson, Jane Watson, Patty Wallace Smith, Ian Kennedy Williams, Gerard Windsor, Michael Wilding and Brenda Walker
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1988-1990 (File 17) - Box 2 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Virago, Vogue, Carolyn Von Langenberg and Vaclav Vaca
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1990 (File 18) - Box 2 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Joanna Trollope, Peter Timms, Tom Twopenny, Rodney Thurley and Margaret Toth
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1993-1994 (File 19) - Box 2 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Susan Schwartz
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1986-2016 (File 20) - Box 2 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Michael Sharkey, Tom Shapcott, Jean Stein, John Scott, Amanda Stewart, John Slavin and Annetter Stewart
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1991-1994 (File 21) - Box 2 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Janey Runci
Letters to Carmel Bird, 1986-1993 (File 22) - Box 2 (MS Acc15.118)
Personal correspondence from Peter Rose, Jane Robinson, Lloyd Robson, Andrew Reimer, Judith Rodriguez and Lisa Roberts
Class MS Acc22.151. Consignment received 2022, 1957 - 2022
The MS Acc 22.151 addition comprises of drafts, speeches, essays, research notes, reviews, correspondence, and documents relating to the Literature Board, 1980s-2022. Correspondents include Marion Halligan, Gillian Bouras and Gerald Murnane.
Bendigo Writers' Festival, 2007 - 2015 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.151)
Plus page from Australian Reader's Digest.
Miscellaneous one, 1988 - 2015 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.151)
Programs, interviews, posters fliers, newspaper article.
Miscellaneous two - My hearts are your hearts, 1991 - 2017 (File 7) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.151)
Newspaper articles, magazine interviews.
Miscellaneous three, n.d. (File 8) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.151)
Promotion fliers, cards, covers, reviews, newspaper articles.
Medieval imagination – State Library Victoria, 2008 (File 13) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.151)
Exhibition material.
Copy of book My hearts are your hearts with postcard, 2015 (File 16) - Box 2 (MS Acc22.151)
Book. Includes Carmel Bird signature.
Copy of book The Dead aviatrix with bookmark plus post card, 2012 - 2017 (File 17) - Box 2 (MS Acc22.151)
Book.
Copy of Field of poppies plus postcard and booklet, 2019 (File 18) - Box 2 (MS Acc22.151)
Book. Includes Carmel Bird signature.
Copy of book Family skeleton, 2016 (File 25) - Box 3 (MS Acc22.151)
Book plus postcard. Includes Carmel Bird signature.
Fine line journal no.1, 1987 (File 34) - Box 3 (MS Acc22.151)
Co-editors Helen Garlick and Carmel Bird.
Early manuscript of Telltale and notes by Erica Wagner, 15 November 2020 (File 36) - Box 4 (MS Acc22.151)
Notebook used for construction of Index from Telltale, December 2021 (File 40) - Box 4 (MS Acc22.151)
Child of the twilight review by Peter Pearce plus Reading Group Notes, 2012 (File 41) - Box 4 (MS Acc22.151)
Resurrecting Martha short story for collection edited by Matthew Chrulew, 2021 (File 44) - Box 4 (MS Acc22.151)
A copy of novel Cherry ripe with author's note from 2002 in the front, 1985 - 2022 (File 45) - Box 4 (MS Acc22.151)
Draft of unfinished novel – working title: Off the golden mile, n.d. (File 49) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
Manuscripts of 'Now Ida haunts the car park' plus monologue 'Old Collegian', n.d. (File 53) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
Manuscripts of early story 'Now Ida Haunts the Car Park' plus monologue 'Old Collegian' – reference is to Ida Rentouil Outhwaite.
Copies of unpublished reading books The Owl and the clown and A Tough old goat, 1983 (File 57) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
Copies of 1983 unpublished reading books The Owl and the Clown and A Tough Old Goat (later plagiarized by Fitzroy Community School Readers).
Another draft of a Tough old goat – also early draft of The Cassowary's quiz which was then titled The Flamingo's question, n.d. (File 58) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
Advertising - Births, deaths, marriages, Fine line, Cherry ripe, 1985 (File 60) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
Open for inspection - audiobook (File 60b) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
5 audio cassetes. Read by Caroline Lee.
Open for inspection - audiobook sides 1-2, 2002 (Item NLA-SAVA000385) - Cassette-Box SAVA 22
1 item, Bolinda Audio, Compact cassette tapeOpen for inspection - audiobook sides 3-4, 2002 (Item NLA-SAVA000386) - Cassette-Box SAVA 22
1 item, Bolinda Audio, Compact cassette tapeOpen for inspection - audiobook sides 5-6, 2002 (Item NLA-SAVA000387) - Cassette-Box SAVA 22
1 item, Bolinda Audio, Compact cassette tapeTapes of Radio National readings of short stories including The Hair and the teeth, 1999 (File 60c) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
2 audio cassetes. Read by Jane Harders.
The story of 'Sophie' – text only published in Celebration – editor Joy Cripps, 1984 (File 62) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
Research inspiration relating to novel Field of poppies (2019) about volcanic eruption at Mount St Helens, 2019 (File 68) - Box 5 (MS Acc22.151)
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 1959, No.1, January 1981.
Notes for Penguin Century of Australian stories plus copy of letter to contributors, 2000 (File 72) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Letters relating to Anthology of Australian religious stories, May 2002 (File 74) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Interview with Margaret Throsby. ABC radio – list of pieces of music to be played, c.1997 (File 76) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Cassowary's quiz, 2000 - 2013 (File 80) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Copy of 3 pages-illustrations by Anita Mertzlin (2000) plus copy of cover of Fabulous Finola Fox (2012)-illustrated by Kerry Agent.
Lecture poster - Barcelona, 2001 (File 81) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Centre d'Estudis Australians Department de Filologia Anglesa I Alemanya.
Violence and the other in the novels of Carmel Bird, 2019 (File 82) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Doctoral Thesis by Donna Yannakis.
Letter from Nichilas Birns regarding the story 'My Beloved is Mine and I am His', 2005 (File 84) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Essay by Naomi Britten on The White garden, Red shoes, Cape Grimm – published in Antipodes Journal, 2010 (File 85) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Steven Romai on punctuation The Australian, plus some material on Field of poppies, 2019 (File 87) - Box 6 (MS Acc22.151)
Newspaper articles.
The Writing on the wall - journal, edited by Carmel Bird, 1985 (File 91) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
A collection of poetry and prose by women.
Research for The White garden - journal of Therese of Lisieux in French, n.d. (File 92) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Photocopy.
Two essays - On the creation of the novel Red shoes and Dear writer revisited, 1998 - 2022 (File 93) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Papers from Lisa Roberts regarding creation of Terra Incognita – see also Box Six, 1998 (File 94) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
The Woodpecker toy fact - note on edits (File 95) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Woodpecker Point story, with notes for Italian academic Valerie Tosi, 1987 - 2022 (File 98) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Fliers for Cherry ripe, Not now Jack, Red Shoes, My hearts are your hearts, Zoo workshop, 1987 (File 100) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Lorena Carrington Essay for Sydney review of books, plus notes, 4 March 2021 (File 101) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Reviews, interviews, newspaper cuttings regarding (File 102) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Regarding Daughters and Fathers; Dear Writer; White Garden; Crisis; Miles Franklin short list; Banjo Award short list; Aurora Australia; Red Hot Notes; some reviews by Carmel Bird.
Process of writing a review of Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes, March 2022 (File 106) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
File containing USB flash drive on Terra Incognita and Sophie, with Lisa Roberts (File 107a) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Originally held in yellow envelope.
Notes for review of Hans Christian Andersen, European witness by Paul Binding (File 109) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Folder containing VHS Cassette of Automatic teller by Victoria Glendinning with Michael Fortescue on double bass. (File 109a) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Originally held VHS of Automatic Teller by Victoria Glendinning with Michael Fortescue on Double Bass.
File on Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Terry Lane (File 109b) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Originally contained 3.5 inch floppy disk of conversation with ABC Terry Lane.
Various posters, n.d. (File 112) - Box 7 (MS Acc22.151)
Four posters: God Smokes Drum, Faceless Woman, Births, Deaths and Marriages and Faceless Woman. All measure: 29.5cm x 42cm.
Record of correspondence with Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), 2002 (File 116) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
The Age -Sunday life- memoir 'Convicts and kisses', 2007 (File 117) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
2 pages recording Carmel Bird's Tasmanian coast holiday in the early 50s.
Notes on judging Historical novel award, 2021 (File 118) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
1 small index notebook.
Notes for making index for writing the Story of your life, 2009 (File 119) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
1 small index notebook.
Some details of publishing history, n.d. (File 120) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Agents, contracts, copyrights.
Story about Buda (Castlemaine) in The Age, 2007 (File 121) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
2 newspaper extracts.
In Conversation with Robert Dessaix written transcript of talk at Box Hill Library, May 1993 (File 123) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Box Hill Library, 1997 (File 127) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
One letter to Carmel Bird regarding her participation on Suburban Dreaming. One newspaper extract on Carmel Bird.
Australia Council Residency Victorian College of the Arts, 1996 (File 129) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Report by Carmel Bird.
Bird in the zoo - workshop, 1993 (File 132) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Workshop notes, newspaper extracts.
Ballroom advice to writer plus response by Carmel Bird, 28 March 2010-31 March 2010 (File 136) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
From Dolores San Miguel.
Ben Ball - note from The Times literary supplement, 16 April 2003 (File 138) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Literary criticism.
Bees research for The White garden, October 1993 (File 139) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
APIS Melbourne Volume , No.4.
Photos of illustrations for The Cassowary's quiz - Anita Mertzlin, n.d. (File 140) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Originally contained in pink envelope.
Christmas Story Good Weekend magazine- 'Disappearance of Jacko', 1992 (File 142) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Review of Open For Inspection - by Peter Craven - Sunday Age, 6 October 2002 (File 143) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
One envelope with newspaper extract.
Reference to Bluebird Café in Voices Magazine Autumn, 1991 (File 147) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Photocopy of an essay by Robert Holden in Voices Magazine.
Bluebird Café article by Philippa Hawker on the Sunday Herald, 1990-09-23 (File 148) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Review on Bluebird Café, 22 September 1990 (File 150) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Sydney Morning Herald photocopies.
Notebook, c.1990s-2007 (File 151) - Box 8 (MS Acc22.151)
Notebook covering years from late 1990s to 2007. Includes notes and research for Child of the Twilight, drafts of book reviews, notes for teaching literature, talks at writers' festivals, drafts of talks in Barcelona and Granada.
Tiny promotional object from UQP for The White Garden, n.d. (Item 152) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Empty tic tac box with sticker promoting The White Garden.
Chicken Farmer - inspiration for writing class, n.d. (File 157) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Printout of image depicting graffiti: "Chicken Farmer I Still Love You".
Collage (Granada ), 2015 (File 158) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Envelope with collage material plus two collage pages.
Material regarding crisis novel, written under the pen name Jack Power, 1996 (File 159) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Correspondence, cover proposals, newspaper extracts, articles.
Dear writer revisited cover, 2014 (File 161) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Printout samples of cover for Dear Writer Revisited.
Dear writer revisited cover art process, 2014 (Item 162) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Two A4 original cover art designs.
Dear writer – essay included in Random House edition (The Company of Laughing Singing Invisibles ), n.d. (File 164) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Notebook for Child of the twilight and Family skeleton, 2004 - 2016 (File 173) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Plus various other notes for short story 'Waiting to be Seated' and a conference paper.
Art-work for Births deaths and marriages 1983, 1983 (File 177) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Two black and white photos depicting Millie Bird and Annie. 12.5cm x 9cm.
Carmel Bird's essay on Gerard Murnane plus manuscript, n.d. (File 178) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Manuscripts, correspondence, essay regardomg Gerard Murnane.
Manuscript of Gerard Murnane, A Season on Earth, n.d. (File 179) - Box 9 (MS Acc22.151)
Manuscript, key to notes made, correspondence, comments.
Folder on the process of writing a review, 2020 (File 180) - Box 10 (MS Acc22.151)
Text reviewed is Three Rings by Daniel Mendelsohn.
Red shoes – explanation of the exhibition at State Library Victoria, 1998 (File 182) - Box 10 (MS Acc22.151)
Fairy Tale Society meeting Sydney, 2014 (File 183) - Box 10 (MS Acc22.151)
Letter, certificate, notes, programs.
Freud Museum – material for CD-ROM of Red shoes – and correspondence with Gillian Bouras, 1997 - 1998 (File 186) - Box 10 (MS Acc22.151)
Piece by Gerald Murnane, The Cursing of Ivan Veliki, 1988 - 2022 (File 189) - Box 10 (MS Acc22.151)
Used as inspiration for a Carmel Bird publication in The Monthly June/July 2022.
The White garden, 1996 (File 191) - Box 10 (MS Acc22.151)
Correspondence, postcards, newspaper clippings,newspaper pages, reviews.
Frankin Miles, 22 May 1994 (File 196) - Box 10 (MS Acc22.151)
Correspondence and notes on Franklin Miles award.
We can buy lions, 2009 (File 197) - Box 10 (MS Acc22.151)
A facsimile of an unpublished book Carmel Bird wrote for her grandson Sebastian on his third birthday in 2009.
Odette Kelada correspondence, 28 May 2007 (File 199) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Regarding interview with Carmel.
Correspondence from Andy Kissane, 16 December 2011 (File 200) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Regarding a copy of the book The Swarm.
Jane Eyre - manuscript of the story Jane Eyre at the window, 1997 (File 202) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Interview with Terry Lane, 1994 (File 203) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Talks with Broadcasters and Writer Terry Lane.
Research for Fair Game, 2003 - 2015 (File 208) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Copies of Catherine Price's diary, correspondence and The Story of the Princess Royal.
Fair game ballet TASDance, 1999 (File 210) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Flyers, newsletters, production booklet.
Fact or Fiction Hobart published in Not now Jack - I'm writing a novel 1, 1994 (File 213) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Writing in segments - sources and creation of writing fiction, n.d. (File 215) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
The Nature of gardens - edited by Peter Timms, 1998 - 1999 (File 217) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Carmel Bird research and notes.
Research regarding the short story 'My Beloved is Mine' from My hearts are your hearts, 2015 (File 218) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
First draft 'Her voice was full of money' from My hearts are your hearts, 2015 (File 219) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Houghton Mifflin - relations, Australian short stories - anthology, 1990 (File 220) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Letter from Susanna Hoe regarding anthology about Tasmanian women, 14 December 2007 (File 224) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Launch of With love from wish and co - Hobart, 28 July 2022 (File 227) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Speech notes.
Manuscript of story 'Last Rite' included in 'The Woodpecker toy fact' collection, 1986 (File 230) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Paper presented in Granada, Spain - Indigenous characters in Ozlit, 2001 (File 231) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Reading with cellos- Words in Winter- Daylesford, 2022 (File 233) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Reading on Field of Poppies with two cellists Danny Silver and Gudrun.
Cassowary's Quiz - children's book, 1996 (File 238) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Photocopy of music score, translated childerns song, notes etc.
Cassowary's Quiz - children's book, 1996 (File 239) - Box 11 (MS Acc22.151)
Correspondence, notes, illustrations, original text and translation of Russian child's song "ёлочка".
Review of This Devastating fever (Sophie Cunningham) for Saturday Paper, September 2022 (File 244) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Letter from Department Chancellor University of Tasmania, 9 September 2022 (File 245) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Lothian Publishing - The Mouth-illustrated by Anita Mertzlin, 1996 (File 246) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Correspondence, invoices.
Literature board, 1997 - 1998 (File 248) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Fellowship form, correspondence, CV.
Literature board, 1993 (File 249) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Correspondence, grant application, news release.
Literature board, 2004 (File 250) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Correspondence, literature board application.
Letter from Gabrielle Lord, 2019 (File 254) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Printouts of antiquities (statues).
Review of Javier Marias, 28 January 2006 (File 260) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Weekend Australian newspaper extracts.
Research for essay on movie 'The Piano' essay in Columbus' blindness, 1997 (File 263) - Box 12 (MS Acc22.151)
Newspaper extracts, magazine extracts, notes.
Speech at Hobart University on occasion of receiving Honorary PhD, 2022 (File 267) - Box 13 (MS Acc22.151)
Shirley Walker-essay on Cape Grimm; also conversation with Shirley Walker, 1998 - 2004 (File 268) - Box 13 (MS Acc22.151)
Carmel Bird speech to the Ageing with attitude conference in Clunes, October2022 (File 270) - Box 13 (MS Acc22.151)
Auberon Waugh - Issue of First Peoples - Sydney Festival, 1998 (File 271) - Box 13 (MS Acc22.151)
Printouts of articles.
Typed manuscripts Woodpecker point plus a review in New York Times, 1988 (File 273) - Box 13 (MS Acc22.151)
Gerald Murnane letter regarding a conference in Tasmania, 19 June 1987 (File 275) - Box 13 (MS Acc22.151)
Manuscript of story collection Love letter to Lola, 2022 (File 276) - Box 13 (MS Acc22.151)
Manuscript plus cover ideas.