Guide to the Papers of Dennis Altman

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MS 5402; MS Acc10.041; MS Acc16.020; MS Acc17.099.MS Acc22.063; MS Acc22.145

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Created: November 2023

Collection Summary

Creator
Altman, Dennis, AM, Professor
Title
Papers of Dennis Altman
Date Range
1961 - 2021
Collection Number
MS 5402; MS Acc10.041; MS Acc16.020; MS Acc17.099.MS Acc22.063; MS Acc22.145
Extent
4.79 metres (23 ms boxes + 1 archives box + 1 map folio + 2 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises papers documenting academic and gay right's campaigner Dennis Altman's career as a writer and his roles in Australian and international HIV/AIDS organisations. Includes correspondence to and from academics, publishers, politicians, leaders of homosexual movements and admirers.

Conditions Governing Access

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2438746).

Conditions Governing Use

Conditions for copying and publishing of this collection may apply, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2438746).

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Dennis Altman, National Library of Australia, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Finding Aid Source

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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 Accession number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.

Item Descriptions

Class MS 5402. Original Consignment received 1977, 1966 - 2009

This consignment comprises a notebook and manuscript of Homosexual: oppression and liberation; reviews; and, printed matter on gay liberation and other homosexual movements, including several issues of The Body Politic, CAMP Ink and Campaign. There is also correspondence to and from academics, publishers, politicians, leaders of homosexual movements and admirers, including Louie Crew, Gerry Hannon, Max Whitehouse, Leslie Bury (M.P.), Bill Hayden (M.P.), Harris Dienstfrey, Richard Walsh, Peter Bonsall-Boone, George Medenhall and Ralph Blair (2 boxes, 2 folders).

Series. Notebook and manuscript of Homosexual: oppression and liberation; reviews; and, printed matter on gay liberation and other homosexual movements, including several issues of The body politic, CAMP Ink and Campaign. - Box 1 (MS 5402)

Series. Correspondence - Box (Shared), Folder MS 5402

Series. Correspondence and material relating to homosexual movements - Box (Shared), Folder MS 5402

Class MS Acc10.041. Consignment received 2010, 1961 - 2016

This consignmentt comprises papers documenting Dennis Altman's career as a writer and his roles in Australian and international HIV/AIDS organisations. They include correspondence, reports, financial records, ephemera, publications, press cuttings, publishing contracts and drafts of several of Altman's books. The organisations represented in the papers include the Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men's Health Centre (VAD/GMHC), National Centre for HIV Social Research (NCHSR), Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) and the Global AIDS Policy Coalition (GAPC). Correspondents include Jonathon Mann and Jeff O'Malley of the Harvard School of Public Health, Ita Buttrose, Levinia Crooks and Nick Toonen. The ephemera includes publications on AIDS topics, largely of Asian origin (7 boxes).

Series. HIV/AIDS

Loose papers: correspondence relating to HIV/AIDS organisations (eg VAC/GMHC – Victorian AIDS Council / Gay Men's Health Centre) and activities. Correspondents include Ita Buttrose,Levinia Crooks, Nick Toonen, 1986-1995 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.041)
File 'Supplementary papers': largely correspondence relating to VAD/GMHC and NCHSR (National Centre for HIV Social Research), 1990-1991 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.041)
File of correspondence and reports documenting Altman's visits to various countries and his activities in establishing contacts with local community groups and investigating local conditions on behalf of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), 1989-1993 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.041)
Paris NGO HIV meeting, 1990? (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), 6th ICAAP, Melbourne, October 2001

Congress papers, correspondence relating to organisation and implementation of the Congress, including financial statements, 2001 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Harvard 'GRP'

File of correspondence, much of it between Altman and Jonathon Mann and jeff O'Malley of the Harvard School of Public Health, relating to the work of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition, 1991-1995 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Miscellaneous papers

Three loose items, c.2001-2005 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.041)
Ephemera, correspondence, programs etc relating to various events. Includes a transcript of a lecture by Altman, 1988, and a typescript of an address by Hon Michael Kirby, 1997, containing a tribute to Altman, 1986-2008 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.041)
Ephemera, programs, newsletters etc relating to various events and organisations, 1980-2009 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.041)
Three ephemera items, c.1987-2003 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.041)
Loose papers including correspondence and ephemera, c.1992-2006 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Amnesty International

File of correspondence, newsletters and cuttings, 1989-1991 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. AIDS printed material

Large file of news cuttings, correspondence, royalty statements, most relating to Altman's books, AIDS and the New Puritanism and AIDS in the mind of America, 1984-1996 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc10.041)
Mainly Asian, c.1991-2008 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.041)
File of clippings and internet prints on a range of topics, 1966-2009 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Power and community

File of newsletters and correspondence relating to publication and marketing of this book, 1987-1997 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Paper ambassadors : the politics of stamps

File of correspondence, cuttings, publishing agreement and outline for this book, 1985-2004 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)
File of correspondence, royalty statements, cuttings and publishing agreement relating to this book, 1989-1996 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)
Loose papers: draft (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Gore Vidal's America

Draft introduction and preface, 2005 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. 51st state?

Draft introduction (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Defying gravity

File of correspondence and cuttings, 1996-1998 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)
Reviews/cuttings, 1997 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)
Loose papers: edited proof (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Rehearsals for change

File of correspondence, royalty statements, cuttings and publishing agreement for this book, 1978-2003 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)
Cuttings and correspondence relating to this book, plus text of 'Radicalism Series' programs 1-3 and 'Afterword', c.1983 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Coming out in the seventies

File of royalty statements, cuttings and publishing agreement for this book, 1978-1985 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. A politics of poetry

File of royalty statements, cuttings and publishing agreement for this book, 1988 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. 'Mateship in Australia'

Loose papers relating to a book proposal, including an outline and correspondence, c.1986 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. The comfort of men

Loose papers: draft (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc10.041)
Loose correspondence (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Homosexual : oppression and liberation

File of correspondence and cuttings relating to this book, 1985-1996 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Sumner Locke-Elliott

File of cuttings and correspondence relating to a proposed biography of Locke-Elliott, c.1991 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Global sex

Loose papers: draft (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. The homosexualization of America : the Americanization of the homosexual

File of correspondence, cuttings, drafts and publishing agreement for this book, 1979-1993 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.041)

Series. Digital Carriers from Box 7

8Th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Colombo 19-23 August 2007. Waves of Change, Waves of Hope., 19-23/08/2007 (Item NLA.MS-DM004537) - Digital-Carriers-Box 94
1 item, Imation 700Mb, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)

Some detail on case

United We Stand - Lakshya Trust (Item NLA.MS-DM004538) - Digital-Carriers-Box 94
1 item, Data DVD (any content of recordable DVD-R)
New Zealand Aids Foundation Annual report 2008, 2008 (Item NLA.MS-DM004539) - Digital-Carriers-Box 94
1 item, Princo 16X, Data DVD (any content of recordable DVD-R)

Details in case

Class MS Acc16.020. Consignment received 2016, 1961 - 2016

This consignment includes correspondence, Altman's ASIO files, manuscripts of books, book reviews and notebooks; papers relating to Altman's involvement in HIV/AIDS groups and research; university work related materials; a small amount of ephemeral HIV/AIDS materials; materials related to Gore Vidal and a poster from the 1996 Salamanca Writers festival.

Series. General correspondence

Correspondence largely inward relating to publications over 40 years, 1971-2013 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc16.020)

Copies of correspondence with publishers, esp. US; royalty & financial documentation.

Correspondence largely inward, 1972-2007 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc16.020)

Across a range of general public/readership, professional/academic, editorial interest: gay politics, HIV/AIDS, books by Altman and publication; invitations re articles, talks; academic positions and tertiary education issues; State and Federal government policies human rights, equality. Local: politicians - Julia Gillard, Neal Blewett, Gordon Bilney, Laurie Brereton, Jenny Macklin; commentators/ academics - Geraldine Doogue, Philip Adams, Donald Horne, Hugh Stretton; Juan Davila

Series. Miscellaneous papers

Newspaper cuttings, 1970-2010 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc16.020)
ASIO Files, 1970-2010 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc16.020)
Drafts, printouts, typescript, photocopies, print (mostly US - 26 items); Script, incomplete adaptation "Time goes by"; AIDS and the collapsing world order; The state of the family; the State and the Family; Into the Dark Ages: the decline of sexual politics; The post-Dawkins University; and others, 1980-2007 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc16.020)
Assorted manuscripts and newspaper cuttings, Book reviews, 1970-2010 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc16.020)
Miscellaneous notebooks, 1970-2010 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc16.020)

Series. Writing/Books

51st state?: clippings, events ephemera, 2006-2007 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc16.020)
Gore Vidal's America: research material (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc16.020)

clippings, photocopies; photocopies of 19 x letters Gore Vidal to 'Bob' (Bob Carr), 2 x autograph cards signed Gore Vidal to Dennis Altman; DVD: Gore Vidal at D.G. Wills Books

The Comfort of Men: publicity, clippings, invoices, etc, 1993 (File) - Box 10 (MS Acc16.020)
Global Sex: publisher (University of Chicago), 1992-2004 (File) - Box 4, 10 (MS Acc16.020)

Includes publicity, royalty, correspondence; material relating to including the title in academic courses. Reviews, clippings

The Homosexualization of America: The Americanisation of the Homosexual, 1982 (File) - Box 10 (MS Acc16.020)

Uncorrected proofs; Wrappers

Homosexual: Oppression and liberation. Royalties, contracts, correspondence, 1972-75 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc16.020)
14 x chapter novel, typescript, annotations, 165pp untitled, nd (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc16.020)
Drafts etc from End of the Homosexual?; Australia/Vietnam relationship, 1970-2010 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc16.020)
Edited draft books; drafts etc from End of the Homosexual speech notes, 1970-2010 (File) - Box 10 (MS Acc16.020)

Series. HIV/AIDS

Clippings, ephemera relating to AIDS; program for AIDS 2012 International AIDS conference; articles, letters, organisational material, ephemera. VHS '6th International Congress AIDS Asia Pacific Opening Ceremony', 1985-2012 (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc16.020)
AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (ASAP) - Dennis Altman involved in setting up ASAP. Correspondence, clippings, organisational material including attitudes within organisation regrading aspects of politics, constitution, etc. Photograph album, list attached, 1985-2011 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc16.020)

Series. Academia and personal

Awards: Certificate of Recognition Natae Barney/Edward Carpenter Library; Gay Unicio, Inc. 1980 Theory Development Award, 1980 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc16.020)
University of Tasmania: clippings (one Russian), photos; photocopy of Dennis Altman's ASIO file, 1959-1964; 1960s-1970s (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc16.020)
University and research related papers, 1969-2014 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc16.020)

General correspondence, applications for professorial positions at other universities; notes from trips (mid-1990s), travel, material relating to retirement, position of Emeritus

Ephemera, 1970-2010 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc16.020)

Clippings, posters, flyers; photocopy response/thank you by Justice Kirby to Dennis Altman for Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration 2012. Ephemera associated with speaking, etc

Poster Salamanca Writers festival, 1996 (File) - Folio 11 (MS Acc16.020)

Series. Obsolete carriers removed from MS Acc16.020

ALGA CD Disk 409. Keynote speeches from final day of 'After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation' 2-4/02/2012, 2-4/02/2012 (Item NLA.MS-DM009151) - Digital-Carriers-Box 159
1 item, TDK DVD-R, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
Tasmania University Graduation Ceremony 17/12/2013, 17/12/2013 (Item NLA.MS-DM009152) - Digital-Carriers-Box 159
1 item, Verbatim, Data DVD (any content of recordable DVD-R)
D G Wills Books presents Gore Vidal Disc 1 of 2 (Item NLA.MS-DM009153) - Digital-Carriers-Box 159
1 item, Unbranded, Data DVD (any content of recordable DVD-R)
D G Wills Books presents Gore Vidal Disc 2 of 2 (Item NLA.MS-DM009154) - Digital-Carriers-Box 159
1 item, Unbranded, Data DVD (any content of recordable DVD-R)
Dennis Altman and Ramona Koval ex 3LO (Item NLA.MS-SAV010982) - Cassette-Box 720
1 item, BASF Ferro Maxima I 60, Compact cassette tape
Altman 'Rehearsals for Change', 16/09/2003, First Proof, 16/09/2003 (Item NLA.MS-DM003177) - Digital-Carriers-Box 66
1 item, Unbranded, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)
Opening Ceremony, 6th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, 5/10/2001, 5/10/2001 (Item NLA.MS-SAV010983) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-037
1 item, Unbranded 180, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc
La Trobe Traditions', Academic Board Panel Discussion, 12/10/2011, 12/10/2011 (Item NLA.MS-DM003178) - Digital-Carriers-Box 112
1 item, Verbatim DVD-R 16x, Data DVD (any content of recordable DVD-R)

Class MS Acc17.099. Consignment received 2017, 1987 - 2016

This consignment includes letters and other materials with a literary or professional component including contracts with publishers; correspondence with David Williamson and correspondence relating to Professor Michael Wilding. Papers of Brian Kiernan's wife, the editor of the Sydney Review are also included. Additionally, it includes correspondence relating to Dennis Altman's sabbatical leave in 1976 when he visited universities in Europe and had a semester in Yale.

International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Melbourne 2001. Final reports: community program, volunteer program ceremonies, cultural program, 2001 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc17.099)

Organisational ephemera including conference papers; 1 x envelope photographic negatives (unlabelled); manuscript drafts; ICAAP News editions, 2001-2016 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc17.099)

Series. Obsolete carriers removed from MS Acc17.099

A Culture of Desire is Dying' on'Surface Tension' Episode 87/39, ABC Radio National 7/11/1987 (Item NLA.MS-SAV010980) - Cassette-Box 720
1 item, TDK AD90, Compact cassette tape
Prof Dennis Altman (Item NLA.MS-SAV010981) - Cassette-Box 720
1 item, Unbranded, Compact cassette tape
11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, 2013, 2013 (Item NLA.MS-DM003176) - Digital-Carriers-Box 66
1 item, Unbranded, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)

Class MS Acc22.063. Consignment received 2022, 1972-2021

This consignment comprises correspondence; slide transparencies; certificates; posters; assorted flyers, programs, articles, and press cuttings mainly from 2016-2021; plus publishing agreements from earlier periods.

Biographical materials, 1972-2021 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.063)

File includes correspondence; 3 colour slide transparencies relating to book launch; certificates; assorted flyers, programs, articles, and press cuttings mainly from 2016-2021; plus publishing agreements from earlier periods.

Posters (File 2) - Folio-Box Shared

Relating to La Trobe University's public lectures; and book lunch - How to vote progressive in Australia: Labor or Green?

Class MS Acc22.145. Consignment received 2022, 2017 - 2021

This consignment comprises printed drafts from various stages of Altman's writing of Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist and God Save the Queen : the strange persistence of monarchies, some with editorial corrections noted. The drafts demonstrate the development of the books.

Series 1. Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist, 2017-2019

Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist was published by Monash University Publishing in 2019.

Draft manuscript for Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist, undated (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

Includes handwritten notes on draft manuscript, and 9 pages of editorial notes.

Draft manuscript for Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist, undated (File 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

Includes handwritten notes on draft manuscript.

Draft manuscript for Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist, undated (File 3) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

Includes handwritten notes on draft manuscript.

Draft manuscript for Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist, January 2019 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

Includes handwritten note on Introduction page "Jan '19".

Draft manuscript for Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist, March 2019 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

Includes handwritten notes on draft manuscript and a handwriten note on Introduction page "March '19".

Draft manuscript for Unrequited Love : diary of an accidental activist, April 2019 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

Includes handwriten note on Introduction page "April 27".

Memory as history : my [gay] love affair with America and Memory as history, undated (File 7) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

Two drafts with handwritten editorial notes included throughout each

Series 2. God Save the Queen : the strange persistence of monarchies, 2020-2021

God Save the Queen : the strange persistence of monarchies was published by Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2021.

Draft manuscript for The strange persistence of Monarchies [First edit], undated (File 8) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

Includes handwritten notes on draft manuscript.

Draft manuscript God Save the Queen : the strange persistence of monarchies [Third edit], undated (File 9) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)
God Save the Queen : the strange persistence of monarchies, 6 April 2021 (File 10) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

161 pages.

Promotional postcard for God Save the Queen : the strange persistence of monarchies, 2021 (Item 11) - Box 1 (MS Acc22.145)

1 promotional postcard.


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