MS 5654
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Moorehead, Alan
Alan Moorehead
- Title
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Papers of Alan Moorehead
- Date Range
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1926-1971
- Collection Number
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MS 5654
- Extent
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11.04 metres (43 archive boxes + 4 medium folio boxes + 1 map folio + 1 sound/av item)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Received in two consignments, from London and Rome. Content ranges from a diary kept as a schoolboy in 1926, to personal and business correspondence, manuscripts and proofs of most of Alan Moorehead's published and unpublished works, notebooks and diaries, photographs, press cuttings and reviews, and background material to his books. Also, a card written by Lucy Moorehead to National Library of Australia Liaison Officer, Ivan Page.
Item Descriptions
Correspondence, 1930-1942 (File) - Box 1
Correspondence, 1942-c.1946 (File) - Box 2
Correspondence, 1946-1953 (File) - Box 3
Correspondence, 1953-1963 (File) - Box 4
Correspondence, c. 1954-1966 (File) - Box 5
Correspondence, 1957-1963 (File) - Box 6
Correspondence, 1959-c.1963 (File) - Box 7
Correspondence, c.1963-1966 (File) - Box 8
Correspondence, c.1966- (File) - Box 9
The end in Africa (1944) manuscript (File 76, 77) - Box 10
Eclipse (1945) press cuttings (File 78) - Box 10
Montgomery (1946) manuscript (File 79,-85) - Box 10
Montgomery (1946) correspondence (File 86, 87) - Box 11
Montgomery (1946) press cuttings, photographs and other material. (File 88-91) - Box 11
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery with Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley [picture].
Field Marshal Montgomery, smiling [picture].
Rage of the Vulture (1948) manuscript (File 92,93) - Box 11
Rage of the Vulture proofs (File 94) - Box 11
The traitors (1952) notes, letters, cuttings (File 95-99) - Box 12
Rum Jungle (1953) manuscript, reviews (File 100-101) - Box 12
A summer night (1954) manuscript (File 102) - Box 12
Gallipoli (1956) manuscript (File 103-106) - Box 13
Gallipoli reviews, letters, background material. (File 107-111) - Box 13
The Russian revolution (1958) manuscript (File 112-115) - Box 14
Russian Revolution notebooks (File 116) - Box 14
Russian Revolution notes, reviews, correspondence. (File 117-120) - Box 14
No room in the ark (1959) manuscript (File 121-123) - Box 15
No room in the ark reviews (File 124-127) - Box 15
The White Nile (1960) manuscript (File 128-136) - Box 16-17
The White Nile notes (File 137) - Box 17
The White Nile reviews and letters (File 138-144) - Box 17-18
Churchill (1960) notes, cuttings, etc. (File 147-149) - Box 18
The Blue Nile (1962) manuscript (File 150-152) - Box 18
The Blue Nile notes and letters (File 153-155) - Box 19
The Blue Nile reviews (File 156-159) - Box 19
Cooper's Creek (1963) manuscript and proofs (File 160-166) - Box 20
Cooper's Creek notes, background material (File 167-168) - Box 21
Cooper's Creek notes, correspondence, reviews (File 169-172) - Box 21
The fatal impact (1966) manuscript (File 173-179) - Box 21-22
The fatal impact proofs (File 180-182) - Box 22
The fatal impact Reviews (File 183-184) - Box 22
The fatal impact reviews, notes, etc. (File 185-188) - Box 23
Voyage of the Beagle (1969) manuscript and notes (File 189-193) - Box 23-24
Darwin and the Beagle (1969) notes (File 194-195) - Box 24
Darwin and the Beagle galley proofs, etc. (File 196) - Box 24
Darwin and the Beagle notes and letters (File 197-199) - Box 24
Darwin and the Beagle reviews (File 200) - Box 24
A late education (1970) manuscript (File 201-206) - Box 25
A late education background material (File 207) - Box 25
Ajanta caves manuscript (File 208-211) - Box 25-26
Arts et lettres (?) manuscript (File 212) - Box 26
Augustus John manuscript, etc. (File 213-214) - Box 26
Image of the white man manuscript, notes etc. (File 215-216) - Box 26
Mrs Fraser manuscript (File 217-218) - Box 26
To the Pyrenees manuscript (File 219) - Box 26
The two faces of Anlaby manuscript (File 220) - Box 26
It's later than you think manuscript (File 221-222) - Box 27
It's later than you think proofs (File 223-225) - Box 27
It's later than you think manuscript (File 226-228) - Box 27
Shendy Market manuscript, proofs (File) - Box 28
African articles, letters, notes and press cuttings on them (File) - Box 29
Various manuscripts (File) - Box 30
Various manuscripts, plays (File) - Box 31
Various manuscripts (File) - Box 32
Various manuscripts (File) - Box 33
Notebooks, diaries, etc. Includes school diary, 1926 (File) - Box 34
Press Cuttings (File 270-278) - Box 35
Press Cuttings (File 279-284) - Box 36
Press Cuttings (File 285-293) - Box 37
Press Cuttings (File 294-301) - Box 38
Press Cuttings, magazines. (File 302-306) - Box 39
Press cuttings albums, magazines (File) - Box 40
Letter from the Herald newspaper Editor to Alan Moorehead, dated 1/4/1936.
Miscellaneous : maps (File 307-312) - Box 41
Miscellaneous : printed items (File 313-319) - Box 42
Miscellaneous : photographs (File 320) - Box 42
Photo of Alan Moorehead with Laughton (?) and Bernstein.
Photo of Angus and Robertson bookshop window, displaying copies of Alan Moorehead's book, "No room in the Ark".
Harry Moorehead [picture].
Loose cover of Moorehead's book 'Montgomery: the life story of one of the greatest leaders of our time'
Miscellaneous : material on Antarctic (File 321) - Box 43
Photo of Alan Moorehead standing on Volcanic Ledge overlooking the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
Photo of Alan Moorehead, Sidney Nolan and a frying pan in Shakleton's Hut, Antarctica.
Photo of Alan Moorehead aboard the US Navy Icebreaker, USS Atka.
Miscellaneous printed matter (File 322) - Box 43
Miscellaneous book publicity, etc. (File 323) - Box 43
Loose cover of Moorehead's book 'The end in Africa'
Loose cover of Moorehead's book 'Montgomery'
Miscellaneous Notes on Sahara, Nigeria, Tunis, Moscow (File 324) - Box 43
Miscellaneous Objects recovered from Scott's camp in the Antarctic (File 325) - Box 43
Miscellaneous personal papers (File 326) - Box 43
Miscellaneous notes, etc. (File 327) - Box 43
Press cuttings album on World War II (File) - Folio 1
Prospectus for film A matter of faith, Gallipoli photographs, and magazines (File) - Folio 2
Horizon September 1962, and White Nile. Proofs. (File) - Folio 3
Magazines, illustrations for Image of the White man (File) - Folio 4
Photographs for Montgomery (File) - Folio 5
Cuttings album, magazines on Montgomery (File) - Folio 6
Magazines on Churchill (File) - Folio 7
Cuttings album on Gallipoli (File) - Folio 8
Cuttings album on The traitors (File) - Folio 9
Magazines (File) - Folio 10
Photograph (portrait) of Moorehead (File) - Folio 11
Various items, added July 1979 and April 2005 (File 328) - Box 43
Card from Lucy Moorehead to NLA Liaison Officer, Ivan Page.
Items emanating from Ann Moyal's biography of Moorehead: Alan Moorehead: a rediscovery (Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2005).
VHS video obtained by Ann Moyal from Nine Network Australia 'Alan Moorehead and Robert Raymond in Gallipoli - No. 1 of Project 64 (1964). It reveals Moorehead's capacity as a television interviewee and is also considered as one of Raymond's most important documentaries.
Photograph of Moorehead from the documentary. It was not considered of adequate quality for use in the biography of Moorehead.
Alan Moorehead Gallipoli (Item NLA.MS-VID000900) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-014
1 item, Quantegy, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc.