MS 1857
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Oscar Mendelsohn
- Title
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Papers of Oscar Mendelsohn
- Date Range
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1922-1981
- Collection Number
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MS 1857
- Extent
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4.8 metres (30 boxes + 1 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-vn2264898) 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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Oscar Mendelsohn, National Library of Australia, MS 1857, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Item Descriptions
Manuscript of Synonyms in English for the adjective 'drunk' (File 1) - Box 1
Manuscript of A Waltz with Matilda (File 1) - Box 1
Pure food (File 2) - Box 1
Food standards and Canberra (File 2) - Box 1
Samuel Pepys Club (File 2) - Box 1
File entitled 'Cellar and kitchen and reader', articles on food and drink (File 3) - Box 1
Articles mainly on food (File 4) - Box 1
History of Australian wines (File 5-6) - Box 1
History of Australian Wineries (File 7) - Box 2
Australian Pure Food Society: constitution, minutes, letters (File 8-11) - Box 2
Newspaper clippings on Mendelsohn (File 12-13) - Box 2
Ardmona Peaches (File 14) - Box 3
Photographs (File 15) - Box 3
Unitarian Church (File 16) - Box 3
Unitarian Assembly (File 16) - Box 3
Rationalist Association (File 16) - Box 3
'Humanities Research Centre - Texas, re: O's papers' (File 17) - Box 3
Peace Labs (File 18) - Box 3
Patents and patents specifications (File 18) - Box 3
Articles for ABC broadcast (File 20) - Box 4
Alcohol Beverages (File 21) - Box 4
My Laughing Stock (File 22) - Box 4
Salute to Onions (File 23) - Box 4
Trendall, A.D. (File 24) - Box 4
Mrs Iris Milutinovic (File 24) - Box 4
Captain Cook Celebrations, 1970 (File 24) - Box 4
Nation Review (File 24) - Box 4
Anecdotes (File 25) - Box 4
Guest of honour talks (File 25) - Box 4
Auctioneer's licence (File 25) - Box 4
New Zealand Insurance (File 25) - Box 4
Voyages projected (File 25) - Box 4
'Curiosities re: O' (File 25) - Box 4
'Sumer is icumen in' (File 26) - Box 5
Music Programmes (File 26) - Box 5
RAAF Choir (File 26) - Box 5
Pentridge Choir (File 26) - Box 5
The Australian (File 27) - Box 5
Sydney Morning Herald (File 27) - Box 5
The Australian Society of Authors (File 27) - Box 5
Goodwin Book Company (File 27) - Box 5
Letterhead samples (File 27) - Box 5
Readers Digest Aust. and USA (File 28) - Box 5
Review Press cutting's (File 28) - Box 5
Letter to editor (File 28) - Box 5
Journals offered for sale (File 28) - Box 5
Walkabout (File 28) - Box 5
Broadcast (File 29) - Box 5
Correspondence - Hyam, Gillies, Ratten, George English and Fan mail (File 30) - Box 5
Gypsies (File 31) - Box 5
Pirie NW (File 32) - Box 5
Norway Neville (File 32) - Box 5
Tripovich, H. (File 32) - Box 5
Orr Case and Polya (File 33) - Box 5
Published Manuscripts, Southerly (File 34) - Box 5
Australia China Society (File 35) - Box 5
Australia Committee for a new China policy (File 35) - Box 5
Maps (File 36-38) - Box 6
Along the eastern wall or One man's view: Manuscripts for ABC talks 1940's (File 39-40) - Box 6
Max Meldrum (File 41) - Box 7
Percy Leason (File 41) - Box 7
W.A. Osborne (File 42) - Box 7
W.A. Osborne (File 43) - Box 7
E.J. Brady (File 44-46) - Box 7
"My Laughing Stock" (File 47) - Box 8
Correspondence, 1971, 1973 (File 47) - Box 8
"My Laughing Stock" (File 48-51) - Box 8
Still another "Rudiment" (File 52) - Box 8
"Rudiments of Music" (File 53) - Box 8
"Rudiments Without Yawns" (File 54) - Box 8
Correspondence, 1945-1973 (File 55) - Box 9
re "Pitch Tone Deafness" and articles
Correspondence - Margot Prior, 1973 (File 55) - Box 9
"Nicely Thank You" (File 56) - Box 9
Proposals for "Epicures Corner" (File 57) - Box 9
The Fellowship of Epicures (File 58) - Box 9
Correspondence, 1951-1957 (File 58) - Box 9
Literary Reviews (File 59-60) - Box 9
Ian Taylor Fund (File 61) - Box 9
Focus - loose pages (File 62) - Box 9
Published articles - myxomatosis (File 63) - Box 10
Correspondence, 1953-1966 (File 64) - Box 10
re: rabbits, prickly pear
Photographs - rabbits, prickly pear (File 65) - Box 10
"The Glorious Disease" (File 66-67) - Box 10
Newspaper clippings - myxomatosis (File 68-70) - Box 10
Blue Cross Products Pty. Ltd. (File 71) - Box 11
C. Gro and other venture (File 71) - Box 11
Birthday cards etc (File 72) - Box 11
Cream Pure Cream (File 73) - Box 11
Lighthouse trips (File 74) - Box 11
Letters from Cape Pillar Lighthouse Ship, 1967 (File 75) - Box 11
Article - "In Praise of Slate" (File 75) - Box 11
Rural Research - photographs (File 76) - Box 11
Rural Research - publications (File 77) - Box 11
"From Cellar to Kitchen" (File 78) - Box 11
Articles - "From Cellar to Kitchen" (File 79) - Box 12
Incomplete set of duplicates of "Questioned Documents and Outrageous Liars" (File 80) - Box 12
"Questioned Documents and Outrageous Liars", Chapters 1-10 (File 81) - Box 12
"Questioned Documents and Outrageous Liars", Chapters 14-23 (File 82) - Box 12
"Suspected Documents and Outrageous Liars" (File 83) - Box 12
Articles published in "American Speech" (File 84) - Box 12
A.B.C. Broadcasts, correspondence, 1955-1958 (File 85) - Box 12
3AR Radio talks, 1954-1955 (File 86) - Box 12
Australian Consumers' Association, correspondence, 1962, 1966-1967 (File 87) - Box 13
A.C.A. - correspondence, 1969-1971 (File 88) - Box 13
A.C.A. - correspondence, 1972 (File 89) - Box 13
A.C.A. - correspondence, 1973 (File 90) - Box 13
Items for Choice magazine, results etc (File 90) - Box 13
A.C.A. Notice of Council meetings, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1973 (File 91) - Box 13
Minutes of Council meetings, 1967, 1971-1973. (File 91) - Box 13
A.C.A. Published items (File 92) - Box 13
Choice, September-October, 1969. (File 92) - Box 13
A.C.A. Reports, memoranda, analysis etc (File 93) - Box 13
Poetry (File 94) - Box 13
Manuscripts ready for publication (File 94) - Box 13
Material for "One Man's View" (File 95) - Box 14
"One Man's View" - various chapters (File 96) - Box 14
"One man's View" (File 97-102) - Box 14
"One Man's View" (File 103) - Box 15
Dairy Produce (File 104) - Box 15
Wine and Food Society (File 105) - Box 15
Philharmonic Society - South Melbourne (File 106) - Box 15
Mitchell Library - correspondence, 1943-1979 (File 107) - Box 15
The Nucleus, September, 1940 (File 108) - Box 15
No.1
[Title not available], November, 1940 (File 108) - Box 15
No.2.
The Nucleus, January 1941 (File 109) - Box 15
No.3
[Title not available], April, 1941 (File 109) - Box 15
No.4.
The Nucleus, November, 1941 (File 110) - Box 15
No.6
[Title not available], July, 1945 (File 110) - Box 15
No. 7.
Gourmet Magazine, June 1953. October 1953. August 1954 (File 111) - Box 16
Guide to Australian Wine - finished or partly finished chapters (File 112) - Box 16
Guide to Australian Wine - correspondence, Readers Digest, 1967-1968 (File 113) - Box 16
American literature, 1935-1936 (File 114) - Box 16
Correspondence - H. Brady, MKK. Fisher, F.Barnes, A. Simon, J. Farnachon, C.Gramp, R.Wallingbord (File 115) - Box 16
Letters and articles to various newspapers (File 116) - Box 16
Script - "A Salute to Charles Ives" (File 117) - Box 16
Potato products and report (File 118) - Box 16
Chemical Equipment (File 119) - Box 17
Choral Group (File 119) - Box 17
Foam Concrete (File 119) - Box 17
Miscellaneous correspondence (File 120) - Box 17
Cellutone (File 121) - Box 17
Berri (File 122) - Box 17
Vacuum Extractors Pty. Ltd. (File 122) - Box 17
The Mythology of Beverage Alcohol Still for sea-water and the like (File 123) - Box 17
Miscellaneous (File 124) - Box 17
Copperplate engraving (File 124) - Box 17
Publications (File) - Box 18
Report on the potato by-products industry by O. Mendelsohn, Melbourne, 1929 (File 125) - Box 19
"Know what you drink", t/s, n.d. (File 125) - Box 19
The Earnest drinker's digest, t/s, 1945 (File 126) - Box 19
Reviews of The Earnest drinker's digest, 1946-1951 (File 127) - Box 19
Correspondence re The Earnest drinker's digest, 1946-1980 (File 128) - Box 19
Correspondence and other papers re wine and mead making, 1947-1978 (File 129) - Box 19
Photographs re winemaking (File 130) - Box 19
Correspondence re wine and food, 1949-1955 (File 131) - Box 19
Correspondence with South Australian Grape Growers' Cooperative re Porphyry Pearl and Barossa Pearl, 1964 (File 132) - Box 20
Correspondence with Macmillan Co. re Drinking with Pepys, 1963-1964 (File 133) - Box 20
Correspondence with Macmillan Co. re Dictionary of drink and drinking and From cellar to kitchen, 1965-1973 (File 134) - Box 20
Drawings for From cellar to kitchen (File 135) - Box 20
Papers re corrections for Dictionary of drink and drinking, 1965-1972 (File 136) - Box 20
Correspondence with Rigby re A Salute to onions, 1964-1975 (File 137) - Box 20
Proofs of Hunter winemakers by Max Lake, with a letter from Lake, 1970 (File 138) - Box 20
Wine and food quiz, 1970 (File 139) - Box 20
Papers re New Zealand wines, 1971-1991. (File 139) - Box 20
Papers re Drinking with Pepys, 1964-1973 (File 140) - Box 21
Correspondence re wine and food, 1967-1975 (File 141-142) - Box 21
Correspondence re Nicely, thank you, 1970-1975 (File 143) - Box 21
Correspondence re Dictionary of drink and drinking, 1972-1975 (File 144) - Box 21
Issues of The Nucleus - periodical bulletin of O.A. Mendelsohn and Co., Public Analysts and Consulting Industrial Chemists, 1940-1945 (File 145) - Box 21
Papers re Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1942-1944. (File 145) - Box 21
Correspondence with A.K. Stout, 1952-1972 (File 146) - Box 21
Correspondence with the Australian Navy re portable water still, 1942 (File 146) - Box 21
(includes plans)
Papers re work as RAAF nutritional adviser, 1941-1949. (File 146) - Box 21
Papers re RAAF, 1942-1944 (File 147) - Box 21
Papers re document examination and handwriting, 1939-1977 (File 148) - Box 22
Correspondence re Liars and letters anonymous, 1962-1964 (File 149) - Box 22
Drafts and notes for Suspected documents and outrageous liars, c.1976 (File 150) - Box 22
Reviews of Suspected documents and outrageous liars, 1976 (File 151) - Box 22
Correspondence and contracts with publishers, 1972-1977 (File 152-153) - Box 22
Papers re Public Lending Right, 1977-1981 (File 154) - Box 22
Short stories, rhymes and poetry by Mendelsohn, 1933-1973 (File 155) - Box 22
Cuttings of articles by Mendelsohn, mostly on food science and chemistry, 1922-1935 (File 156) - Box 23
Scrapbook of cuttings of reviews of Mendelsohn's books, 1963-1973 (File 157) - Box 23
Papers re Australian Society of Authors, the Fellowship of Australian Writers, the Australia Council and the Unesco Committee for Letters, 1964-1971 (File 158) - Box 23
Papers re Fellowship of Australian Writers, 1955-1966 (File 159) - Box 23
Papers re Fellowship of Australian Writers, 1967-1972 (File 160) - Box 23
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1941-1977 (File 161-162) - Box 24
Correspondence with the National Library, 1957-1987 (File 163) - Box 24
Correspondence re copyright, 1975-1978 (File 164) - Box 24
Correspondence with the Mitchell Library, 1970-1990. (File 164) - Box 24
Correspondence and other papers re "Waltzing Matilda", 1959-1974 (File 165) - Box 24
2 sets of corrected proofs of A Waltz with Matilda, 1967 (File 166) - Box 24
Issues of Meanjin, 1954 and 1956, containing articles by Russel Ward on folk songs (File 167) - Box 24
Research material on folk songs, 1954-1957 (File 168) - Box 25
Folklore file, including correspondence with Ron Edwards, 1966-1972 (File 169) - Box 25
Research material re "Waltzing Matilda" (File 170-171) - Box 25
Drafts of A Waltz with Matilda (File 172-173) - Box 25
Correspondence re "Waltzing Matilda" (File 174) - Box 25
Newscuttings, etc, re "Waltzing Matilda", 1965-1973 (File 175) - Box 25
Scores of "Waltzing Matilda" arranged by Oscar Milson (File 175) - Box 25
Copies of Richard Magoffin's Fair dinkum Matilda, 1973 (File 176) - Box 26
Correspondence re The Bendigo track, 1973-1991 (File 177) - Box 26
Draft scores, etc, for The Bendigo track (File 178-182) - Box 26
Drafts of articles on music by Mendelsohn (File 183-185) - Box 27
Mss scores of music composed by Oscar Milson, 1934-1939 (File 186-187) - Box 27
Mss and printed scores of music composed by Oscar Milson, 1930s (File 188) - Box 28
Issues of Focus: the Australian journal of opinion, 1946-1948, (with contributions by Mendelsohn) (File 189) - Box 28
Miscellaneous papers, 1929-1973 (File 190) - Box 29
"Crackpottery" file, 1941-1973 (File 191) - Box 29
Semantography, 1953-1954 (File 192) - Box 29
Three framed diplomas/certificates, 1941-1949 (File 1-3) - Box 29
5-inch tape of lecture on food standards, Monash University, 1972 (File 4) - Box 29
Assorted printed music scores by various composers (File) - Box 30