Guide to the Papers of Chris Wallace-Crabbe

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MS 7800

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: August 1989

Collection Summary

Creator
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Title
Papers of Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Date Range
1964-1982
Collection Number
MS 7800
Extent
0.3 metres (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2027849) 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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Chris Wallace-Crabbe, National Library of Australia, MS 7800, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Item Descriptions

Poems, 1975-1981 (File 1) - Box 1

Typescript and handwritten with annotations and amendments. Includes both published and unpublished poems. Some annotations by R.A. Simpson.

Splinter - 1st and 2nd drafts and working material. (File 2) - Box 1

Splinter - final draft. (File 3) - Box 1

Toil and spin - corrected typescript drafts and galley proofs. (File 4) - Box 1

Essays, mostly typescript (File 5) - Box 1

Including: "Simplicities"

"Stanzas in our time"

"Poetry open and closed"

"The Good Christian practices light verse"

"Ronald Davie and conservative postures"

"Randall Jarrell's plain speaking"

"Prosy songs"

"Joseph Furphy, realist" for Melbourne or the bush

"Vincent Buckley's Golden builders and other poems" - review for TLS.

"The Quaker graveyard in Carlton"

"The Foundations of joy"

"Imitations of secular grace" - re David Malouf

"Roger MacDonald's 1915" - review for TLS

Essays on Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Keats' "Ode to Autumn".

Golden apples of the sun - correspondence, ms notes and draft (File 6) - Box 2

Golden apples of the sun - publishers copy (File 7-8) - Box 2

"The Doom wasters", one act play never produced, ca 1970-1977 (File 9) - Box 2

"The Super journey", ms of children's story, 1982 (File 9) - Box 2

"Short opera on an Aztec theme", written with Peter Sculthorpe, 1966 (File 9) - Box 2

"Forgetting in literature", 1982 (File 9) - Box 2

"Dreams", compiled while travelling in India, Pakistan, Israel and Europe, 1977 (File 9) - Box 2

Notebook of summer holidays, 1980-1982 (File 9) - Box 2

Interviews by David Carter (Helix, October 1980) and Karen Dahlitz (Farrago, July 1980) (File 9) - Box 2

Newsclippings re Harkness Fellowship, December 30, 1964 (File 9) - Box 2

Two sheets of Italian airs, 1978-1979, Gungurra Press, Warrandyte - never completed. (File 9) - Box 2

Two drafts of a prose poem in the hand of Vincent Buckley, no date. (File 10) - Box 2


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