Guide to the Papers of Vernon Knowles
MS 2964
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Vernon Knowles
- Title
- Papers of Vernon Knowles
- Date Range
- 1918-1964
- Collection Number
- MS 2964
- Extent
- 1.53 metres (6 archive boxes + 1 medium folio box)
- 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-vn347209) 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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Vernon Knowles, National Library of Australia, MS 2964, [box number and series and/or folder number]'.
Item Descriptions
Series. Poems
Series. Prose
Prose 'Through gates of horn and ivory.' (Item)
Typescript in 18 bundles.
1. The Great onion. 14pp.
2. The brief history of a boy who was different. 13pp
3. The gong of transportation. 16pp.
4. The birds, 19pp.
5. The ladder. 55pp.
6. The road to Tolbrisa. 9pp.
7. The Chimpanzee. 19pp.
8. The shop in the off-street. 21pp.
9. The house of yesterdays. 10pp.
10. The author who entered his ms. 6pp.
11. The Weeping God. 8pp.
12. A set of Chinese boxes. 83pp.
13. The land of no more tears. 13pp.
14. The three gods. 8pp.
15. The painter of trees. 8pp.
16. The first coming. 8pp.
17. The city of all cities. 11pp.
18. The street of queer houses. 43pp.
Series. Notebooks
Notebook, 1919-1947 (Item)
Contains a few poems and a large number of fragments of poems, prose, ideas etc.
Notebook, 1922 (Item)
Manuscript notes on a plot with characters Henry, Christine etc. (8pp). Among loose pages is 8 pages of 'Opera' a play in rhyme, also some photographs including pictures of Knowles.
Notebook, 1924-1927, 1947 (Item)
At the front: poems, single lines and ideas (21pp.) 1924-1927. At the back: notes (8pp.) 1947 and a few loose pages.
Series. Miscellanea
Series. Letters
Approximately 330 letters, cards etc., which, with a few exceptions, were written during the years 1948-1964. About two thirds of the letters are from England, and a fifth from Australia. About two thirds of the total are personal and one fifth from publishers, in particularly from Frederick Muller who employed Knowles as assistant editor in 1953.