Guide to the Papers of Andrew Taylor
MS 5740, MS Acc04.106
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- Andrew Taylor
- Title
- Papers of Andrew Taylor
- Date Range
- 1953 - 2004
- Collection Number
- MS 5740, MS Acc04.106
- Extent
- 5.64 metres (37 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
MS 5740 comprises family correspondence, 1955-1975. These letters were written by Andrew Taylor to his family whilst he was at Scotch College, 1955-1957, University of Melbourne, 1958-1960, Puckapunyal Army Camp, 1959, and during his periods studying overseas in London, Rome, Florence, 1963-1965, Buffalo, New York, New Haven and San Francisco, 1970-1971 and 1974-1975. The collection also includes drafts of Taylor's poetry: Beyond silence, The invention of fire, Ice fishing, The cat's chin and ears: a bestiary, The drummer, Cool change, and Parabolas. There are notebooks kept during Taylor's visit to the United States in 1974-1975. Also, correspondence with Roger McDonald of Queensland University Press, 1970-1975. Also included are letters to Beate Haliol-Josephi, 1975-1976, "exacting parallel the writing of a love poem" The crystal absences, the trout (a love poem written during Beate's absence), and the first version of The crystal absences, the trout, completed on 3 March 1976.
The Acc04.106 instalment comprises correspondence, e-mails, notebooks, drafts of poems, prose and libretti, floppy disks (3.5 in. and 5.75 in.), CDs, one audio cassette, small poetry magazines and papers of literary events and writers' groups. In addition, there are copies of "Poems 2001 plus" and "New poems 2000-03", and a spiral notebook.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2624895).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Andrew Taylor, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file number]'.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 5740. Original consignment
The Cat's Chin and Ears: A Bestiary, 1973-76 (File 8) - Box 2
Working manuscript and correspondence with Angus & Robertson
The Drummer, The Invention of Fire, There is No Need for the Guilty, 1971-75 (File 3) - Box 3
Early drafts
Red spring back folder of early MSS of poems, plays etc.,, 1958-61 (File 1) - Box 4
While at Ormund College