Guide to the Papers of David Carter

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MS Acc13.114

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Collection Summary

Creator: David Carter
Title: Papers of David Carter
Date Range: c. 1800s-1980
Collection Number: MS Acc13.114
Extent: 1.65 metres (11 ms boxes + 44 sound/av carriers)
Language of Materials: English
English
Repository: Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Access conditions

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6344395).

Copying and publishing conditions

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 David Carter, National Library of Australia, MS Acc13.114, [box number and series and/or folder number]'.

Item Descriptions

Series. Research Materials: Biographical

Judah Waten (JW): parents and extended family, 19thcentury-1950s (File 1) - Box 1

Some material re Russia; WA Jewish community

JW: parents and Family (File 2) - Box 1

Includes details of residences in Australia; Solomon Waten security file

JW: childhood/education in Western Australia, 1911-1925 (File 3) - Box 1

Includes background material on WA; early education

Melbourne, 1925-1931 (File 4) - Box 1

JW: visit to New Zealand, 1929 (File 5) - Box 1

JW: visit to France, 1931 (File 6) - Box 1

JW: visit to London, 1931-1933 (File 7) - Box 1

JW: visit to London, 1931-1933 (File 8) - Box 1

JW: London: League Against Imperialism & Meerut Defence Committee, 1931-1933 (File 9-10) - Box 2

JW: London: National Unemployed Workers Movement, 1931-1933 (File 11-12) - Box 2

Ceylon (1931-33 trip), 1931 (File 13) - Box 2

JW: Melbourne (and travel in Australia), 1933-1939 (File 14) - Box 2

JW: New Zealand, 1939-1940 (File 15-16) - Box 2

JW: Melbourne/Australia, 1940-early1950s (File 17) - Box 3

Notes/Research materials:1950s (File 18) - Box 3

1952: Parliamentary controversy re CLF grants, 1952 (File 19) - Box 3

1958 FAW delegation to USSR (File 20) - Box 3

1959 Australian & New Zealand Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament (1959), 1959-1960 (File 21) - Box 3

Notes/research materials: 1960s-1970s, 1960s (File 22) - Box 3

Series. Archives

Australian Archives—mainly security files (various subjects) (File 23) - Box 3

JW: Commonwealth Security Files relating to Judah Waten, family, associates, institutions, 1928-1960 (File 24-25) - Box 3

JW: Commonwealth Literary Fund Files, 1950-1971 (File 26) - Box 4

Most 1950-1954

Realist Writer (Melb)1952-1954 (File 27) - Box 4

Realist Writer magazine and RW Group

Realist Writer (Sydney)1958-1970 (File 28) - Box 4

Australasian Book Society, 1952-1970 (File 29) - Box 4

Australasian Book Society (papers) (File) - Box 11

Fellowship of Australian Writers (File 30) - Box 4

JW: material in the Meanjin Papers (U of Melbourne) (File 31) - Box 4

JW: material in the Overland Papers (File 31) - Box 4

Files/Indexes (File 32) - Box 4

Including materials in Waten household at time of JW's death

Series. Communism/Australian left institutions/publications

Communist newspapers: Workers Voice, The Guardian (Melbourne) (File 33) - Box 4

Communist newspapers: Workers Weekly (File 34) - Box 4

Communist newspapers: Tribune, 1955-62 (File 35) - Box 4

Communist Review: material on art and literature, 1934-65 (File 36) - Box 5

Australian communism/left1930s (File 37) - Box 5

Incl material on peace movement

Australian communism/left 1940s (File 38) - Box 5

Australian communism/left 1960s (File 39) - Box 5

Australian communism/left 1970s-80s (File 40) - Box 5

Includes material on Socialist Party of Australia (SPA)

Australian left — memoirs (File 41) - Box 5

Series. Jewish materials

Jewish-Australian left/communism (File 42) - Box 5

Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism (File 43) - Box 5

Waten worked for the Council in the 1940s and 1950s

Jewish Melbourne/(Australia) (File 44) - Box 6

Jews in Russia 19thc-early 20th (File 45-46) - Box 6

Background for Waten's family/parents

Zionism and Jewish labour/socialist movements (File 47-48) - Box 6

Background for Waten's family/parents

Palestine (to 1914) (File 49) - Box 7

Background for Waten's family/parents

Series. Interviews and other material relating to persons

Interviews with/talks by JW (File 50) - Box 7

Various interviewers; incl. first meeting bw David Carter (DC) and JW

Material relating to Hyrell Waten (File 51) - Box 7

Notes of discussions with Fanny Waten and Mena Werder (File 52) - Box 7

JW's two sisters

Interviews — various subjects (File 53-54) - Box 7

Interviewed by DC

Correspondence (File 55) - Box 7

DC to/from various correspondents re JW

Biographical/personality pieces on JW (File 56) - Box 7

Letters by JW (File 57) - Box 8

Various correspondents

Material relating to Bertha Walker (nee Laidler) (File 58) - Box 8

Material relating to Noel Counihan (File 59) - Box 8

Material relating to Brian Fitzpatrick (File 60) - Box 8

Material relating to Vance & Nettie Palmer (& Aileen Palmer) (File 61) - Box 8

Material from Flora Eldershaw papers (& Aileen Palmer) (File 62) - Box 8

Correspondence bw Frank Hardy and JW, 1952-72 (File 63) - Box 8

Ray Williams (aka Ray Verrells) papers (File 64) - Box 8

Corr. with JW, material relating to Realist Writers, ABS

Corr. bw JW and R. Palme Dutt (File 65) - Box 8

Dutt was a leading communist intellectual in Britain

Corr. bw JW and Dorothy Hewett (File 66) - Box 8

Series. Research materials relating to writing biography & on JW books

Notes/research materials DC relating to writing of biography of JW (File 67) - Box 8

Notes/research materials DC relating to Alien Son (File 68) - Box 8

Collins/A&R reissue of Alien Son (File 69) - Box 8

Material relating to Introduction to reissue by DC; corr. with Drusilla Modjeska

Material relating to planned Collins/A&R reissue of The Unbending (File 70) - Box 8

Not published; corr. with Drusilla Modjeska

Notes/research materials DC relating to The Unbending (File 71) - Box 9

Notes/research materials DC relating to Shares in Murder (File 72) - Box 9

Notes/research materials DC relating to Time of Conflict (and the communist novel in Australia) (File 73) - Box 9

Notes/research materials DC relating to Season of Youth (File 74) - Box 9

Notes/research materials DC relating to Odessa to Odessa (and Australian writers books on USSR) (File 75) - Box 9

Notes/research materials DC relating to Distant Land, So Far No Further, Love and Rebellion (File 76) - Box 9

Reviews: Twenty Great Australian Stories, Shares in Murder (File 77) - Box 9

Reviews Alien Son (File 78) - Box 9

Reviews and other materials rel. to The Unbending (File 79) - Box 9

Reviews: Time of Conflict & Season of Youth (File 80) - Box 9

Reviews: Distant Land (File 81) - Box 9

Reviews: Odessa to Odessa (File 82) - Box 9

Reviews: So Far No Further (File 83) - Box 9

Reviews: Love & Rebellion, Scenes of Revolutionary Life (File 84) - Box 9

Critical articles on JW (File 85) - Box 9

Obituaries on JW, 1985 (File 86) - Box 9

Series. Judah Waten writings

JW: Fiction/memoirs (File 87) - Box 10

Script of unpublished play 'The Loser is Black' (File 88) - Box 10

JW: published letters (File 89) - Box 10

JW: non-fiction writing, 1940s (File 90) - Box 10

JW: non-fiction writing, 1950s (File 91) - Box 10

JW: non-fiction writing, 1960-66 (File 92) - Box 10

Incl ts of JW's speech at Nettie Palmer's funeral

JW: non-fiction writing, 1967-69 (File 93) - Box 10

JW: non-fiction writing, 1970-74 (File 94) - Box 10

JW: non-fiction writing, 1975-79 (File 95) - Box 10

JW: non-fiction writing, 1980s (File 96) - Box 10

JW: writing from Tribune (File 97) - Box 10

JW: writing from the Guardian (File 98) - Box 10

JW and Hyrell Waten – column for The Socialist (SPA) (File 99) - Box 10

JW: books reviews and other uncollected items (File 100) - Box 11

Jewish-Australian Literature (File 101) - Box 11

Biographical articles/essays/drafts by DC (on JW) (File 102) - Box 11

Series. Photographs

Photographs: (File 103) - Box 11

Family photos Russia, Palestine, WA, Victoria (File) - Box 11

Family residences, WA (File) - Box 11

Family residences, Melbourne (File) - Box 11

London: re 1931-33 visit (File) - Box 11

Counihan drawing 1936 (File) - Box 11

House in Wellington NZ (File) - Box 11

JW 1950s/60s? (File) - Box 11

With Pierre Besses (France) and the Bronsons (London) (File) - Box 11

Photo by John Tranter of JW (File) - Box 11

JW funeral/memorial service (File) - Box 11

Series. Research Notebooks

JW chronology (File) - Box 11

Notes from interviews (France & WA) (File) - Box 11

Series. Cassette Recordings

Mostly David Carter interviews, some broadcast programmes. Subjects include: Aaronson, Dave; Adler, Gordon; Beiderberg, Manny; Buzacott, Winnie; Clark, Manning; Communist Party of Australia (G Doogue ABC program); De Boissiere, Ralph; Deacon, Vera (File); Ebbels, Leslie; Edmonds, Lloyd; Factor, June Mary Factor; Gibson, Ralph; Greenfield, Les; Gust, Isaac; Hardy, Frank; Hill, Ted; Jedwab, Lou; Macleod, Zelie; Maconald, Ian; Martin, David; Nathan, Sarah; Robertson, Malcolm; Ross, Edgar; Rothfield, Norman; Stark, Eric Jean; Symon, Peter Jack McPhillips; Taft, Bernie; Waten, Fanny; Waten, Fanny Mena (Werder);Waten, Hyrell; Waten, Judah (Deakin University); Waten, Judah (Film Australia); Waten, Judah (i/v by Carole Ferrier); Waten, Judah (radio 3CR i/v); Waten, Judah Memorial Service; Webberley, Thelma; Zusman, Nate.

Tape 1 Waten Autobiography, begins with Pat Stanley. Ceylon, India (Item NLA.MS-SAV002225) - Cassette-Box 134

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Tape 2 Ceylon to Bombay, India, 1931 notes - Jhabwala? And conversation with Gunan dream sings Berryman? Autobiography #1 - Fremantle to Melbourne Motel, Aunts House, Early 1930s, money, family, Elsie "Crime pays" (Item NLA.MS-SAV002226) - Cassette-Box 134

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Tape 3 End of "Crime pays", ref box 23 CPA/SPA post 1968, report of 1970 CPA Congress; Sakharov/Solzhenitsyn; Moscow news 1968; Tashkent writers including Frank Hardy; PEN Melbourne (Item NLA.MS-SAV002227) - Cassette-Box 134

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Tape 4 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002228) - Cassette-Box 135

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Tape 5 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002229) - Cassette-Box 135

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Bernie Taft/Lesley Ebbels (Item NLA.MS-SAV002230) - Cassette-Box 135

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Ian MacDonald, 13/11/1986 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002231) - Cassette-Box 142

1 item, Scotch, Compact cassette tape

Ian MacDonald/Dave Aaronson, 13/11/1986 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002232) - Cassette-Box 142

1 item, Scotch, Compact cassette tape

Dave Aaronson/Ralph Gibsen (Item NLA.MS-SAV002233) - Cassette-Box 142

1 item, Scotch, Compact cassette tape

Zelie MacLeod (Item NLA.MS-SAV002378) - Cassette-Box 142

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Ted Hill/Ralph de Boissiere (Item NLA.MS-SAV002379) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Ralph de Boissiere/Edgar Ross, 13/05/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002380) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Edgar Ross/Lloyd Edmonds (Item NLA.MS-SAV002381) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Manny Beiderberg/Lou Jedwab (Item NLA.MS-SAV002382) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Lou Jedwab/Eric and Jean Stark, 22/06/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002383) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Isaac Gust, Oct-87 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002384) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Vera Deacon, 20/08/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002385) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

David Martin (Item NLA.MS-SAV002386) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Norman Rothfield (Item NLA.MS-SAV002387) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Professor Manning Clark, 30/06/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002388) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Mary Factor/June Factor, 27/06/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002389) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Malcolm Robertson, 7/10/1987 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002390) - Cassette-Box 143

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Les Greenfield/Gordon Adler (Item NLA.MS-SAV002391) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Fanny Waten/Mena Werder #2, 8/10/1987 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002392) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Fanny Waten/Mena Werder and Sarah Nathan, 28/06/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002393) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Nate Zusman/ABS Papers, 29/01/1990 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002394) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, Scotch, Compact cassette tape

ABS Papers/The Europeans (prog 58 -French Intellectuals broadcast 3-1-1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002395) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, Compact cassette tape

Hugh Anderson/Thelma Webberley (Item NLA.MS-SAV002396) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Peter Symons/Jack McPhillips, 23/08/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002397) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, Fuji, Compact cassette tape

Judah Waten (Film Australia, Australia Council) (Item NLA.MS-SAV002398) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, Sony, Compact cassette tape

Frank Hardy, 15/07/1991 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002399) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Ralph Gibson/Elgar Cello Concerto, Jacqueline Dupre (Item NLA.MS-SAV002400) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, Scotch, Compact cassette tape

Hyrell Waten, 1, 1986 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002401) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, Maxell, Compact cassette tape

Fanny Waten/Cafe Bohemia #3, 28/06/1988 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002402) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, Scotch, Compact cassette tape

Elizabeth Harrower (Item NLA.MS-SAV002403) - Cassette-Box 144

1 item, Olympus, Microcassette / mini cassette

Communist Party of Australia (Geraldine Doogue ABC program) (Item NLA.MS-SAV002404) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, Tonex in Scotch cover, Compact cassette tape

Waten, Judah (i/v by Carole Ferrier) (Item NLA.MS-SAV002405) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, Sony, Compact cassette tape

Hyrell Waten, 2, 1986 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002406) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, Fuji, Compact cassette tape

Winnie Buzzacott, 9/06/1991 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002407) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, Maxell, Compact cassette tape

Waten, Judah (Deakin University Interview by Antigone Kefala and Anna Walwicz) (Item NLA.MS-SAV002408) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, Deakin University, Compact cassette tape

Judah Waten Memorial Service with speakers Geoffrey Blainey, Manning Clark, Peter Symon, Race Matthews (Item NLA.MS-SAV002409) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, Compact cassette tape

Judah Waten/Mingus ah Hum (Item NLA.MS-SAV002410) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, Compact cassette tape

Fanny Waten/Mena Werder #1, 8/10/1987 (Item NLA.MS-SAV002411) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape

Hanns Eisler/Waten, Judah (radio 3CR i/v) (Item NLA.MS-SAV002412) - Cassette-Box 145

1 item, Compact cassette tape

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Guide to the Papers of David Carter

MS Acc13.114

Collection Summary

Introduction

Access conditions

Copying and publishing conditions

Preferred citation

Related Documentation

Item Descriptions

Series. Research Materials: Biographical

Judah Waten (JW): parents and extended family, 19thcentury-1950s (File 1) - Box 1

JW: parents and Family (File 2) - Box 1

JW: childhood/education in Western Australia, 1911-1925 (File 3) - Box 1

Melbourne, 1925-1931 (File 4) - Box 1

JW: visit to New Zealand, 1929 (File 5) - Box 1

JW: visit to France, 1931 (File 6) - Box 1

JW: visit to London, 1931-1933 (File 7) - Box 1

JW: visit to London, 1931-1933 (File 8) - Box 1

JW: London: League Against Imperialism & Meerut Defence Committee, 1931-1933 (File 9-10) - Box 2

JW: London: National Unemployed Workers Movement, 1931-1933 (File 11-12) - Box 2

Ceylon (1931-33 trip), 1931 (File 13) - Box 2

JW: Melbourne (and travel in Australia), 1933-1939 (File 14) - Box 2

JW: New Zealand, 1939-1940 (File 15-16) - Box 2

JW: Melbourne/Australia, 1940-early1950s (File 17) - Box 3

Notes/Research materials:1950s (File 18) - Box 3

1952: Parliamentary controversy re CLF grants, 1952 (File 19) - Box 3

1958 FAW delegation to USSR (File 20) - Box 3

1959 Australian & New Zealand Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament (1959), 1959-1960 (File 21) - Box 3

Notes/research materials: 1960s-1970s, 1960s (File 22) - Box 3

Series. Archives

Australian Archives—mainly security files (various subjects) (File 23) - Box 3

JW: Commonwealth Security Files relating to Judah Waten, family, associates, institutions, 1928-1960 (File 24-25) - Box 3

JW: Commonwealth Literary Fund Files, 1950-1971 (File 26) - Box 4

Realist Writer (Melb)1952-1954 (File 27) - Box 4

Realist Writer (Sydney)1958-1970 (File 28) - Box 4

Australasian Book Society, 1952-1970 (File 29) - Box 4

Australasian Book Society (papers) (File) - Box 11

Fellowship of Australian Writers (File 30) - Box 4

JW: material in the Meanjin Papers (U of Melbourne) (File 31) - Box 4

JW: material in the Overland Papers (File 31) - Box 4

Files/Indexes (File 32) - Box 4

Series. Communism/Australian left institutions/publications

Communist newspapers: Workers Voice, The Guardian (Melbourne) (File 33) - Box 4

Communist newspapers: Workers Weekly (File 34) - Box 4

Communist newspapers: Tribune, 1955-62 (File 35) - Box 4

Communist Review: material on art and literature, 1934-65 (File 36) - Box 5

Australian communism/left1930s (File 37) - Box 5

Australian communism/left 1940s (File 38) - Box 5

Australian communism/left 1960s (File 39) - Box 5

Australian communism/left 1970s-80s (File 40) - Box 5

Australian left — memoirs (File 41) - Box 5

Series. Jewish materials

Jewish-Australian left/communism (File 42) - Box 5

Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism (File 43) - Box 5

Jewish Melbourne/(Australia) (File 44) - Box 6

Jews in Russia 19thc-early 20th (File 45-46) - Box 6

Zionism and Jewish labour/socialist movements (File 47-48) - Box 6

Palestine (to 1914) (File 49) - Box 7

Series. Interviews and other material relating to persons

Interviews with/talks by JW (File 50) - Box 7

Material relating to Hyrell Waten (File 51) - Box 7

Notes of discussions with Fanny Waten and Mena Werder (File 52) - Box 7

Interviews — various subjects (File 53-54) - Box 7

Correspondence (File 55) - Box 7

Biographical/personality pieces on JW (File 56) - Box 7

Letters by JW (File 57) - Box 8

Material relating to Bertha Walker (nee Laidler) (File 58) - Box 8

Material relating to Noel Counihan (File 59) - Box 8

Material relating to Brian Fitzpatrick (File 60) - Box 8

Material relating to Vance & Nettie Palmer (& Aileen Palmer) (File 61) - Box 8

Material from Flora Eldershaw papers (& Aileen Palmer) (File 62) - Box 8

Correspondence bw Frank Hardy and JW, 1952-72 (File 63) - Box 8

Ray Williams (aka Ray Verrells) papers (File 64) - Box 8

Corr. bw JW and R. Palme Dutt (File 65) - Box 8

Corr. bw JW and Dorothy Hewett (File 66) - Box 8

Series. Research materials relating to writing biography & on JW books

Notes/research materials DC relating to writing of biography of JW (File 67) - Box 8

Notes/research materials DC relating to Alien Son (File 68) - Box 8

Collins/A&R reissue of Alien Son (File 69) - Box 8

Material relating to planned Collins/A&R reissue of The Unbending (File 70) - Box 8