Guide to the Papers of Cathy Peake relating to Joan and Daryl Lindsay
MS 8891
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Cathy Peake
- Title
- Papers of Cathy Peake relating to Joan and Daryl Lindsay
- Date Range
- 1889-1988
- Collection Number
- MS 8891
- Extent
- 1.45 metres (10 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Content
The collection includes a large quantity of secondary resource material, mostly in the form of photocopies, together with some original papers of Joan Lindsay and her artist husband Daryl Lindsay. The biography was never completed.
Born in Melbourne in 1946, Cathy Peake studied English literature at the University of Melbourne, gaining her Masters degree in 1979. She has worked widely as a freelance journalist, publishing in journals and newspapers such as Theatre Australia, The Age and the Lip, and editing and writing for Transition magazine. Peake is now based in Sydney where she is director of the Tusculum Gallery, Potts Point, N.S.W.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn828193).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Cathy Peake relating to Joan and Daryl Lindsay, National Library of Australia, MS 8891, [series and/or file number]'.
Provenance
In February 1995 the National Library of Australia purchased papers of Cathy Peake comprising notes, letters and other information assembled when she was writing a biography of the Australian author and artist Joan Lindsay in the late 1980s.
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
---|---|
1889 | Daryl Lindsay born, Creswick, Victoria |
1896 | Joan a'Beckett Weigall born, East St Kilda, Victoria, daughter of Sir Theyre and A.S.H. Weigall |
1915 | Daryl Lindsay served with the AIF in France as assistant to the war artist Will Dyson (later to be his brother-in-law) |
1916-20 | Joan Weigall studied painting at the National Gallery School, Melbourne |
1917 | Daryl Lindsay transferred to work as an artist for plastic surgery at Queen Mary Hospital, Sidcup, Kent |
1918 | Daryl Lindsay studied painting at the Slade School, London under Professor Henry Tonks |
1919 | Daryl Lindsay returned to Australia to work as a freelance artist |
1921 | Joan Weigall first exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society |
1922 | Marriage of Joan and Daryl Lindsay, Marylebone, London |
1936 | Publication of Joan Lindsay's first book Through Darkest Pondelayo |
1940-41 | Daryl Lindsay employed as Keeper of Prints, National Gallery of Victoria |
1941-56 | Daryl Lindsay served as Director, National Gallery of Victoria |
1956 | Daryl Lindsay awarded a knighthood |
1962 | Publication of Time Without Clocks |
1962-70 | Sir Daryl served as Chair, Commonwealth Art Advisory Board |
1964 | Publication of Facts Soft and Hard |
1967 | Publication of Picnic At Hanging Rock |
1975 | Release of film Picnic At Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir |
1976 | Death of Sir Daryl, Mornington, Victoria |
1983 | Publication of Lady Lindsay's book for children Syd Sixpence |
1984 | Death of Lady Lindsay, Melbourne |
Date | Event |
---|---|
1889 | Daryl Lindsay born, Creswick, Victoria |
1896 | Joan a'Beckett Weigall born, East St Kilda, Victoria, daughter of Sir Theyre and A.S.H. Weigall |
1915 | Daryl Lindsay served with the AIF in France as assistant to the war artist Will Dyson (later to be his brother-in-law) |
1916-20 | Joan Weigall studied painting at the National Gallery School, Melbourne |
1917 | Daryl Lindsay transferred to work as an artist for plastic surgery at Queen Mary Hospital, Sidcup, Kent |
1918 | Daryl Lindsay studied painting at the Slade School, London under Professor Henry Tonks |
1919 | Daryl Lindsay returned to Australia to work as a freelance artist |
1921 | Joan Weigall first exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society |
1922 | Marriage of Joan and Daryl Lindsay, Marylebone, London |
1936 | Publication of Joan Lindsay's first book Through Darkest Pondelayo |
1940-41 | Daryl Lindsay employed as Keeper of Prints, National Gallery of Victoria |
1941-56 | Daryl Lindsay served as Director, National Gallery of Victoria |
1956 | Daryl Lindsay awarded a knighthood |
1962 | Publication of Time Without Clocks |
1962-70 | Sir Daryl served as Chair, Commonwealth Art Advisory Board |
1964 | Publication of Facts Soft and Hard |
1967 | Publication of Picnic At Hanging Rock |
1975 | Release of film Picnic At Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir |
1976 | Death of Sir Daryl, Mornington, Victoria |
1983 | Publication of Lady Lindsay's book for children Syd Sixpence |
1984 | Death of Lady Lindsay, Melbourne |
Item Descriptions
Class MS 8891. Original Consignment
Series [unnumbered]. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
Subseries 1. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE OF JOAN AND DARYL LINDSAY, 1964, 1968, 1969-1984
Both Joan and Daryl Lindsay were prolific letter writers, and maintained frequent correspondence with close friends and advisers Joseph Burke, Professor of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne and Joseph Brown, an Australian fine art specialist and director of the Joseph Brown Gallery in Collins Street, Melbourne. Documented in this Series are original letters from these correspondents during the later period of their association with the Lindsays. Photocopies of additional correspondence between the Lindsays and Burke and Brown are filed in Series 10.
Subseries 6. ORIGINAL PAPERS RELATING TO KEILA HINDE, 1930-72
Keila Hinde (nee Dillon) was an Australian-born writer who wrote for the British Australasian and Daily Mail in London. There in 1925 she launched with Theyre Weigall (Joan's father) the publication of the Conservative Review. Whilst a book reviewer Hinde came to know Professor Aldo Castellani, a Portugeuse expert in tropical diseases, and they maintained a correspondence over a number of years.
Subseries 7. ORIGINAL INTERVIEWS BY CATHY PEAKE, 1986-88
In 1986 Cathy Peake undertook, as part of her research for the biography, a series of interviews with friends and associates of the Lindsays. Documented in this series are the notes made by Peake at the interviews, as well as transcripts from interviews recorded by the National Library of Australia and the Australia Council.
Peake's inventory and list of addresses for interviews; interview notes for: Tom Bassett; Stephen Murray-Smith; Martin Sharp. In spirax notebook: interview notes for Jean Charley; Lady Drysdale; Rex Ebbott; Peter Lindsay; Joanna Mendelsohn; Eric Westbrook; Peake's notes on DL from Mitchell Library; notes from The Bulletin, ca. 1920s and British Australasian; transcripts of letters by JL; Athenaeum Art Gallery notes (File 1) - Box 2
Interview notes for: Rick Amor; Ian Bassett; Barbara Beckett; Audrey Cahn; Jean Charley; Katherine Day; Mrs Donaldson; Dorothy Dundas; Yrsa Fitts; Keila Hinde; Pat Jarrett; Catherine King; R.H. Morrison; Dame Elizabeth Murdoch; Charis Pelling (File 2) - Box 2
Interview notes for: Carl Andrew; Joseph Burke; Colin Caldwell; Lady Drysdale; Mrs J. Neville Fraser; Elizabeth and Noel Gosse; Jane Macgowan; Terry O'Neill; Fred and Puss Ward; Peter Weir (File 3) - Box 2
Interview notes for: Meg Arrow smith; Alan Clements; Ray Clements; Alan McCulloch; R.H. Morrison; Guelda Pike; Celia Sklovsky; Bernard Smith; Sir Thomas Travers; Linda Douglas Weigall; Nancy and George Youngman (File 4-5) - Box 2
Transcripts of National Library of Australia Oral History and Australia Council interviews (File 6) - Box 2
Cliff Green interviewed by Hazel de Berg, 10/3/80 (ORAL DeB 1142-43)
Daryl Lindsay interviewed by Hazel de Berg, 17/8/62 (ORAL DeB 6)
Daryl Lindsay interviewed by Mel Pratt, 19/10/71 (ORAL TRC 121/22)
Joan Lindsay interviewed by John Taylor, 5/12/74 and uncut archival videotape of the interview
Patricia Lovell interviewed by Hazel de Berg, 29/7/76 (ORAL DeB 953)
Series [unnumbered]. PHOTOCOPIES AND SECONDARY RESEARCH MATERIAL COLLECTED BY CATHY PEAKE
Subseries 8. PERSONAL PAPERS OF JOAN AND DARYL LINDSAY
Papers relating to JL, including: birth, marriage certificates; family tree prepared by Peake; school reports, 1911-14; will; biographical and autobiographical notes; some legal and financial documents regarding Picnic at Hanging Rock; A Corner Site in St Kilda, JL's recollections of her childhood; notes taken by Peake from JL's diaries, 1952-84 (File 1) - Box 3
Subseries 9. PAPERS RELATING TO THE LINDSAY FAMILIES
A Record of My Life for My Family by Thomas a'Beckett; extracts from the diaries of Emma a'Beckett (File 2) - Box 3
Diary of Peter Lindsay; Lionel Lindsay's letters relating to the publication of Discobolus (File 4) - Box 3
Miscellaneous papers concerning the Lindsay Family, including: portrait of Captain Henry Geary (JL's great grandfather); newspaper account of marriage of JL's parents; verse written for fun by JL's mother, 1910; notes on Sir William, Sir Thomas, Gilbert and Theyre (File 5) - Box 3
A'Beckett, Guy Boyd; extracts from A Single Flame by Martin Boyd; list of Lindsay Family papers, La Trobe University Library and Peake's notes on the Boyd Family
Subseries 10. CORRESPONDENCE OF JOAN AND DARYL LINDSAY
Family letters, including: A.S.H. Weigall to JL; TheyreWeigall (jnr) to JL, ca. 1925; Lionel Lindsay to JL and DL, 1941-58; postcards to Mrs TheyreWeigall, 1933; letter from John? A. Lindsay to Alex Lindsay, 1889 (File 4) - Box 4
Letters to JL from Martin Boyd, 1939-40, 1968-71; transcript of letter from Boyd to Mim Pollak, 1968; from Sir Joseph Burke to DL, 1972; Sir Joseph and others to JL on DL's death, ca. 1976 (File 5) - Box 4
Correspondence to and from JL and DL, including.: Carl Andrew, Pat Lovell, Peter Weir, Guelda and Pollie Pike; Edith Sitwell, Earl of Stradbroke, Lady Casey, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Nancy and George Youngman, Don Casey, Laurence Olivier, Barry Humphries, John Perceval, 1933-84 (File 8) - Box 5
Letters from JL to Martin Sharp, Pat Jarrett; letters to JL from Sir Kenneth Clark, T.G. Tucker, 1941-84 (File 10) - Box 5
Correspondence relating to the Lindsay's art interests, 1942-85; letters from publishers, etc. regarding Through Darkest Pondelayo, 1935-37 (File 15) - Box 6
Subseries 11. WRITINGS OF JOAN AND DARYL LINDSAY
Fictional works by Joan Lindsay: Mrs Buster and Mrs Mahaffey's Annual Report of World Philanthropy (File 6) - Box 6
Plays by Joan Lindsay: Wolf; theatre programme of the play as performed by The Swanage Repertory Company (File 12) - Box 7
Speeches and journalistic writings by Joan and Daryl Lindsay: Writings by JL for Home, Table Talk, The Weekly Courier and other journals, 1924-1939 (File 13) - Box 8
Speeches and journalistic writings by Joan and Daryl Lindsay: 'What Are You Reading?' column, Sun Women's Magazine and other newspaper contributions by JL, 1940s-1980; travel writings, ca. 1937; miscellaneous articles (File 14) - Box 8
Speeches and journalistic writings by Joan and Daryl Lindsay: Miscellaneous speeches by JL, ca. 1953-66; contributions by JL to Masterpieces of The National Gallery of Victoria, 1949; preface by DL (File 15) - Box 8
Subseries 12. ART OF JOAN AND DARYL LINDSAY
Subseries 13. MULBERRY HILL
The Lindsays lived at Mulberry Hill at Baxter on the Mornington Peninsula from the late 1920s and it was there in 1961 that Joan Lindsay wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock. On her death in 1984, ownership of the house passed to the National Trust.