Guide to the Papers of Don Baker

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MS 10456

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: January 2019

Collection Summary

Creator
Don Baker
Title
Papers of Don Baker
Date Range
1824 - 2008
Collection Number
MS 10456
Extent
2.70 metres (12 ms boxes and 2 medium folio boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises: personal correspondence including from Manning Clark and Frank Kellaway; lecture notes; research for proposed books; a memoir and reviews of 'Days of Wrath: A Life of John Dunmore Lang'. The collection also includes papers of Don Baker's father, Donald Baker, Anglican bishop of Bendigo, that comprise clerical correspondence between clergy and church governing bodies and also correspondence from clergy to newspapers.

Conditions Governing Access

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7889937).

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 'Papers of Don Baker, National Library of Australia, MS 10456, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.

Finding Aid Source

Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.

Item Descriptions

Class 1. Consignment received 2018, 1824 - 2008

2.70 metres

This consignment comprises personal correspondence including from Manning Clark and Frank Kellaway; lecture notes; research for proposed books; a memoir and reviews of 'Days of Wrath: A Life of John Dunmore Lang'. The collection also includes papers of Don Baker's father, Donald Baker, Anglican bishop of Bendigo that comprise clerical correspondence between clergy and church governing bodies and also correspondence from clergy to newspapers.

Correspondence between Don Baker and Pat White, 1969-1998 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS 10456)

Letters and postcards from Don Baker to Pat White, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 1971-1983 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS 10456)

Letters from Pat White to Don Baker, May-June 1983 (File 3) - Box 1 (MS 10456)

Letters from Pat White to Don Baker, July 1983 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS 10456)

Letters from Pat White to Don Baker, August 1983 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS 10456)

Letters from Pat White to Don Baker, September 1983 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don and Pat from Frank Kellaway, 1979-1996 (File 7) - Box 1 (MS 10456)

Frank Kellaway poems, ca. 2007 (File 8) - Box 1 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don Baker and Pat from Nellie and Bob Chapman, 1987-2004 (File 9) - Box 2 (MS 10456)

Miscellaneous Letters and Postcards, 1969-2004 (File 10) - Box 2 (MS 10456)

Academic correspondence and reports; letters from publishers; A Ghostly Gazetteer introduction and bibliography, 1969-2003 (File 11) - Box 2 (MS 10456)

Memories and memoir of Don Baker, Undated (File 12) - Box 2 (MS 10456)

Letters and documents relating to an article Don Baker wrote about Dr A. E. Floyd; Memories of Dr. A. E. Floyd; Tuning Up with AEF and TGS: Some Dissonant Notes - A Short Memoir of the Years 1940-1948 at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne and Trinity Grammar School, Kew by Max Kemp, November 2000, Revised February 2004, 2000-2004 (File 13) - Box 2 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don Baker from Dotty Shineberg, John Ritchie, Mitchell and Gillian Livingstone-Learmonth, Marivic Luther-Davis, Bob Green, Ginny Patton, Ian Hamill, Susan Cox, Max Kemp, Susan Davies, Irene Greenwood, Jan Adams, Vivienne Rae Ellis, Ian Matheson, Jill Waterhouse, Michael and Janet McKenzie, Leonie Sandercock, Keith Campbell, Bob Reece, Jill Roe, John Malony, Bob Gollan and Milo Wolff, 1954-2000 (File 14) - Box 3 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don Baker from Takao and Marion Fujikawa, 1990-2004 (File 15) - Box 3 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don Baker from Jan and Frank Nicholas, 1995-2004 (File 16) - Box 3 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don Baker from Puss Kelly, 1969-1985 (File 17) - Box 3 (MS 10456)

Photocopies from The Home and Foreign Missionary Record for the Free Church of Scotland; The Presbyterian Review and Religious Journal, Edinburgh, 1831; The Scottish Guardian; The Investigator and Monthly Expositor and Register, on Prophecy and The Scottish Christian Herald, 1831-1850s (File 18) - Folio-Box 4 (MS 10456)

Letters between clergy and church governing bodies, 1840s-1850s (File 19) - Folio-Box 4 (MS 10456)

Letters from clergy to newspapers, 1863-1877 (File 20) - Folio-Box 4 (MS 10456)

Letters from clergy to newspapers, 1855-1863 (File 21) - Folio-Box 4 (MS 10456)

Dr John Dunmore Lang research re the publication and reviews of Days of Wrath, 1830-1867 (File 22) - Folio-Box 4 (MS 10456)

Dr John Dunmore Lang research and letters re the publication and reviews of Days of Wrath. Includes notes on Henry Carmichael's reply (Folder 35) to certain calumnies and misrepresentations, put forth by Doctor J.D. Lang, in the Colonist newspaper, Sydney, 11 February 1836., 1824-1998 (File 23-35) - Box 5 (MS 10456)

Dr John Dunmore Lang research and letters re the publication and reviews of Days of Wrath., 1824-1998 (File 36-45) - Box 6 (MS 10456)

Mitchell Research for proposed book. Includes notes on Richard Blunt Mitchell and illustrations for book., 1994-2004 (File 46) - Box 7 (MS 10456)

Mitchell Research for proposed book. Includes notes on Richard Blunt Mitchell and illustrations for book., 1994-2004 (File 47) - Box 7 (MS 10456)

Richard Blunt Mitchell manuscript, undated (File 48) - Box 7 (MS 10456)

Research for book on Edward John Eyre - secondary sources. Includes reports and letters to Governor Grey from E. J. Eyre at Moorunde, Adelaide, 1985, 1867-1880 (File 49) - Box 7 (MS 10456)

Research for book on Edward John Eyre - Adelaide notes and letters, 1999 (File 50) - Box 7 (MS 10456)

Research for book on Edward John Eyre - Miscellaneous notes, 1998-1999 (File 51) - Box 7 (MS 10456)

Research for book on Edward John Eyre. Typescript on Edward John Eyre's Protectorate at Moorunde, undated (File 52) - Box 7 (MS 10456)

Manuscript for book on Edward John Eyre - Chapter 8, The Nullarbor Plain and Chapter 10 second version notes, undated (File 53) - Box 7 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1824-1839 (File 54) - Folio-Box 8 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1840-1848 (File 55) - Folio-Box 8 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1849 (File 56) - Folio-Box 8 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1850 (File 57) - Folio-Box 8 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1851 (File 58) - Folio-Box 8 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1852 (File 59) - Box 9 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1853 (File 60) - Box 9 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1854 (File 61) - Box 9 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1855-1861 (File 62) - Box 9 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1862-1865 (File 63) - Box 9 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1866-1868 (File 64) - Box 9 (MS 10456)

Clerical Correspondence, 1870-1880 (File 65) - Box 9 (MS 10456)

Family correspondence, 2007 (File 66) - Box 10 (MS 10456)

Personal documents including war service record, vaccination document, passport and address book, 1947-2008 (File 67) - Box 10 (MS 10456)

Miscellaneous Letters to Don and Pat Baker, 1956-2004 (File 68) - Box 10 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don Baker from Felicity Baker, 1985-2004 (File 69) - Box 10 (MS 10456)

Family correspondence including letters from Liese Baker, 1973-1983 (File 70) - Box 10 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don and Pat Baker from Richard Baker, 1989-1997 (File 71) - Box 10 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don and Pat Baker from Sally, 1986 (File 72) - Box 10 (MS 10456)

Letters to Don and Pat Baker from Simon Baker, undated (File 73) - Box 10 (MS 10456)

Tony Baker's estate documents, 1968 (File 74) - Folio-Box 8 (MS 10456)

Letters and postcards to Don Baker from Manning Clark; review of Manning Clark's A History of Australia (Vol. 1), 1956-1997 (File 75) - Box 11 (MS 10456)

Eulogy on Manning Clark; Obituary for Manning Clark; The Manning Clark Papers; Manning Clark Bibliography, 1991-2003 (File 76) - Box 11 (MS 10456)

Transcript of interview with Manning Clark on tape, recorded by the Oral History unit of the National Library of Australia and conducted by Mr Don Baker, 16 August 1985, 16 August 1985 (File 77) - Box 11 (MS 10456)

Newscuttings relating to Manning Clark, 1993 (File 78) - Box 11 (MS 10456)

Photographs of Manning Clark, undated (File 79) - Box 11 (MS 10456)

Letters and postcards to Don Baker from Manning Clark, 1962-1983 (File 80) - Box 11 (MS 10456)

Manning Clark eulogy, newscuttings; opening talk of book launch of Vol. 5; sources and notes, 1981-1991 (File 81) - Box 11 (MS 10456)

Don Baker's lecture notes (File) - Box 12 (MS 10456)

Don Baker's lecture notes (File) - Box 13 (MS 10456)

Kevin Gilbert's 1975 Report; The Origins of the Australian Labour Party, 1957; The Tribes and the Early Settlers by E. Docker, 25 June 1956; Gawfords Notes on Transportation; A Rhetorical Analysis of Manning Clark's History, Vols. I and II by G. C. Young, B.A. (1970); The Development of the Labour Movement in the Sydney District of New South Wales by Leila Thomas, June 1962, 1956-1975 (File) - Box 14 (MS 10456)


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