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Manuscript Name | Papers of Eric Rolls |
Manuscript Number | MSS 139 |
Last Updated | June 2021 |
Extent | 22 boxes + 4 oversize + 2 AV boxes |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Correspondence, working notes, news clippings, drafts and typescripts written or collected by Eric Rolls |
Literary
This collection relates to Eric Rolls and his work as an author and poet, including correspondence, notes, news clippings, drafts, typescripts, magazines and cassettes. Works include 'The green mosaic', 'A million wild acres', 'Celebration of the senses', 'Doorways' and Rolls’ history of the Chinese in Australia
1950s-1988
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Charles_Rolls
Eric Rolls was born to a farming family in Grenfell, New South Wales in 1923. After attending Fort Street High School, he served with the Australian Imperial Force as a signaller in Papua New Guinea and Bougainville. From 1948 until 1986 he farmed in north-west New South Wales as well as writing, often spending time researching at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. As a writer for children and adults, he wrote poetry and prose works on a variety of topics including Australia’s natural history, food and China’s relationship with Australia
References:
Austlit : Eric Rolls https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A10160 retrieved 14 April 2020
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy
Copying: Copying of material for private study and research is approved
Papers of Eric Rolls, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 139, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
This material was acquired from Eric Rolls in two consignments in 1989
Further papers of Eric Rolls are held by the National Library of Australia at MS 7027, and the State Library of New South Wales at MLMSS 1583
Australian Poetry – 20th Century
Eric C. Rolls, 1923-2007 – Archives
Nature in literature
Eric C. Rolls, 1923-2007
Poets
Naturalists
Authors
Folders 1-3
Correspondence regarding A Million Wild Acres
Folders 4-6
Correspondence: Joan; John Tierney’s first letter; John Thompson; miscellaneous correspondence
Folders 7-8
Celebration of the Senses - working notes and correspondence
Folder 9
Notes – mining
Folders 10-11
China - notes, correspondence and miscellanea
Folders 12-13
Chinese – notes
Folder 14
Hong Kong – expenses; Notes - Volumes I and II, Chapters 1 and 2
Folder 15
Notes - Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Folders 16-17
Celebration of the Senses - manuscript plus first typescript
Folder 18
‘New Guinea Mosaic’ (The Green Mosaic : Memories of New Guinea)
Folder 19
‘The Fortean’ - High School Magazine
Folder 20
Correspondence
School Books
Folder 21
A Million Wild Acres – galleys
Folders 22-23
A Million Wild Acres
Folders 24-26
A Million Wild Acres
Folders 27-29
‘Smallpox and Leprosy’
Folder 30
‘Leprosy’
Folder 31
‘Smallpox and Leprosy’
Folder 32
‘Opium’
Folders 33-34
Chapter 1 material
Folder 35
‘Opium’
Folder 36
Chapter 1 material
Folder 37
Celebration of the Senses - alterations to second edition
Folder 38
A Million Wild Acres - master set
Folders 39-41
A Million Wild Acres - correspondence
Folder 42
Early correspondence and works
Folder 43
A Million Wild Acres - treatment
Folder 44
Celebration of the Senses - manuscript
Folders 45-46
Photocopies of articles published in newspapers and magazines
Folders 47-48
Photocopies of articles published in newspapers and magazines
Folder 49
‘Food’ - first typescript and photocopy
Folders 50-51
‘Smallpox and Leprosy’ - first typescript
Folder 52
‘Gambling’, ‘Opium’
Folder 53
‘Food’ - clippings and notes
Folder 54
Chinese - correspondence and miscellanea
Folder 55
‘Opium’ - modern news clippings
Folder 56
‘Opium’ - modern news clippings
Folder 57
Chapter 4 - N.T.
Folder 58
1888
Folders 59-60
‘Gambling’
Folder 61
Personal correspondence (90 letters)
Folder 62
Correspondence from writers (44 letters)
Folder 63
Correspondence: regarding talks or in appreciation (76 letters)
Folders 64-65
Correspondence: agents, publicity, Literary Board (148 letters in folders 64 and 65)
Folder 66
Correspondence: regarding natural history (62 letters)
Folder 67
Correspondence: general business (64 letters)
Folder 68
Correspondence: family (50 family letters)
Folders 69-71
Correspondence: Chinese letters pre 1984 - research
Folder 72
Correspondence: Chinese letters pre 1984 - research
Correspondence in folders 69-72 includes letters to and from Ian Mudie, Gavin Souter, Ronald McKie, Geoffrey Blainey, Anne Bell, Douglas Stewart, Angus and Robertson (agent Richard Walsh), applications re grants, referees for grants (Professor CP Fitzgerald, Alex Chisolm)
Folders 73-76
Correspondence: Chinese letters after 1984 - research and general
Correspondence in folders 73-76 includes letters to and from Lady Ebury, Professor Wang Gungwu, Richard Walsh, Joh Hallows, Brian Castro, Richard Kimber, Ed Duyker, Professor CB Thornton-Smith, Nancy Keesing, Geoffrey Dutton
Folder 77
Chinese correspondence
Folder 78
Celebration of the Senses - manuscript
Folder 79
‘Doorways’, Cumberland Diary
Folder 80
Celebration of the Senses - correspondence
Folder 81
‘Dairy’ - handwritten notes
Folder 82
Celebration of the Senses – correspondence
Folder 83
(9 cassette tapes formerly filed in Box 12/Folder 83 were removed and placed in AV Box 1)
Folder 84
(2 cassette tapes formerly filed in Box 12/Folder 84 were removed and placed in AV Box 1)
Folder 85
Literary towns
Folder 86
A Million Wild Acres - index
Folder 87
‘Dairy’ - notes
Folder 88
‘Joan’
Folder 89
Celebration of the Senses - Eric Rolls’ copy
Folder 90
A Million Wild Acres - notes
Folder 91
A Million Wild Acres - corrections
Folder 92
‘Chinese’ manuscript - Volume 1, Chapters 4-10
Folders 93-95
‘Chinese’ manuscript - Chapters 1-3, handwritten
Folder 96
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Volume I ‘Sojourners’, Chapter I ‘Adventurers and Shepherds’
Folder 97
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 2 ‘Gold Mountain Guests’
Folder 98
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 3 ‘Gold and Tin’
Folder 99
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 4 ‘Mining in the Northern Territory’, Chapter 5 ‘Smallpox’
Folder 100
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 6 ‘The Plague and Leprosy’, Chapter 7 ‘Gambling’, Chapter 8 ‘Opium’
Folder 101
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 9 ‘Food’, Chapter 10 ‘1888’
Folders 102-103
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - notes, photocopies, chapter 2
Folder 104
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - notes, photocopies, chapter 3
Folder 105-111
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - notes, photocopies, chapter 3
Folder 112
The Bulletin: 3 April 1957; 22 May 1957; 19 June 1957; 4 September 1957; 11 September 1957; 18 September 1957; 9 October 1957; 8 January 1958; 7 January 1959; 6 May 1959; 24 June 1959; 1 July 1959
Folder 113
The Bulletin: 20 April 1960; 27 April 1960; 25 May 1960; 29 June 1960; 3 August 1960; 17 August 1960; 24 August 1960; 14 September 1960; 12 October 1960; 30 November 1960; 7 December 1960; 28 December 1960
Folder 114
The Bulletin: 4 January 1961; 15 March 1961; 29 March 1961; 12 April 1961; 3 May 1961; 17 May 1961; 17 May 1961; 24 May 1961; 10 June 1961; 24 June 1961; 8 July 1961; 15 July 1961; 22 July 1961; 29 July 1961; 5 August 1961; 12 August 1961; 19 August 1961; 23 September 1961
Folder 115
The Bulletin: 17 March 1962; 15 June 1963; 31 March 1973
Folder 116
Journals: Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 60 Part 2, June 1974; Australian Studies, Number 15, November 1984; Australian Museum Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1921; Fraser Island by Angela Burger
Folder 117
Reviews
Folder 118
Photocopies of material in Folder 115
Folders 119-120
They All Ran Wild - notes
Folder 121
The River - galleys
Folder 122
‘Folk in Perth’ - February 1985
Folder 123
National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife
Folder 124
The Fatal Shore - review, May 1987
Notes for The Age article ‘The Great Australian Beach’
Folder 125
‘Islands in the Stream’ - manuscript
Folder 126
Article for The Sydney Morning Herald, January 1988
Folder 127
Selected poetry
Folders 128-132
Poetry - manuscripts - published and unpublished - mostly 1950s
Folder 133
‘Doorways’, letters regarding Cumberland Diary
Folder 134
Various papers, including rough drafts of important letters
Folder 135
Various talks
Folder 136
John Peel, ‘That place called New South Wales’
Folders 137-138
Unpublished short stories, c1940-50s
Folder 139
Article, ‘Country; City’, ‘The Age’ newspaper, 1987
Folder 140
Manuscripts including talks, public reviews
Folder 141
Manuscripts including talks, public reviews
Folders 142-143
Unpublished short stories, suggestions for plays c1940-50s
Folders 144
(11 cassette tapes formerly filed in Box 22/Folder 144 were removed and placed in AV Box 2)
Nine (9) Cassette tapes
Two (2) Cassette tapes
Four (4) Cassette tapes
11 audio cassette tapes of Chinese book readings
Folio 1
‘Doorways’
Folio 2
Newspapers, National Times, Tabloid Story and miscellaneous
Folio 3
Maps, Chapter 2
Folio 4
Newspapers, The Bulletin