PAPERS OF MANNING CLARK - Select documents in Australian history
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1. General correspondence,
1939-91
2. Diaries, 1938-91
3. Notebooks, 1937-77
4. Newspaper cuttings, 1938-54
5. University of Melbourne,
1937-49
6. Canberra University College,
1953-60
7. Australian National University,
1960-76
8. Harvard University, 1975-79
9. Australian Council for
the Arts, 1973
10. Journeys, 1955-91
11. The ideal of Alexis
de Tocqueville, 1938-50
12. Select documents in
Australian history, 1948-56
13. Alexander Harris, Settlers
and Convicts, 1952-64
14. Meeting Soviet Man,
1958-60
15. A short history of
Australia, 1961-92
16.A history of Australia:
drafts
17. A history of Australia:
research materials, 1960-86
18. A history of Australia:
correspondence and reviews, 1960-91
19. Short stories
20. The Boyer Lectures, 1975-88
21. In search of Henry
Lawson, 1977-88
22. Occasional writings
and speeches, 1979-81
23. A history of Australia
— the Musical, 1980-89
24. The puzzles of childhood,
1907-91
25. The quest for grace,
1989-91
26. A historian’s
apprenticeship, 1990-91
27. Manuscripts, 1931-91
28. Lectures, 1940-87
29. Subject files, 1936-91
30. Family correspondence,
1958-75
31. Miscellaneous papers,
1937-90
Appendix
Box List
Series 12 Select documents in Australian history,
1948-56
In 1946 Clark began to teach Australian history at the University
of Melbourne and his teaching led him to search for early Australian documents
in the Public Library of Victoria and the Mitchell Library in Sydney.
Two years later he decided to publish some of the documents he had used
in his teaching. Len Pryor of the Melbourne Teachers’ College had
had the same idea and the two men collaborated on Select documents
in Australian history 1788-1850. It was completed in 1949 and published
by Angus and Robertson in 1950. Clark originally hoped to cover the period
1850-1940, but the second volume, published by Angus and Robertson in
1955, dealt with the period 1850-1900. Both books were received with great
acclaim.
Very few papers have survived relating to Volume 1. Most
of the papers comprise handwritten or typescript copies of documents assembled
when Clark was writing Volume 2. There is a comprehensive collection of
reviews for both volumes. There are a few letters among the reviews. The
writers include Eris O’Brien, Ailsa Thomson, A. Lodewyckx, C.A. McCallum,
Russel Ward and A.G.L. Shaw.
The series also contains reviews and cuttings of Clark’s
book Sources of Australian history, which was published by Oxford
University Press in the World’s Classics series in 1957. The volume
contained an almost entirely new selection of documents, including newspaper
articles, poems and ballads, dating from 1788 to 1919.
Folder
1 Plans, 1948 and index to Volume I
2 Volume I: reviews, 1950
3 Transportation, 1951
4-6 Volume 2: Section 2
7 Volume 2: Social conditions, 1951
8-9 Volume 2: Social history
10 Volume 2: Social legislation,1952
11 Wheat farming in South Australia 1860-1900, June 1950
12-13 Volume 2: The pastoral industry
14 Volume 2: Political history
15 Non-Labor politics 1860-1900, 1951
16-19 Labor Party, 1880-1900
20-22 Volume 2: Federation
23 Books and references, 1955
24 Volume 2: notes on sources
25 Volume 2: reviews, 1955-56
26 Sources of Australian history, 1957-58
