PAPERS OF MANNING CLARK - A short history of Australia, 1961-92
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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 15 A short history of Australia, 1961-92
In 1961 Clark was asked to write a single volume history
of Australia for the New American Library of World Literature. It was
published in New York in 1963 with the Mentor Books imprint. A second
edition was issued by Heinemann in 1969. An illustrated edition was published
by Macmillan in 1981, with new editions by Penguin in 1983 and 1987.
The correspondents include E.L. Doctorow, Ursula Winant,
J.E. Madgwick, Edgar Waters, Geoffrey Muirden, Bill Gammage, Tim Curnow,
Bill Reed, Katsuo Tamura and Rosario Scarpato.
Folder
1 Outline and drafts
2-3 Manuscript
4 Postscript, 1969
5-6 Chapter 13, 1978-80
7-8 Correspondence and reviews, 1961-78
9 New chapter, 1978
10 Illustrated edition, 1981
11-12 Illustrated edition: reviews and comments, 1981
13 Illustrated edition: second edition, 1983
14 Illustrated edition: third edition
15 Japanese edition, 1978-79
16 Italian translation, 1984-89
17 Italian translation, 1990
18 Greek translation, 1990
19-20 Greek translation, 1990-92
