PAPERS OF MANNING CLARK - The Boyer Lectures, 1975-88
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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 20 The Boyer Lectures, 1975-88
In 1975 the Australian Broadcasting Commission invited Clark
to give the 1976 Boyer Lectures. First broadcast in 1959, the lecturers
have been prominent Australians who present the results of their work
and their thinking on major social, scientific or cultural issues. Clark
entitled his lectures ‘A discovery of Australia’ and spoke of
how he discovered one way of writing the history of Australia. The lectures
were published by the ABC in 1976. In 1988 Clark was one of a number of
former lecturers who were asked to write postscripts to their lectures.
His lectures, together with the postscipt, were republished by the ABC
in 1991.
Most of the letters deal with the content of the lectures,
or the published version of the lectures, both favourably and unfavourably.
There are also many letters and cuttings relating to the controversy preceding
the lectures, especially the attempts of the ABC management to vet the
lectures and the criticisms of Clark made by Senator John Carrick. The
correspondents include Talbot Duckmanton, Beatrice Davis, Lady Casey,
Allan Martin, John Haslem, Lady Braddon, Russel Ward, Irene Greenwood,
W. Macmahon Ball, Ken Inglis, John Molony and Yvonne Boyd.
Folder
1-2 Manuscript and typescript drafts, 1976-88
3 Typescript draft, 1976
4 Typescript draft, 1988
5-6 Correspondence and comments, 1975-76
7 Correspondence and comments, 1976
8-9 Correspondence and comments, 1976-77
