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Manuscript Name | Papers of James McQueen |
Manuscript Number | MSS 024 |
Last Updated | July 2021 |
Extent | 26 boxes + 4 oversize |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Manuscript drafts of published and unpublished fiction and non-fiction of James McQueen, together with related correspondence and papers |
Literary
This collection relates to the literary career of James McQueen and includes a large number of draft short stories, as well as manuscripts of novels, articles, reviews, plays and non-fiction works (some written under pseudonyms such as Marc Cox and L. Palmerston). The material is supplemented by personal and business correspondence and records, biographical papers, and some galley proofs and artwork for several of McQueen’s publications.
Of special interest: McQueen’s first two published short stories, both written whilst he was stationed as a weatherman on Macquarie Island in the early 1960s; papers and drafts associated with the Franklin Dam controversy, including a small amount of correspondence exchanged with historian, Manning Clark, and environmentalist, Bob Brown; and a group of folders containing research papers relating to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1958-1993
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McQueen_(writer)
Australian novelist and short story writer James McQueen was born in Ulverstone, Tasmania later studying at the National Art School in Sydney and qualifying as an accountant. McQueen began writing fiction in 1975 after settling in Nabowla, north-eastern Tasmania. He published more than 150 stories in Australian and overseas periodicals (later collected in six volumes) and wrote novels for adults and children. McQueen was arrested while protesting against the Franklin River Dam development and his environmental activism is reflected in his novel Hook’s Mountain and other works.
References:
James McQueen https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A28997 retrieved 27 November 2020
Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies (2005), University of Tasmania (2017), McQueen, James (1934-1988), Companion to Tasmanian History https://www.utas.edu.au/tasmanian-companion/biogs/E000628b.htm retrieved 27 November 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 James McQueen, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 024, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
The collection was acquired in two consignments
Further material relating to James McQueen is located in the Papers of Andrew Sant (MSS 031) and in the Records of the Almost Managing Company (MSS 215)
Photographs and poems relating to McQueen’s experiences as a weatherman on Macquarie Island are housed in the National Library of Australia at MS 8522
This collection originally included the letters of three First World War soldiers found by McQueen on his Nabowla property in 1993. These works have been separated and described at MSS 367
James McQueen 1934-1988 – Archives
Australian literature – 20th century
Australian short stories – 20th century
Environmentalism in literature
Franklin Dam controversy – History
Macquarie Island (Tasmania)
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
Personal Names
James McQueen 1934-1988
Occupations
Writers
Environmentalists
Numbers in brackets against manuscript titles refer to the number of pages
Folder 1
‘Escape to Danger’ by John Lachlan: manuscript
Folder 2
Manuscript drafts:
’The Dilemma of Functional Authority’ by JS McQueen
’Tightrope Walkers’ by A Pope
’Base Camp Lassitude’
’Travels with Fritz’
’The Midnight Trampoline’
’Bible Silences’
’The First Wave’
’The Diminishing Balance’
‘The Sin Eater’
Folder 3
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
’Shells’ (2)
’Snuffed Out’
’A Landscape, with Figures’ by James McQueen
‘The Unhappened Joke’ by Marc Cox (nom de plume)
’Sea Anchor’ by James McQueen
‘The Deceived Deceiver’
’Mixed Fortune’
’A Hundred Fervent Baptists’
’The White Rainbow’
’The Drum Line’
’The Eclectic Approach’
Australian short story markets
Folder 4
Correspondence and material relating to the Poverty Press publication, A Dossier of Tasmanian Writers’, contributors Isobel Bell (et al)
Folder 5
Correspondence, programs relating to Artists-in-Schools
Folder 6
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 7
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
’A Pale Wolf in Winter’
’In the Lee of Humboldt Island’
’The Last Compartment’
Miscellaneous notes and correspondence
Folder 8
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
’Acorns’
’The Junction’
’In the Lee of Humbolt Island’
’Black, Black, Black’
’A Diminishing Balance’
Folder 9
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
’A Hundred Fervent Baptists’
’An Overcoat Forever’
’What Have They Done to the Rain’
’Bring Infinity Home’
’A Second Chance’
’Shells’
’The Militant’
’Electric Ear’
’Koch’
’Nails of Love’
’Dogs Turd’
Folder 10
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
’Autumn - Macquarie Island’
’Brown on Tap’
’Under New Management’
‘Christmas Odyssey’
’Blood on the Sand’
’The Red Card’
’Monkey Business’
’Island’
’A Diminishing Balance’
Folder 11
Miscellaneous correspondence
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
’A Second Language’
’Orphan with a Gun’
’Funeral at Tautira’
’The Escape Machine’
’Senility Blues’
Folder 12
Publication: A Just Equinox by James McQueen
Folder 13
Miscellaneous correspondence
Graphics for A Just Equinox by James McQueen
Folder 14
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
’Hook’s Country’
’1958: Fegan’
’Running’
’Record of Interview’
’The Brush Bronzewing’
Biography of JS McQueen
Folder 15
Correspondence, Australian Literary Management
Folder 16
Manuscript draft for short story: ‘The Lucky Peasant’
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 17-18
Articles written for newspapers and other papers, Part 1 & 2
Folder 19
Novels, short stories: drafts:
’To the River’, by James McQueen
’In the Wet’
’The Geriatric Express’
’The Sadist’
’Hero’ (4)
’Views from a Single Eye’ (3)
Review: The Year of Living Dangerously
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 20
Manuscript draft for short stories:
’A Pale Wolf in Winter’
’Beck’
’A Christmas Odyssey’
’The Geriatric Express’
’Holding Hands’ (‘Resurrection’)
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 21
Newspaper clippings, rejection notices (taped/glued in ledger book, with a list of nursery expenses)
Folder 22
Newspaper clippings and Escape Machine
Folder 23
Newspaper clippings and Escape Machine, interview by Michael Denholm
Folder 24
The Electric Beach by James McQueen: galleys
Folder 25
The Franklin – Not Just a River by James McQueen: manuscript
Folder 26
McPhee Gribble Publishers, correspondence and other papers
Folder 27
‘Escape to Danger’: manuscript for short story and correspondence
Folder 28
The Franklin – Not Just a River by James McQueen: manuscript (Penguin South West book)
Folder 29
‘Exercise book: draft of ‘Dinner Party’, handwritten
Folder 30
The Franklin – Not Just a River by James McQueen: manuscript
Folder 31
Uphill Runner by James McQueen: manuscript
Folder 32
Uphill Runner by James McQueen: notes and correspondence
Folder 33
Manuscripts drafts for short stories:
‘A Matter of Self Respect’
‘Funeral at Tautira’
‘Josef, in Transit’
‘Uphill Runner’ (2)
‘Hero’
‘Right of Way’
‘The Blue Crane’
‘The Last Compartment’
‘Afternoon in Eldorado’
‘In the Money’
‘The Sadist’
‘Nails of Love, Nails of Death’
‘A Diminishing Balance’
‘A Pale Wolf in Winter’
‘An Aim in Life’
‘Shells’
Folder 34
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
‘Uphill Runner’
‘A Hundred Fervent Baptists’
‘An Adler Experiment’
‘The Blue Crane’
‘A Matter of Self Respect’
‘In the Money’
‘An Aim in Life’
‘Funeral at Tautira’
‘Nails of Love, Nails of Death’
‘Land Fall’
‘Josef, in Transit’
Folder 35
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
‘Shells’
‘Hero’
‘Afternoon in El Dorado’
‘The Last Sandwichman’
‘The Sadist’
‘The Last Compartment’
‘Room-mate’
‘Aisles of Joy’
‘The Lucifer Override’
‘A Diminishing Balance’
‘A Pale Wolf in winter’
‘Uphill Runner’
‘The Adler Experiment’
‘A Hundred Fervent Baptists’
‘Right of Way’
‘The Brown Passport’
Folder 36
A Just Equinox by James McQueen: manuscript
Folder 37
The Franklin - Not Just a River by James McQueen: galleys, including editorial and indexes
Folder 38-39
A Just Equinox by James McQueen: Part 1 & 2 manuscript
Folder 40
A Just Equinox by James McQueen: manuscript:
First draft, part only
Second draft, unrevised and uncorrected
Folder 41
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 1:
‘The Anonymous Pantyhose’ (25)
‘The Fish Room’ (24)
’The Graffitist’ (23)
‘Where Have all the Goldfish Gone’ (22)
‘The Sergeant (21)
‘The Electric Beach’ (20)
‘Room-Mate’ (19)
‘A Boat-Shaped Mind, a Man-Shaped Soul’ (18)
Folder 42
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 2:
‘Red Cloud and Mrs Malory’ (17)
‘Metamorphosis’ (16)
‘Night Run’ (15)
‘It Always Happens on the Night Shift’ (14)
‘Holding Hands’ (‘Resurrection’) (13)
Folder 43
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 3:
The Pistol’ (12)
‘A Joke Without Laughter’
‘In the Wet’ (11)
‘The Red Card’ (10)
‘To the River’ (9)
‘The Personal Touch’ (8)
‘To the River’ (9)
Folder 44
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 1:
‘Death of Billy Yokohama’ (50)
‘Right of Way’ (49)
‘Love and Goldfish’ (48)
‘Beck’ (47)
‘Sister Dracula’ (46)
‘The Functions of Management’ (45)
‘Christmas with the White Lady’ (44)
Folder 45
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 2:
‘Invitation’ (43)
‘Goodbye, Johnny Ray ...’ (42)
‘The Fish Room’ (41)
‘Star Chase’ (40)
‘An Aim in Life’ (39)
‘Dog Day’ (38)
Folder 46
Manuscripts for published short stories:
‘The Long Fall’ (7)
‘Monkey Business’ (6)
‘Crowd Pleaser’ (Blood on the Sand) (5)
‘The Upper Bunk’ (Ritter’s Revenge) (4)
‘Judy’: newspaper clipping only (3)
‘The Apple Pickers’ (This Rage Inside) (2)
‘Catchpole’s Folly’ (1)
Folder 47
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 1:
‘The Adler Experiment’ (37)
‘Joke Without Laughter’ (Electric Beach) (36)
‘Unlawful Assault’ (35)
‘The Militant’ (34)
‘Officer’s Boots’ (32)
Folder 48
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 2:
‘Dead on Arrival’ (31)
‘Egypt’ (29)
‘Within a Walk of the Sea’ (30)
‘The Last Android’ (28)
‘Smack for Lunch’ (27)
‘Waiting for Rain’ (26)
Folder 49
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 1:
‘A Second Language’ (75)
‘The Man in the Telephone Box’ (74)
‘A Pale Wolf in Winter’ (73)
‘The Brown Passport’ (72)
‘Bring Infinity Home’ (71)
Folder 50
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 2:
‘Views from a Single Eye’ (70)
‘The Blood Donor’ (69)
‘The White Rainbow’ (68)
‘Bury my Chips at Wounded Knee’ (67)
Acorns’ (66)
‘A Matter of Self Respect’ (65)
Maryborough Golden Wattle Festival
Folder 51
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 1:
‘An Afternoon in El Dorado’ (no manuscript) (64)
‘Nails of Love, Nails of Death’ (63)
‘Josef, in Transit’ (62)
‘The Last Sandwichman’ (61)
‘Aisles of Joy’ (60)
‘Area Code 003’ (59)
‘The Lucifer Override’ (58)
Folder 52
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 2:
‘Cobwebs & Dust’ (57)
‘The Sadist’ (56)
‘Landfall’ (Like all Pioneers) (55)
‘Orphan With a Gun’ (54)
‘Monica and the Egg’ (53)
‘Breathing Space’ (52)
‘Twenty Minutes at the Edge of Winter’ (no manuscript) (51)
Folder 53
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 1:
‘The Blue Crane’ (90)
‘The Last Compartment’ (89)
‘Hero’ (88)
‘Uphill Runners’ (87)
‘A Wedding Dress, or, Something Bright’ (86)
In the Money’ (85)
‘The Sin Eater’ (84)
‘Senility Blues’ (no manuscript) (83)
‘A Diminishing Balance’ (82)
Folder 54
Manuscripts for published short stories, Part 2:
‘Shells’ (81)
‘The Escape Machine’ (80)
‘The Myna Birds’ (79)
‘Funeral at Tautira’ (78)
‘The Brush Bronzewind’ (77)
‘A Hundred Fervent Baptists’ (76)
Folder 55
The Floor of Heaven by James McQueen: novel manuscript
Folder 56
Manuscripts for short stories:
‘Goodbye to Malachite Creek’
‘In the Wet’
‘Rifle Creek, Queensland, Tuesday 26 June 1979’
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 57
Hook’s Mountain by James McQueen: novel manuscript
Folder 58
The Floor of Heaven by James McQueen: novel manuscript
Folder 59
The Floor of Heaven by James McQueen: novel manuscript
Folder 60
Written political precis for the Australian Labor Party
Folder 61
Correspondence
Literary competition results
Short stories: reviews
’The Electric Approach’, by F McKinney
Folder 62
Richard Sterling:
’The Last Compartment’: short story manuscript
’A Wild Republican Boy’: manuscript
Folder 63
Miscellaneous correspondence and newspaper clippings
Folder 64
Manuscripts drafts for short stories:
‘Twenty Minutes at the Edge of Winter’ (2)
‘So You Want to Write a Book?’
‘That Rejected Feeling’ (2)
‘Love and Goldfish’
‘The Blue Crane’
‘Sea Anchor’
Newspaper clippings - book reviews for: The Franklin – Not Just a River by James McQueen, titled ‘Franklin, Not Just a Wilderness’
’Choke and Scatter’ by James McQueen, using pen name L Palmerston: manuscript
Correspondence regarding Australian Literary Management, Caroline Lurie
Sydney Morning Herald ‘Maps and Dreams’
Folder 65
‘Right of Way’: short story, extracts
‘The Cage’: draft play
‘A Man of Substance’: draft play
Newspaper clippings regarding ‘The Mexican Wombat’
Folder 66
A Just Equinox by James McQueen: page proofs
Folder 67
A Just Equinox by James McQueen: galley
Folder 68
Miscellaneous correspondence: including ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) 1984, Ballarat; Mr Gary McKay; Burnie Technical College; ASAE (Australian Standard Assurance Engagements?), Tasmania
Article: ‘Tasmania’s Threatened Forests’
’An Overcoat Forever’: manuscript
Folder 69
‘The Fight for the Franklin’: article, material relating to first draft
Correspondence: Australian Playboy
Folder 70-71
A Just Equinox by James McQueen: manuscript
Folder 72
A Just Equinox by James McQueen: manuscript, draft and graphics
Folder 73
‘The Cage’: draft play
’A Man of Substance’: draft play
‘The Three-tree Trick’: draft play
’Twenty Minutes at the Edge of Winter’: draft short story
Reviews: The Franklin - Not Just a River by James McQueen
Miscellaneous correspondence, includes letter to Manning Clark and Bob Brown
’A Pale Wolf in Winter’: draft short story
Folder 74
Miscellaneous correspondence
Reviews
Folder 75
‘The Cage’: draft play
’Senility Blues’: draft short story
Miscellaneous correspondence
Reviews
Folder 76
’In the Money’: draft short story
‘The Drum Line’: draft short story
Reviews for: The Escape Machine; The Franklin – Not Just a River
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 77-29
Miscellaneous correspondence, Part 1-3: 1978 – 1981
Folder 80
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1978 – 1979
Folder 81
‘The Albatross Egg’: draft play
Hook’s Mountain: manuscript novel
Manuscripts for short stories:
’Death of a Ladies Man’
’It Always Happens on the Night Shift’
’Connery’s Conscience’
‘Stitches’
‘In the Lee of Humboldt Island’
Miscellaneous correspondence
‘The Writing of Radio Plays’ prepared by the ABC Radio Drama Department
Folder 82
Manuscript drafts for short stories:
‘What Have They Done to the Rain?’: first draft
’In the Money’: first and second drafts
’Uphill Runner’
’Hero’
’The Blue Crane’
‘The Way of the Transgressor’
Miscellaneous correspondence: includes letter from Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in relation to an article in Playboy Magazine by John Green
Review: Age/Tabloid Story short story competition
Folder 83
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1979 – 1983
Folder 84
Manuscripts drafts for short stories:
‘Right of Way’
‘The Lucifer Override’
‘The Cook’
‘The Carpenter’
‘The Radio Supervisor’
‘The Radio Operator’, 1 and 2
‘The Engineer’
‘The Death of Billy Yokohama’
‘Landfall’
‘The Unhappened Joke’
‘Lunch with Mavis’
‘The Blood Donor’
Tasmanian Artists series: interviews/questionnaire
Miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 85
Hook’s Mountain by James McQueen: correspondence and worksheets
Folder 86-87
Hook’s Mountain by James McQueen: drafts
Folder 88
Hook’s Mountain by James McQueen: drafts
Folder 89
Hook’s Mountain by James McQueen: second draft
Folder 90-91
A Just Equinox by James McQueen: proof pages
Folder 92
‘A Wedding Dress, or Something Bright’: three drafts
’Hero’?: miscellaneous drafts
Hook’s Mountain by James McQueen: review
Miscellaneous correspondence
Working notes
Folder 93
Manuscripts: extracts and drafts for short stories:
‘The Brush Bronzewing’
‘Funeral at Tautira’
‘Bringing Infinity Home’
‘Escape Machine’
Miscellaneous correspondence
Competition/Awards, Tasmanian Fellowship of Australian Writers, 1978 Awards
Folder 94
Manuscripts drafts for short stories:
‘Monica and the Egg’ (3)
‘Choke and Scatter’
‘Bury my Chips at Wounded Knee’ (2)
‘An Outpost of Science’ (2)
‘Tightrope-Walkers’ (2)
‘The Lucifer Override’
A Dossier of Tasmanian Writers, contributors Isobel Bell [et al.]:
Introduction
’To the River’: draft short story
Newspaper clippings
Folder 95
Manuscripts drafts for short stories:
‘In the Money’
Folder 96
Death of a Ladies Man and Other Stories by James McQueen: drafts, photocopied galley proofs
Folder 97
Death of a Ladies Man and Other Stories by James McQueen: typescript with annotations
Folder 98-99
Death of a Ladies Man and Other Stories by James McQueen: photocopied galley proofs
Folder 100
Death of a Ladies Man and Other Stories by James McQueen: photocopied typescripts with corrections
Folder 101
Death of a Ladies Man and Other Stories by James McQueen: galley proofs with corrections
Folder 102
Five Chimneys: the Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel: photocopies
Folder 103
A Crack in the Wall: Growing up Under Hitler by Horst Kruger: photocopy
Folder 104-105
Auschwitz: a Report on the Proceedings Against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka and Others Before the Court at Frankfurt by Bernd Naumann: photocopied material on the Holocaust
Folder 106
Auschwitz Inferno: the Testimony of a Sonderkommando by Filip Muller: photocopy
Folder 107
Anus Mundi: 1,500 Days in Auschwitz/Birkenau by Wieslaw Kielar: photocopies
Folder 108
Commandant of Auschwitz: the Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess by Rudolf Hoess: photocopies
Folder 109
Photocopied material about Auschwitz
Folder 110
Photocopied material about Auschwitz
Thai newspaper clippings
Notes, handwritten
Photograph
Folder 111-112
White Light by James McQueen: draft computer printout
Folder 113
Australian Literary Management correspondence:
24 October, 1986 – 28 December 1987
10 January, 1988 – 21 December 1988
9 January 1989 – 19 December 1991
Folder 114
Literature Board/Australia Council correspondence:
19 December 1984 – 25 September 1992
Guidelines for Applicants for Fellowships, 1986 – 1992/1993
Folder 115
Penguin Books Australia correspondence:
14 December 1987 – 27 June 1989
10 July 1989 – 13 February 1990
2 March 1990 – 18 January 1993
Folder 116
Random Century/Random House correspondence, 5 September 1991 – 16 February 1993
Moore Productions (Sackar/Beattie) correspondence, 13 January 1988 – 1 October 1991
Miscellaneous correspondence, 23 August 1988 – 11 December 1989
Folder 117
Miscellaneous correspondence, 2 January 1990 – 9 December 1990
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1 January 1991 – 29 December 1991
Folder 118
Miscellaneous correspondence, 17 January 1992 – 23 April 1993
Postcards/greetings cards and associated papers, 1986 – 1992
Undated letters, notes
Folder 119
Monarch Book-Keeping Series notebooks, ‘July 1978 – June 1979 writing’
Folder 120
Newspaper articles and reviews:
Graham Clark, ‘The latest paperbacks’, The Courier-Mail, 3 June 1989
Giles Hugo, ‘McQueen, the rebel, climbs a green mountain’, The Saturday Mercury, 3 June 1989
Judith White, ‘Hooked! Man of war fights to save the forests’, The Sun-Herald, 4 June 1989
John Hussey, ‘A hero in the classic English mould’, News, 13 June 1989
Helen Daniel, ‘A tumult of voices, taut and fraught’, The Weekend Australian, 17 June 1989
George Turner, ‘Power and pleasure in short stories’, The Age, 24 June 1989
Alison Broinowski, ‘The lust frontier’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 1991
Rory Barnes, ‘Lower latitudes’, 5UV, recorded 25 March 1991
Margot Luke, ‘Between squalor and glamour, the Aussie abroad’, The West Australian, 6 April 1991
Mark Chipperfield, ‘The anti-hero amid the orchids’, The Weekend Australian, 20-21 April 1991
Philip Bryan, ‘Sequel doesn’t follow’, The Examiner, 4 May 1991
Jane Sullivan, ‘Violent themes stalk the placid orchid grower’, The Age, 8 May 1991
Bruce Morgan, ‘Fine cop drama by a local author’, The Examiner, 18 May 1991
Andrew Kennon, ‘Surviving the heat and guilt’, The Age, 29 May 1991
Giles Hugo, ‘McQueen proves he’s more than a mystery man’, The Mercury, 1 June 1991
Charles Forbes, ‘The Heavy Knife’, Melbourne Report, August 1991
Staff Reporter, ‘Mountain top perspective’ (unknown newspaper, undated)
Katherine Gallagher, ‘Justice and Revenge’, Southerly, 2, 1991
Richard Clarke, ‘White Light’, AATE English in Australia, September 1992
Folder 121
‘Story drafts & old stories’, Part 1:
‘Jaraqui’
‘My Mother’s Cookbook’, first draft
‘Beyond the Amazon’
‘[Untitled]’, first draft
‘[Untitled]’, second draft
‘The Editor Regrets…’, first draft
‘The Editor Regrets…’, second draft
‘The Naked Page’, first draft
‘Old Jake’, first draft
‘Old Jake’, second draft
‘Choke and Scatter’, first draft
‘Choke and Scatter’, second draft
‘Shirts’, first draft
Folder 122
‘Story drafts & old stories’, Part 2:
‘The Naked Page’
‘Apartheid and All That…’
‘In Quest of the Floater’
‘Hook’s Country’
‘Conversations with Wichai’
‘Guides and Go-Betweens’
‘Beyond the Amazon’
‘Shirts’, second draft
‘Shirts’, third draft
‘Interlude in Manaus’, first draft
‘Guides and Go-Betweens’
‘An Amazonian Guide’, second draft
‘A Patriot’s Dream’, second draft
‘The Horizontal Order’
‘The Horizonal [sic] Monastery’
‘The Horizontal Cloister’
‘Wild Bill Hickock/Wyatt Earp/Wes Hardin/Billy the Kid’
‘Terminal Zone’, first draft
‘Exile’
‘The Trouble with Pigs’
‘New Broom’
‘Dinner Party’
‘An Insurable Interest’
Folder 123
Literary drafts:
‘Bring Infinity Home’
‘Neither Prince nor King’
‘The Junction’
‘Conservation – Threatened Orchid Species in Brazil’
‘Up in Salvador’
‘My Mother’s Cookbook’
‘A Body of Work’
‘To the Black River’
‘The Beach’
‘Choke and Scatter’
‘Connery’s Conscience’
‘The Great Camp-Pie War’
‘A Patriot’s Dream’
‘Cover Note’
‘Yellow-Jack’
‘The Mail Goes Through’
‘Beggars’
Project Synopsis: ‘Island People’
‘Frost’
Folder 124
Literary drafts:
‘White Light’, adapted by Anne Brooksbank, second draft, Genesis Films, 1992 (113
Folder 125
Literary drafts:
‘The Passing of Uncle Joe – remaining draft of a stage play (incomplete) begun in ‘Gunpowder Creek (The ‘Carbine Creek’ of ‘The Floor of Heaven’) in early 1974’, typed and handwritten notes, with annotations
‘Notes: White Light’ – typed and handwritten notes, with annotations
‘Local Rules (short stories)’, with lengthy explanatory note on the front cover page, typed manuscript
Folder 126
Literary drafts:
‘Notes: Heavy Knife’ - typed and handwritten notes, articles and plans, with annotations, prefaced by correspondence, 12 February 1989 – 22 March 1991
Folder 127
Literary drafts:
‘The Floor of Heaven, first draft, part 1, typed and annotated (57)
‘Hook’s Mountain: stage play (adapted by Rachael Davey), various drafts’ – correspondence, 3 April 1991 – 17 December 1991 with undated letters, promotional materials; first draft outline, April 1991, working draft, June 1991, final draft, August 1991
Folder 128
Literary drafts:
‘KAK’, with explanatory note on the front cover page, typed and handwritten notes, with annotations
‘Novellas which never quite got off the ground!’, with explanatory note on the front cover page referring to ‘The Fuhrer at Farthing Creek’, typed and handwritten notes, with annotations
‘Manaus: Leg-Breaks and Coca Cola’, with two notes attached
Folder 129
Publications:
‘Greenhouse Activities. Macquarie Island’, 1960, 3 copies [fragile – rehoused in plastic sleeves – please handle with care]
Folder 130
Publications:
‘Hardships’, 1960 – with note by McQueen ‘This is the monthly magazine for the Antarctic Station on Macquarie Island in 1960, which I edited, illustrated and wrote in part. Somewhere among these are my first two published short stories, both written on the Island’, include issues for January – November-December 1960 (duplicate copies of February, April-May, and November-December issues)
Folder 131
Publications:
‘Kaledioscope ‘79’, East Launceston Primary School, Tasmania
Pre-publication covers for Lower Latitudes and Travels with Michael and Me: Tales from the Outback and Beyond
Untitled poster with ‘Mountain Duck’ logo
Folder 132
Business papers and financial records:
Publishers’ agreements, copyright permissions, deeds of assignment, late 1980s-early 1990s and undated
Royalty statements for Australian Literary Management, 16 July 1987 – 17 September 1987, and Penguin Books Australia, 1987-1988
Receipts, records of payment and associated papers, late 1980s-early 1990s
Handwritten financial estimates, costs, figures and associated papers, undated
Folder 133
Miscellaneous papers:
Review: Dennis Davison, ‘Let’s Go Low … Then Find What’s Below’, The Weekend Australian, 9 March 1991
Review: ‘Book Reviews’, Contact, May 1991
Review: Christine Maclean, ‘White Light by James McQueen’, VATE/Idiom, August 1991
Review: ‘Sophie Masson, Australian Authors Prove Their Worth in Latest Releases’, uncited and undated
‘Writers in the Park’ advertisement, undated
‘Imago Short Story Competition’, judged by Bruce Dawe, 1991
Kerry Pink and Grant Wells, ‘Barney: A Thoroughly Nice, Likeable Bloke’, The Advocate Weekender, 28 December 1991
Handwritten and typed notes, jottings and other papers, with annotations
Literary drafts:
Folder 134
The Ninety Fifth Day (1975) – first version
Folder 135
The Ninety Fifth Day (1975) – rewrite notes and final draft second version
Folder 136
The Ninety Fifth Day (1975) – culled draft pages
Folder 137
The Ninety Fifth Day (1975) – notes and bound literary draft
Literary drafts:
Folder 138
Graffitist (1978) – notes and drafts
Folder 139
Graffitist (1978) – submission correspondence and final draft
Literary drafts:
Folder 140
The Great Tasmanian Long Distance Golf Match (1987) – drafts
Folder 141
Lower Latitudes (1990) – final manuscript
Folder 142
Highway 15 (1990) – draft
Literary drafts:
Folder 143
White Light – final manuscript
Folder 144
Travels with Michael and Me (1992) – edited manuscript
Folder 145
The Heavy Knife (1991) – final manuscript
Folder 146
The Heavy Knife (1991) – proofs
Literary drafts:
Folder 147
Brazilian Notebooks (1992) – first draft
Folder 148
Brazilian Notebooks (1992) – second draft
Folder 149
Brazilian Notebooks (1992) – final manuscript
OS Folders 1-2
White Light by James McQueen: draft galley proofs
OS Folder 3
‘To the River’, Tabloid Story, no. 20, 1976
‘Joke without laughter’, Tabloid Story, 1978 Adelaide Festival edition
‘Like all Pioneers…’, Jetaway Air New Zealand, March – May 1979
‘Master of the Sea’, Jetaway Air New Zealand, September – October 1979
‘The Man in the Telephone Box’, The Bulletin, centenary issue, January 1980
‘Views from a Single Eye’, Jetaway Air New Zealand, March – May 1980
‘The Myna Birds’, The Bulletin, December 1980
‘A Diminishing Balance’, Island Magazine, no. 6, March 1981
‘A River in Tasmania’, Australian Playboy, April 1982
‘Hook’s Gift’, Australian Playboy, June 1982
‘Uphill Runner’, Australian Penthouse, July 1982
‘A Wedding or Dress or Something Bright…’, The Bulletin, December 1982
‘Josef, in Transit’, Island Magazine, no. 16, September 1983
‘The Lucky Peasant’, Simply Living, vol. 2, no. 10, 1985
‘A Dog of One’s Own’, This Australia, vol. 5, no. 1, Summer 1985-1986
‘A million swallows’, Australian Penthouse, March 1990
‘The Forgotten Wilderness’, Qantas Airways, March – April 1991
‘The Beach’, Woman’s Day, November 1992, with short note attached
OS Folder 4
‘Senility Blues’, plan and story board cards