The Australian Women's Register

MS 8065 contains manuscripts, proofs, correspondence, notes and photographs relating to Williams’ biography of Christina Stead and her later publication, Fathers & sons. For the biography of Stead, the correspondence is mostly with Stead’s friends and acquaintances. During the research Williams also corresponded with the Australian Archives, US Intelligence and FBI, Virago and McPhee Gribble. The chief correspondents are C.B. Christesen, Dorothy Green, Jack Lindsay and Kate Stead. Material for the book Fathers & sons includes correspondence, drafts of the interview manuscripts and photographs. The interviewees include Graeme Blundell, Ric Charlesworth, Marcus Einfeld, Michael Kirby, Lionel Rose, Norman Swan, Ted Whitten Jr., Robyn Williams and Michael Wilding (11 boxes, 1 fol. Box). The Acc 05.121 instalment includes a typescript of Jiddu Krishnamurti: world philosopher (1895-1986): his life and thoughts, with related research material and correspondence concerning the publication. In addition, there are extensive extracts from Krishnamurti correspondence 1920-1986 and research on Krishnamurti’s visits to Australia, including transcripts of and notes on interviews conducted by Williams with people who attended Krishnamurti’s last (1970) Sydney meetings (4 boxes). The Acc 06.174 instalment comprises papers associated with the research and writing of Green power: environmentalists who have changed the face of Australia (2 cartons).