The Australian Women's Register

MS 9406 comprises correspondence, notebooks, journals and diaries, drafts and other papers relating to Stasko’s poetry, prose, articles and reviews. Also included are manuscripts for Abundance, Black night with windows and Stasko’s prose work, originally called “Half Moon Bay”, but later published as The invention of everyday life. Amongst the correspondence are letters from friends, other writers and publishers, including Inez Baranay, Bruce Beaver, Beverley Farmer, Norman di Giovanni, Lynn Hard, A.D. Hope, Alane Rollings, Veronica Brady and John Kinsella (13 boxes, 1 fol. Box). The Acc06.163 instalment comprises diaries, correspondence, manuscript and typescript drafts of writings, notebooks, notes, research material, printed material, publicity material and grant applications, together with some drafts of writings by others. Much of the draft and research material relates to Stasko’s book Oyster: from Montparnasse to Greenwell Point (15 boxes, 1 fol. Bag).