The Australian Women's Register

BOX 1 Folder 1 My sister Sif: preliminary notes, personal research and observations, ca. 1980s Folder 2 My sister Sif: 1st draft, editorial discussion with Robert Sessions, Penguin Books, ca. 1980s Folder 3 My sister Sif: photocopy of final manuscript, letters and newscuttings, ca. 1980s Folder 4 Hiroshima: brochures and personal Japanese notes, ca. 1980s Folder 5 ’Interesting letters Part 1′ including letters regarding publishing permissions, letters from school children and letters about research on Eve Langley, ca. 1990s Folder 6 ’Interesting letters Part 2′ including letters regarding publishing permissions and letters from school children, 1992-2000 BOX 2 Folder 1 Notebook with pasted-in press clippings of poetry, short stories, playlets and articles by Ruth Park. Some appear under the names of Jean Ingram and Chris Barlow, presumably pseudonyms used by Park. Clippings are undated but appear to date from before her departure from New Zealand. The earliest clipping gives her age as 12, 1929-1960s Folder 2 Account book used by Ruth park and D’Arcy Niland to record income from writing. Details include source, story and amount, 1964-2001 Folder 3 D’Arcy Niland clean copies of 24 short stories, part 1. Some annotations possibly by Ruth Park, ca. 1980s Folder 4 D’Arcy Niland clean copies of short stories, part 2. and Wooloomooloo – radio script, ca. 1960s-1980s Folder 5 1930s Depression. Research material for Swords and crowns and rings. Includes newscuttings, interview and book research notes as well as reminiscences of various people’s experiences of the Depression including a sailor, a Sydney artists’ model and W. Ellis of Five Dock, ca. 1930s-1970s Folder 6 A century of headline news. Compilation of front pages from the Evening Post, Wellington New Zealand, 1965 Folder 7 The night traveller: research notes and newscuttings about psychiatry, ca. 1969-1980s. Folder 8 Mog’s mountain: research notes, press clippings and small tourist publications about the eruption of Mount Tarawera and the destruction of the Pink and White Terraces at Rotorua, ca. 1940s to 1970s BOX 3 Folder 1 Glimpses of true love, carbon and typed manuscript, 1983 Folder 2 Glimpses of true love, clean copy, ca. 1980s Folder 3 Glimpses of true love, major notes, ca. 1980s Folder 4 Glimpses of true love, research material includes assorted handwritten and typed notes and newscuttings and some also used in Playing Beatie Bow and Pink flannel, ca. 1960s-1980s Folder 5 Research material – early colonial notes including newscuttings, including handwritten and typed notes, ca. 1961-1975 BOX 4 Folder 1 Ruth Park and Harold Stewart correspondence. They discuss personal news, poetry, her work, Buddhism and eastern philosophy, life in Japan, his regrets about the influence that the Ern Malley hoax had on his subsequent reputation, clean copies of three of his poems, ca. 1981-1984 Folder 2 Ruth Park and Tess Van Sommers correspondence regarding Harold Stewart’s will and archives and possible publication. Letters from Peter Ackland and the National Library and a copy of Harold Stewart’s will, ca. 1995-1996 Folder 3 Correspondence between Harold Stewart’s sister Marion, Ruth Park and Tess Van Sommers about Harold Stewart’s papers, copies of photographs of Harold Stewart, as well as a copy of the National Library’s guide to the Harold Stewart papers, 1996 Folder 4 Notes for an article about Harold Stewart and Kyoto, ca. 1989 Folders 5-8 Ruth Park letters to her friend Nancy Bruce in Wanganui, New Zealand. Topics include personal news, writing and the death of D’Arcy Niland. Inlcudes a letter from D’Arcy Niland reporting the birth of their son, ca. 1949-1998 BOX 5X My Sister Sif: original final draft; Glimpses of true love: carbon copy of typed manuscript with andwritten corrections; Glimpses of true love: discards and rewritten notes, ca. 1980s