Guide to the Papers of James McQueen [MSS 024]

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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Abstract Manuscript drafts of published and unpublished fiction and non-fiction of James McQueen, together with related correspondence and papers

Collection Subject Type

Literary

Scope and Content

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.

Date Range of Content

1958-1993

Biographical Note

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

 

Administrative Information

 

Access and Copying Conditions

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

Preferred Citation

Papers of James McQueen, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 024, Box [Number], Folder [Number]

Provenance

The collection was acquired in two consignments

Related Material

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

Separated Material

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

 

Subject Keywords

 

Subjects

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

 

Container List

Numbers in brackets against manuscript titles refer to the number of pages

 

Box 1

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’

 

Box 2

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

 

Box 3

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

 

Box 4

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

 

Box 5

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

 

Box 6

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)

 

Box 7

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)

 

Box 8

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

 

Box 9

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

 

Box 10

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

 

Box 11

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

 

Box 12

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

 

Box 13

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’

 

Box 14

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

 

Box 15

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

 

Box 16

Folder 110

Photocopied material about Auschwitz

Thai newspaper clippings

Notes, handwritten

Photograph

Folder 111-112

White Light by James McQueen: draft computer printout

 

Box 17

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

 

Box 18

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

 

Box 19

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 [fragilerehoused in plastic sleeves – please handle with care]

 

Box 20

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

 

Box 21

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

 

Box 22

Literary drafts:

Folder 138

Graffitist (1978) – notes and drafts

Folder 139

Graffitist (1978) – submission correspondence and final draft

 

Box 23

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

 

Box 24

Literary drafts:

Folder 143
White Light – final manuscript
Folder 144
Travels with Michael and Me (1992) – edited manuscript

 

Box 25
Literary drafts:

Folder 145

The Heavy Knife (1991) – final manuscript

Folder 146

The Heavy Knife (1991) – proofs

 

Box 26

Literary drafts:

Folder 147

Brazilian Notebooks (1992) – first draft

Folder 148

Brazilian Notebooks (1992) – second draft

Folder 149

Brazilian Notebooks (1992) – final manuscript

 

Oversize

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