Guide to the Papers of Eric Rolls
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Manuscript Name | Papers of Eric Rolls |
Manuscript Number | MSS 139 |
Last Updated | May 2020 |
Extent | 22 boxes 5 oversize 2 AV |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Correspondence, working notes, news clippings, drafts and typescripts written or collected by Eric Rolls |
Collection Subject Type
Literary
Scope and Content
This collection relates to Eric Rolls and his work as an author and poet, including correspondence, notes, news clippings, drafts, typescripts, magazines and cassettes. Works include 'The green mosaic', 'A million wild acres', 'Celebration of the senses', 'Doorways' and Rolls’ history of the Chinese in Australia
Date Range of Content
1950s-1988
Biographical Note
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Charles_Rolls
Eric Rolls was born to a farming family in Grenfell, New South Wales in 1923. After attending Fort Street High School, he served with the Australian Imperial Force as a signaller in Papua New Guinea and Bougainville. From 1948 until 1986 he farmed in north-west New South Wales as well as writing, often spending time researching at the Mitchell Library in Sydney. As a writer for children and adults, he wrote poetry and prose works on a variety of topics including Australia’s natural history, food and China’s relationship with Australia
References:
Austlit : Eric Rolls https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A10160 retrieved 14 April 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 If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items.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collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright.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 Eric Rolls, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 139, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
Provenance
This material was acquired from Eric Rolls in two consignments in 1989
Related Material
Further papers of Eric Rolls are held by the National Library of Australia at MS 7027, and the State Library of New South Wales at MLMSS 1583
Subject Keywords
Subjects
Australian Poetry – 20th Century
Eric C. Rolls, 1923-2007 – Archives
Nature in literature
Personal Names
Eric C. Rolls, 1923-2007
Occupations
Poets
Naturalists
Authors
Container List
Box 1
Folders 1-3
Correspondence regarding A Million Wild Acres
Folders 4-6
Correspondence: Joan; John Tierney’s first letter; John Thompson; miscellaneous correspondence
Folders 7-8
Celebration of the Senses - working notes and correspondence
Box 2
Folder 9
Notes – mining
Folders 10-11
China - notes, correspondence and miscellanea
Folders 12-13
Chinese – notes
Folder 14
Hong Kong – expenses; Notes - Volumes I and II, Chapters 1 and 2
Box 3
Folder 15
Notes - Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Folders 16-17
Celebration of the Senses - manuscript plus first typescript
Folder 18
‘New Guinea Mosaic’ (The Green Mosaic : Memories of New Guinea)
Folder 19
‘The Fortean’ - High School Magazine
Folder 20
Correspondence
School Books
Box 4
Folder 21
A Million Wild Acres – galleys
Folders 22-23
A Million Wild Acres
Box 5
Folders 24-26
A Million Wild Acres
Folders 27-29
‘Smallpox and Leprosy’
Folder 30
‘Leprosy’
Folder 31
‘Smallpox and Leprosy’
Folder 32
‘Opium’
Box 6
Folders 33-34
Chapter 1 material
Folder 35
‘Opium’
Folder 36
Chapter 1 material
Folder 37
Celebration of the Senses - alterations to second edition
Folder 38
A Million Wild Acres - master set
Box 7
Folders 39-41
A Million Wild Acres - correspondence
Folder 42
Early correspondence and works
Folder 43
A Million Wild Acres - treatment
Folder 44
Celebration of the Senses - manuscript
Folders 45-46
Photocopies of articles published in newspapers and magazines
Box 8
Folders 47-48
Photocopies of articles published in newspapers and magazines
Folder 49
‘Food’ - first typescript and photocopy
Folders 50-51
‘Smallpox and Leprosy’ - first typescript
Folder 52
‘Gambling’, ‘Opium’
Folder 53
‘Food’ - clippings and notes
Folder 54
Chinese - correspondence and miscellanea
Folder 55
‘Opium’ - modern news clippings
Box 9
Folder 56
‘Opium’ - modern news clippings
Folder 57
Chapter 4 - N.T.
Folder 58
1888
Folders 59-60
‘Gambling’
Folder 61
Personal correspondence (90 letters)
Folder 62
Correspondence from writers (44 letters)
Box 10
Folder 63
Correspondence: regarding talks or in appreciation (76 letters)
Folders 64-65
Correspondence: agents, publicity, Literary Board (148 letters in folders 64 and 65)
Folder 66
Correspondence: regarding natural history (62 letters)
Folder 67
Correspondence: general business (64 letters)
Folder 68
Correspondence: family (50 family letters)
Folders 69-71
Correspondence: Chinese letters pre 1984 - research
Box 11
Folder 172
Correspondence: Chinese letters pre 1984 - research
Correspondence in folders 69-72 includes letters to and from Ian Mudie, Gavin Souter, Ronald McKie, Geoffrey Blainey, Anne Bell, Douglas Stewart, Angus and Robertson (agent Richard Walsh), applications re grants, referees for grants (Professor CP Fitzgerald, Alex Chisolm)
Folders 73-76
Correspondence: Chinese letters after 1984 - research and general
Correspondence in folders 73-76 includes letters to and from Lady Ebury, Professor Wang Gungwu, Richard Walsh, Joh Hallows, Brian Castro, Richard Kimber, Ed Duyker, Professor CB Thornton-Smith, Nancy Keesing, Geoffrey Dutton
Folder 77
Chinese correspondence
Folder 78
Celebration of the Senses - manuscript
Box 12
Folder 79
‘Doorways’, Cumberland Diary
Folder 80
Celebration of the Senses - correspondence
Folder 81
‘Dairy’ - handwritten notes
Folder 82
Celebration of the Senses - correspondence
Folder 83
Literary towns
Box 13
Folder 84
A Million Wild Acres - index
Folder 85
‘Dairy’ - notes
Folder 86
‘Joan’
Folder 87
Celebration of the Senses - Eric Rolls’ copy
Folder 88
A Million Wild Acres - notes
Box 14
Folder 89
A Million Wild Acres - corrections
Folder 90
‘Chinese’ manuscript - Volume 1, Chapters 4-10
Folders 91-93
‘Chinese’ manuscript - Chapters 1-3, handwritten
Folder 94
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Volume I ‘Sojourners’, Chapter I ‘Adventurers and Shepherds’
Folder 95
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 2 ‘Gold Mountain Guests’
Box 15
Folder 96
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 3 ‘Gold and Tin’
Folder 97
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 4 ‘Mining in the Northern Territory’, Chapter 5 ‘Smallpox’
Folder 98
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 6 ‘The Plague and Leprosy’, Chapter 7 ‘Gambling’, Chapter 8 ‘Opium’
Folder 99
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - Chapter 9 ‘Food’, Chapter 10 ‘1888’
Folders 100-101
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - notes, photocopies, chapter 2
Folder 102
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - notes, photocopies, chapter 3
Box 16
Folder 103-109
Flowers and the Wide Seas: China and Australia (biography) - notes, photocopies, chapter 3
Box 17
Folder 110
The Bulletin: 3 April 1957; 22 May 1957; 19 June 1957; 4 September 1957; 11 September 1957; 18 September 1957; 9 October 1957; 8 January 1958; 7 January 1959; 6 May 1959; 24 June 1959; 1 July 1959
Folder 111
The Bulletin: 20 April 1960; 27 April 1960; 25 May 1960; 29 June 1960; 3 August 1960; 17 August 1960; 24 August 1960; 14 September 1960; 12 October 1960; 30 November 1960; 7 December 1960; 28 December 1960
Box 18
Folder 112
The Bulletin: 4 January 1961; 15 March 1961; 29 March 1961; 12 April 1961; 3 May 1961; 17 May 1961; 17 May 1961; 24 May 1961; 10 June 1961; 24 June 1961; 8 July 1961; 15 July 1961; 22 July 1961; 29 July 1961; 5 August 1961; 12 August 1961; 19 August 1961; 23 September 1961
Folder 113
The Bulletin: 17 March 1962; 15 June 1963; 31 March 1973
Folder 114
Journals: Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 60 Part 2, June 1974; Australian Studies, Number 15, November 1984; Australian Museum Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, August 1921; Fraser Island by Angela Burger
Box 19
Folder 115
Reviews
Folder 116
Photocopies of material in Folder 115
Folders 117-118
They All Ran Wild - notes
Folder 119
The River - galleys
Folder 120
‘Folk in Perth’ - February 1985
Folder 121
National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife
Folder 122
The Fatal Shore - review, May 1987
Notes for The Age article ‘The Great Australian Beach’
Box 20
Folder 123
‘Islands in the Stream’ - manuscript
Folder 124
Article for The Sydney Morning Herald, January 1988
Folder 125
Selected poetry
Folder 126
Poetry - sixteen manuscripts - published and unpublished - mostly 1950s
Audio Visual material
Box 1
Nine (9) Cassette Tapes - see Box 12, Wallet 83
Two (2) Cassette Tapes - see Box 12, Wallet 84
Four (4) Cassette Tapes - see Box 4, Wallet 21
Folio 1
‘Doorways’