PAPERS OF MANNING CLARK - Notebooks, 1937-77
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1. General correspondence, 1939-91
2. Diaries, 1938-91
3. Notebooks, 1937-77
4. Newspaper cuttings, 1938-54
5. University of Melbourne, 1937-49
6. Canberra University College, 1953-60
7. Australian National University, 1960-76
8. Harvard University, 1975-79
9. Australian Council for the Arts, 1973
10. Journeys, 1955-91
11. The ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville, 1938-50
12. Select documents in Australian history, 1948-56
13. Alexander Harris, Settlers and Convicts, 1952-64
14. Meeting Soviet Man, 1958-60
15. A short history of Australia, 1961-92
16.A history of Australia: drafts
17. A history of Australia: research materials, 1960-86
18. A history of Australia: correspondence and reviews, 1960-91
19. Short stories
20. The Boyer Lectures, 1975-88
21. In search of Henry Lawson, 1977-88
22. Occasional writings and speeches, 1979-81
23. A history of Australia — the Musical, 1980-89
24. The puzzles of childhood, 1907-91
25. The quest for grace, 1989-91
26. A historian’s apprenticeship, 1990-91
27. Manuscripts, 1931-91
28. Lectures, 1940-87
29. Subject files, 1936-91
30. Family correspondence, 1958-75
31. Miscellaneous papers, 1937-90
Appendix
Box List
Most of the notebooks date from the period 1935-55 and record Clark’s historical and literary studies at Melbourne and Oxford, as well as his readings while a schoolteacher in Devon and Geelong. They include notes that he took at lectures and notes made while reading modern European history. Some of them are precisely dated, while others can only be approximately dated. The later volumes contain some notes for lectures in Canberra and also Clark’s first thoughts on writing a history of Australia.
Item
Trinity College, Melbourne
1. General reading
Balliol College, Oxford, 1938-39
2. Economic history of Europe in the 19th century
3. . Jane Austen; Henri Pirenne: Histoire de l’Europe des invasions au XVI siècle
4. The French revolution of 1848
5. Biography of Alexis de Tocqueville, 1939
6. . Georges Lefebvre, R. Guyot et Philippe Sagnac: La Révolution française
7. Philippe Sagnac et Saint-Léger: La prépondérance française
8. Victor Hugo, Gustav Flaubert, George Sand, Honoré de Blazac, B. de Saint-Pierre
9. 19th century German history
10. Lectures by A.J.P. Taylor on Hapsburg Monarchy, 1848-1916
Blundell’s School, Devon, 1939-40
11. Edmund Burke
12. Montesquieu, 1940
13. J.J. Rousseau
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Geelong Grammar School, 1940-44
14. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Thomas Paine
15. The life and works of Karl Marx
16. French thought, 1800-60
17. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
18. Hippolyte Taine
19. Loose notes on miscellaneous subjects, 1942-43
University of Melbourne, 1944-49
20. Les ecrivains français, 1800-50
21. Australian literature, 1944
Canberra University College, 1949-60
22. Ancient history, 1953
23. Tutorial classes in British history, 1953
24. Ideas on Australian history, 1953-54
25. Family relationships, 1954-61
26. Ideas for A history of Australia, 1955-56
27. Notes on history students, 1959-60
Australian National University, 1960-77
28. Lectures for Modern History A
29. 20th century Australian literature, 1977
. See also notes on Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1961, and Historiography, 1975, in item 5 in this series.