PAPERS OF MANNING CLARK - Manuscripts, 1931-91
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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
Clark wrote relatively few articles for academic journals, but he was a prolific writer of articles, reviews and short pieces for newspapers, popular magazines and professional journals. This series contains manuscripts, typescripts, offprints, cuttings and occasionally whole issues of journals. There are articles, book reviews, news commentaries, school broadcasts, addresses, eulogies and forewords to books. Letters are sometimes attached to the manuscripts. In the 1980s his filing system became more erratic and the files contain cuttings and other items that were not written by Clark but simply quote him or refer to him.
The manuscripts were arranged chronologically by Clark, beginning with a short piece on the Australian Aborigine published in The Melburnian in 1931. His output was very high in the 1950s, but declined in the 1960s, presumably because he was concentrating on A history of Australia. It increased again in the mid-1970s and remained at a high level until his death.
The last group of files contain some more substantial writings. In particular, there is material for a life of W.C. Wentworth which Clark was planning to write in the 1970s but which he eventually abandoned.
Folder
1 1931-33
2 1940-45
3 1947-48
4 1948-49
5 1950-52
6 1953
7 1954
8 1955
9 1956-58
10 1959
11 1960
12 1961
13 1962-63
14 1964
15 1965
16 1966
17 1967
18 1968
19 1969
20 1970
21 1971
22 1972
23 1973
24 1974
25 1975
26-27 1976
28-29 1977
30-31 1978
32-35 1979
36-37 1980
38-39 1981
40-41 1982
42-43 1983
44-47 1984
48-50 1985
51-53 1986
54-55 1987
56-58 1988
59-60 1989
61-62 1990
63 1991
64-65 The origins of the convicts, 1951
66 Transportation
67 The rewriting of Australian history, 1953
68-69 The teaching of history in Australia, 1955
70-71 Occasional publications, 1952-62
72 Sketches for a life of W.C. Wentworth, 1980
73-75 W.C. Wentworth 1790-1810
76 W.C. Wentworth illustrations
77 Children’s history of Australia, 1981-88
78-79 Reviews, prefaces, references and other drafts
80 Miscellaneous drafts