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| Prepared by: | Special Collections |
| Date completed: | September 2004 |
| Encoded by: | Special Collections |
| Last updated: | March 2007 |
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| Creator: | Beilby, Richard, 1918-1989 |
| Title: | Papers of Richard Beilby |
| Date Range: | 1968-c. 1988 |
| Reference Number: | MS 5 |
| Extent: | 83 cm (8 boxes) |
| Repository: | Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA |
| Abstract: | This collection comprises manuscript papers and related material produced and accumulated by Richard Beilby. |
The papers of Richard Beilby include typescript drafts, notes, notebooks, research material, newspaper clippings and photographs.
Special Collections staff has imposed the series arrangement of this collection to describe and preserve context and relationships.
Richard Courtney Beilby was born in Malacca, Malaysia 18 July 1918 and died in 1989. He moved to Western Australia in 1928. During the Second Warld War he served in the AIF in North Africa, Greece, Crete and New Guinea. Prior to becoming a full-time novelist in 1970, Beilby worked in a number of occupations including truck driver, painter, insurance salesman and part-time union organiser.
Beilby's novels have explored such issues as the experiences of war, and the tensions between aboriginal and white cultures in an urban environment. Beilby became Vice President of the Western Australian Branch of the Australian Society of Authors in 1972, and continued to serve that organisation for many years. He was later made an Honorary Life Member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Richard Beilby's publications include:
The sword and the myrtle (1968)
No medals for Aphrodite (1970)
The brown land crying (1975)
Gunner : a novel of the retreat from Crete (1977)
The bitter lotus (1978).
References:
AustLit Australian Literature Gateway database, 2004.
Papers of Richard Beilby, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA, Australian Defence Force Academy, MS 5, Series [Number], Folder [Number].
Series 1 Novels,
1969-1978
This series comprises notes, notebooks, research material and manuscript and typescript drafts for The sword and the myrtle (1968), No medals for Aphrodite (1970), The brown land crying (1975), Gunner : a novel of the retreat from Crete (1977) and The bitter lotus (1978). The drafts are often extensively annotated and edited. The notes, notebooks and research material reveal the depth of Beilby's preparation and research, particularly for The brown land crying.
1.1, The sword and the myrtle (1968)
Comprising typescript drafts of the novel, published by Michael Joseph, London, 1968, and a copy of the shortened version entitled 'The Philobarbaros'.
1.2, No medals for Aphrodite (1970)
Comprising typescript drafts of the novel, published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1970.
1.3, The brown land crying (1975)
Comprising notebooks, research material and typescript drafts of the novel, published by Angus & Robertson, London; Sydney, 1975. Photocopies of research material held in Folios in Series 2 and Photographs in Series 3.
1.4, Gunner : a novel of the retreat from Crete (1977)
Comprising three typescript drafts of the novel entitled 'King-pawn one', 'Fool's mate' and 'Pawns pay now', published by Angus & Robertson, London, 1977.
Series 2 Folios,
1969-1973
This series comprises photocopies of research material for Series 1 The brown land crying and a newspaper clipping relating to 'The ice cream eaters' a novel in progress.
Series 3 Photographs,
1970
This series comprises photographs of research material for Series 1 The brown land crying.
| Series | Folder/Piece | Box | Location | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.1 | 1-4 | 1 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.1 | 5 | 2 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.2 | 1 | 2 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.3 | 1-2 | 2 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.3 | 3-5 | 3 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.3 | 6-8 | 4 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.4 | 1 | 4 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.4 | 2-3 | 5 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.5 | 1 | 5 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.5 | 2-3 | 6 | Main | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 7 | Folio | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 8 | AV |