• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH004051

Audrey Blake – further papers, 1915-1998

  • Repository State Library of New South Wales
  • Reference MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133
  • Date Range 1915 - 1998
  • Description

    1968, 1997, Date unknown; ‘Unpublished articles…articles rejected by journals’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1968-1969, 1987; ‘Copies of journals with articles by A. Blake & other such material’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1954-1989; ‘Biographical material & Celebratory messages – Birthdays & so on…’, including a copy of A Proletarian Life (1984) (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1952, 1977-1997; ‘Correspondence to A. Blake…’ Correspondents include Graeme Bell, Sue Bellamy, Mona Brand, John Brink, Margaret Brink, L. G. (Lloyd Gordon) Churchward, Communist Party of Australia. Sydney District Committee, Maurie Crow, Robin (Bob) Gollan, Itzhak Gust, Elizabeth Harrower, Ken Inglis, Kay Iseman, Jacques Leclerc, Jack Legge, Penny Lockwood, Roger Milliss, Stephen Murray-Smith, Overland, Helen Palmer, Anne Spencer Parry, Frederick G. G. Rose, Edna Ryan, Carmel Shute, Bernard Smith and University of Melbourne. Archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1966, 1984, 1998; ‘Correspondence – other things…Copy of resignation from CPA in A Proletarian Life’, including correspondence with Communist Party of Australia. Central Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1968-1996; ‘Correspondence to Jack & Audrey’, with, among others, Bruce Armstrong, H. C. Begg (CBD Library & Subscription Service), Mona Brand, Peggy Dennis, Len Fox, Amirah Inglis, Ken Inglis, Edna Ryan, James Frederick Staples and Frank J. B. Stilwell (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1986-1994; ‘Correspondence to 7 from Jack & Audrey’, being mainly with Elizabeth Harrower and Bruce Johnson (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1963-1996; ‘Correspondence – AB. To newspapers. Reviews for journals’, including correspondence with Moscow News, Soviet Literature and Tribune, and issue of Overland, no. 144 Spring 1996 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1993; ‘Correspondence concerning AB’s unpublished manuscripts on History of the EYL & its predecessors’, being mainly correspondence concerning deposit of copies in libraries, and with Ruth Crow (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1985-1996; ‘Eureka Youth League’, concerning its history and archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1) 1994-1996; ‘Material on the photographic record of the EYL held by the Archive of the University of Melbourne’, including correspondence with Jim Adams, Bruce Armstrong and University of Melbourne. Archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 1928, 1980; ‘Historical Material’, being photocopy of The Young Comrade, vol. 1 no. 1, Nov. 1928, issued by the Young Comrades Club of Melbourne, and excerpt form Tribune, 4 June 1980, concerning Second Women and Labour Conference, Melbourne, 1980 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 196–1987; ‘Manuscripts of material by Audrey Blake [and jointly with J. D. Blake]’, being mainly articles and reviews, and including first draft of her paper, ‘he Eureka Youth League’, given at the Second Women and labour Conference, Melbourne, May 1980 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 1956, 1993; ‘Manuscripts of first ‘Notes’ ’56 plus – Manuscript additions to early ‘Notes on the Development of the Eureka Youth League & its Predecessors 1993’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 1984-1985; ‘Material relating to A Proletarian Life : Correspondence with Kibble, Reviews, and letters from readers’, including correspondence with, among others, Stephanie Claire, Amirah Inglis, Kibble Books, Kath Olive and Edna Ryan (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 1984-1986; ‘Material relating to the film ‘Red Matildas’…’, including transcript of tape recording of Audrey Blake and correspondence with Trevor Grahame, Co-Director of the film Red Matildas (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 1964-1988; ‘Reviews of work by AB’s. Notices etc.’, with letter received from Jacques Leclerc (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 1949-1988; ‘Speeches of A. Blake’, including talks, eulogies and coference papers, and a copy of the proceedings of the Second Congress of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, Budapest, Sep. 1949 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 1915, 1955-1998; ‘Working materials – AB and JDB’, being newscuttings and printed material with MS. notes (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) 1952, 1987, Date unknown; ‘The Youth Carnival for Peace & Friendship March 1952…’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)

  • Quantity 2 boxes 0.34 m
  • Access This material is held offsite and can take up to four days to retrieve.

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  • Primary Creator
    • Blake, Audrey (1916 - 2006)
  • See also
    • Crow, Ruth (1916 - 1999)
    • Harrower, Elizabeth (1928 - 2020)
    • Palmer, Helen Gwynneth (1917 - 1979)
    • Ryan, Edna Minna (1904 - 1997)