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Series 3 - Poems, other writings, correspondence and newspaper cuttings
- Reference
- Series-1783
- Description
Folders contain a mixture of poetry manuscripts, letters, and newspaper clippings (mainly reviews). They appear to have been organised roughly chronologically by Johnson, with correspondence filed with manuscripts to which they relate.
- Part of
- Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
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Correspondence relating to Louis Johnson
Date: 1949-1994
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
By: Mooney, Chris, active 1992
Reference: MS-Papers-11176-4
Description: Comprised of correspondence from New Zealand publishers requesting posthumous publication of poems by Louis Johnson and from researchers requesting use of letters by Louis Johnson, plus personal letters from Ian Wedde and Michael Gifkins, and a poem by Chris Mooney. Also includes annotated photocopies of 1949 letters by Louis Johnson to Erik Schwimmer and Bill Oliver about Johnson's poems in Victoria University student periodicals `Hilltop' and `Arachne'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts
Papers relating to publications and PEN membership.
Date: 1986-1988
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11176-3
Description: Comprises alphabetised arrangement of papers relating to publication and distribution of 'Antipodes Press New Writing' edited by Louis Johnson and his poetry book 'True Confessions of the Last Cannibal' including financial records, correspondence with rejected writers, friends, publishers, printers, libraries and NZ Literary Fund Advisory Committee, address lists for launch, photocopy of Melbourne Age review of 'Cannibal'. Also includes address list for PEN membership, and copies of letters planning for year in Menton. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter
Papers
Date: 1989 - 2001
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11234-1
Description: Contains correspondence, reviews of Johnson's poetry and obituaries Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss (photocopies), typescripts and printed matter
Press clippings
Date: 1961 - 1966
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MSZ-1574
Description: Poems and articles relating to literature Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Poems and related papers
Date: 1974 - 1987
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11234-2
Description: Newspaper cuttings of poems and articles from NZ Listener written by Johnson Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Press clippings
Date: 1962 - 1969
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MSZ-1575
Description: Press clippings including articles by Johnson about literature and writers Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Poems and related papers
Date: 1957-1963
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0435-36
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
The book of Nadath / Robin Hyde
Date: n d
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0435-54
Description: `The book of Nadath, De Thierry's progress and more poems' by Robin Hyde with a forward by Gloria Rawlinson Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Poems
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0114-3
Description: Comprises: `Over the bridge'; `Poem on brown paper'; `In the park' - verses for children; `Singing in the spring'; `Up in the land of ice and snow'; `Canto of childhood'; `The Sandwhich man' Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Bread and a pension
Date: 1964
From: Johnson, Louis Albert, 1924-1988 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0435-48
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).