John Miller Tregenza (1931-1999)
Papers
MSS 0049
Series 1: University of Adelaide student (29 cm)
1.1 Student notes and lectures
- MS student lecture and study notes, and student essays on Spenser
- Ms notes on Elizabethan dramatists, student essay, and notes and essay topics set by Tregenza as tutor ca 1955
- English Dept Roneoed notes on Milton’s Lycidas and Paradise Lost (undated)
- Ms notes ca 1950 English Honours on 18th century literature, mainly on Pope. Includes an essay written for Honours, and notes from 1950 lectures by Nichol Smith; Roneoed notes on Dryden
- Ms notes and essays on Wordsworth and Keats
- Ms notes on T.S. Eliot and The Wasteland, including detailed notebook dated 1952
- Ms notes on The Nineties (ie 1890s), including a notebook containing a page on ‘The progress of the thesis 20/3/1953’ for a proposed thesis on 1890s literature(?), and other various notes
- Ms notes and complete typed text for 8 lectures given by Tregenza(?) on Chaucer
- Photocopies of programme of Student Theatre Group performance of "Freshers’ Foursome", May 1949, and of Adelaide University Dramatic Society (AUDS) performance of "Gammer Gurton’s needle", July 1953 (with related photographs and review). Tregenza was a cast member in both productions
1.2 Australian little magazines 1923-1954
Correspondence relating to research for and publication of his M.A. thesis, “Australian little magazines 1923-1954”, including a copy of the published book and typescripts of radio talk (August 1955) and paper presented to MLA Conference (Brisbane 1955). Includes 1996 correspondence with Bettina Cummins re her husband’s (Bill Cummins) little magazine “Yesterday & most of today” with draft chapter on its history. Also reviews and citations and a radio interview on Radio Australia’s ‘The Creative Arts’ series (c1964). 1954-65 and 1991, 1996. 3 cm and 1 cassette tape
Source notes (typescript and ms). As arranged in folders by Tregenza.
- Australian literature 1923-53: a chronology
- ‘Australian literary magazines of the last three decades’ / John Tregenza: paper presented to the English section of the Australasian University Modern Languages Association Conference, Brisbane, 1955, and copy of article published in Australian Letters June 1957. With ‘A checklist of non-commercial literary magazines published in Australia 1923-1954, with descriptive notes / compiled by John Tregenza; and ‘Bibliography of literary magazines published in Australia 1923-1954, with descriptive notes.
- Sources: Advance-guard magazines. Typescript: ‘Australian little magazines of the last thirty years (script for a fourteen minute radio talk by John Tregenza, 7p.); typescript ‘Some Australian little magazines (3 p.); ms notes on sources; ms draft texts eg ‘A study of Australian avance-guard magazines 1918-1939 (13 p.); alphabetical list of little magazines
- 1920 magazines (Vision etc)
- Vision writers
- Magazines 1930-34
- Magazines 1935-37
- Magazines 1940-43
- Magazines 1944-49
- Magazines 1950-
- Notes on Jindyworobak Movement etc
- Notes on Point etc
Index cards to Contributors to Australian little magazines 1923- and Contributors to Melbourne and Victorian Reviews
The April 1933 issue of Yesterday & most of today has been catalogued separately for the Rare Book Collection
1.3 Radio talks
Newspaper accounts and reviews of radio talks by John Tregenza, Tutor in English, 1955
1.4 Folder Australian literature (General)
Contains notes, clippings and writings on little magazines and Australian literature in general, and material that relates to matters arising from the publication of the MA thesis in 1964 as “Australian little magazines 1923-1954: their role in forming and reflecting literary trends”. Includes:
- Correspondence with John Reed (editor of Angry Penguins etc) on Tregenza’s interpretation of Angry Penguins
1957-58, 1964, with Tregenza’s notes - Clippings on ‘Australian Letters’ magazine
- Handouts for Worker’s Educational Association of SA courses/Discussion groups by Tregenza, Ian Muecke and Brian Elliott (after 1954)
- Typescript ‘The search for Australia in nineteenth century poetry’ a lecture by Brian Elliott, 27/9/1953
Typescript (photocopy) ‘Survey of Secondary Education Committee, Thirty eighth day, Friday 12 May 1955.’ Public meeting held in the Art Gallery - Another copy of ‘Australian literary magazines of the last three decades’ / John Tregenza: paper presented to the English section of the Australasian University Modern Languages Association Conference, Brisbane, 1955
Notes on Australian Literary Seminars 1955 - Notes etc on Australian authors including Patrick White, A.D. Hope, Norman Lindsay, Vance Palmer, Christopher Brennan, Hugh McCrae and many others
