ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collections
HMSS 0450 Anthony Hill Author Papers
Call Number | HMSS 0450 |
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Collection | Anthony Hill Author Papers |
Date Range | 2011-2016 |
Quantity | 1.68m (7 manuscript boxes, 1 oversized box) |
Access Conditions | open |
Copying Conditions | with attribution |
Related Collections | HMSS 0166 Eddison Family Papers Papers of Anthony Hill, 1975-2003 – National Library of Australia |
This collection contains papers associated with the research, writing and editing of Anthony Hill’s novel For Love of Country. The book focuses on the Eddison soldier-settler family of Woden in the Australian Capital Territory and the hardships they endured, especially during the Second World War. All three sons of Walter and Marion Eddison, Frank Leslie Herbert "Tom" Eddison, Edward Dalkeith "Keith" Eddison and Jack Obaldestone Eddison, joined the armed forces in World War 2 and made the ultimate sacrifice.
The collection is broken into three series: original research files, which are organised by subject; chapter files; and working papers. The original research files are arranged by eras researched. The chapter files contain similar material to the research files plus additional and supplementary information, grouped according to the structure of the book. These chapter files contain the working draft of each chapter as it was composed. The working papers series contains transcriptions of interviews, completed drafts, proofs and correspondence.
Files and papers refer to the novel's working titles Aftermath, Sacrifice or Blood Sacrifice. The final title For Love of Country was not settled on until completion of the manuscript.
Papers are arranged and described by the author.
Series 1 - Original research files
- Eddison and Mills families England (1850s-1919)
- Walter and Marion Eddison to 1914
- The Great War (Part 1 to 1916 and France)
- The Great War (Part 2, 1918 Eddison family departure to Australia Nov 1919)
- Early years of Eddisons in Australia (1920-circa 1930)
- Eddison Depression years and neighbours (1930-1939)
- Eddison family: war years and post-war years (1939-1970)
- Letters from Tom, Keith and Jack Eddison (1939-1943)
Series 2 – Chapter files
- Chapters 1-31 containing photocopies of research papers, author notes and chapter drafts
Series 3 – Working papers
- Author papers
- Transcripts of interviews
- Completed drafts
- Proofs
- Correspondence
Box | Series No | File | Description | Quantity | Date Range |
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1 | 1 | Research Papers | Research for Eddison and Mills families England (1850s-1919):
| 1 file | 2011-2015 |
1 | 1 | Research Papers | Research for Walter and Marion Eddison to 1914:
| 1 file | 2011-2015 |
1 | 1 | Research Papers | Research for The Great War (Part 1 to 1916 and France)
| 1 file | 2011-2015 |
1 | 1 | Research Papers | Research for The Great War (Part 2, 1918 Eddison family departure to Australia November 1919):
| 1 file | 2011-2014 |
2 | 1 | Research Papers | Research for Eddison family: Early years of Eddisons in Australia (1920-circa 1930):
| 1 file | 2011-2015 |
2 | 1 | Research Papers | Research for Eddison family: Depression years and neighbours (1930-1939):
| 1 file | 2011-2015 |
2 | 1 | Research Papers | Research for Eddison family: war years and post-war years (1939-1970):
| 1 file | 2011-2015 |
3 | 1 | Research Papers | Letters from Tom, Keith and Jack Eddison (1939-1943):
| 1 file | 2011-2015 |
3 | 2 | Chapters 1-3 | Extracts from 56 Battalion, 14 Brigade, 5 Division. War Diaries June 1918; Copy of transcription of author interview with Chris Goddard at Australian War Memorial on gas masks; Extracts from British Fighting Methods in the Great War (Paddy Griffith ed.), Tommy (Richard Holmes), The Gallant Company (H.R. Wiliams); Copies of Walter Herbert Eddison service papers; Australian War Memorial photos dressing stations and aid posts; 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth; Notes on Péronne and Mont St Quentin; Chapter drafts | 1 file | 2011-2015 |
3 | 2 | Chapters 4-5 | Copy of Walter Herbert Eddison service papers medical reports; Author’s Walter (Bertie) and Marion Eddison timeline to 1914; Extracts, newspaper clippings Péronne battle, The Gallant Company (H.R. Wiliams), The Story of the Fifth Australian Division (A.D. Ellis) , Tess of the D’Urbervilles Chapter XLVII (Thomas Hardy), Bound to the Soil: a Social History of Dorset 1750-1918 (B. Kerr) Dorchester Eddison works; Author’s Edwin and Hannah Eddison timeline 1805 to 1879, also timelines Robert, Francis, Frederick and Octavius Eddison; Eddison graves Adel churchyard; Adel land left to Walter Herbert Eddison senior (Eddie’s father); Extracts from Brown Oxford Steam Plough/John Allen’s (no reference provided by author); copies of Walter Eddison (Bertie) diary notes 1877-1899; Copy of transcription of 1970 interview with Marion Eddison (Mrs Eddison) on Bertie’s early days, engagement, coming to Australia; Extracts from Oxford newspapers; Notes on John Greaves Cowper and Ravenna Nebraska; Correspondence with Linda Heil Nebraska; Copy of Leaflet history of Beaulieu village (it is pronounced Bue-lee); Chapter drafts | 1 file | 2011-2015 |
3 | 2 | Chapters 6-8 | Author notes Weymouth No. 2 Command Depot; Copies of passenger list SS Euripides August 1914, NSW Immigration Bureau advice to new arrival (author handwritten addresses over faint photocopy); Notes on Newstead station; Copies of internet pages on outbreak of WW1 Australian Light Horse, 6th Australian Light Horse, mounted drill, equitation, uniforms, colour patches; Extracts from Under Furred Hats 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment (George Berrie), A thousand miles of battles : the saga of the Australian Light Horse in WWI (Ian Jones), Australia in Palestine (H.S. Gullett and C. Barrett); Author’s Walter and Marion Eddison timeline 1914-1920; Author notes and timeline outbreak of war, first contingent, 7 Australian Light Horse in Egypt/Maadi May-November 1915; Gallipoli Battlefield Guide; Extracts Anzac to Amiens (Charles Bean); Author notes on last days at Gallipoli and evacuation; Drafts of chapters with corrections | 1 file | 2013, 2015 |
3 | 2 | Chapters 9-10 | Copy of Extracts Weymouth Command Depot War Diary November 1918; Copy of Weymouth newspapers (Weymouth Telegram, Southern Times) Armistice Day and photos; Copy of Walter Herbert Eddison service papers; Author notes Walter Herbert Eddison movements November 1916–1917, key dates war history leading to Armistice; Notes on Captain Edward Dalkeith and service papers; Copy of Walter Herbert Eddison service papers - sickness; Copy of Australian War Memorial photos Western Front mud; Copy of internet pages Russian revolution, Turkish collapse, Battle of Vittorio Veneto, Hapsburgs, Armistice; Copy of The Times shipping news, RMS Orvieto; Copy of internet pages Treaty of Versailles, Scapa Flow, aftermath of war; German Revolution, Weimar Republic, Billy Hughes, Shirley (Southampton), Howse, Port of London Author notes Walter Herbert Eddison movements 1919; passenger list RMS Orvieto; The Sydney Morning Herald shipping news 10/12/1919; Chapter drafts with corrections | 1 file | 2012-2014 |
4 | 2 | Chapters 11-13 | Copy of internet pages regarding St Ives, Sydney; Copy of Walter Herbert Eddison service papers (discharge); Copy of internet page Bobingah siding; Extract Jeffery regarding James Baker; Extracts The Cooma Express; page 5 Marion Eddison interview 1970; Notes, correspondence Title Deed copies Bobingah; Copy of Walter Herbert Eddison wood yard letterhead; Copies Eddison Cooma photos; Copy of National Archives telegram block 132 Woden, letters; extracts Australian Dictionary of Biography entry Throsby Bridges; Copy of internet pages Robert Campbell, Duntroon Royal Military College, ACT; Extracts The Queanbeyan Age soldier settlement ballots. Chapter drafts with corrections | 1 file | 2012-2013 |
4 | 2 | Chapters 14-15 | Extracts The Cooma Express 1920-1921; Correspondence David Dulhunty; Copy of page 6 Marion Eddison 1970 interview; Extracts The Queanbeyan Age regarding Eddison; Copy of Floor plan The Oaks; Extracts Williams The Oaks Estate; Copy of Block plan Eddison Woden lease; Extracts National Archives papers regarding Eddison, Dulhunty, Gifford, Maguire; Copy of transcription letter Dr J Eddison 1921; Copy of internet pages flu pandemic 1918-1920; Author notes on Mrs Davidson, Marion Eddison interview 1970 regarding Mrs Davidson death; Author notes from, Gibbney Canberra 1920s; Extracts The Queanbeyan Age, Author notes regarding Davidson drowning; Chapter drafts with corrections | 1 file | 2013-2015 |
4 | 2 | Chapters 16-17 | Author chapter outline, notes and extracts from Gibbney; Copies of photographs Parliament House opening, Extracts The Canberra Times, Parliament House, Hinkler, Kingsford Smith; Copies of internet pages meaning of Yamba; Author notes, extracts ArchivesACT files on neighbouring families Maguire, Russell, Campbell, Tanner, Anderson, Dulhunty; Copies of plans for Yamba homestead; Extracts Gibbney 1927-1930; Copy of Burke’s Landed Gentry entry Cator, family tree; Copy of Letter from Alan Anderson; Author notes Depression years, extracts ArchivesACT files neighbours; Copies of internet pages Wall Street crash, Mussolini; Australian Dictionary of Biography entry Scullin; Extracts The Canberra Times social notes.. Chapter drafts with corrections | 1 file | 2013-2014 |
4 | 2 | Chapters 18-19 | Extracts The Canberra Times, Tom at Telopea Park school, Lyndal Nott eye; Author notes Chapter 18; Australian Dictionary of Biography L W Nott [Australian Dictionary of Biography – Lewis Windemere Nott ]; Author notes of interview with Pam Yonge regarding Yamba in 1930s; Extracts The Canberra Times social notes, Royal Australian Air Force applications, Yamba auction 1941, Yamba moved 1960s; Author précis Tom’s letters from Palestine 1934-1936 Copies of internet pages Balfour Declaration, British Mandate for Palestine; Rhineland 1936, Abyssinian war, Rearmament 1933-1939, rise of Nazism, Appeasement Chapter drafts with author’s handwritten corrections | 1 file | 2013-2015 |
4 | 2 | Chapters 20-21 | Author draft Part divisions and chapter headings; Copies of internet pages Hitler, causes of WW2, Edward VIII, Spanish Civil War, Manchuria, Hawker Hart plane; Copies of Keith letters from Yaouk; Author précis Tom letters England 1936-1939; Copies of internet pages Anschluss, origins of WW2, Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland, lebensraum, Wellington bomber, Kristallnacht, Poland, Hurricanes. Chapter drafts with author corrections | 1 file | 2014-2015 |
4 | 2 | Chapters 22-24 | Tom. (Note: Originally written as one long chapter, subsequently divided into three shorter chapters):
| 1 file | 2014-2015 |
5 | 2 | Chapters 25-27 | Keith. (Note: Originally written as one long chapter, later divided into three).
| 1 file | 2014-2015 |
5 | 2 | Chapters 28-30 | Jack. (Note: Originally written as one long chapter, later divided into three).
| 1 file | 2013-2015 |
5 | 2 | Chapter 31 | Aftermath.
| 1 file | 2014-2015 |
5 | 3 | Interview Transcripts | Copy of transcription of ABC radio interview late 1990s Pam Yonge and Marion Douglas; Copy of notes of interviews with Pam Yonge; Copy of transcription of Marion Douglas interview for the book Not Without My Corsets! (co-author) with author notes scribed on it; Author précis of Yamba material for For the Love of Country (FLOC) with sources; Copy of handwritten notes by Marion Douglas on Yamba, the 1951 fires; Copy of transcription of interview with Marion Douglas and Pamela Yonge regarding Yamba titled Eddison Family – Cape Tape; Photocopy of Not Without My Corsets!; Copy of transcription of interview with Marion Eddison 1970s; Copies ArchivesACT pages on Woodger evidence to enquiry regarding rabbits 1931 | 1 file | 2011-2015 |
6 | 3 | Book Drafts | Printout of first author draft | 1 file | circa 2014 |
6 | 3 | Book Drafts | Printout of second author draft | 1 file | circa 2015 |
6 | 3 | Book Drafts | Printout of final author draft | 1 file | 31/07/2015 |
6 | 3 | Book Drafts | Copies sent to outside readers (Michael McKernan, Peter Burness, Kirsten Alexander, Chris Coulthard-Clark) with returned comments | 2 files | 2013 |
6 | 3 | Book Drafts | Author drafts, references and chapter notes to For Love of Country | 1 file | 2014 |
7 | 3 | Book Drafts | For Love of Country stylesheet. Developed by Saskia Adams (Copy Editor) in conjunction with the Penguin Style Manual - 09/11/2015 First edits of For Love of Country Penguin Publishing. Contains comments between author and editors Andrea Davison (Supervising Editor) and Saskia Adams (Copy Editor). Note, Track Changes from Saskia are with the initials SA and RA, depending on which computer she was editing from - 08/11/2015–16/11/2015 Author Letter to Penguin Publishing Supervising In-house Editor Andrea Davidson regarding revisions and edits. Sent with ‘First edits of For Love of Country Penguin Publishing’ - 16/11/2015 Author corrections to second pages of For Love of Country. Sent to Andrea Davidson (Supervising In-House Editor) - 23/01/2016 Letter to Penguin Publishing Editor Johannes Jakob (Supervising Editor who took over from Andrea Davison) regarding author corrections to For Love of Country first reprint. Includes author corrections - 09/03/2016 | 5 x Word 2007 documents (.docx) on CD ROM). Copy on USB | 2015-2016 |
7 | 3 | Proofs | Editorial comments from editor Suzanne Wilson, edited final manuscript | 1 file | 2015 |
7 | 3 | Proofs | Copies of 16 photographic pages for book with corrections; corrections to second pages; author letters to editor with corrections to first edition | 1 file | 2015-2016 |
7 | 3 | Proofs | Bound copy with cover of third page proof | 1 copy | 08/02/2016 |
7 | 3 | Correspondence | Correspondence March 2011-July 2014. Includes author references | 1 file | 2011-2014 |
8 | 3 | Proofs | First set of page proofs | 1 set | 05/12/2015 |
8 | 3 | Proofs | Second set of page proofs | 1 set | 20/01/2016 |