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Béchervaise, John (John Mayston), 1910-1998. Papers [manuscript].

Title: Papers [manuscript]. 1922-1988.

Diaries; correspondence; research notes; manuscripts; sketches; family papers; lectures; subject files; photographs; cuttings. The day books (26 vols.) date from 1936 to 1988 and include detailed diaries and also copies of letters, manuscripts, cuttings and photographs. They document the Antarctic expeditions in great detail and also mountaineering and other expeditions and Bechervaise's career as a teacher in England and Geelong. Correspondence (15 vols.), mostly 1950-88, includes letters of Sir Douglas Mawson, Phillip Law, Sir James Darling, Marnie Bassett, Myra Roper. 'Treading on Earth' (11 vols) containing articles, drawings, cuttings, reports, invitations and other autobiographical material, 1922-88. Literary papers include drafts of poetry and Antarctic books and research material, cuttings and drafts of books on Ballarat, Bendigo, Grampians, University of Melbourne and other subjects in Sketchbook Series. An addition of 2 boxes has been received and is unavailable until processed.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 m. (56 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225786703 View

Wills-Johnson, Graham. Correspondence and notes.

Title: Correspondence and notes. [not after 1979]

Correspondence, notes, two photographs etc. concerning Jack Thwaites, Tasmanian bushwalker; biographical notes on Evelyn Temple Emmett, historian and bushwalker of Tasmania; notes on Ralphs Bay Neck Railway, dating from the mid 1820s; correspondence and related material concerning John Bechervaise; and biographies and related papers of Warren Bonython and Elyne Mitchell.

ArchivalResource: 3 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222909932 View

Elliott, Fred. Papers [manuscript].

Title: Papers [manuscript]. 1953-1959.

1. Typescript diary extracts of the 1953-54 Heard Island expedition describing the establishment of the Australian base on the Antarctic continent at Mawson, 13 Jan-17 Mar. 1954, and an account of two attempts by John Bechervaise, Peter Shaw and Fred Elliott to climb the mountain Big Ben on Heard Island, 19 Aug.-18 Nov. 1953. Includes colour photocopies of photographs and maps. 2. Diaries of the 1955-56 Mawson expedition, 7 Jan. - 31 Dec. 1955 & 1 Jan.-6 Mar. 1956. 3. Diary of the 1958 Mawson expedition, 3 Jan. 1958- 28 Feb. 1959. 4. Scrapbook, 1954-59, containing newspaper cuttings on ANARE expeditions (particularly 1958) and Dr Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary's treks to the South Pole with the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

ArchivalResource: 14 cm. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222738754 View