The papers of Vincent Buckley include correspondence, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, variant versions, page proofs, book reviews, author's legal agreement, newspaper clippings and lecture notes. The papers contain detailed documentation of Buckley's writings from 1937, including poetry, criticism, biography and essays, as well as several unpublished works. There are drafts for seven of Buckley's major works including Arcady and other places, Late-winter child, The pattern, Selected poems, Cutting green hay, Last poems, The Faber book of modern Australian verse. Much of the correspondence is from notable Australian literary personalities, including Bruce Beaver, R.D. Fitzgerald, Helen Garner, Mary Gilmore, Gwen Harwood, Xavier Herbert, Jack Hibberd, A.D. Hope, Manfred Jurgensen, F.R. Leavis, David Malouf, David Martin, James McAuley, Rhyll McMaster, Dennis O'Driscoll, Bernard Smith, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Patrick White and Fay Zwicky. This correspondence reflects the intensity of thought, debate and the copious exchange of political attitudes, ideas and thoughts between leading intellectuals in Australia during the 1950s and 1960s. His letters with Irish correspondents, and details of his visits to Ireland and Irish universities show his ties between Australian and Irish culture and writing.
