The Meanjin Archive
About the Meanjin Archive
The Meanjin Archive contains the complete records of the Melbourne literary journal Meanjin for the years 1940-1974, covering the period of its founding editor, CB Christesen.
Records held in the archive include correspondence, manuscripts, press cuttings and administrative records. Of special interest are the extensive correspondence files between CB Christesen and over 1400 correspondents, amongst whom represent virtually every Australian literary identity publishing in the period. The archive also has a strong representation of artists, academics, journalists and politicians. Listed below are some of the individuals for whom there are substantial correspondence files.
The Meanjin Archive is a very rich resource which, in addition to providing an invaluable source of biographical information on the hundreds of individuals represented, also uniquely illuminates the cultural and political debates of the era, particularly during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
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Availability and Access
The Meanjin Archive is housed at the University of Melbourne Archives off-site repository, and is available for use by any bona fide researcher in the Cultural Collections Reading Room in the Baillieu Library. Users are first required to complete an Access Agreement Form, and 24 hours notice is needed for retrieval of material from the repository. For all enquiries, please call (03) 8344 9893 or email archives@archives.unimelb.edu.au
In addition to the Meanjin Archive database, a list of all correspondence files, as well as individual listings of several hundred of the larger correspondence files (including all of those listed below), is available in the reading room. These lists are not currently available on the web site but may be in the future. Material in the Archive has been extensively cross-indexed and may be retrieved by subject as well as by name of correspondent.
Background Note
Meanjin was founded in Brisbane in 1940 by CB Christesen. In 1945 he moved the journal to the University of Melbourne where it is still published. When CB Christesen retired as editor in 1974, the University acquired the Archive. Further instalments of material from subsequent editors will be available in the future. Also see A Brief History of Meanjin.
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