Collection Subject Type

Literary

Scope and Content

The collection contains drafts, scripts, papers, AV material

Date Range of Content

1977-1996

Biographical Note

Peter Murphy has spent much of his life in Melbourne where he has completed a BA and a Diploma of Teaching at Monash University and an Associate Diploma in Librarianship at RMIT. He has worked as a teacher in the Victorian Education Department. Murphy began writing in 1967 and has been interested in the potential of different forms of writing: his other unpublished works include an opera libretto, Jo Being and plays for radio and stage including 'Glitter' (1977) and 'Illuminations' (1986).

References:
Austlit: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A3849

Administrative Information

Access and Copying Conditions

Access: Open Access

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy. 

Copying: Copying of material for private study and research is approved. 

Preferred Citation

Papers of Peter Murphy, Academy Library, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 65, Box [Number], Folder [Number].

Provenance

The collection was acquired in four instalments by the Academy Library from 1986-1996

Subject Keywords

Subjects

Poetry, novel

Personal Names

Peter Murphy, 1945-….

Occupations

Writer, playwright

Container List

Box 1

Drafts, scripts, papers, AV material

Folder 1
Poets of the Month (series 3)

Photocopy of a book of poems

Black Light cassette tape

Photocopies of correspondence by Peter Murphy to Lynn Hard, Librarian, 1986-1987

Folder 2 
Making a Living: Stories about work - First manuscript

Folder 3

The Moving Shadow Problem

Slaves

Folder 4

Photocopies of plays: Goings and Illuminations

Programs, reviews publicity: Escape Victim; Glitter; Illumination; Point of Departure

Folder 5

Photocopies of plays: Point of Departure; Glitter; The Nanny School

Folder 6

The Palms: Handwritten version (plus revised version on floppy disk)

Folder 7

Black Light manuscripts

Folder 8

The Palms: Revised manuscript of novel, 1996, 150 pages with annotations: manuscript and floppy disk