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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, 1976
Series VI: Writings By and About, 1960s-2010s
Series X: Audio and Video Recordings, 1964-2007
Series XI: Books, 1725-2010

Shirley Hazzard papers, 1920s-2016

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Series VII: Professional Files, 1958-2010

This series includes general professional papers, subject files, and miscellaneous reader and fan mail.

Subseries VII.1: Subject Files, 1958-2010

This subseries includes a small amount of subject files. These relate to awards, the Boyer Lectures, Copyright, Film, to The New Yorker, and other subjects.

The majority of Hazzard's professional files were unfiled and unsorted, and are filed in Series VII.2: Miscellaneous Professional Files.


Box 28 Folder 12 A.M. Heath, 1976-1980, 1996-1997


Box 9 Folder 6 Academy of American Poets--Correspondence to Shirley Hazzard, 2005 March 9

Regarding the Howells Medal.

Accession 2017.2018.M019


Box 28 Folder 13 Hazzard in Australia, 1984-1985

Box 28 Folder 14 Australia--Various Correspondence, etc. on, 1985-1987

Box 28 Folder 15 Awards, 1997-2003

Box 28 Folder 16 Boyer Lecture / Boyer Collection Book, circa 1984, 2001


Box 29 Folder 1 Causes, 1994

Box 29 Folder 2 Copyright, 1963-2004

Box 29 Folder 3 Encyclopedia Britannica Naples, 1983-1987, 2000-2002, undated

Box 29 Folder 4-6 Film, 1980-1995, 3 folders

The Evening of the Holiday and The Transit of Venus

Box 29 Folder 7 Interview and Bio--J.D. "Sandy" McClatchy, 2004

Box 29 Folder 8 Italian Translations, Committee on

Box 29 Folder 9 Janklow and Nesbit, 1996

Box 29 Folder 10 Literary Lives: The World of Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard, 2010

Exhibition at the New York Society Library. Includes invitation, exhibition catalog, and a few professional photographs of Hazzard and Steegmuller.

Box 29 Folder 11 New York Times Correspondence Re: Hazzard's Review of Waldheim: The Missing Years, 1988

Box 29 Folder 12-13 The New Yorker , 1963-2000, 2 folders


Box 11 Folder 16 The New Yorker , 1997-1998


Box 29 Folder 14 Nolan, Sidney

Box 29 Folder 15 The Organization (The New Yorker), 1967

Box 29 Folder 16 PEN, 1981

Box 29 Folder 17 Princeton University--Advisory Council and Gauss Administration, 1980-1988

Box 29 Folder 18 Portrait of Zelide, 1985, 1996, undated

Box 29 Folder 19 The Proust Project, Turtle Point Press, Zelide, 1997-2003

Box 29 Folder 20 Pym, Barbara--Essay, 1978-1984

Box 29 Folder 21 Stannard's Biography of Muriel Spark, circa 2010

Subseries VII.2: Miscellaneous Professional Files, circa 1958-2010

The majority of Hazzard's professional files were unfiled and unsorted, and have been foldered without additional arrangement. These files primarily consist of correspondence, but also include agreements, royalty statements, and other professional materials.

Box 29 Folder 25 Professional, Miscellaneous


Box 30 Folder 1-14 Professional, Miscellaneous, 14 folders


Box 29 Folder 22-24 Royalty Statements, etc., 3 folders


Box 11 Folder 14-15 Agreements

Subseries VII.3: Reader / Fan Mail

This subseries contains reader correspondence sent to Hazzard's publishers, as well as general reader and fan mail.

There is probably additional reader and fan correspondence in Series II: Arranged Correspondence, as many readers sent letters directly to Hazzard's home address in New York City.


Box 31 Folder 1-4 Letters Sent to Publishers, The New Yorker, etc., 4 folders

Box 31 Folder 5-8 Letters / Fan Mail, 4 folders

Subseries VII.4: Awards (Objects), 2001-2005, undated

This subseries includes a small number of awards and medals.


Box 48 Mercantile Library Clifton Fadiman Medal for Literature, 2001

For Transit of Venus. Includes some related clippings.

Box 48 The Lotos Club Medal of Merit, 2002 February

Box 48 The National Arts Club, For Literary Excellence, 2004 February 2

Box 48 Bard College Mary McCarthy Award, 2004 May 21

Box 48 New York Public Library Literary Lion, 2005

Box 48 Academy Institute of Arts and Letters

Box 48 American Academy of Arts and Letters