HUTCHISON, DAVID ERIC, 1927-2018
1945-1949 1950
Engineering studies at University of Western Australia (UWA) Commenced Arts degree at UWA
- 1951
- Graduated, Bachelor of Engineering
Acting Water Supply Engineer, WA Government Railways
1952-1953 1953-1967 1963
Worked in London, UK Christ Church Grammar School, Claremont Australian Industries Development Association Science Education Award for services to science education
- 1968
- Lecturer, tutor at UWA
1970-1985 1982 1985
Inaugural Curator of History, Western Australian Museum Seconded to Department of Home Affairs Seconded to Department of Science and Technology, prepared brief for SCITECH (1985) Retired, December 1985
- 1986
- Elected Honorary Fellow of the Museums Association of Australia
Appointed Honorary Associate of the Western Australian Museum Established consultancy in historical research and museology – various studies and committees, Australia and overseas
Post-retirement
Source: Curriculum vitae, David Eric Hutchison. ACC 8878A/2.6
PRIVATE ARCHIVES MANUSCRIPT NOTE (MN 1397; ACC 2031A, 4395A, 8877A-8887A, 9814A)
SUMMARY OF CLASSES
Correspondence Manuscripts
Publications Reports
- Photographs
- Research notes
Part restricted: “Scholars may negotiate access to embargoed papers with David Hutchison’s heirs”.
Acc. No.
2031A/1
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ACC 2031A. 3 volumes. Donated September 1971
1971 Report on field trip to the Durba Hills, Canning Stock Route. Organised and led by WH Butler, party members: J. Walter, W. Dix, D. Hutchison, L. Wende, GC Shaw, D. Hancock, A. Taylor. 13 pages, typescript
2031A/2
2031A/3
1971 Lake Disappointment-Durba Range trip: some historical background. 6 pages. One thermal (faxed) copy, one photocopy 7-21 August 1971 Report on an expedition to the Durba Range. Canning Stock Route, WA. By Harry Butler, naturalist. party members: Harry Butler, J. Walter, W. Dix, D. Hutchison, L. Wende, GC Shaw, D. Hancock, A. Taylor. Includes hand-drawn sketch map of the route taken. Typescript, some pages photocopied
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Acc. No.
4395A/1
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ACC 4395A. 5 volumes. Donated January 1994
1988 South-West Regional Museum Service Study report to the South-West Development Authority
- 4395A/2
- 1991
Telling the whole story? A report of the Labour History Working Party, Western Australia
4395A/3
4395A/4 4395A/5
December 1991
Into the twenty-first century. Report of the State Task Force for Museums Policy, WA
June 1992
Into the twenty-first century. Management and Research Working Party
November 1991 Report of the collections. Management and Research Working Party
ACC 8877A. 1 box. Donated July 1991
8877A/1.1 8877A/1.2 8877A/1.3 8877A/1.4 8877A/1.5
1982-1988 Research notes for consultancy work on Cocos-Keeling Islands Museum 1985-1988 Correspondence regarding consultancy work on Cocos-Keeling Islands Museum c.1987 South West Regional Museum Service study papers 1988 Judges’ Reports for the National Museum Awards 1988 1987 Proposal for Western Australian Geological and Mining Museum, report of consultants to Steering Committee
8877A/1.6
8877A/1.7
1987-1988 Correspondence regarding Western Australian Geological and Mining Museum c.1987 Architectural plans for proposed Western Australian Geological and Mining Museum
8878A. 2 boxes. Donated August 1992
8878A/1.1 8878A/1.2 8878A/1.3 8878A/1.4 8878A/1.5 8878A/1.6 8878A/1.7 8878A/1.8 8878A/1.9 8878A/1.10 8878A/1.11
1945-1951 Correspondence with staff members at the University of Western Australia 1949-1951 Correspondence with George Claessen 1949-1955 Correspondence with Professor Guy Howarth 1949-1985 Letters from various Australian writers and artists 1952-1984 Correspondence with John K. Ewers 1952-1989 Correspondence with various Australian writers and artists 1974-1976 Correspondence with Professor Geoffrey Blainey 1976-1989 Correspondence related to the Australian Dictionary of Biography 1976-1991 Correspondence with Manning Clark 1977-1985 Correspondence with Kenneth Hudson 1982-1987 Correspondence with Professor Rod Home
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8878A/1.12
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1984-1989 Letters from Greek writer and artist Stratis Anastallis
8878A/1.13
8878A/1.14 8878A/1.15 8878A/1.16
1989-1992 Correspondence regarding copyright dispute with Vasso Kalamaras April-July 1984 Reports on visits to Greece c.1991 Submissions to Museums Taskforce 1995 Consultant’s report on Western Australian Science and Technology Centre (SCITECH)
8878A/2.1 8878A/2.2 8878A/2.3 8878A/2.4 8878A/2.5 8878A/2.6
1980s Annotated copy of Vasso Kalamaras’s Impressions of a Journey 1980s
Draft translation of Impressions of a Journey
1980s Translations of three plays by Vasso Kalamaras 1980s
Translations of The Hammer of the Sculptor and Phryne, by Vasso Kalamaras
1980s Draft translations of short stories written by Vasso Kalamaras 14 June 2002 Curriculum vitae of David Eric Hutchison, 1933-
8879A. 1 box. Donated 1997?
1990-1997 General correspondence
8879A/1.1
- 8879A/1.2
- 1993-1996
Correspondence regarding Cossack research
8880A. 3 boxes. Donated August 2002
8880A/1.1 8880A/1.2 8880A/1.3 8880A/1.4 8880A/1.5 8880A/1.6
1949-1971 Correspondence with Mary Durack Miller 1952-1993 Correspondence with Florence James 1969-1998 Letters written to Tess Kloot 1970-2002 Correspondence with various writers 1980-1986 Correspondence with Dr. Eurydice Antzoulatou-Retsila 1986-2002 Correspondence with Dr. Eurydice Antzoulatou-Retsila and English translations of some of her papers
8880A/1.7
8880A/1.8
1984-1991 Correspondence with Beverley Farmer 1991-2002 Correspondence with Beverley Farmer
8880A/2.1 8880A/2.2
1988-2000 Correspondence with Greek poet Pavlos Pezaros 1989-1995 Correspondence with various agents and publishers regarding David Hutchison’s writing
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8880A/2.3
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1991-2002 Letters written to newspapers, politicians and companies
8880A/2.4
8880A/2.5
1993-2002 Correspondence with the Kloot family 1995-2002 Correspondence with the National Museum of Australia regarding David Hutchison’s appointment as an Honorary Fellow
8880A/2.6
8880A/2.7
2000-2001 Correspondence with research assistants regarding Mid-West Museum project 2000-2001 Supplementary information for Mid-West Museum project
8880A/3.1 8880A/3.2 8880A/3.3 8880A/3.4 8880A/3.5
1949-1950 Clippings from Pelican Magazine 1950s-1960s Articles and notes written by David Hutchison 1952 Report of International Union of Students meeting held in Bucharest in September 1953-1967 Book and literary reviews written by David Hutchison 1963 Papers regarding Australian Industries Development Association Silver Medal for Science Education
8880A/3.6
8880A/3.7 c.1980s English translations of Greek poetry 1989 Draft manuscript of novel At the River that Summer. DEH archive slip is worded ‘draft “Many years a thief”’.
8880A/3.8
8880A/3.9
1989
2nd draft of novel Many Years a Thief
1990
Later draft of novel Many Years a Thief. Cover title is At the river that summer, DEH
archive slip is worded ‘draft “Many years a thief”’.
8881A. 2 boxes. Donated April 2003
8881A/1.1 8881A/1.2 8881A/1.3 8881A/1.4 8881A/1.5 8881A/1.6 8881A/1.7 8881A/1.8
1987-2000 Correspondence with various publishers 1998-2002 Correspondence and papers regarding Mid-West Museum project in Geraldton 1991
Too Much for Us draft novel
1998
Too Much for Us screenplay
1998
The River’s Reach draft screenplay based on novel Too Much for Us
1998
The River’s Reach draft screenplay
1997
Draft manuscript of novel Many Years a Thief
1998
Short story collection In A Time Made Simple
- 8881A/2.1
- 1995
Draft manuscript of novel The Poverty Bush
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8881A/2.2
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1998 Draft manuscript of novel The Poverty Bush
8881A/2.3
8881A/2.4 8881A/2.5
2002 Draft manuscript of novel The Poverty Bush 2000-2001
2 draft manuscripts of novel Between Memory and Invention/Memory and Invention
1989-1993 Papers regarding the establishment of Premier’s Western Australian History Awards
8882A. 2 boxes. Donated June 2004. Part restricted until 2020
- 1955-1963
- 8882A/1.1
Restricted until 2020
Letters written to Tess Kloot.
- 8882A/1.2
- 1963-1968
Restricted until 2020
8882A/1.3
Restricted until 2020
Letters written to Tess Kloot. 1968-1973 Letters written to Tess Kloot.
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- 1974-1983
Restricted until 2020
8882A/1.5
Letters written to Tess Kloot. 1984-1988
Restricted until 2020
Letters written to Tess Kloot.
- 8882A/1.6
- 1988-1995
Restricted until 2020
Letters written to Tess Kloot.
- 8882A/2.1
- 1971-1994
Correspondence with George Seddon and others regarding illustrations for book
Sense of Place
- 8882A/2.2
- 1990-1992
Restricted until 2020
Correspondence with Arts Law Centre re copyright dispute with Vasso Kalamaras.
- 8882A/2.3
- 1991-1992
Correspondence with the New Norcia Community and the Vatican Ethnographic Museum regarding Aboriginal artefacts in Rome
- 8882A/2.4
- 1991-1996
Restricted until 2020
Correspondence with New Norcia Community regarding proposed New Norcia book.
- 8882A/2.5
- 1994-1995
Restricted until 2020
8882A/2.6
Correspondence regarding New Norcia book A Town Like No Other. 1994-2000 Correspondence with Penny Pike and others regarding Fremantle Heritage Asset Management Database
8882A/2.7
8882A/2.8 8882A/2.9 8882A/2.10 8882A/2.11
1996-1999 Correspondence with Angela Graham (literary agent) 1981
Article from Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol. 5 No. 2, on W. E. Cooke
1991
Early draft manuscript of Many Years a Thief
1998
Draft screenplay of The River’s Reach
1999-2002 Short stories “Night of the Moonflower”, “A Dawn Service”, “First Communion”, “Lady of the Martyrs”
8882A/2.12
8882A/3.1
2001
Draft manuscript of The Poverty Bush
2002 Article “An early debate about native land rights”
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8882A/3.2
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2003
Draft manuscript Many Years a Thief
8882A/3.3 8882A/3.4 c.2000 Exhibition brief for Mid-West Regional Museum, Geraldton c.2002 Research notes and article “Railway Workshops in Fremantle”
8883A. 3 boxes. Donated August 2006. Part restricted until 2020
8883A/1.1
Restricted until 2020
1986-1989 Correspondence with Fremantle Arts Centre Press, mostly regarding proposed Kalgoorlie book.
- 8883A/1.2
- 1986-2003
Restricted until 2020
Correspondence with the editor of Australian Short Stories journal.
8883A/1.3
Restricted until 2020
8883A/1.4
1987-2003 Correspondence with the University of Queensland Press. 1990-2002 Correspondence regarding Fremantle Prison development
- 8883A/1.5
- 1993-1999
Restricted until 2020
Correspondence with Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
8883A/1.6
Restricted until 2020
1995 Letter from Fremantle Arts Centre Press and proof of poem “Apologies to my Father”.
- 8883A/1.7
- 1996-2006
Restricted until 2020
Correspondence with various people.
- 8883A/1.8
- 1997-1999
Correspondence, drafts and papers related to screenplay for The River’s Reach
- 8883A/1.9
- 1998-1999
Restricted until 2020
Correspondence with London literary agents.
8883A/1.10
Restricted until 2020
8883A/1.11
2001 Correspondence with Edith Cowan University Centre for Landscape and Literature. 2001-2006
Restricted until 2020
Correspondence with State and Federal politicians.
- 8883A/1.12
- 2002-2006
Letters to the press
- 8883A/1.13
- 2003
Correspondence regarding review of the National Museum of Australia
- 8883A/1.14
- 2005
Restricted until 2020
Correspondence and reports for Alkimos-Eglinton consultancy.
8883A/2.1
Restricted until 2020
1946-2006 List of books read from 10 December 1946-15 May 2006.
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- 1964
Restricted until 2020
Diary of trip to Canning Stock Route August-September 1964 part 1.
8883A/2.3
Restricted until 2020
1964-1966 Diary of trip Canning Stock Route August-September 1964 part 2 and return trip 1966
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- 1968
The Australian Science Teachers Journal Vol. 14, No. 2, August 1968. Includes article
by David Hutchison with handwritten additions 1971 Antiquarian Horology, No. 2, Vol. 7, March 1971. Includes article by David Hutchison with handwritten additions
8883A/2.5
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- 1973
Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, Vol. 56, Parts 1 & 2, July 1973.
Includes article by Geoff Bolton and David Hutchison with handwritten additions
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8883A/2.7
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1976
- FILED AT 8884A/2.11
- The Fourth Part of the World, exhibition catalogue. Includes note by David Hutchison
- 8883A/2.8
- 1979
Reprint of “The Convict-Built ‘Fence’ in the Canning River” by David Hutchison and Dianne Davidson
- 8883A/2.9
- 1980
“The cultural heritage of Greece”, from The Art Gallery of Western Australia Bulletin
- 8883A/2.10
- c.1980
“The Conservation of Greek Heritage”, report to Western Australian Museum on visit to Greece
8883A/2.11
8883A/2.12
1986 Lombardo’s Guide to Fremantle, written by David Hutchison with handwritten additions 1998-2002 Collection of articles and radio talks by David Hutchison. Includes “History Defaced”, “The railway workshops in Fremantle”, “The virtue of reality”, “The loyalty of a habit”, “Thoughts on Federation”, “Tuddy But Gudwun”, “Who pulls the strings?”, “Genocide and Geocide”, The Ouique Debate” and “A Premier’s Vision for a ratbag town”
8883A/2.13
8883A/2.14 8883A/2.15 8883A/2.16 8883A/2.17
1999 Article “Whither Fremantle?” 2002 Exhibition brief for Eyre Bird Observatory 2003 A commentary on Re-imagining the Museum by Angela Witcomb 1994
Translation from Greek of The Gradual Oxidization of the Touch by Pavlos Pezaros
1999-2003 Collection of short stories by David Hutchison. Includes “In a time made simple”, “The Precious Stones”, “There is no why”, “Of the death of kings”, “To drink the mountain waters” and “Lady of the Martyrs”
- 2005
- 8883A/2.18
Proofed manuscript of Fremantle Walks
- 8883A/3.1
- 2005
Restricted until 2020
Manuscript of Many Years a Thief; draft accepted by Wakefield Press.
8883A/3.2
Restricted until 2020
8883A/3.3
2006
Second draft of Many Years a Thief.
2006
Restricted until 2020
Penultimate draft of Many Years a Thief.
- 8883A/3.4
- 1963
“Science and Human Values”, speech given by David Hutchison on presentation of Australian Industries Development Association Silver Medal for Science Education
- 8883A/3.5
- 1989
Lecture of Murdoch University Practicing History Program, “Fremantle: an example of heritage conservation”
8883A/3.6
8883A/3.7 8883A/3.8 8883A/3.9
1990 Lecture given to English as a Second Language students at Canning College 1991 “A History of Fremantle”, talk to residents of Hillcrest 1992 “A History of Fremantle”, talk to tour guides at Fremantle Prison 1995-1996 Lecture, at Edith Cowan University on “The Heritage Industry”, related correspondence
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8883A/3.10
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1999 “Shedding light on sheds in transit”, talk to Fremantle Historical Society
8883A/3.11
8883A/3.12
2001 Eulogy for Ray Aitken 2006 “New Norcia”, talk to students from the College of St Benedict of St John’s University, Minnesota, at Notre Dame University
8884A. 2 boxes. Donated May 2007. Part restricted until 2027
- 8884A/1.1
- 1962-2003
Restricted until 2027
Correspondence with Vin Serventy and Harry Butler.
- 8884A/1.2
- 1984-1999
Restricted until 2027
8884A/1.3
Restricted until 2027
Correspondence with Nance Donkin. 1991-2007 Correspondence with Western Australian Heritage Council.
- 8884A/1.4
- 1996-2006
Restricted until 2027
8884A/1.5
Correspondence with Wakefield Press, mostly regarding novel Many Years a Thief. 1998
Restricted until 2027
Correspondence regarding proposed Maritime Museum at Victoria Quay.
8884A/1.6
Restricted until 2027
8884A/1.7
2003-2006 Correspondence with Andrea Witcomb and others at Curtin University. 2005-2006
Restricted until 2027
Correspondence regarding the conservation of the Cossack area.
8884A/1.8
Restricted until 2027
8884A/1.9
1999
In a Time Made Simple short story collection.
2003
Restricted until 2027
Draft manuscript of novel The Poverty Bush.
- 8884A/1.10
- 2003
Draft screenplay of A River’s Reach
8884A/1.11
Restricted until 2027
2004 Draft manuscript of novella A River’s Reach.
8884A/2.1 8884A/2.2 8884A/2.3 c.1970 Fremantle Museum booklet. Text by David Hutchison 1975
Taxonomy and human studies. Article published in Kalori, No. 50, June 1975
1977
The role of the local museum in history. Article published in Kalori, No. 52, March
1977
8884A/2.4
8884A/2.5 8884A/2.6
1980. A field guide to the common trees of the Swan Coastal Plain, containing
illustrations by David Hutchison 1982 Journal of trip to Cocos-Keeling Islands to look into museum proposal 1983
Material culture and the study of Australian life. Article published in Museums Australia, December 1983,
8884A/2.7 8884A/2.8 8884A/2.9 8884A/2.10
1990s City of Fremantle Thematic Heritage Framework draft and papers 1992 Wreck Inspection report: Gudrun (1891-1901) 1993
Typescript of Cossack: Statement of cultural significance
1998
Article, The Heritage Industry
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8884A/2.11
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1976 The Fourth Part of the World exhibition catalogue. Includes inserted note by David Hutchison
8885A. 2 boxes. Donated March 2009 Part restricted until 2020