Hap Wheeley Archive
Hap Wheeley was a gemmologist specialising in agate who ran a gemmological business in Townsville until 1970. He wrote The Happy Helion, Faceting without Tears and Take your Pick to Agate Creek . He also worked with James Cook University geologists in the production of a television program called Take your Pick to Agate Creek. He died about 1980. This collection includes both published and unpublished manuscripts.
Archive Location: 342R
Detailed Listing
HW/1 "The Patch" 70,000 word novel manuscript (loose pages)
HW/2 "The Patch" bound galley copy with amendments.
HW/3-31 "The Black Opals" file (research notes and drafts of script); part of "Inky".
HW/32 "Black Opals" script in folder.
HW/33-35 "Letter to a Chinese Friend," 17 November 1975. Three-page photocopy extract from National Review, vol. 6, no.8, 5 November 1975.
HW/36-110 Collection of Short Stories.
HW/36 -37 “The Metaphor,” typed copy.
HW/38-39 “The Metaphor,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/40-41 “The Metaphor,” typed copy, different version.
HW/42-44 “He was one of those whiskery coots…” - typed copy, untitled.
HW/45-46 “The Appearance of Iggles in Australia,” typed copy.
HW/47-51 “The Epic of Trumpet Downs,” typed copy.
HW/52 Poem, “The Man from Trumpet Downs,” by Jerry Winn, typed, carbon copy.
HW/53-58 “The Epic of Trumpet Downs,” different version, typed copy.
HW/59-61 Poem, “The Man from Trumpet Downs,” by Jerry Winn, typed copy.
HW/62-64 “Wot’s in a Name?” typed copy.
HW/65 “Gas Attack,” typed copy.
HW/66 -68 “……….to a Man’s Heart,” typed copy.
HW/69-72 “……….to a Man’s Heart,” roneo copy.
HW/73-74 “Crickets,” typed copy.
HW/75 “The Magic Window,” typed copy.
HW/76 -77 “Have You Met Ray O’Light?” typed copy.
HW/78-80 “I Sit on a Beach in the Setting Sun Watching the Tide Come In……” typed copy.
HW/81 “made up a lovely warm bed for her….” typed copy (incomplete).
HW/82 -84 “I remember that late in 1943….” untitled, typed copy.
HW/85-87 “Five Minutes with a Brick,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/88-90 “The Thing,” typed copy.
HW/91-96 “The Throwback: A short story of about 1350 words” typed copy.
HW/97-98 “Question Mark,” typed copy.
HW/99-100 “Question Mark,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/101-104 “Take a Piece of Good Rough,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/105-110 “The Throwback: A short story of about 1350 words” typed, carbon copy.
HW/111-123 "Damn the Woman," a play.
HW/111-112 "Damn the Woman," a play, typed, carbon copy.
HW/113 Poem, “Pandanus Cove,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/114 Poem, “In Your Front Yard,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/115 Poem, “Dizzy Anti-Woman,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/116 Untitled, “Dizzy singing and introducing Zombie…” section of play.
HW/117-18 Untitled, “Scene is foredeck of Breeze…” section of play.
HW/119-20 Dialogue, “He can have his stinking Robot…” handwritten.
HW/121 Play opening, handwritten.
HW/122-3 Dialogue, handwritten.
HW/124-144 Poetry by H Wheeley.
HW/124-25 “Mister Peter Passoff,” typed copy.
HW/126 “The Open Door,” typed copy.
HW/127 “Jonkerred,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/128 “Perspective,” typed copy. Name and address at top right: J. Davis, 18 Daley St., Heatley, Q., 4814.
HW/129/1 “The Qwertyuiop,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/129/2 Untitled, “O hell, Kel…” typed, carbon copy.
HW/130 “The Open Door,” typed, carbon copy, dated “Aug 75.”
HW/131 “The Midden,” typed.
HW/132 Untitled, “What will the postie bring today?” typed.
HW/133 “…..from Here to Wittenoom,” typed, carbon copy, dated “Townsville April 71.”
HW/134 “Desert Sunset,” and “Life,” typed.
HW/135-37 “Gregory River,” by Helen Horton; “?” by Barbara McMullen; “Highland Plains Haiku, (per a Britain-Norman Islander)” typed, carbon copy.
HW/138 “Tail Piece,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/139 “Presence,” typed.
HW/140 “We Know,” typed.
HW/141 “Omega?” and “Driftwood,” typed, dated “Townsville 1974.”
HW/142 “Qwertyuiop,” typed [variation of version at HW/129/1].
HW/143 Untitled poems, “Slow day – the magnificent,” and “Man steps on moon, he” typed.
HW/144 “Statistics prove,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/145-183 Aboriginal legends [all typed, carbon copies]
HW/145 Letter from Hap Wleeley [sic] to Manager, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, re submission of “a dozen children’s dtories [sic] for your perusal,” [this, and the following twelve short stories, are carbon copies].
HW/146-47 “Wulguru of the Big Eye.”
HW/148-9 “Granny Oola’s Magic Dombee.”
HW/150 “The Minggah of the Rainbow Serpent.”
HW/151 “The Staff of Manarouka.”
HW/152 “Kooparunni, the Frilled Lizard.”
HW/153 “Kapunya and the Crocodile.”
HW/154 “The Tunnel.”
HW/155 “Tid-Dalik, the Flood Frog.”
HW/156 “Weeping Deeral.”
HW/157-8 “Mirriwinda the Spoonbill.”
HW/159 “Goondi and the Carpet Snakes.”
HW/160 “The Rage of the Rainbow Serpent.”
HW/161-3 Untitled, “The wyreenen had sat in the shade of the big bloodwood,” typed.
HW/164-66 Untitled, “The Australian aboriginals [sic] were a remarkable race,” typed.
HW/167 “Gilgaili’s Dingoes,” typed.
HW/168 “The Tunnel,” variation of version at HW/154.
HW/169 “The Influence of Goolay,” typed.
HW/170 “Lowillika, Spirit of Shallow Waters,” typed, photocopy.
HW/171 “The Tunnel,” typed, photocopy of HW/168.
HW/172 “The Grief of Cooroorah,” typed, photocopy.
HW/173 “The Rage of the Rainbow Serpent,” typed, photocopy, variation of version at HW/160.
HW/174 “Kapunya and the Crocodile,” typed, photocopy, variation of version at HW/153.
HW/175 “Pakadringa and the Koorunba,” typed.
HW/176 “The Legend of Banyan Spring,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/177 “The Minggah of the Rainbow Serpent,” typed, carbon copy, variation of version at HW/150.
HW/178 “Granny Oola’s Magic Dombee,” typed, variation of version at HW/148-49.HW/179 “Pakadringa and the Koorunba,” typed, variation of version at HW/175.
HW/180 “Wulguru of the Big Eye,” typed, variation of version at HW/146-47.
HW/181 “The Influence of Goolay,” typed, variation of version at HW/169.
HW/182-83 “Gilgaili’s Dingoes,” typed, variation of version at HW/167.
HW/184-281 Agate Creek manuscript.HW/282 Letter from J Nehmer, Nehmer and Assoc’s Solicitors, to Mrs E A Wheeley, “Re Your Husband’s Novel,” and Colin Roderick paperwriting, dated 14 November 1978.
HW/283-368 "Inky, a novel, or, the Black Opals."
HW/369-375 About gemstones.
HW/369-72 “Space Visitors,” typed, carbon copy, 2 p; untitled version, typed, 2 p.
HW/373-74 “Boulder Opal,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/375 “Amber,” typed.
HW/376-408 Miscellaneous notes and writings.
HW/376 Newspaper clipping, “‘Opal’ – like real thing!” enclosed in invitation from The Martin Gallery to an Exhibition of Paintings by Peter Lawson, Friday 13 December [probably 1974].
HW/377-86 Miscellaneous fiction jottings.
HW/387 Brief autobiographical note, typed, carbon copy.
HW/388 Photocopy of humorous cuttings assembled on one page.
HW/389-94 “The Pattern of Imperial Subversion,” typed.
HW/395 Humorous fictional piece, letter from “Your Loving Mother,” to “Dear Son.”
HW/396 Variation of HW/395.
HW/397-9 “That Dart was Loaded,” typed.
HW/400-402 “That Dart was Loaded,” typed, carbon copy.
HW/403-6 Untitled, “Harvey Raymond once worked tirelessly…” typed.
HW/407 Two folded sheets of paper, one with pencil sketches of faceted stones; the other with poetry jottings.
HW/408 “What will the postie bring today?” jottings, handwritten.
HW/409-413 Poetry by other authors
HW/409-11 “Black Peter,” W N Scott, handwritten.
HW/412 “A Candle,” John Suckling, handwritten.
HW/413 “Tell Me the Old, Old Story,” by Richard Magoffin, typed.
