Hap Wheeley Manuscripts
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 This collection includes both published and unpublished manuscripts.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 (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" 3 page extract from National Review Volume 6, Number 8, 5.11.75.
HW/36-110 Collection of Short Stories.
HW/111-123 "Damn the Woman" a play.
HW/124-144 Poetry by H. Wheeley.
HW/145-183 Aboriginal legends.
HW/184-281 Agate Creek manuscript.
HW/282-368 "Inky" a novel or "The Black Opals".
HW/369-375 About gemstones.
HW/376-408 Miscellaneous notes and writings.
HW/409-413 Poetry by other authors.
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