Newspapers and documentary material relating to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997. The material was collected by John Mack.

AACOBS (Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services) was established in 1956 with the support of the National Library of Australia. Interaction between AACOBS and the professional body the Library Association of Australia / Australian Library and Information Association continued for many years until AACOBS was subsumed into ACLIS (Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services) in 1988.

John Henry Macartney Abbott (1874-1953) attended the University of Sydney. He was working as a jackaroo on a Hunter Valley property in 1897 when his work was first published in the Bulletin.

Abbott served until invalided in the Boer War from January to October 1900. This experience inspired his first novel, Tommy Cornstalk: being some account of the less notable features of the South African war from the point of view of the Australian ranks (1902). Abbott wrote for many newspapers and journals, including the Bulletin and the Lone Hand. A large proportion of his work drew inspiration from New South Wales history.

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-(2000). Volume 7, pp.1-2.

Irene Joyce Anderson (c. 1917-1985) was an active and lifelong member of the Australian Labour Party. She was interested in social justice, particularly for women, and was an ALP candidate for Kirribilli in 1973.

Irene joined the Australian Labor Party in Marrickville and subsequently held branch office positions in the Dulwich Hill, North Sydney and Ben Boyd-Cammeray branches. She was a delegate to the Labor Women's Organising Committee for more than 20 years, and was their Treasurer in 1964. She was also a delegate to State and Federal Electorate Councils over many years. She was one of the Australian Delegation to the International Alliance of Women Conference in India in 1973.

Details from the Australian Women's Register

Rex T. Armitage was born in Sydney. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and later worked as a jackeroo, wool-classer and public servant. After serving in the Australian Army during the Second World War he joined the Salvation Army for nine years.

The Australian English Association was established in Sydney, NSW in 1923. The association "aimed [...] to foster the recognition, study and teaching of English language and literature" (Oxford Companion to Australian Literature). In 1944 its name changed to the English Association (Sydney Branch).

In 1949 it included the study of Australian literature, but many of its early public lectures and meetings were already supportive of Australian literature and writers. These addresses and essays were published in the Union Recorder and as offprints. The Association sponsors the journals Southerly and Sydney Studies in English.

Reference: Name record, Australian English Association. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway, 2002- [Retrieved 16/9/2004]

The peak group in New South Wales that supported the Federation of Australia in the 1890s.

The New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party was formed in 1890.

The Australian Army Education Service was established in 1941 to provide educational and vocational training to Australian Service personnel during WWII. To facilitate this scheme the Australian Services Education Council (ASEC) was formed. A large portion of this collection relates to the activities of library sub-committee members, E.V. Steel (Assistant Librarian, Fisher Library) and Kenneth Binns (Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian).

Allan E. Bax was President of the Royal Australian Historical Society in the late 1960s. This is his collection of 19th century ships' logs, midshipman's diaries, a ship's commission. Published works are included in the collection but are listed separately in the library catalogue.

Erica Bell interviewed sixteen Australian poets in 1986 and 1989 for her Honours and Ph.D. theses at the University of Queensland. This collection comprises the interviews and related material.

F.L.S. (Frank) Bell was an anthropologist and a graduate of the University of Sydney (1932). This collection comprises expedition proposal notes, ethnographic and specimen diaries, a photographic diary and photographs, field notebooks, a botanical register, and a guide to zoological and botanical specimens. The material relates to an expedition by Bell to the Tanga Islands in 1933.

Colin Berckelman was a bibliophile and also wrote under the pseudonym Eugene FIELD (not to be confused with the English novelist Eugene Field, 1850-95).

The Berckelman manuscript collection was purchased by the Library in 1966/67, following Berckelman's death in Sydney, NSW on 22 April, 1965.

Morris Birkbeck (1764–1825) was a farmer, writer, and abolitionist. Born in Yorkshire, he found success in the breeding and importing of merino sheep in Surrey. Birkbeck immigrated to Illinois County in 1817 and promoted his farming experience through his popular book, Notes of a Journey from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. His farming ideas for prairie lands were not adopted in the new land.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Bohemian Club is a Gentlemen’s club in San Francisco, established 1872. The group included male journalists, artists, businessmen, university academics, and entrepreneurs. The Club put on a broad range of activities for its members, most notably a yearly expedition to the Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County. In the city, members were offered dinners, luncheons with prominent members of the arts world, concerts, and shows, often put on by their own members. The club maintained yearly traditions such as Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas celebrations, and the ‘Spring Jinks’ show.

The Society had its beginnings at the regular Saturday afternoon gathering of book collectors at Gilmour’s Bond Street Bookshop. In 1944 the group formalised its existence and became the Book Collectors’ Society of Australia, appointed officer bearers and adopted a constitution. Founding members of the Society included Walter W. Stone, Fred Malcolm, Stan Larnach and Colin Berckelman.

Sydney Candish resided in Ultimo and Camperdown during 1880-1890s.

The Books Collectors’ Society of Australia remains active and regularly publishes the invaluable Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries.

Reference: Biblionews, Vol.2 No.4 April 1949: 8-10.

John Job Crew Bradfield (1867-1943) graduated B.E. from the University of Sydney in 1886 and was awarded the University Gold Medal in 1889. He maintained involvement in the academic environment and pursued civil engineering interests throughout his life.

Bradfield contributed to a great many engineering projects including the Cataract and Burrinjuck dams, a transit network plan for suburban Sydney, the Story Bridge in Brisbane. Perhaps most famously he is associated with the Sydney Harbour Bridge which linked Sydney and North Sydney.

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 7 pp.381-384.

Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) was an Australian poet, author and scholar. He attended the University of Sydney (classics and philosophy), graduating in 1892. He travelled on scholarship to the University of Berlin to study philosophy. The French symbolist writers, particularly Mallarme, distracted Brennan from completing his studies but he returned to Sydney in 1894 to a position in the Public Library. Brennan was appointed as a lecturer in modern literature at the University of Sydney in 1909 and associate professor in German and comparative literature in 1920.

As well as the papers listed in the finding aid, the Library holds the Brennan collection which is on loan to Rare Books and Special Collections from St John's College, University of Sydney. These books are listed in the catalogue.

John Le Gay Brereton (1871-1933) had a long association with the University of Sydney, as student, University Librarian, 1902-1921 and Challis Professor of English Literature, 1921-1933.

Collection of logbooks of voyages made in the South Pacific, the Americas, Australia, etc., from 21 October 1928 to 4 July 1936.

The voyages were undertaken by the Bissell Family of Pasadena headed by Harvey Bissell in the boats "Wanderlust", "Ariadne", and "Bissy Girl". The vessels were captained by Victor Brisson who compiled the logs.

Harrison Bryan (1923- ) has had a distinguished career in librarianship. He was the University Librarian at both Queensland (1948-1962) and Sydney (1963-1980) Universities. He was also the Director-General of the National Library of Australia between 1980 and 1985.

Bryan was an active participant in professional organisations such as the Library Association of Australia and the Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services.

Source: An enthusiasm for libraries: Essays in honour of Harrison Bryan.Edited by Jean P. Whyte and Neil A. Radford. Melbourne: Ancora Press, 1988.

Stuart Butler (1926-1982) was a member of the University for more than 20 years. His work in theoretical physics was acknowledged with many prestigious awards and prizes. Butler’s passion for science extended outside academe as well. He was active on the Board of Senior School Studies and was a regular commentator on science news in the media. Butler collaborated with Bob Raymond to produce the popular science comic series, The Frontiers of Science. After leaving the University, he was appointed Director of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment.

The Chinnery Family Papers is a collection of manuscript material relating to an English family who had a wide circle of acquaintance in France. The husband, William Bassett Chinnery (1766-1827), was a Chief Clerk in the British Treasury, and achieved some notoriety in his time for his massive embezzlement of Treasury funds (some £80,000). His wife, Margaret Chinnery (1766?-1840), an intelligent and ambitious woman, educated her own children, twins George Robert Chinnery (1791-1825) and Caroline Chinnery (1791-1812), and a son who died young, Walter Chinnery (1793-1802).

The collection also includes the papers of the famous 18th century Italian violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824), who lived as a member of the Chinnery household from c.1795 to the end of his life, and the papers of William Robert Spencer (1769-1834), minor poet, who stayed intermittently in the Chinnery home.

Donovan Clarke, B.A. (Melb.), was a senior staff tutor at the University of Sydney in the 1950s. The University library purchased some items from Clarke’s personal library in the 1970s.

Reverend William Branwhite Clarke (1798-1878) immigrated to Sydney in 1839. He undertook geological surveys of potential gold-producing districts for the New South Wales Government and produced numerous papers and reports. He claimed to be the first to discover gold, in opposition to the claims of Edward Hargreaves, Strzelecki and Sir Roderick Murchison.

A selection of Clarke's tools and scientific instruments are held by the Macleay Museum.

Sources: Moyal, Ann.The web of science: the scientific correspondence of the Rev. W.B. Clarke, Australia's pioneer geologist. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2003.
"A revered geologist". Sydney University Museums Newsletter, Issue 5, February 2005: 3.

Close, Robert Shaw (1903-1995)

The Australian publication of Robert Close's novel Love Me Sailor about a nymphomaniac aboard a windjammer resulted in an obscene libel charge for him and his publisher. He appealed the initial conviction and was freed from gaol but fined 150 pounds sterling. Love Me Sailor remained banned. He felt Australia too provincial and left in 1950 to live in France. He returned to Australia in 1975 but after two years he moved to Marjorca. During his life he wrote many short stories, eight novels and an autobiography.

Sources: "Writer rocked boat" by P. Knightley, The Australian, 21 July, 1995 p.21
"Salt of the Earth" by S. Yates, Daily Telegraph 8 April, 2002 p.62

Alfred Austin Joseph "Alf" Conlon (1908-1961) was an army officer and medical practitioner. Conlon attended the University of Sydney (B.A. 1931; M.B.S.C. 1951). Somewhat unorthodox, he was considered a valuable and intelligent contributor to military and policy advice.

Reference: Australian Dictionary of Bibliography, 13.479-80

“The Cooke Collection is a useful source, not only for the local history of Tipperary, but also for the wider perceptions of Irish social and agrarian history…."

“This Collection of official and personal documents, diaries, maps, photographs and agricultural medals, is named after the family to whom these items belonged. It covers a period of some 250 years, beginning in 1666 as the Cookes attempt to acquire Kiltinan Castle, its estate of 500 acres, and 85 acres of Loughcapple. By 1845 their estate had expanded to almost two thousand English acres of some of Ireland’s best agricultural land. The Collection ends in 1922 with the auction pamphlet of a significantly reduced Kiltinan estate, sold by Colonel Robert Cooke, the last of the Cookes of Kiltinan, following a raid on the castle by rebels searching for arms.”

Source: From “The Cooke Collection” by Tessa Milne. A paper presented to The Celtic Studies Foundation, 14 September, 1990.

Major H.C. Corlette (1869-1956) had a distinguished architectural career. Awarded an Order of the British Empire and appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was a partner with Charles Nicholson in the firm of Nicholson & Corlette.

Source: 'Obituary'. The Builder. April 27, 1956 p.392.

Relates to the New Australia and Cosme Colonies, socialist colonies founded in Paraguay in 1893 and 1894 by William Lane and others.

Professor Gus Cross was a respected academic of English whose areas of scholarship included John Marston, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Cross graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and lectured at Rhodes University and the University of Adelaide before becoming a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. He left Sydney in 1964 to be appointed Chair of English at the University of Newcastle where he became the first Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Professor Cross died in 1967, aged 39.

Zora Cross (1890-1964) trained as a teacher at the Teacher's College, Sydney. She turned from teaching to acting, to freelance journalism and writing. She wrote sensuous poetry about love, often inspired by her de facto partner David McKee Wright. Her novels also concerned romance, for example, Daughters of the Seven Mile: The love story of an Australian woman (1924).
Sources: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-2000. Volume 8, pp.158.
Miller, Edmund Morris. Australian literature : a bibliography to 1938, extended to 1950. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, [1956], p.130

Also writes as Jobson Darroch, Sandra
Sandra Jobson (b.1942) holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. She has contributed to numerous Australian newspapers and magazines including articles for the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Consolidated Press in the 1970s and 1980s, and has written in the genres of Australian studies, biography, non-fiction for children, journalism and literary criticism. As Sandra Jobson Darroch she wrote Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell (NY: Coward McGann & Geoghegan, 1975, and London: Chatto & Windus, 1976). She is active in the D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia and has been the Executive Director of Cyber Sydney.
Quote from: Name record, Jobson, Sandra. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway, 2002- [Retrieved 23/9/2004]

Dulcie Deamer (1890-1972) was born in New Zealand and as a young child found an enduring love for the stage and performance. In 1906 she won a short story competition in the Lone Hand and writing became a source of employment throughout her life. She found publishers for her plays, novels and poetry.

In 1907 she joined a theatrical touring company where she met and married Albert Goldie. Their marriage produced six children but Deamer’s theatrical career required overseas travel and her children often stayed with their grandmother who lived in Sydney.

After leaving Goldie in 1922, Deamer settled in Kings Cross and became a freelance journalist. Up at the Cross her eccentricities were appreciated and in 1925 she was affectionately crowned with the title, The Queen of Bohemia.

Deamer‘s autobiography failed to interest a publisher before her death in 1972. It was eventually edited by Peter Kirkpatrick and published by the University of Queensland Press in 1998.

Source: Name record, Deamer, Dulcie. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway, 2002- [Retrieved 23/9/2004]

Paul Diehl (1893-1972) was a French psychologist and psychotherapist. This collectin consists of audio tapes of conferences attended by Diehl between 1955 and 1971.

Roma Dulhunty (1911-1991) was an Australian author and explorer. With her husband, John Dulhunty, a geologist at the University of Sydney, she published a number of books on the Lake Eyre region.

The aim of the Early Imprints Project was to compile a list of all books printed before 1801 held in Australian and New Zealand libraries, including private collections. Some of the records compiled during the project were retained by the Library and Prof John Fletcher.

Sources: Brissenden, Alan "The Early Imprints Project in South Australia" Australian Library Journal, 30(2), May 1981: 43-46
Morrison, Ian "The Australia's Book Heritage Resources Project" Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 17(3), 1993: 113-124.

"Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti was born in 1801 and died 1878. Italian guitar virtuoso, composer and man of letters. His passion for music was first inspired by hearing Paganini. At the age of 12 he began learning the violin, and by 16 he was accomplished; yet he abandoned the violin for the guitar. In 1820 he gave his first guitar concert, almost unnoticed, in Paris, a city then under the sway of Carcassi and Carulli, more experienced masters of the instrument. The rivalry among guitarists in Paris evidently hastened his departure for St Petersburg; he stayed in Russia as a secretary to various royal households (c1820-24) and then moved to Hamburg. He gave successful guitar concerts there (1825) and in Brussels, Paris and London (1826-7). In 1827 he settled in Brussels, where he laboriously perfected, in his words, the art of 'sustaining notes on the guitar'. In 1832 he made his improved technique public, with considerable acclaim, in Brussels, then in Holland, England and France. Paganini declared him to be superior to other guitarists he had heard in Europe. He toured the USA in 1846 with the violinist Ernesto Sivori, and returned to Brussels to take up an appointment at the conservatory as professor of Italian. In 1855 he returned to Italy. He left about 24 compositions for guitar, including fantasias (opp.1, 4, 5, 7, 10), rondos, caprices, divertissements and nocturnes." - Thomas F Heck

Source: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; edited by Stanley Sadie. London : Macmillan Publishers ; Washington, D.C. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1980, 1995. Volume 20, p.642.

Fisher Library Officers' Association (FLOA) was a NSW registered union, formed to represent library staff specifically. Initiated in 1928 at the University of Sydney, staff from the University of New England and Macquarie University libraries also became members.

Source: InCite 5 March 1982 p.5

John Edward Fletcher (1940-1992) was born in Bradford in Yorkshire and on completing his school years, received a scholarship to Queen Mary College, University of London. He obtained a Diploma of Education from the University of Durham and then returned to Queen Mary College on a postgraduate scholarship. His PhD was on the 17th-century German polymath and polyglot Father Athanasius Kircher.

Fletcher emigrated to Australia and secured a position at Monash University. In 1968 he moved to the University of Sydney to lecture on German Baroque Literature in the Department of German. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer a few years later. Fletcher continued his research on Kircher and started researching Australian-German contacts from the 19th century.

John Fletcher was an energetic and committed bibliophile. He was a member of the Friends of the University Library, at times serving as Treasurer, Secretary and, at the time of his death, President. He was also a member of the Book Collectors Society of Australia and founded the Christopher Brennan Society.

Source: Wikipedia: John Edward Fletcher, obtained 13/12/17

Caterina Frasca lived at Collaroy Beach and established "Caterina Frasca Publications". The papers consist of religious books and typescripts.

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was originally named Gay Mardi Gras, which was changed to Sydney Gay Mardi Gras in 1981. It adopted the name Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1988.

The General Motors Hour was broadcast on the Macquarie network from 1952-1955. It adaptated film and stage plays for radio and featured both American and Australian stars.
References: Australian Radio Series 1930s to 1970s: A guide to ScreenSound Australia's holdings. ACT: National Film and Sound Archive, 1998.
Kent, Jacqueline. Out of the bakelite box. Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1983.

Dame Mary Jean Gilmore (1865-1962) was a writer who supported the New Australia movement and lived with the Cosme community in Paraguay for almost three years. Politically active, she was generous in her support of causes, which included at one time the financial support of an ailing publication. Her literary topics ranged across natural, historical, religious, indigenous and political themes. Gilmore's fiction about pioneering Australia and her poetry concerning war fostered public respect and furthered her success.

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-2000.Volume 9, pp.14-16.

The journalist, Ross Francis Gollan (1902-1961) attended the University of Sydney (B.A. 1923; M.A. 1925) and edited Hermes. Gollan joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 1923; spent 12 years as a Newcastle reporter covering coal industry unrest. He moved to Canberra to cover the federal parliament and became quite influential, especially during the short term leadership of Prime Minister Arthur Faddan.

Reference: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-(2000). Volume 14, pp.289-290.

Esme Hadley was a contact of John Le Gay Brereton

Norman Haire (1892-1952) was aedical practitioner and sexologist who had studied medicine at the University of Sydney (M.B., Ch.M. 1915). He was a prolific author and a prominent reformer and researcher in Britain during the 1930s.

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-(2000). Volume 14, pp.353-354.

Richard Francis Hanly was born 22 May 1935 in Sydney. He was educated at De La Salle College, Marrickville. Commenced engineering at University of Sydney in 1953, and changed to architecture in 1954, graduated with B. Arch in 1959. Between 1960 and 1974 he worked in the Sydney area in private and public sectors. In 1973 he began working overseas and went to London and Israel. In 1979 he returned to the University to read philosophy and anthropology. Sydney University Press published his book, Dicky Hanly's Republic, or As you like it (2003).

Traci Harding is an Australian novelist. She was born and raised in Sydney and has stated that her early interests included music and storytelling. After leaving school, she worked in a music store and later for film studios before picking up her former love of writing. Her first work, Ancient Future, was published in 1996 and she has been writing ever since. Her work combines fantasy, facts, esoteric beliefs, and history and quantum physics.

Frank Hardy (1917-1994) was an Australian writer and political activist. His best-known work, Power Without Glory, was published in 1950, a provocative critique of corruption in the Australian Labour Party which led to his arrest for criminal libel. After his acquittal in 1951, he continued to campaign for a variety of political causes, most notably indigenous Australian land rights campaigns. During this time, he wrote novels, short stories, stage plays, and The Unlucky Australians, a documentary-fiction book on the Gurindji people’s land rights campaign.

William Hart–Smith (1911-1990) was born in England and moved with his parents to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1924. In 1936 he moved to Australia, living in Sydney, Hobart, Western Australia and Darwin and serving in the A.I.F.between 1942-1943. He returned to New Zealand in 1946, but moved back to Sydney in 1962 working as an advertising manager, then a radio technician.
From 1963-64 he was president of the Poetry Society of Australia. In 1970 he moved to Perth and taught creative writing at the Western Australia University of Technology (Curtin University). In 1978 he moved back to Auckland and lived there for the rest of his life.
Hart–Smith was heavily influenced by Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence and the Imagist movement. While in Tasmania in 1936, he developed an interest in Aboriginal myth. This led to his association with the Jindyworobak Movement, an association that saw his poems published regularly in Jindyworobak anthologies during the 1940s.
He published several volumes during the 1940s, most notably Christopher Columbus (1948). Hart–Smith's reputation continued to grow with subsequent publications and his poetry attracted a number of awards.
Recognized as both an Australian and New Zealand poet, Hart–Smith died in 1990. Hand to Hand: A Garnering, a collection of his published and unpublished poetry, was compiled in 1991 and includes a selection of essays on his life and work.
Quote from: Name record, Hart–Smith, William. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 23/9/2004]

Publisher of the Lawsonian (1960-), a periodical which "focused on the life and writings of Henry Lawson. Also includes articles on other writers of his era."
Quote from: Name record, Henry Lawson Literary Society. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 23/9/2004]

Jack (John) Aikman Hetherington (1907-1974) was a well regarded war correspondent whose war coverage included significant events such as the Anzac Corps' withdrawal from Greece and the D-Day landing at Normandy. He wrote one novel, The Winds Are Still (1947); preferring biography Australians: Nine Profiles (1960), Forty-two Faces (1962), Australian Painters (1963), and Uncommon Men (1965).

This set of manuscripts consists of personal letters from John Hetherington to Norman Lindsay.

Reference: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 14, pp.443-444.

An anthropologist and sociologist, Hogbin (1904-1989) conducted fieldwork in Polynesia and New Guinea. He was instrumental in founding the Anthropology Department at both the University of Sydney, and later, at Macquarie University.

Reference: Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Edited by D.E. Hunter & P. Whitten. New York : Harper & Row, c1976.

Holland (1897-1962) was a committed lobbyist for the housing, health and welfare of returned soldiers and sailors.

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 14, pp.465-466.

Holme (1871-1952), Professor of English, had a long and valued association with the University of Sydney. His areas of academic interest included the English language and early English literature. He was instrumental in the restructure of the university union in 1912 and helped oversee the University's post-war expansion. His commitment to service and country was given expression through his active support of the University war memorials.

Reference: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 9, pp.347-348.

Writer living in in Russia during the Revolution. She later migrated to, and lectured in, Australia.

Robert Guy Howarth (1906-1974) was a scholar, literary critic and poet. Howarth's academic association with the University of Sydney began as a student (B.A., 1929), University of Oxford (B.Litt., 1931) and continued when he was appointed as a lecturer from 1933-1955. He held considerable influence in literary publishing circles in the 1940s and 50s and contributed to the development of Australian literature. He accepted the Arderne chair of English literature at the University of Cape Town, 1955-1972.

He was a published poet of Spright and Geist (1944). His edited works include Minor Poets of the 17th Century (1931), Second Diary of Samuel Pepys (1932) and The Letters of Norman Lindsay (1979).

His library and manuscripts were acquired by the University of Texas, Austin, USA.

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 14, pp.504-505.

Antony Howe was president of the Australasian Dr Who Fan Club from 1976-1984, president of the Sydney University Science Fiction Association from 1976-1980, president of the Sydney University Medieval and Renaissance Group from 2008-2012 and ran the Dr Who fanzine, Zerinza, from 1976-1986. In 2003, Howe completed his PhD in English Marxist History from the University of Sydney. He has worked as an academic in this field, and at time of writing, had published a journal article in 2019.

Robert Illing was born in London in 1917, studied at Cambridge (1935-1939) and Nottingham (1958-1961). Dr Illing and his wife Margaret moved to Australia in 1966 and he was head of the Music Department at Flinders University, Adelaide until the department was closed in 1983.

These pamphlets are in the Sino-Malay literary tradition (1870-1949) and were originally collected by the Kwee family of Ciledug. The collection provides a fascinating portrayal of everyday life in the Netherlands Indies for the Chinese-descended population, most of whom were literate in vernacular Malay. Their early grasp of the advantages to be gained from owning printing presses not only pioneered the Indonesian printing industry, it also gave voice to their political and commercial interests.

Ian Irvine (b.1950) was born in Bathurst and educated at Chevalier College and the University of Sydney, where he earned a Ph.D. in marine science in 1981. Setting up his own environmental consulting firm in 1986, Irvine has worked in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. In the early 1980s he led several disastrous (his claim) expeditions to Sumatra, which gave him many ideas for his books.

During the course of his career he played a role in developing Australia's national guidelines for protection of the oceanic environment and still works, albeit only occasionally, in this field. He began writing in 1987 what became the first title in his View from the Mirror quartet, but was not published for a decade. Since that time, he has become a fulltime writer for both young and adult readers with nearly thirty bestselling fantasy novels and futuristic eco-thrillers.

Works in the manuscript collection include:
View from the Mirror quartet (1998, 1998, 1999, 1999)
Terminator Gene (2003)
The Life Lottery (2004)

Also writes as: STREET, Tom

Stephen Knight was born on 21 September 1940 and educated at Bournemouth Grammar School and the University of Oxford. He was appointed Teaching Fellow at the University of Sydney in 1963 and lecturer in English in 1964. In 1968-69 he was lecturer in English at the Australian National University. He returned to the University of Sydney in 1970 where he was successively Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor. In 1987 he was appointed Robert Wallace Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. In 1992 Knight returned to England to take up a chair at the De Montfort University at Leicester. Most of Stephen Knight's scholarly writings have been in the area of medieval English literature. Knight has also had a long interest in crime fiction. Between 1989 and 1992 he edited four anthologies of Australian crime stories.

Quote from: Name record, Knight, Stephen. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 24/9/2004]

Margo Lanagan (b. 1960 - ) is an Australian writer of novels and short story collections. An acclaimed Young Adult fantasy writer she has won awards including the World Fantasy Award, and Australian Premier’s Literary Awards. International prizes include the British Science Fiction Association Awards, the British Fantasy Awards, the Carnegie Medal, the Nebula, Hugo, and Bram Stoker awards.

John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878) migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1823. He established the Presbyterian Church in Australia and opened a Presbyterian school, the Australian College, which operated between 1831and 1854. Lang and the Presbyterian Synod had a volatile relationship throughout his life.

Passionate in his religious beliefs and supporter of assisted family immigration schemes, Lang actively encouraged British and Scottish immigration to Australia with the hope that public morality would benefit from the example of "well chosen" Protestant immigrants.

Lang also sought influence through writing and publishing books and journals, including An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony (1834) and The Colonial Observer (1841-1844).

He was elected to the Legislative Council for three terms and the Legislative Assembly (1859-69). He proved a loquacious participant and was goaled for four months during this period for publishing a criminal libel.

Sources: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 2, pp.76-83; Concise encyclopedia of Australia and New Zealand (revised). Sydney: Horwitz Grahame, 1989; Elder, Bruce (ed) The A to Z of who is who in Australia's history? NSW: Child and Associates, 1987.

Larbalestier was born and educated mainly in Sydney, although she spent a number of years in her youth in the Northern Territory, Newcastle and Canberra. She completed her Ph.D at the University of Sydney in 1996, using material from the Library’s science fiction collection for her research. Her thesis, Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, was later published by Wesleyan University Press under the same title. Since that time, Larbalestier has become a writer of young adult fiction, with novels such as Liar to her credit.

Works in the collection include:
Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction: from the pulps to the James Tiptree, Jr. memorial award (Ph.D, University of Sydney, 1996)
Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (2002)

Henry Lawson (1867-1922) was a popular short story writer and poet. He wrote quintessential stories and poems about Australia and Australians including Andy's Gone with Cattle (1888), The Drover's Wife (1892), Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901).

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 10, pp.18-22.

William Lawson (1876-1957) worked as a journalist and was regularly published by the Bulletin and the Lone Hand. He wrote historical romances, including When Cobb and Co. was King (1936).

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 10, pp.25.

The Australian Institute of Librarians was established in 1937. It was a professional organisation for librarians, overseeing examinations, registrations and accreditation. It operated as the Library Association of Australia between 1949 and 1989, when it adopted the more inclusive name, Australian Library and Information Association.

Lindsay, Percival Charles (1870-1952), Sir Lionel Arthur (1874-1961), Norman Alfred Williams (1879-1969), Ruby (1885-1818), and Sir Ernest Daryl (1889-1976).

Artists and writers. Talented and influential family whose creative work and bohemian lifestyles challenged the Australian public and prompted debate about the strictures of Australian society toward art and morality.

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 10, pp.106-115.

Kenneth Mackenzie (1913-1955) worked as a journalist with Smith's Weekly before being drafted into the army in 1942. Mackenzie drew on his experiences of war in his novel, Dead Men Rising. His fiction and poetry explores such themes as family relationships, the passage of time and life cycles, sexuality, and death.

Extract from: Name record, Mackenzie, Kenneth. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 28/10/2004]

Dr Ken Macnab has been involved with the University of Sydney for many years. He taught in the Department of History for 36 years and supervised postgraduate research. He was actively involved with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University where his interest in global conflicts, terrorism and peacemaking fitted well with the work of the Centre.

(1876-1958) Prominent Australian poet, son of George McCrae. First book Satyrs and Sunlight (1911) was illustrated by Norman Lindsay, as were Colombine (1920) and Idyllia (1922).

Born: 12 Oct 1933 Jamberoo, New South Wales. Studied at the University of Sydney in the 1950s. Journalist and writer. Won the Xavier Society Prize, 1969 for Don't Talk to Me About Love.

References: Wilde, William H., Hooton, Joy & Andrews, Barry The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd ed. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1994;
Name record, McGregor, Craig. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 28/10/2004]

Also writes as: Lovell, Marc

Mark McShane (1929-2013) was born in Sydney and explored the world before settling on Mallorca, Spain in 1960. He wrote mystery novels, some under the pen name Marc Lovell. His most successful novel was Seance on a Wet Afternoon, which was made into a film and an opera.

Source: Name record, McShane, Mark. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 28/10/2004]

Oliver Morrogh Moriarty (b. 1909) was a member of the first touring parties to ski the Snowy Mountains. He was an alpine enthusiast and was active in the debate regarding conservation of the Snowy Mountains.

Book collector, ex-libris collector and member of the NSW Bookplate Club and the Australian Ex Libris Society. Camden Morrisby was a close friend of Lionel Lindsay and corresponded with Australian literary and artistic figures.

Source: Special Collections, Flinders University Library

The NSW Bookstall Company was founded by Henry Lloyd in 1879. Alfred Cecil Rowlandson bought the business after Lloyd’s death in 1897 and led the Company into an extremely successful foray into mass market paperback publishing. It published Australian popular fiction and postcards, operated bookshops, circulating libraries and a newsagency distribution. Sales figures illustrate the Company’s success, between 1904 and 1922 it produced and sold 4-5 million books. The company operated from 1879-1946.

References: A history of the book in Australia 1891-1945. Edited by Martyn Lyons and John Arnold. Queensland: Queensland University Press, 2001;
Mills, Carol The New South Wales Bookstall Company as a publisher. Canberra: Mulini Press, 1991.

The NSW Bookstall Company was founded by Henry Lloyd in 1879. Alfred Cecil Rowlandson bought the business after Lloyd’s death in 1897 and led the Company into an extremely successful foray into mass market paperback publishing. It published Australian popular fiction and postcards, operated bookshops, circulating libraries and a newsagency distribution. Sales figures illustrate the Company’s success, between 1904 and 1922 it produced and sold 4-5 million books. The company operated from 1879-1946.

References: A history of the book in Australia 1891-1945. Edited by Martyn Lyons and John Arnold. Queensland: Queensland University Press, 2001.
Mills, Carol The New South Wales Bookstall Company as a publisher. Canberra: Mulini Press, 1991.

A librarian, Osborn was on the staff of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, later the Commonwealth National Library, from 1920-27. He worked at the New York Public Library and for the United Nations and was later Deputy Librarian, Harvard University from 1942-58. He was Librarian, University of Sydney, from 1959 until 1962, when he was appointed Professor of Librarianship, University of Pittsburgh. He wrote many papers on cataloguing and processing and his book on serials was studied by thousands of library students.

(Source: National Library of Australia)

A librarian, Osborn was on the staff of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, later the Commonwealth National Library, from 1920-27. He worked at the New York Public Library and for the United Nations and was later Deputy Librarian, Harvard University from 1942-58. He was Librarian, University of Sydney, from 1959 until 1962, when he was appointed Professor of Librarianship, University of Pittsburgh. He wrote many papers on cataloguing and processing and his book on serials was studied by thousands of library students.

Unfortunately, research did not reveal any details about Beatrice Osborn.

(Source: National Library of Australia)

(1947-2000) Academic, Sydney Morning Herald journalist, editor of Campus Review.

Dr Osmond was interested in political science and Australia in the international sphere. He was the author of Frederic Eggleston: an intellectual in Australian politics. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1985.

Reference: Maslen, Geoff 'He was up there with the best' [obituary] Campus Review October 18-24, 2000 pp10-11.

Access permission belongs to the Bogan River Wiradjuri (Peak Hill) Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.

Correspondence between Elmer T. Pheils, an American osteopath practicing in London and George Bernard Shaw. They cover the period 1925 to Shaw's death in 1950.

William Pitt Cobbett (1853-1919). Dean of the University's Law School from 1890-1910.

Harold Richard Rabone (1884-1944) was a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society, the Society of Australian Genealogists and the Methodist Historical Society of NSW. Rabone spent considerable time on Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands and Tonga. His father and grandfather had been missionaries in Tonga. His interests also included Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands. He published Lord Howe Island: Its discovery and early associations 1788-1888. Sydney: Australis, 1940.

Source: Stephen, Alfred E. "Obituary - Harold Richard Rabone" Royal Australian Historical Society Journal, 30.6 (1944): 458-459.

The Scroder family lived for several generations in Waterford, Ireland, where they acted as merchants or members of the Royal Navy. Individuals who feature most frequently are: Christopher Scroder (d. May 1, 1839) a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, his brother Jacob Scroder (d. August 7, 1832), the latter’s son Jacob Scroder (b. May 19, 1805), and grandson Jacob Scroder (b. May 1, 1844).

Born New Zealand 1913-1985. Editor of and literary editor of Angus and Robertson until 1971. Writer and critic. Plays include Fisher's Ghost, represented in mss. form in this collection.

Gordon Neil Stewart (1912- ) Australian writer and technical journalist. Edited Australian stories of horror & suspense from the early days.

The Rare Book Library collection of the Stewart family papers includes letters of Major General William Stewart (1769-1854).

James R. B. Stewart (1913-1962) was an archaeologist from the University of Sydney whose work focussed on Cyprus and the Ancient Near East. A significant amount of his Cyprus material was donated to the Nicholson Museum.

Dal Stivens was born in Blayney, NSW, in 1911. He served in the Army Education Service during World War II and, after the war, he worked for the Department of Information and later at Australia House in London. He was the foundation president of the Australian Society of Authors in 1963. Dal's work was first published in the Bulletin in the late 1930s. A Horse of Air won the Miles Franklin Award in 1970. In 1981 he received the Patrick White Award for contributions to Australian literature. He died in 1997.

Quote from: Sydney University Press publication notes

Graham Stone (1926-2013) was a lifelong fan of science fiction, and his knowledge of the genre was shared with other fans and researchers through his extensively worked reference book, Australian Science Fiction Bibliography. He was a committed member of the Futurian Society and an authority on the science fiction scene in Australia.

Walter Stone (1910-1981) was a founding member of the Book Collectors' Society of Australia, editing and printing their Biblionews. In his 40s, Stone purchased a printing press and became a well-regarded printer of smaller works such as Dulcie Deamer's poem 'Blue Centaur' and R. D. FitzGerald's poem about convict-flogging, 'The Wind at Your Door' (1959). By the time of his death in 1981, Stone had printed over 100 publications. He also edited and produced larger print runs for the journal, Studies in Australian Bibliography (1954-1978). His press promoted authors and this support was invaluable for their careers. Well regarded writers such as Henry Lawson, Joseph Furphy, John Shaw Neilson, Rolf Boldrewood, Christopher Brennan, Hugh McCrae, Marcus Clarke and members of the Lindsay family, all had a larger stage thanks to Walter Stone.

Stone also contributed time and energy to Australia’s literary life through his membership of the Australian Society of Authors, the National Book Council and the Christopher Brennan Society. He was an active supporter of libraries, especially the libraries at the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, La Trobe University, and the State Library of Victoria.

Awards:
Order of Australia, Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), 1981
NBC Bookman of the Year Award, 1975

Quote from: Name record, Stone, Walter. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 29/10/2004]

Collection of pamphlets and documents from the radical student movement in Australia between 1967 and 1972.

In 2016, the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) was given notice that the University of Sydney would vacate the Rozelle Campus and move SCA to the main campus. There was much opposition to the decision and SCA students, academics, researchers, graduates and others, organised rallies and other actions to oppose the move.

Maurice Falcolm Tauber (1908-1980) was the Melvil Dewey Professor of Library Service, Columbia University, 1944-1975. He was an influential researcher and educator for the study of library and information sciences and in the development of technical services. In 1961 Tauber published a report on the resources of Australian libraries. Jean P. Whyte (1923-2003) prepared the material for Fisher Library's contribution.

John Tawell (1784-1845) was an emancipated convict. The collection contains manuscript material relating to his business dealings and a legal case.

John Thompson (1907-1968) worked as a broadcaster for the ABC. He served in the military in World War II acontinuing his broadcasting career after the war. He was a correspondent for the Asian region, particularly Indonesia, and also worked for the BBC in London and South Africa. He also produced many widely-admired radio documentaries and biographies. Thompson published four collections of poetry, the first titleds Three Dawns Ago (1935). Thompson became a well-known figure in Paddington, Sydney, after campaigning against the construction of an expressway through the suburb.

Awards:
Grace Leven Poetry Prize, 1954: winner for Thirty Poems

Source: Name record, Thompson, John. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 29/10/2004]

An association of Catholic students who unite around the Christian message of peace. It has an international mission.

Edward John (Eddie) Ward (1899-1963) was an Australian politician, born in Sydney. His contribution to politics started at age 16, when he joined the local branch of the Political Labor League. He enjoyed the support of his Federal electorate and he held the seat of East Sydney in the House of Representatives for three decades.

Dr Camilla Wedgwood (1901-1955) was a social anthropologist who conducted fieldwork on the island of Manam, New Guinea where she studied the lives of the women and children. Dr Wedgewood lectured at the University of Sydney and was Principal of the Women's College between 1935 and 1944. After the war she taught at the School of Pacific Administration. In this position she was able to promote the education of girls and women on the islands of Oceania.

Source: Women Anthropologists: A biographical dictionary. Edited by Ute Gacs et al.1988.

Roy Hamilton Whitecross served as a private in the Australian Imperial Force during World War 2. He was a prisoner-of-war in Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Indochina and Japan. During his incarceration he worked on the Burma-Thailand Railway. After the war, Whitecross obtained an economics degree from the University of Sydney. He worked at the University from 1963 to 1978.

Reference: Whitecross, Roy Slaves of the Son of Heaven : a personal account of an Australian POW, 1942-1945. Melbourne, 1953; NSW: Kangaroo Press, 2000.

Gerald Alfred Wilkes (b.1927) was born in Punchbowl, NSW and studied at the University of Sydney. His interest in Australian literature saw him take the unconventional step, in the 1940s and 1950s, of writing BA and MA theses on Australian writers: Henry Handel Richardson and Christopher Brennan, respectively. His MA thesis on Brennan's Poems (1913) was published as a monograph in 1953 and remains a highly respected study. Wilkes published a significant amount of articles on Brennan, but he extended his analyses to many other Australian writers, including A. D. Hope, Patrick White, R. D. Fitzgerald and Judith Wright. Many of these articles drew on the lectures he had developed during the 1960s as foundation professor of Australian literature at the University of Sydney. In addition, his contributions to and his thirty-four year editorship of Southerly drew his attention further into the history of Australian literature. Many studies on the development of Australian literature in the nineteenth century appeared during the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in The Stockyard and the Croquet Lawn: Literary Evidence for Australian Cultural Development (1981). Wilkes argued against restricting Australian nationalism to the ten year period of the 1890s, stimulating much research into the development of nineteenth century Australian culture.

Quote from: Name record, Wilkes, G.A.. AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway (www.austlit.edu.au), 2002- [Retrieved 29/10/2004]

Jane Windeyer (1865–1950) was the second eldest daughter of politician and judge Sir William Charles Windeyer (1834–1897) and his wife, Mary (née Bolton, 1837–1912), a leading campaigner for women’s rights. Born in Sydney, Jane spent much of her childhood living with her grandmother, Maria Windeyer, at Tomago, the family estate in the Hunter Valley. Jane was educated privately and never attended university. When her mother died in 1912, Jane returned to Sydney and took up residence with her younger sister, Margaret, in Elizabeth Bay. Margaret Windeyer (1866–1939) had followed her mother into the women’s rights movement and was an integral member of organisations such as the Womanhood Suffrage League and the National Council of Women (NSW). Neither Jane or Margaret chose to marry; Jane acted as her sister Margaret's companion, assisting Margaret in her charity work.

Jane was a collector of bookplates, amassing approximately 2000 bookplates which were donated to the University Library in the 1940s.

Lionel Douglas Woodward was born 4th May 1905. Appointed as lecturer in French at Sydney University in March 1942, he retired around August 1953 due to ill health. He died at the age of 51 in August 1956.

David McKee Wright (1869-1928) was a poet and journalist. Born in Ireland, Wright emigrated to New Zealand when he was 18 years old. His published stories and verse were often about station life and dealt with social and political issues. He moved to Australia in 1910 and contributed to the Bulletin, the Sun and the (Australian) Worker. He counted Christopher Brennan and Henry Lawson among his friends and was the partner of Zora Cross for the last decade of his life.

Source: Australian dictionary of biography. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ;
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1966-[2000]. Volume 12 pp.584.

John "Jack" Horton Young (1905-1983). Graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Sydney University in 1932. Employed at Newcastle Hospital 1932-1934 before moving to England where he commenced a lifelong fascination with ophthalmology and research. He joined the Army as a surgeon in the Second World War, spending some time in underground operating theatres in the tunnels of Gibraltar.
After the War, Young practiced in general hospitals and clinics while continuing his research in ophthalmology. His published papers on ophthalmic surgery include his techniques for ocular implants and corneal implants. His research and developments led to him being awarded Ophthalmologist Emeritus in 1973.

Business correspondence between Nicholas (Tiby) Hagen of Noumea and Adolphus Zeitler a trader and planter at Ringdove Bay, Epi, New Hebrides during the period 1904-1922. The letters are of an essentially commercial nature and deal with matters relating to copra, sandalwood, rice, cotton, maize, shells and labour.