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Arafura Research Archive 14-010 Colin Roderick ARAFURA RESEARCH ARCHIVE 14-010 COLIN RODERICK COLLECTION ITEM LIST BOX 1 1/1 [Box 1/Item 1] Title C.W. Lawson: Criminal Record (LB 578) Date(s) 1883-1899 Quantity 6 leaves Scope & content Ms. copies of court documents detailing the criminal record of Charles William Lawson (see Item 1.63) 1/2 Title Transcripts: Lawson letters (LB 579) Date(s) 1900-1910 Quantity 59 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of outward correspondence 1/3 Title Three miscellaneous items (LB 590) Date(s) 1927, 1959 Quantity 4 leaves Scope & content Printed matter & letter to Roderick 1/4 Title Transcripts: Lawson letters (LB 583) Date(s) 1917 Quantity 74 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of outward correspondence 1/5 Title Transcripts: Lawson letters (LB 582) Date(s) 1916 Quantity 29 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of outward correspondence 1/6 Title Transcripts: Lawson letters (LB 581) Date(s) 1914-1915 Quantity 36 leaves Scope & content Ms. & typescript transcripts of outward correspondence ARA 14-010 Roderick Collection Page 1 of 88 1/7 Title Transcripts: Lawson letters (LB 580) Date(s) 1910-1914 Quantity 26 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of outward correspondence 1/8 Title Transcripts: E.J. Brady, ‘The Truth about Henry Lawson’ (2 copies) and ‘Vive Anarchy’ (LB 596) Date(s) 1890, 1938 Quantity 11 leaves Scope & content Ms. & typescript transcripts. Edwin James Brady (1869-1952) was a poet & friend of Lawson Notes See Bertha Lawson & J. le Gay Brereton (eds), Henry Lawson by his mates, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1931 1/9 Title Transcripts: two articles (LB 591) Date(s) 1922 Quantity 2 leaves Scope & content ‘Prime Minister’s Tribute: Australia’s greatest minstrel’; report of Lawson’s death. Transcribed from ‘Steve Ford’s scrapbook’. 1/10 Title The Shearer’s Lament (LB 602) Date(s) n.d. Quantity 1 leaf Scope & content Typescript copy of ‘Lewd verses attributed to Lawson but his authorship never proved.’ Notes Annotated by Roderick 1/11 Title The Bookfellow (LB 170) Date(s) 1921 Quantity 1 vol. Scope & content Incl. reference to Louisa Lawson, p.93 1/12 Title Transcripts: letters, relevant articles (LB 638) Date(s) 1894-1924 Quantity 22 leaves, 13 items numbered (a) to (m). Scope & content Ms. transcripts of articles & correspondence by, to & about Lawson. For more detail, see Consignment 5 list. 1/13 Title Prints and transcripts as listed in catalogue (LB 640) Date(s) 1889-1979 Quantity 13 leaves, 6 items numbers (a) to (f) Scope & content Photocopies, transcripts, clippings & printed matter. For more detail, see Consignment 5 list. 1/14 Title Contents of bound volumes of Lawson’s Verse, Prose, Correspondence (LB 571) Date(s) n.d. Quantity 57 leaves, foolscap Scope & content Typescript; ‘Corresponding to contents pages tipped into individual volumes . (For reference).’ ARA 14-010 Roderick Collection Page 2 of 88 1/15 Title Jail letters Date(s) 1904-1909 Quantity 11 leaves, typescript Scope & content ‘Typescripts made by Dame Mary Gilmore (1923) with her notes’ 1/16 Title Peter Lawson’s land at Eurunderee (LB 575) Date(s) 1870-c.1939 Quantity 41 leaves Scope & content Transcripts by Margaret J. Roderick of Lands Dept. records. The surveyor was John F. Mass, one of Leichhardt’s second party in 1846-7. 1/17 Title Localities Eurunderee and Mudgee (LB 576) Date(s) n.d. Quantity 5 leaves Scope & content ‘Sketch maps and plans of localities in which Lawson lived.’ Incl. plan of Darlinghurst Mental Hospital, Sydney 1/18 Title Lawson stories Mackaness transcripts (LB 366) Date(s) n.d. Quantity Typescript Scope & content ’17 transcripts of Lawson stories from periodicals and mss. Made for Dr Mackaness’s proposed edition of prose previously published by A & R.’ Annotated by Colin Roderick 1/19 Title Lawson prose Date(s) 1888-1916 Quantity Typescript Scope & content Typescripts of Lawson prose annotated by Roderick. 1/20 Title Victorian Railways Broadsheet advertisement (LB 488) Date(s) 1928 Quantity 1 leaf Scope & content Rare broadsheet printed on newsprint advertising trains to 6th annual Lawson Memorial Celebrations from Flinders St to Footscray, Melbourne 1/21 Title A Letter from Henry Lawson (LB 103) Date(s) n.d. Quantity 1 leaf Scope & content Election flyer in support of (journalist, politician & historian) Tom Mutch 1/22 Title Platform of the Political Labor League Date(s) 1895 Quantity 1 leaf Scope & content Rare flyer setting out the platform of the Political Labor League ARA 14-010 Roderick Collection Page 3 of 88 1/23 Title Relevant Transcripts No. 1 Vital Statistics Members of Family . 1845 onwards (LB 61) Date(s) c1845-c1922 Quantity 20 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of birth, death & marriage records Notes See 14-010-1/26 1/24 Title Relevant Transcripts No. 5 Transcripts of important entries in A&R’s Henry Lawson scrapbook No. 1 (LB 64) Date(s) 1908-1921 Quantity Mss. Scope & content Ms. transcripts from scrapbook in the Mitchell Library 1/25 Title Relevant Transcripts No. 2 E.J. Brady: The Truth about Henry Lawson (LB 62) Date(s) 1938 Quantity 12 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcript 1/26 Title Henry Lawson and Family Vital Statistics (LB 475) Date(s) c1848-c1889 Quantity 13 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of birth, death & marriage records Notes See 14-010-1/23 1/27 Title A fragment of autobiography (LB 448) Date(s) n.d. Quantity 29 leaves Scope & content Transcript of passages from the original ms. deleted in version published in ‘The Men Who Made Australia’, ed. Pizer, Marjorie. Made in holograph by Margaret J. Roderick to illustrate need to complete edition 1/28 Title Bredt, Bertha and family (LB 473) Date(s) c1857-c1908 Quantity 14 leaves Scope & content ‘Vital statistics . from the Government Statists records Melbourne’ BOX 2 2/29 [Box 2/Item 29] Title Addresses: Sydney streets (LB 742) Date(s) 1884-1898 Quantity 12 leaves Scope & content Ms. notes on Sydney addresses occupied by Lawson 2/30 Title Vital Statistics: Family of Peter Herman Bredt (LB 477) Date(s) 1874-1959 Quantity 21 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts from government records in Melbourne; incl. letter of introduction for Roderick from NSW Registrar General to Victorian Government Statistician ARA 14-010 Roderick Collection Page 4 of 88 2/31 Title List of emendations made posthumously [sic] by David McKee Wright and George Robertson (LB 454) Date(s) 1924 Quantity 23 leaves Scope & content Ms. notes on emendations made in the preparation of Lawson’s Poetical Works (1924), with comments by Roderick 2/32 Title Scrapbook, Vol. II (LB 42) Date(s) C1892-c1908 Quantity c100 leaves Scope & content Ms. notes from Lawson scrapbook Notes Scrapbook identified as Item A1891, probably part of the Lawson family papers, State Library of NSW, MLMSS 1639, series 3 2/33 Title Thematische Strukturen in Henry Lawson’s Short Stories Date(s) 1975 Quantity Thesis (bound) Scope & content Academic thesis by Wolfgang Rosch on the thematic structure of Lawson’s short stories Notes German language thesis co-supervised (‘Zusätzliche Beratung durch’) by Roderick 2/34 Title Relevant transcripts No. 20 W.E. FitzHenry on Lawson’s last visit to the Bulletin office (LB 118) Date(s) 1922 Quantity 7 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcript (probably) from Bulletin clipping in ‘W. Stone’s scrapbook’ 2/35 Title Henry Lawson Literary Society, Sydney |Certificate of Membership (LB 52) Date(s) c1928 Quantity 1 leaf Scope & content Certificate designed by Edith Hope Lawson Notes Original condition, not used 2/36 Title Henry Lawson Literary Society, Sydney |Advertising circular for annual birthday celebration of Henry Lawson (LB 57) Date(s) 24 June 1930 Quantity 1 leaf 2/37 Title Malacoota Date(s) 1909, 1910, 1922 Quantity 35 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcriptions from papers of T.D. Mutch (probably SLNSW MLMSS 426) & article by Mutch in Smith’s Weekly reporting Lawson’s time in Malacoota, Victoria (LB 115) 2/38 Title Berkelouw Australiana Book Catalogue (LB 489) Date(s) 1967 Quantity 24 leaves Scope & content Cyclostyled book catalogue with 21 Lawson items offered for sale ARA 14-010 Roderick Collection Page 5 of 88 2/39 Title Lawson letters |No. 10 (LB 487) Date(s) 1920-1922 Quantity 26 leaves Scope & content Ms. & typescript transcripts of correspondence by, to & about Lawson 2/40 Title Lawson letters |No. 9 (LB 486) Date(s) 1918-1919 Quantity 46 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of correspondence by, to & about Lawson 2/41 Title Programme: A Night with [the Late] Henry Lawson|Melbourne |8 November 1928 (LB 59) Date(s) 1928 Quantity 1 leaf Scope & content Flyer advertising Australian Literary Society celebration of Lawson’s work 2/42 Title Transcripts: Lawson letters No.8 1917 (Part 2) (LB 485) Date(s) 1917 Quantity 53 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of correspondence by, to & about Lawson 2/43 Title Transcripts: Lawson letters No.2 1894-1899 (LB 484) Date(s) 1894-1899 Quantity 52 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of correspondence by, to & about Lawson 2/44 Title Transcripts: Lawson letters No.1 1891-1893 (LB 483) Date(s) 1891-1893 Quantity 17 leaves Scope & content Ms. transcripts of correspondence by, to & about Lawson Notes Several of these transcripts have been annotated by Roderick 2/45 Title Transcripts | Typescript: Eight Critical Articles (LB 51) Date(s) 1895-1981 Quantity 73 leaves Scope & content Typescript transcriptions of articles about Lawson, incl. one by Roderick published in Overland in 1981 2/46 Title Mutch Papers, Mitchell Library|Short Outline of Contents (LB 56) Date(s) 1960 Quantity 6 leaves Scope & content Annotated listing of Lawson material in the papers of T.D. Mutch (probably SLNSW MLMSS 426) 2/47 Title Brief biography by Percy Serle (LB 55) Date(s) n.d.
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