/heuhu} CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS from THE HAYES COLLECTION In tlie UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND LIBRARY edited by Margaret Brenan, Marianne Ehrhardt and Carol Heiherington t • i w lA ‘i 1 11 ( i ii j / | ,'/? n t / i i / V ' i 1- m i V V 1V t V C/ U V St Lucia, University of Queensland Library 1976 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS from THE HAYES COLLECTION CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS from THE HAYES COLLECTION in the UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND LIBRARY edited by Margaret Brenan, Marianne Ehrhardt and Carol Hetherington St Lucia, University of Queensland Library 1976 Copyright 1976 University of Queensland Library National Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 9500969 8 9 CONTENTS Page Frontispiece: Father Leo Hayes ii Foreword vii Preface ix Catalogue of the Hayes Manuscript Collection 1 Subject index 211 Name index: Correspondents 222 Name index - Appendix 248 Colophon 250 V Foreword University Libraries are principally agencies which collect and administer collections of printed, and in some cases, audio-visual information. Most of their staff are engaged in direct service to the present university community or in acquiring and making the basic finding records for books, periodicals, tapes and other information sources. Compiling a catalogue of manuscripts is a different type of operation which university libraries can all too seldom afford. It is a painstaking, detailed, time-consuming operation for which a busy library and busy librarians find difficulty in finding time and protecting that time from the insistent demand of the customer standing impatiently at the service counter. Yet a collection of manuscripts languishes unusable and unknown if its contents have not been listed and published. The present catalogue exists through the dedication of the staff of the Fryer Library of Australian literature, and in particular of Margaret Brenan and Nancy Bonnin. In recent years gifts and bequests have streamed into the Fryer Library at a much faster pace than staff could be spared to organise them. The Hayes Collection is so outstanding that it was imperative that time should be found for it even if other material had to remain virtually unpacked and able to be consulted only by relying on human memory and inspiration. At the time when Father Hayes' magnificent collection was acquired in 1967 the late Vice-Chancellor, Sir Fred Schoneil, set aside a substantial sum of money to ensure that the necessary work could be done. The present catalogue is one of the consequences of his foresight. I hope that it v/ill be found valuable by scholars and research workers for many years to come. F.D.O. Fielding University Librarian December 1975. PREFACE The publication of this catalogue is the final milestone on a long march which began in 1967 when the Hayes Collection came to the University of Queensland. A previous publication, THE HAYES COLLECTION, published in 1970, tells something of Archdeacon Hayes' life, and describes in general terms the extensive collection of books and periodicals, manuscripts, artifacts, paintings and prints, coins, bookplates, postage stamps and other items amassed by Father Hayes during his long life. When the Hayes brochure was published, the size of the manuscript collection was not fully known. The non-book materials had been roughly sorted, and what appeared to be the most important manuscripts selected and catalogued, but a great deal remained untouched. Since 1970, the staff of the Fryer Library have continued to work through the papers, discovering in the process much additional material of value. The personal papers and parish correspondence of Father Hayes were divided into broad categories and catalogued in general descriptive terms. Detailed catalogue entries were not made for this section of the Hayes collection. The index lists names of correspondents, including some societies, where this was felt to be warranted. All other correspondents are included in lists held with the papers them­ selves. It will be noted that there are very few letters written by Fr. Hayes. This is a void which we hope may be filled, since he was a tireless correspondent, and a much loved man. We hope that people who have kept his letters may feel they would like to share them, and make provision for their eventual deposit in the Kayes Collection. The chief interest of this catalogue for scholars lies, I think, in the literary material - manuscripts and correspondence of A.G. Stephens, Mary Gilmore, Paul Grano, John Howlett Ross, F.W.S. Cumbrae- Stewart and many others - but there is much else of value. Father Hayes' wide interests included anthropology, geology, Australian history, particularly Queensland local histories, wildlife and conservation There is evidence of all these. He was above all a good parish priest, as well as a scholar and bibliophile, and as he seldom threw anything away, so far as one can judge, there is much Catholic Church history hidden away in his papers. He kept numerous letters from parishioners, nuns and fellow priests which reflect changing social patterns in Queensland. The papers of a priest of an earlier generation, Monsignor Michael Potter, are included in the Hayes Collection. Michael Potter (1857- 1944) was an Irish-born priest who came to Queensland in 1877, following the example of his elder sisters, Mother Mary Patrick and Sister Mary Michael, of All Hallows Convent, Brisbane. They were members of a large, close family, and wrote at great length to each other, to their parents in Ireland, and to brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces. Michael Potter was not a scholarly, gentle booklover like Fr. Hayes. Possibly the hard conditions of his long service in the Church in Queensland would have precluded this, but one feels IX from reading his papers that he was a practical man rather than a student. He always, however, wrote his sermon notes and the more confidential letters to his Archbishop in Latin, which suggests that scholarship was not foreign to him. He was a great builder of churches, parish halls and schools and was responsible for bringing the Christian Brothers to Warwick where they opened their school in 1912. The crowning achievement of his work was St. Mary's Church, which was started under Fr. Horan, opened in 1926 and by 1944 cleared of debt. Mgr. Potter's detailed correspondence with Mother Patrick tells much of the growth of Catholic education in Queensland. Letters from parishioners reveal the importance of the parish priest in isolated districts at the end of the Nineteenth Century, when the priest was social worker, ombudsman, missing persons bureau and general source of information and advice. No attempt has been made to evaluate the importance of manuscripts listed in this catalogue. Much apparently trivial correspondence has been included. The only concession has been to exclude the personal papers and family and parish correspondence of Leo Hayes and Michael Potter, restricting entries in the published catalogue to broad general ones. Considerations of size and cost made this necessary but more detailed lists are available in the library. The arrangement of the catalogue is alphabetical. Initially there was no intention to provide biographical details such as dates of birth and death, since this is not the practice of this library. As the work of editing progressed we changed our attitude to some extent. The catalogue is certainly not a bibliographic tool, but when in the course of checking for full names, and identification in the case of common names, dates were ascertained, it seemed desirable to include them in the entries. This applies only to Australians and New Zealanders. Thus the reader will find the dates of a minor Queensland writer - but not the dates of Charles Dickens, or for that matter, William Shakespeare. The sources of information are acknowledged in the bibliography. Dates given on manuscript sheets by their authors, or subsequent editors or owners, have been published without investigation or comment. A.G. Stephens was probably reliable in these matters, others may not have been. There was a considerable temptation to pursue our researches in depth, but we resisted, keeping our minds firmly fixed on a date of publication, which might otherwise have been postponed indefinitely. The initial cataloguing of the manuscripts was the work of Marianne Ehrhardt, then Special Collections Librarian. The work was continued by Margaret Brenan and Carol Hetherington. Early sorting and cataloguing of the Grano and Howlett Ross papers was done by Alison McCreath. The style of typography was to some extent dictated by the limit­ ations of the machine used to record entries. Some details, such as the use of a colon to indicate the beginning of a title, will displease many people, but after some experimentation was chosen as a clear if inelegant method of indicating titles of books or individual manuscripts. The descriptive entries for correspondence may at times prove enigmatic. One feels there should be either a lot more information X or none, particularly when the latter is of a trivial nature, but as with the inclusion or exclusion of certain types of correspondence, discrimination would have been invidious. We hope that there are no false leads to non-existent information, but sufficient indication of subject matter to allow the scholar to select what is relevant to his research. There are two indexes: a name index, which is predominantly a list of correspondents, though certain names appear because they are editors or illustrators, or otherwise qualify for added entry according to normal cataloguing conventions. The second is a subject index. This includes places, institutions, names of periodicals and personal names where the person is the subject of a letter. Thus a name may well appear in both indexes. There is no title index to this published catalogue, as it was held that the titles of original work by major authors were readily available in the body of the catalogue, and to list all the titles of verse submitted for anthologies, frequently rejected as unsuitable, would be a bulky and confusing procedure, resulting in long lists of similar or identical titles.