139 Notes Armstrong (ed. Molloy): Fifty years of the 1 November 1995, Melbourne: Ancora Public Library Press, 1996; Karel Axel Lodewycks, The 1 E La Touche Armstrong & Robert Douglass Funding of Wisdom: revelations of a library’s Boys (eds), The Book of the Public Library, quarter century, Melbourne: Spectrum, 1982 Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria, 3 ‘Obituary’, Australian Library Journal, 1906–1931, Melbourne: The Trustees, vol. 12, no. 2, June 1963, p. 108 1932, p. 9 4 Letter, Leigh Scott to Colin McCallum, 2 Letter, Mrs Isabella (Alice) Armstrong to 3 Sept. 1954, in ‘Looking back – the P.L.V., Edmund La Touche Armstrong, Melbourne, 1919–-1960: recollections and reflections’, 1 November 1908, Armstrong Family unpublished typescript, MS 8451, Box 989, Archives, privately held. Armstrong and his State Library of Victoria. Edited text in mother lived on the Library premises from this issue. 1896 to 1909. 5 ‘Melbourne University’, Australian Library 3 David McVilly, ‘Armstrong, Edmund La Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Oct. 1955, p. 145 Touche (1864–1946)’, Australian Dictionary 6 ‘This ridiculous censorship’, Argus of Biography, adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ (Melbourne), 9 February 1935, p. 27 armstrong-edmund-la-touche-5052/ 7 ‘Librarianship: resignation of Mr Foxcroft text8421, published first in hardcopy 1979, and appointment of Mr Leigh Scott’, 1926, accessed online 30 Apr. 2016 University of Melbourne Archives, Ref. 4 Letter, Leigh Scott to Colin McCallum, 1926/342 3 September 1954, in ‘Looking back – 8 Leigh Scott, ‘Paper on Melbourne the P.L.V., 1919–1960: recollections and University Press by Leigh Scott’ c. 1960, reflections’, unpublished typescript, MS University of Melbourne Archives, S1 (Uni) 8451, Box 989, State Library of Victoria. Box 22 93/121.s Edited text in this issue. 9 E Morris Miller, Australian Literature to 5 Tom Pinch is a goodhearted but naive 1940 … a descriptive bibliography, 2 vols, character in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, Anthony Panizzi was head of the British 1940 Library for a decade in the mid-nineteenth 10 William Shakespeare, Othello, 1: 3: 90 century. 11 Scott’s memory appears to be wrong here. The Lending Library did not move to Scott (ed. Kent): Mainly from memory La Trobe Street until much later. 1 Leigh Scott, ‘Mainly from memory’, June 12 [AW Brazier], Libraries and Librarianship by 1960, MS 7644, Box 592/12 State Library a Mere Librarian, Melbourne: The Author, of Victoria. Sincere thanks to volunteer 1912 Jenny O’Donnell at State Library Victoria 13 See note 9 for details. for keying this manuscript from Leigh 14 E La Touche Armstrong, The Book of the Scott’s original document and for making Public Library, Museums, and National a number of logical corrections. The Gallery of Victoria: 1856–1906, Melbourne: author and editor are also grateful for the The Trustees, 1906 permission of Derek Drinkwater, who 15 Parr later opened his own antiquarian book published a detailed, edited version of business. One of his early employees was the manuscript in Australian Academic & a young Margareta Webber (1891–1983), Research Libraries, vol. 21, no. 3, Sept. 1990, later to be the proprietor of the legendary pp. 157–69. Alison Scott, surviving daughter Bookshop of Margareta Webber. See of Leigh Scott, also granted permission to Laurel Clark, ‘Webber, Margareta Louise reproduce this work and kindly provided Pitcairn 1891–1983’, Australian Dictionary original photographs for reproduction. of Biography, adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ 2 Lucy Edwards, ‘A policy of gradualness: webber-margareta-louise-pitcairn-15794, Leigh Scott and the University of published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed Melbourne Library 1926–1953’, MA thesis, online 15 Jan. 2018. Monash University, 1992; Lucy Edwards, 16 Scott here has incorrectly linked Thomas ‘Leigh Scott in the formative years of the Ryan (1870–1943), a member of both University of Melbourne Library 1926– the South Australian and Victorian 1945’, in BJ McMullin (ed.), Instruction and parliaments, with TJ Ryan (1876–1921), Amusement: papers from the Sixth Australian one-time premier of Queensland and a Library History Forum, Monash University, federal MHR. See Geoff Browne, ‘Ryan, 140 The La Trobe Journal No. 101 March 2018 Thomas (1870–1943)’, Australian Dictionary Society of Victoria, 1961. of Biography, adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ 3 Public Library of Victoria, Report of the ryan-thomas-8316, published first in Trustees, 1960, p. 4; see also tribute by hardcopy 1988, accessed online 15 Jan. 2018 Chairman, Minutes of the Public Library 17 Shakespeare, Othello, 5: 2: 338–9 Trustees, 2 Sep. 1960, p. 1078 18 Ralph Munn & Ernest R Pitt, Australian 4 MU O’Connor, ‘State Library of Victoria, Libraries: a survey of conditions and 1927–1965’, c. 1981, MS 11116, SLV. This suggestions for their improvement, Melbourne: includes short character sketches of a Australian Council for Educational number of staff members mentioned in Research, 1935 McCallum’s memoir. 19 AB Foxcroft, Catalogue of Fifteenth Century 5 McCallum, ‘Looking back – the PLV, Books and Fragments in the Public Library of 1919–1960’ Victoria, Melbourne: The Trustees, 1936 6 Dewey 050 ‘General serial publications’; 051–059 ‘General serial publications in McCallum (ed. Dewar): The PLV, 1919–1960 specific languages and language families’. 1 Who’s Who in Australia, Melbourne, See Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Herald & Weekly Times, 1959, p. 497; Index, devised by Melvil Dewey, 21st edn, ‘Obituary: the Rev Dr A McCallum’ Argus Albany, NY: Forest Press, 1996. (Melbourne), 20 Jan. 1933, p. 6; ‘Marriages’, 7 A classification for fiction in English Prahran Telegraph, 9 May 1924, p. 8; Argus, 8 Ernest R Pitt (ed.), Catalogue of the Scientific 23 May 1946, p. 2; Springvale Botanical and Technical Periodicals in the Libraries Cemetery, smct.org.au/deceasedsearch/ of Australia, Melbourne: Government result/461663, accessed online 15 Jan. Printer, 1930 2018. Documents concerning McCallum’s 9 CA McCallum & DWI Cannam (eds), maternal grandparents Abraham Booth and Catalogue of the Scientific and Technical Hannah Booth (Holloway) include Diary Periodicals in the Libraries of Australia: and biographical notes, 1856–59, MS 9715 Supplement 1928–1933, Melbourne: and MS 11834, ‘Oakover log’, 1884–98, Brown, Prior, 1934. McCallum also edited MS 11713, and Papers of the Holloway Supplement 1934–1936, Melbourne: family, 1846–1969, MS 12623, all in the CSIR, 1937. State Library of Victoria, as well as family 10 Guide to the Victorian Historical Exhibition, portraits held in the Pictures Collection. Melbourne: Trustees of the Public Library, 2 McCallum’s writings concerning Library Museums and National Gallery of history include The Public Library of Victoria, Victoria, 1934 1856–1956, Melbourne, [The Library], 1956; 11 McCallum omitted the date of the move. ‘The book of the Public Library of Victoria, It has been supplied from ‘The Book of the 1932–1956’, MS 8538, State Library of PLV, 1932–1956’, pp. 32–3. Victoria; ‘History of the Public Library of 12 See Bernard Smith, ‘Lindsay, Sir Ernest Victoria’, Australian Library Journal, vol. 8, Daryl (1889–1976)’, Australian Dictionary no. 4, Oct. 1959, pp. 188–96; and ‘Looking of Biography, adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ back – the PLV, 1919–1960: recollections lindsay-sir-ernest-daryl-7759/text12457, and reflections’, c. 1962, MS 8451, State published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed Library of Victoria. He contributed to the online 6 July 2017 Australian Dictionary of Biography, including 13 McCallum omitted the date of Pitt’s visit entries for his predecessors Augustus Tulk to the USA. It has been supplied from ‘The and Thomas Francis Bride. Other writings Book of the PLV, 1932–1956’, pp. 16, 34–5, 38– include ‘1914–1918 War: recollections 9. Pitt was offered a travelling grant by the of no. 7887, Private Colin Alexander Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1934, McCallum, 7th Field Ambulance, took six months’ leave of absence to visit the Australian Army Medical Corps, AIF’, 1979, USA and England in 1935, and submitted MS 10716, State Library of Victoria; James reports to the Trustees in 1936. In 1937, work Dredge, 1796–1846, Melbourne: 1957, forms began on the catalogue card project. no. 8 of Heritage, a journal of the Methodist 14 CF Rojo & Sons, Melbourne firm of Historical Society of Victoria; ‘Wesleyan furniture manufacturers. See Freda Irving, Methodist Church, Victorian Conference, ‘Craftsmen who make antiques of the Ministerial appointments, 1855–1901’, future’, Australian Women’s Weekly, 25 Jan. 1966, MS 8030, State Library of Victoria; 1961, p. 4. Wesley Church, Melbourne, [Melbourne: 15 Mr A Evans was appointed secretary/ Wesley Church, 1972]; Author Index of the librarian of the Warracknabeal Mechanics’ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Institute in 1938. See Argus, 22 Apr. 1938, vol. 47 (1934/5)-70 (1958), Melbourne: Royal p. 12. Notes 141 16 Edwin Clarence Whiteman Kelly, director. See Who’s Who in Australia 1991, Warracknabeal solicitor, Melbourne Melbourne: Information Australia, 1990, barrister, and Associate Professor at the p. 125. University of Melbourne. See The Age, 25 William Strutt, ‘Victoria the golden: scenes, 7 May 1952, p. 7. sketches and jottings from nature’, c. 1850– 17 The last stock book was completed in 62, original album held by the Victorian December 1900 and the first accession book Parliamentary Library. Published as Victoria was introduced in January 1901. See MS the Golden: scenes, sketches and jottings from 12855, State Library Victoria, Records, State nature, 1850–1862, by William Strutt; with a Library of Victoria. The Chief Librarian narrative by Marjorie Tipping, Melbourne: wrote ‘Under this [new] system better Library Committee, Parliament of Victoria, details can be obtained about any book in 1980. the Library, and the statistical information 26 McCallum omitted the date of the loan of is much more accurate than formerly’. specifications and estimated the date of See E La Touche Armstrong, The Book of their return as 1957.