Henry Havelock Ellis papers covering his Australian period, ca. 1875-1890

A 6904

fonds

ca. 1875-1890

932400

Microfilm : Refer to Contents for location numbers

9 volumes and 2 booklets of textual material (1 box)

Ellis reached Sydney on 25 July 1875. He was assistant master at Burwood in September-December, seems to have spent the whole of 1876 as a private tutor with the Platts near Carcoar, spent the year 1877 teaching at Grafton and 1878 teaching at Sparke's Creek and Junction Creek, near scone. He comments on Australians, pages 36-40 of the diary and described reading at the Public Library of New South Wales, pages 97, 119-120, 123

Diary 1875-1890

Item 1, pt 1
A few pencil notes by Henry Havelock Ellis in early part of diary appear to have been made some years later, only 1 is dated (page 99). Many entries in later part of diary refer to Olive Schreiner

Poems, bills for books, bills for food at Sparke's Creek, and draft prospectus of school at Grafton. These were between the pages of the diary when received, either pinned or loose.

Item 1, pt 2
The diary records mental and spiritual experiences, not day to day occurrences. A condensed account of these experiences, with comments, appears in his My Life, 1940 espec. pages 91-103. The poems include sonnets, songs and ballads and part of a projected poem in blank verse

Item 2
De multis rebus: thoughts and criticisms October 1878-April 1879. Unpaged. 18cm

Commonplace books I-VI 1875-1886? 6 volumes

Items 3-8
Book IV 1881-1883 and Book V are partly in the hand of Louie Ellis, H. H.'s sister, and partly in his. Book VI 1885-1886? is partly in an unknown hand and partly in that of Louie Ellis

Item 9
Ellis's own translation of lengthy passages from Goethe-Wahrheit and Dichtung, 1880

Nine letters to his parents:
1867 June 29 written at sea
no date from Burwood
1875 September 30 from Collegiate School, Burwood
1876 September 20 from Carcoar
1877 January 9 from Sydney
1877 February 14 from Grammar School, Grafton
1877 May 7 " "
1877 June 11 " " Item 10

For items 1-5 (Request Microfilm: CY 263, frames 1-857)

For items 6-10 (Request Microfilm: CY 264, frames 1-571)

Copyright status:: Copyright is with Mme F . Lafitte-Cyon and her two sons

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-115) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011