John Dalley literary papers, 1919-1935

MLMSS 6212

fonds

1919-1935

Textual Records, Clippings

134471

0.05 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript, typescript, typescript, with manuscript corrections, and typescript, carbon, with manuscript corrections
Clippings

Sydney-born journalist and writer, John Dalley, was the second son of barrister and politician, William Bede Dalley. Educated at Oxford, he returned to England as representative of The Melbourne Herald in the mid-1920s. He worked over two decades from 1907 at The Bulletin. The author of several novels, Dalley's satire on the upper-class in his home city, Only the Morning, was published in 1930.

Letters received, 1922-1935, from, among others, Theodore Dreiser, Montague Grover and Sir Colin Campbell Stephen
Drafts of articles written in London for The Melbourne Herald, 1926
Miscellaneous papers, 1919-1931, including transcript of review by Captain C. H. Peters of the novel, Only The Morning, by John Dalley on Radio 3LO Melbourne, 29 Jan. 1931, and letters from Frank Morton to Rosemary June ?, Feb.-June 1919