Collection 09: Hordern family further papers, 1920-1998, together with the papers of Walter D. White, 1881-1941

MLMSS 6659

sub-fonds

1881-1998

Textual Records, Clippings

401969

0.17 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript, typescript, typescript, carbon, typescript with manuscript annotations, printed, printed with manuscript annotations
Clippings

Iris Mary Hordern, nee White, daughter of Walter David White and Mary, nee Hodge, married the Rev. Frederick Hugh Hordern, son of Edward Carr Hordern of Hordern Brothers, Sydney, on 12 November 1914. They had six children, Mary, Iris Noel (known as Noel), Hugh, Marsden, John and Ian. Iris Noel Hordern married Hugh Darling in 194-. They lived on their property, Battery Hill, on the Breeza Plain near Gunnedah, N.S.W., which was sold in 1998. They had two daughters, Jill and Robin.

Walter D. White, 1857-1941, public servant and writer, was born in Bristol, England, where he worked on a newspaper. He journeyed to South Africa in 1882 and then to New South Wales in 1884, where he held several positions in the public service, including Secretary to the Parliamentary Committee on Public Works, ca. 1897, and as an Inspector of Schools. As an Inspector of Schools he travelled throughout rural N.S.W., often contributing prose and poetry to local publications as well as to the metropolitan press. White married twice, firstly to Mary Hodge with whom he had three children, Norman Underhill, Stanley Underhill and Iris Mary White. After Mary's death from cancer he married his second wife, Louise. There was no issue from the marriage. White died in Sydney in Arpil 1941. His grandson, Marsden Carr Hordern, edited a volume of White's verse which was published in 1968.

1940-1943; Letters of Iris Noel Darling, nee Hordern, from her property, Battery Hill near Gunnedah, N.S.W., to her mother, Iris Mary Hordern, nee White
1942-1945; Letters of Iris Noel Darling, nee Hordern, from her property, Battery Hill, near Gunnedah, N.S.W., to her mother, Iris Mary Hordern, nee White
192-; Poems and prose written by Iris Mary Hordern, nee White
1978-1998; Poem and prose written by Iris Noel Darling, nee Hordern and leaflet advertising the sale of the property, Battery Hill, near Gunnedah, N.S.W.
1925; File: '"New Australia" Paraguay', contains note by Walter D. White on the New Australia Cooperative Settlement Association letterhead, copies of New Australia : the journal of the New Australia Cooperative Settlement Association, 18 May 1894 and 28 July 1894, and fragments of the same journal from issues in 1892 and 1984
1919-1920; Christmas cards and calendars of Walter D. White
1968; Book, edited by Marsden C. Hordern, Selected Poems of Walter D. White, published by the Elizabethan Press, Sydney, 1968 with foreword by Lance Fallow
Date unknown; Music manuscript, An Austral Hymn, lyrics by Walter D. White, music by Joseph Massey, with newscuttings and associated correspondence
1934-1941; Newscuttings of poems and prose by Walter D. White
1895-1934; Newscuttings, originals and proofs of poems and prose by Walter D. White
1908-1940; Newscuttings, originals and proofs of poems and prose by Walter D. White
1881-1936; Newscuttings, originals and proofs of poems and prose by Walter D. White.
1908-1909; Letters to Walter D. White from the N.S.W. Department of Public Instruction