Sir Redmond Barry - Papers, including a selection of poems, plays, notes, and correspondence, ca. 1832-1867

A 465
B 87

fonds

ca. 1832-1836, 1861, 1864, 1867

404865

Microfilm : CY 1335, frames 1-117 (B 87)

1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

Sir Redmond Barry, British colonial judge and solicitor-general of Victoria, was educated at a military school in Kent, and at Trinity College, Dublin. Migrating to Australia in 1839, Barry was admitted to bar in Sydney but soon after moved to Melbourne. In addition to his legal career, Barry was interested in culture, lecturing in music and poetry, and in higher education being instrumental in the founding of the university of Melbourne in 1853. -- Reference: Australia Dictionary of Biography. Vol.3, 1851-1890. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1969.

B 87
Includes poems and prose by several authors (most are unsigned and some are written in Latin) and copies of correspondence by Redmond Barry.
[Poem in Latin], from Rochester, Johnson's Lives of the Poets V.5, p.139
Translation of the For going - [poem]
Copy of letter to addressed to Sir Charles regarding familar matters, literature and law.
Unititled plays and prose.
Notes on the Royal Society and zoology of South Australia.
Copy of letter about the meeting to honor Shakespeare with excerpts from Shakespeare's poems and plays.
Several letters (copies) addressed, "my dear" or "my dearest" that discuss topics relating to politics, reforms, support, career, general health, and travel. One letter features a narrative of a journey to Van Diemen's land and New Zealand in 1860 that comments on landscapes, people, customs, and religions encountered (p.81-).

A 465
Note book containing copies of letters, poems, etc.

In pencil in a later hand on reverse of front endpaper, "Sir Redmond Barry".
"D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper of B 87