Power family - papers, ca. 1910-1941

MLMSS 7659/Box 1X

fonds

ca. 1910-1941

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings

423720

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box)
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Textual Records - (printed)
Drawings

Muriel Faucett Power (nee Blain) married geologist Frederick Danvers Power in 1901. They had two sons, Charles and Robert. Muriel wrote poetry as Muriel F. Power and was a pioneer of the Sydney Arts and Crafts movement. Her work in the 1940s was published under the name M. Danvers Power. In 1930 Frederick Power established the small Rhincru Press at their home in Burwood. Many of the poems in this collection have been bound by hand.
Robert Danvers Power was born 24 April 1907 in Drummoyne, NSW. He was educated at Hawkesbury Agricultural College in the early 1920s and purchased land (30 acres) at North Richmond on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, called 'Waterford'. The papers in this collection were in his possession when he died in 1997.

MURIEL FAUCETT POWER
1927-1939; Poems, prayers and songs.
'Homesick. Homeward bound', 1927; 'Xmas Eve 1929'; 'Meditations', Sept. 1929; 'Children's Hymn 1. Voices', 25 Oct. 1930; 'To the Southern Cross and its two Pointers', Easter 1933; 'Harvest Thanksgiving', signed Muriel Faucett Power, "Waterford", Yarramundy Lane, Richmond, November 30th, 1933; 'A Greeting on Life's Road...written as the Xmas card of the Mayor & Mayoress of Burwood', Dec. 1933; 'The Pilgrim Way' [collection of poems], 1933-1935; 'To Saint Therese (The Little Flower)', 12 Sept. 1939.
1930; 'The Sunworshipper and Other Verses (A Supplement to "The Missal")'. A collection of the same verses bound into two different sized booklets using the same patterned paper for the covers. The smaller booklet is inscribed near the back: 'M.F. Power made this book at "Rhincru", Burwood, Sydney. Completed during the first week of February, 1930'.
Undated; Poems, prayers and songs.
'Five Little Songs'; 'Good-bye'; 'Verses'; 'Physiology'; 'Poems of Friendship'; 'At the Gate of Bliss (Renunciation)'; 'Prayer on awaking' and other prayers sent to Robert Danvers Power at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond.
May 1929; Etching titled 'Wombat' by B.N. Fryer with cover sheet 'Proof etching. The Kormon Press, Sydney', inscribed to 'M. Danvers Power, May 1929'.
Undated; Card with unsigned pen and ink drawing of a cottage, with a verse from a psalm, probably in the hand of M.F. Power.

CHARLES DANVERS POWER
ca. 1910?; 'Cousin Jane's Kite, by C.D.P. aged seven years'. Illustrated children's story, Foreword in the hand of Muriel F. Power. Written on coloured papers. Specially bound, and including a book mark decorated with kites.

ROBERT DANVERS POWER
1923; 'Buffon, Address upon Literary Style, translated by Robert Danvers Power, 1923'. Parallel text in French and English
Feb. 1941; 'Waterford Farm', poem by L. Roy Davies, inscribed 'to Robert Danvers Power from L. Roy Davies Feb. 1941'.

English, French

Papers of Frederick Danvers Power are held at MLMSS 5019; photographs by Robert Danvers Power are held at ON 280 and SLIDES 99.