Harry F. Chaplin - C. J. Dennis - Hal Gye in Association: a survey based upon a collection of the work of both poet and artist comprising their first edition, inscribed and extra-illustrated copies, autograph letters and manuscripts in the Library of and annotated by Harry Chaplin, 1980, with additional papers, 1914-1915, ca. 1951-1967

MLMSS 7315

fonds

1914-1915, ca. 1951-1967, 1980

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs

431816

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records
Drawings
Photographs
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (printed)

C.J. Dennis is best known for his verse story The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published in 1915. Later works included The Moods of Ginger Mick (1916) and The Glugs of Gosh (1917).
Hal Gye was the illustrator of the original 1915 edition of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. He also wrote short stories for the Bulletin under the name of James Hackston and poems under the name of Hacko.

Harry Chaplin's own (unnumbered copy), published in 1980 for private distribution only in an edition limited to 100 copies. This copy has much additional original material, most of it poems and letters by Gye generally under his pseudonyms of James Hackston and Hacko. Also included are pen and pencil drawings (including caricatures of Dennis and Gye) by Gye, bookplates and photographs. Subjects of the photographs include Hal Gye, C.J. Dennis' home 'Arden' at Toolangi and his grave at Box Hill.

This album was assembled and bound by the Sydney book collector Harry F. Chaplin and bears his bookplate.