Charles Harpur poems and critical writings ca. 1846-1892

SAFE/C 376 (Safe 1/434)
SAFE/C 377 (Safe 1/435)
SAFE/C 380 (Safe 1/436)
SAFE/C 381 (Safe 1/437)
SAFE/C 385 (Safe 1/441)
SAFE/C 386 (Safe 1/442)

fonds

1846-1892

Textual Records, Clippings

825678

Microfilm : Refer to Contents for location numbers.

0.21 metres of textual material - manuscript, printed material and clippings

1849-1856, 1846-1892. Parts 1, 5, 6, 8 of “The Wild Bee of Australia”, Oration on Teetotalism, with ms annotations, holograph letters and newspaper extracts, dated Euroma 16 Feb 1865. Letters by and to Charles and Mary Harpur, correspondents include Dr and Mrs J. Le Gay Brereton and Henry Parkes
C 376 (Request Microfilm: CY 469, fr. 1-550)

1863. Kangaroo Hunt, or, Morning in the Mountains
C 377 (Request Microfilm: CY 469, fr. 551-619)

1858?. Scraps of mss and printed contributions to the press pasted into a copy of “The Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell … Pomfret … Yalden …” published 1833.
C 380 (Request Microfilm: CY 469, fr. 620-744)

Predominantly 1865-1866, other dates are 1880, 1883, 1890. Manuscript poems, critical writings, printed version of “The Tower of the dream” and newspaper clippings (Sydney Morning Herald, The People’s Advocate), some with manuscript annotations, some dated, pasted into bound volume. “List of poems copied into manuscript 1890” at back of volume.
C 381 (Request Microfilm: CY 469, fr. 745-866)

1847-1848. Poems and critical writings on poetry.
C 382 (Request Microfilm: CY 469, fr. 867-976)

1851. Book contains handwritten poems by Charles Harpur with annotations. 30th Dec. 1851 appears on back cover.
C 383 (Request Microfilm: CY 469, fr. 977-1054)

1855-1862. “Notes” contains printed poems of Charles Harpur with handwritten annotations on the verso of each page as well as throughout the printed text.
C 384 (Request Microfilm: CY 469, fr. 1055-1118)

1853-1854. “Notes and observations”.
C 385 (Request Microfilm: CY 469, fr. 1119-1179)

1859. “Discourse on poetry”, “Notes and opinions: Moral Critical and Personal to which is prefixed A Lecture on Poetry by Charles Harpur”.
C 386 (Request Microfilm: CY 455)

The poems of Charles Harpur in manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in publication in the nineteenth century : an analytical finding list / compiled and edited by Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins. ([Canberra] : Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy, 2002) - contains descriptive lists of each item in the collection

Notebooks are not internally dated in sequential chronological order, and some notebooks used concurrently.

“This copy (intended to be a final one) of the Kangaroo Hunt or a Morning in the Mountains, was made in my own house at Euroma, in 1863” - leaf [1] (C 377)
“This vol. belonged to Chas. Harpur. He used it as a scrap-book in which to paste his own printed contributions to the press. / H.W.” leaf [1] and “George Gascoigne Taylor / Jerry’s Plains / May 26th 49” – fly leaf (C 380)
“Harpur” on cover, “D. S. Mitchell” on front flyleaf, “Mary Harpur” on leaf [1], “30th Decr 1851” on back flyleaf (C 383)
Pencil inscriptions of personal memoranda on endpapers (C 386)