T.T. Reed - further papers, 1930-1993

MLMSS 7702

fonds

Textual Records, Clippings, Photographs, Objects

455809

6 boxes (includes 1 outsized) - 1.25 Meters
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)
Photographs
Objects

Reverend T.T. Reed (1902-1995) in his ministry of 48 years became a Canon of St. Peter's Cathedral then Archdeacon of Adelaide, Dean of Adelaide (1953-1957), the Bishop of Adelaide (1957-1973) and finally in 1973 the Archbishop of Adelaide. His research on the life and work of Henry Kendall began in 1930 when he submitted a thesis to the University of Adelaide where he was awarded a doctor of letters in 1952. He published several works on Henry Kendall including, The poetical works of Henry Kendall (1966) as well as books of his own poems `Sonnets and songs' (1962).

CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence and related papers concerning research into Henry Kendall's life and works. Includes letters concerning entries written about George Henry Farr, Joseph Sheridan Moore and James Lionel Michael for the Australian Dictionary of Biography; correspondence with Dr Jean Bowden concerning research on Thomas Bowden; T.T. Reed's entry for the Commonwealth Jubilee Competition; request for access to collections held by the Mitchell Library and the Commonwealth Library Canberra (National); correspondence concerning publishing of his research with Rigby Ltd. and Melbourne University Press; correspondence concerning funding for his research into Henry Kendall by the Commonwealth Literary Fund; correspondence relating to the Public Lending Rights Scheme; T.T. Reed's preparation for the Herbert Blaiklock Lecture 1982; correspondence with J.I.M Stewart relating to his thesis; correspondence with University of Adelaide concerning the publication of the Henry Kendall biography; papers from C.E. Herd concerning the Fagan family; research papers of Peter Nation concerning family history and copies of letters from Henry Kendall; and other correspondence from A.L. Hubbard, Rowland Green concerning letter to Frederick Kendall, W. Hill, Hugh McCrae, Ian F. McLaren, E. Morris Miller, Miss E.B. Moore, Professor R.S. Wallace, Yates family. (Call No.: ML MLMSS 7702/2)
MANUSCRIPTS
Various drafts: The life of Henry Kendall / T.T. Reed (380 p.) (2 copies), (325 p., 1951) (1 copy); The life and poetical works of Henry Kendall / T.T. Reed (Thesis) (no pagination, 1950); The collected poems of Henry Kendall - Vol. 1 (Poems and songs) (3 copies including thesis) (275 p.,171-275); The collected poems of Henry Kendall - Vol. 2 (Miscellaneous poems etc) (3 copies including 1 thesis) (171-316 p., 293 p., 309 p.); Life and poetical works of Henry Kendall: indices, summaries, etc; Handwritten copy `The life of Henry Kendall (Chapt. 1-3 only), Commonwealth Jubilee Literary Competition, prose work - The life of Henry Kendall / Huntingdon (1 copy) (325 p.) (Call No.: MLMSS 7702/1)
RESEARCH PAPERS
Papers concerning Henry Kendall's life and work include newscuttings, reference lists and notebooks. A list of letters used in connection with the Kendall biography, a chronological table of Henry Kendall, an index to titles of Kendall's poetry, an index to titles of Kendall's poems by Betram Stevens, a list of poems from periodicals not yet published in volume form and 2 single pages (torn) possibly written by Henry Kendall.
Typed draft of `The poems of Henry Kendall' Vol. 2, poems not collected by the poet during his life arranged in chronological order.
Papers and lecture presented by T.T.Reed. Kendall's satirical humour (1982), In search of Kendall (1981), Kendall and his contemporaries (1937); The poems of Henry Kendall: poems not collected by the poet during his life and then arranged in chronological order-Vol. 2; (Call No.: MLMSS 7702/3)
Notebooks concerning T.T. Reed's research into Henry Kendall. Includes `The life of Henry Kendall' (2 v.), Kendall chronology (1 v.), Selected (satire, Aborigines) typescript poems of Henry Kendall with notes made by T.T. Reed (2 v.), Typescript `The poems of Henry Kendall' Vol. 2, poems selected by the poet during his life arranged in chronoloical order (1 v.), Typescript of T. Inglis Moore `Selected poems' (2 folders), I-K index of Kendall material (1 v.), 5 looseleaf binders with references and notes relating to Kendall, Photographs of poems by Kendall held at the Mitchell Library (1 v.), Various notebooks listing biographical material, lists of poems chronologically arranged, index to titles of poems, references to Kendall's poetry in newspapers and periodicals. Also includes notebooks/letterbooks (letters have previously been removed) of Frederick C. Kendall. (Call No.: MLMSS 7702/4-5)
PERSONAL PAPERS
Papers concerning T.T. Reed's life and work include a typed booklet `How I remember my childhood home over seventy years ago' by T.T.Reed (1984), notes with illustrations relating to his family history, church ephemera including a printed article on Archibishop Reed's retirement.
Papers concerning T.T.Reed's poetry include typed pages of poetry, and a booklet `Poems' by Thomas Thornton Reed (1931). (Call No.: MLMSS 7702/3)
MISCELLANEOUS
Line blocks from Reg. C. Pogonosk Pty used to illustrate `Kendall: our god made chief' written by Mrs A.M Hamilton-Grey. (Call No.: MLMSS 7702/1)
ASSOCIATION COPIES
Leaves from Australian Forest / Henry Kendall (1869); Leaves from Aistralian Forest / Henry Kendall (1870); Poems and songs / Henry Kendall (1862); Songs from the mountain / Henry Kendall (1880) 2 copies; Poems of Henry Clarence Kendall / edited Alexander Sutherland (1880); Poet Kendall / Mrs A.M Hamilton-Grey; Poems of Clarence Kendall with memoir by F.C. Kendall (1903); Poems of Henry Kendall / Henry Kendall (1886); Selected poems of Henry Kendall / T. Inglis Moore (1957); Henry Kendall in the Camden Haven Valley (197-?); Selections from the works of Henry Kendall (1963); The Northern Rivers of N.S.W / Arthur Cousins (1933), with dedication to T.T. Reed by F.C. Kendall, 1946; The bronze trumpet: a satirical poem / Henry Kendall (1866); Henry Kendall: his later years / notes by F.C. Kendall (1938) 2 copies, one with dedication to Miss Florence Whelan by F.C. Kendall and letter from Florence Whelan to T.T. Reed, 1952; The poems of Henry Kendall with biography by Bertram Stevens; Poems and songs by Henry Kendall (1862) with dedication from Henry Kendall to Miss Charlotte Rutter at the time of Henry Kendall's engagement; Jamees Lionel Michael: a comprehensive bibliography / Ian F. McLaren (1989); Henry Kendall: the man and the myths / Michael Ackland (1995), with copy of the review that T.T. Reed write which was published in the Adelaide Review, July 1995; Blacklock memorial lectures, 1971-1981 / foreword Leonie Kramer, with dedication to T.T. Reed from Leonie Kramer; Henry Kendall / W.H. Wilde (1972), with dedication from W.H. Wilde to T.T. Reed; The Library of Ian F. McLaren (1974), with dedication from Ian F. McLaren to T.T. Reed; Towards a comprehensive bibliography of Henry Kendall / Ian F. McLaren, with dedication from I.F. McLaren to T.T. Reed; Southerly, no. 4 (1982) article `Kendall's satirical humour' by T.T. Reed (Call No.: MLMSS 7702/6)

Several books contain bookplates and signature of T.T. Reed.