Sub-series 3: Australian encyclopaedia manuscript and related papers, 1921-ca. 1958

MLMSS 3269/Boxes 458, 458A, 458B, 459

sub-series

1921-ca. 1958

1000070

0.62 metres of textual material (4 boxes)

The Australian Encyclopaedia was first published by Angus & Robertson in two volumes, the first in 1925 and the second in 1926. The second edition of ten volumes, with Alec H. Chisholm as editor, was published in 1958.

BOX 458
Queries relating to volumes 1-4, no date

BOXES 458A and 458B
Manuscript, typescript and carbon typescript drafts relating to Australian maps for the Australian Encyclopaedia, no date. Box 458A also contains some correspondence from Joseph H. Maiden, Government Botanist, 1921 relating to photographs by F.J. Davey for Vol. 2 of the Encyclopaedia; correspondence from H.L. White, May 1926, relating to illustrations of birds and eggs for Vol. 2 of the Encyclopaedia; and a page of printed music mounted on cardboard titled 'The Aboriginal "Corrobbery": "Narrinyeri" Corrobbery', and annotated [1861].

BOX 459
Annotated typescript copies of biographies, apparently prepared for the Australian Encyclopaedia, arranged alphabetically from ‘Abbott, Major Edward’ to ‘Davey, Colonel Thomas’, and pasted into a volume with ‘Davidson Brothers Christmas & New Year Cards Season 1889-90’ engraved on the cover, no date

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