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Manuscript Name | Papers of William Wilde |
Manuscript Number | MSS 137 |
Last Updated | May 2021 |
Extent | 11 boxes + 2 AV boxes + 4 oversize folios |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, photographs, audio recording and other research materials relating to William Wilde’s biography of Dame Mary Gilmore, including original Gilmore papers |
Literary
This collection comprises the research archive of William Wilde, amassed whilst writing his biography of the Australian poet Dame Mary Gilmore, Courage a grace: a biography of Dame Mary Gilmore (1988). The material includes manuscript drafts and galley proofs, subject files on members of Gilmore’s literary circle and associates, family history information, copies of Gilmore’s writings (including multiple issues of The Worker and Tribune), a poetry reading sound recording and box of photographs. Of special interest are a small body of original papers, including letters, relating to Gilmore, together with material documenting the Cosme utopian socialist settlement in Paraguay
1894-1988
Academic and literary historian. W.H. (William Henry) Wilde was Associate Professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon with a special interest in 19th century Australian literature and poetry. He published several studies on early poets including Adam Lindsay Gordon (1972), Henry Kendall (1976) and two volumes on Mary Gilmore, the Letters of Mary Gilmore (1980, selected and edited with Tom Inglis Moore), and Courage a grace: a biography of Dame Mary Gilmore (1988). Working closely with colleagues Barry Andrews and Joy Hooton at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Wilde jointly compiled The Oxford companion to Australian literature (1985, 1994) which became a standard reference work.
References:
W.H. Wilde, Melbourne University Press https://www.mup.com.au/authors/w-h-wilde retrieved 19 May 2020
Mary Gilmore
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gilmore
Australian poet and writer. Mary Gilmore was born near Goulburn, New South Wales, on 16 August 1865. After working as a teacher in rural Australia and Sydney, she joined William Lane's 'New Australia' movement in Paraguay in 1896. She married fellow colonist and Victorian shearer William Alexander Gilmore (1866-1945) in 1897, and their only child William Dysart Cameron Gilmore (1898-1945) was born at Villarica, near the Cosme utopian settlement. Before returning to Australia in 1902, Gilmore taught English in Rio Gallegos in southern Patagonia and wrote for Buenos Aires newspapers.
In 1903, A.G. Stephens featured Gilmore's poetry in the Red Page of the Bulletin, and in 1908 she became the first editor of the women's page of the Sydney Worker. Gilmore's first volume of poems, Marri'd and other verses, appeared in 1910. Other publications include The passionate heart (1918), Hound of the road (1922), The tilted cart (1925), The wild swan (1930), The rue tree (1931), Under the wilgas (1932), Old days, old ways (1934), Battlefields (1939), The disinherited (1941) and Fourteen men (1954).
In 1937, Gilmore was made a Dame of the British Empire in recognition of her contribution to Australian literature. She was the first woman to receive this award for services to literature. Gilmore was a founder of the Lyceum Club, Sydney, a founder and vice-president in 1928 of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, an early member of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists and features on the Australian 10 dollar note. Gilmore died on 3 December 1962.
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material for private study and research is approved
Papers of William Wilde, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 137, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
The collection was acquired in two instalments in 1989 and 1990
Further material relating to the life and work of Mary Gilmore can be found at MSS 67 – Papers of Dame Mary Gilmore, including manuscripts of her earliest published collection of poems
William Henry Wilde – Archives
Mary Gilmore 1865-1962 – Biography
Australian poetry – 20th century
Cosme Co-operative Colony (Paraguay)
New Australia (Paraguay)
William Henry Wilde
Mary Gilmore 1865-1962
Royal Military College, Duntroon
Academics
Historians
Poets
Lists of papers in the Mitchell Library, Sydney
Folders 2-3
‘Gilmore discards’
Folder 4
Original letters and material
Folder 5
Material relating to the Beattie(?) family
Folders 6-7
Cameron biographical papers
Folder 8
Clan Cameron (Australia): including Hugh Cameron (father), John Alex Cameron (brother), Mary Anne Cameron (mother)
Folder 9
W.A. Gilmore (husband)
W.D.C. Gilmore (son)
Folder 10
Aborigines
Family certificates
Folders 11-15
Biographical information
Folders 16-17
The Bookfellow
Folder 18
Mary Gilmore centenary - 1965
Dame of the British Empire (DBE) award
Death and state funeral
Folder 19 {para bold}
William Dobell portrait
Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW)
Goulburn War Memorial(?)
Folders 20-21
Henry Lawson
Folder 22
Literary awards
Cosme utopian socialist settlement, Paraguay
Folder 23
Cosme utopian socialist settlement, Paraguay
Folders 24-28
Clippings
Folder 29
The Worker
Folder 30
The Bulletin
‘Our Lost Field’
Poetry and prose
Folder 31
Tribune, 1953
‘Arrows’
Folder 32
Tribune, 1952, 1962
Folder 33
Tribune, 1958
Folder 34
Tribune, 1957
Folder 35
Tribune, 1954(?), 1955
Folder 36
Tribune, 1956
Folder 37
Speeches
Folder 38
‘Singapore’
Australian Literary Society
Bill Beatty, Betty Bluett, Alec Chisholm
Folders 39-41
The Sydney Morning Herald, 1927-1962
Folders 42-44
Correspondence - Angus & Robertson
Folder 45
Bread and Cheese Clubs
Clem Christensen, R.H. Croll, F. Dalby Davison
Folder 46
R.D. Fitzgerald, Rene Foster, Miles Franklin, H.M. Green
Folder 47
W. Hart-Smith, R.G. Howarth, W.M. Hughes, Henry Kendall, Hugh McCrae
Folder 48
Peter McGregor, George Mackaness
Folder 49
David Martin, Ian Mudie, Stephen Murray-Smith, John Shaw Neilson, Bernard O’Dowd, Dowell O’Reilly
Folder 50
Nettie and Vance Palmer, Larry Petrie, Connie Robertson
Folder 51
Roland Robinson, Alga Schulnke, Rose Scott, Percival Serle, Colin Simpson, Kenneth Slessor, Richard Talbot, Clive Turnbull, Ian Turner
Folder 52
W.A. Woods, Judith Wright
Folder 53
Various correspondents
Folder 54
Worker, 1929
Folder 55
Worker, 1930, 1931
Folder 56
Worker, 1926, 1927, 1928
Folder 57
Worker, 1923, 1924, 1925
Folder 58
Worker, 1920, 1921, 1922
Folder 59
Worker, 1917, 1918, 1919
Folder 60
Worker, 1914, 1915, 1916
Folder 61
Worker, 1911, 1912, 1913
Folders 62-63
Worker, 1910
Folders 64-65
Worker, 1908
Folders 66-67
Worker, 1909
Folders 68-69
Courage a Grace - working material
Folder 70
Courage a Grace - original handwritten manuscript
Folder 71
Courage a Grace - first corrected typed copy
Folder 72
Courage a Grace - second corrected typed copy
Folder 73
Courage a Grace - copy and edited version
Folder 74
Courage a Grace - page proofs
Folder 75
Courage a Grace - illustrations
Cassette and magnetic tape of Dame Mary Gilmore and Hugh McCrae poetry reading:
Seven (7) cassettes
Microfilm
Two rolls magnetic tape
Photographs - collated and organised by Elizabeth Wilde, grand-daughter of the author of Courage a Grace: a Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore, W.H. Wilde (originally in three albums)
‘News Australia’ - photocopy
A.G. Stephens
Cosme Monthly, November 1894-January 1900 (photocopies)
Courage a Grace - galley proofs