Item 1 (Folio size) |
Handwritten manuscript entitled "Birds from the magic mountain",
with original illustrations in ink, watercolour and crayon. It describes some
of the factual and fictional birds of Indonesia. Published version is held
at Nf+/A828.3/F911BI |
Item 2 (Folio size) |
Illustrated, handwritten manuscript entitled "Ayam-Ayam
Kesayangan", Volume 3. "Containing many and Varied writings and Paintings of
his Native Land on his return from many years' sojourn in distant countries
beyond the Sea". 1980. Also known as "The return of the prodigal". |
Item 3 (Folio size) |
"The Story of Jonah", 1979 (1 volume) |
Item 4 (Folio size) |
"Bumbooziana", 1975 (2 volumes). The published version is held
at SR 741.994 F911 |
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Items 5-44 |
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DIARIES |
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All diaries are holograph in ink or ballpoint or both;
illustrated; and with insertions including letters, photographs, press
clippings and exhibition catalogues. Small portions of the wartime diaries are
in lead pencil. |
| Item 5 |
1930 Hard cover leather bound diary. Title page insc: A
personal diary/of Donald L. Friend/1930 a.d./[mock crest]/[drawing of knight on
horseback] (Sydney and Glendon) |
| Item 6 |
1931 Hard cover leather bound printed diary. Title page
insc: Forword/This is a setting down of my own/personal thoughts. Should any
unwise/persons venture herein without my express/permission, the references to
any/of them which may displease are just/rewards of inquisitiveness/Donald
Leslie Friend. (Sydney and Glendon) |
| Item 7 |
29 June - 7 August 1942 Spiral bound sketch book (Sydney and
Hume Camp, Albury, NSW) No title page |
| Item 8 |
18 August - 6 October 1942 Soft cover exercise book Title
page insc: Las desastres de la Guerra/Notes and Drawings/Hume Camp NSW/ August
18, 1942,/Donald Friend/NX96987/"A" Battery/1st Field Training Regt. |
| Item 9 |
7 October - 10 November 1942 Soft cover exercise book Title
page insc: Volume II/Las Desastres de la Guerra/(Tome: "Coronemas Rosis
antequam marcescant")/Gnr. Friend D.S.L. N.X. 96987/1st Field Training
Regt./Hume/7th October 1942 |
| Item 10 |
11 November - 11 December 1942 Soft cover exercise
book Title page insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol III "Los Caprichos
Locos"/11th November 1942/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./N.X. 96987/"A" troop/2nd
Australian Artillery Training Regiment/Hume Camp, near Albury |
| Item 11 |
12 December 1942 - 2 January 1943 Soft cover exercise
book Title page insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol IV "Nec plus scarabiae in
cervisiae,/Nec plus sedendum in seminis lignis duris"/(monkish doggerel)/12th
December 1942/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./N.X. 96987/"D" troop/"A" Battery/2nd
Australian Artillery Training Regt./Hume Camp near Albury |
| Folder: |
Loose inserts to diaries 1930-1943 |
| Item 12 |
4 January - 26 February 1943 Soft cover exercise book Title
page insc: Las Desastres de la Guerra/Vol V "Asi Sucedio"/4th Jan '43/Gnr.
Friend D.S.L./N.X. 96987/A Battery/D troop/2nd Aust. Arty Tng
Regt./Hume |
| Item 13 |
7 March - 23 April 1943 Soft cover exercise book Title page
insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol V/"No hay due dar Voces"/Gnr. Friend
D.S.L./NX96987/7th March, 1943/L.H.Q. School of Military Intelligence/ Junio
Wing/"Seabrae"/Redcliff/near Brisbane/ Queensland
(The whereabouts of "Desastres de la Guerra" Volume VI, 24 April
- 17 May 1943, are unknown. The book was stolen, presumably by a senior officer
at Greta Camp in 1943 and not recovered. Donald Friend comments on the theft at
length in Vol. VII) |
| Item 14 |
18 - 22 May 1943 Soft cover exercise book Title page insc:
Las Desastres de la Guerra/Donald Friend/15th May '43 Vol VII/"Anata rajaraja
ada machammacham" (Greta camp, near Newcastle, NSW) |
| Item 15 |
23 May - 12 July 1943 Soft cover exercise book Title page
insc: Las Desastres de la Guerra/Vol VIII/"Dionara jalan, Kawan?"/23rd May
1943/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./ C troop/B Battery/2nd Aust Arty Tng Regt./Greta
"Desastres de la Guerra" Volume IX 13 July - 31 August 1943, is
presumed to have been purchased from Donald Friend by Edgar Kauffman in 1943 or
44. Its present whereabouts have not been traced). |
| Item 16 |
1 September - 4 October 1943 Soft cover exercise book Title
page insc: Las Desastres de la Guerra/ Vol X Part One "Decline and Fall of a
Guinea -pig"/1st September 1943/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./N.X.96987 Malarial
Experiment Group 2nd 1st Con Dep/"The more I muse there inne, the mistier
it/seemeth/And the depper I devyne, the derker me it/thynketh"/should anything
happen to me, this journal should/be sent to G. Russell Drysdale No.3 Bayview
Hill Road/Rose Bay, Sydney NSW (Atherton Tableland, Queensland) |
| Item 17 |
5 - 30 October 1943 Soft cover exercise book, cover insc: "Pas
Devant les Enfants" Title page insc: Las Desastres de la Guerra/ Vol XI/Part
II "Decline and Fall of a Guinea pig"/5th October 1943/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./N.X.
96987/Ward 6/2nd A.G.H./Australia (Atherton Tableland, Queensland) |
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Item 18 30 October - 21 November 1943 Soft cover exercise
book Title page insc: Las Desastres de la Guerre/ Vol XII/(Part 3
"Decline and Fall of a Guinea Pig") Gnr Friend D.S.L./N.X. 96987/Ward 6 2nd 2nd
A.G.H.
- Euripides in Hyppolitus/30th October 1943/To Tass Drysdale/3
Bayview Hill Road/Rose Bay/Sydney NSW (Atherton Tableland, Queensland) |
| Folder: |
Loose inserts to diaries 1943-44 |
| Item 19 |
22 November - 31 December 1943 Soft cover exercise
book Title page insc: Las Desastres de la Guerra/ Vol. XIII/"Heureux qui,
comme Ulysse, a fait beau voyage"/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./NX96987/22nd
November/1943/To G. Russell Drysdale/3 Bayview Hill Road/Rose Bay/ Sydney
NSW (Atherton Tableland and Charters Towers, Queensland and Greta camp,
NSW)
"Desastres de la Guerra" Volume XIV, 1-28 January 1944 is
presumed to have been purchased like Volume IX by Edgar Kauffmann in
1944). |
| Item 20 |
29 January - 19 February 1944 Soft cover exercise
book Title page insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol. XV/"Plans A, B and C"/29th
January 1944/N.X.96987/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./B. Coy/101 Aust Con
Depot/Benleigh/Q'land/and D.P.2.tp/5th Bty/2nd Aust Arty Tng Regt/Greta/This
book the property of G. Russell Drysdale/3 Bayview Hill Road/Rose
Bay/Sydney |
| Item 21 |
19 May - ? 1944 Soft cover exercise book Title page insc:
Notes on the 4th Pongo wars. Commenced May 19th 1944, at Greta. (Notes and
dialogues for various dramas) |
| Item 22 |
23 February - 16 March 1944 Soft cover exercise book Title
page insc: "Desastres de la Guerra"/Vol. XVI/Plans A, B and C (part II)/23rd
February 1944/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./N.X.96987/D.P.2. Troop/5th Bty/Greta/This book
the property of G. Russell Drysdale/3 Bayview Hill Road/Rose
Bay/Sydney |
| Item 23 |
18 March - 6 April 1944 Soft cover exercise book Title page
insc: "Desastres de la Guerra"/Vol. XVII/Plans A, B and C (part III)/Prelude
Circassienne/18th March 1944/ Gnr. Friend D.S.L./D.P.2.Tp/5th Bty/2nd Aust Arty Tng Regt Greta/This book is the property
of G. Russell Drysdale/3 Bayview Hill Road/Rose Bay/Sydney |
| Item 24 |
7 April - 2 May 1944 Soft cover exercise book Title page
insc: Desastres de la Guerra/ Vol. XVIII/ Los cantos d'esclavos/7th April
1944/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./2 Aust Arty Tng Regt/Greta/This book is the property of
G. Russell Drysdale/ 3 Bayview Hill Road/Rose Bay/Sydney |
| Item 25 |
3 May - 1 June 1944 Soft cover exercies book Title page
insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol. XIX/"Para eso habeis nacido?"/3rd May
1944/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./NX96987/This book is the property of G. Russel Drysdale
esq./3 Bayview Hill Road/Rose Bay/Sydney(Greta, Sydney and Brisbane) |
| Item 26 |
2 June - 14 July 1944 Soft cover exercise book Title page
insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol.XX/ "Die Linien der Hand sind noch wie zin
Bestand"/ Donald Friend Gunner/NX96987/2 Plattoon/ 31st
A.W.C./Chermside/Brisbane/Queensland/2nd June 1944 |
| Folder: |
Loose inserts to diaries 1944-45 |
| Item 27 |
18 July - 15 October 1944 Soft cover exercise book Title
page insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol. XXI/ "Do not speak of secret matters in
a Field full of little Hills" (Ern Malley) Gunner Friend, DSL/ NX96987/31st
A.W.C./Chermside, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Item 28 |
14 October - 31 December 1944 Soft cover exercise
book Title page insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol. XXII/ "Quindici uomini sul
cassero dell' Uomo Morto,/Ho-ho-ho, e una bottiglia di Rhum!"/(from "L'isola
del Tesora", by Roberto Luigi Stevenson) 17th October 1944/Gnr. Friend
D.S.L./NX96987/21 Henry Street/Ascot/Brisbane |
| Item 29 |
3 January - 15 April 1945 Soft cover exercise book Title
page insc: Not to be/seen by/ /Sr/K/ Metroland/"Desastres de la Guerra"/Vol.
XXIII/ "Aunque en la maniera de mijar se/Conosce la gente decente"/2 January
1945/Gnr. Friend D.S.L./NX96987/ 21 Henry Street/Ascot/Brisbane (also Melbourne
and Sydney) |
| Item 30 |
26 April - 7 July 1945 Soft cover exercise book Title page
insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol. XXIV/ "Piraguamonte, piragua,/Piragua
jevizarizagua"/ (signifying nothing) Lope de Vega//26th April 1945/ Lieut.
Donald Friend/NX96987/Military History Section/Victoria Barracks/L.H.Q.
Melbourne/In the event of anything happening to me, I want this/manuscript sent
to/G. Russell Drysdale/ 3 Bayview Hill Road/Rose Bay/Sydney/NSW (Sydney,
Lae, Morotai and Labuan) |
| Item 31 |
8 July - 28 November 1945 Soft cover exercise book Title
page insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol. XXV/ "Kalah menjadi abu, menang menjadi
arang"/Malay proverb - "Defeat is reduction to ashes, victory is reduction to
charcoal"/Lieut. D.S.L. Friend/NX96987/ 1st Fd Unit/ Military History
Section/1st Aust. Corps/Labuan 9th July 1945/Balikpapan/Sydney 28th November
1945/In the event of anything happening to me, I want this manuscript sent to
G. Russell Drysdale Esq./3 Bayview Hill Road/Rose Bay/Sydney |
| Item 32 |
1 December 1945 - 20 November 1946 Hard cover bound
notebook Title page insc: Desastres de la Guerra/Vol. XXVI/ 1st December
1945/"Now, Sir Page, your vagaries are over/For too long you've been living in
clover/Now your faults they've begun to discover/They are packing you off to
the wars!"/(Figaro)/Lieut. D.S.L. Friend/NX96987/c/o G.R. Drysdale Esq/3
Bayview Hill Road/Rose Bay/Sydney(Sydney: Drysdales' and Merioola) |
| Folder: |
Loose inserts to diaries 1945-48 |
| Item 33 |
26 November 1945 - 8 March 1948 Hard cover bound
notebook Title page insc: Donald Friend/26th November 1946/ Scott Street
Bungalow, Cairns/"A sentimental Journey"-/Cairns, Thursday Island/14th
April-9th September '47 Merioola (Sydney)/10th September 1947 Hill End NSW/'If
you don't like my philosophy/Said Scipio Africanus/You can lift my Roman Toga
up/And kiss my Roman anus/William Blake |
| Item 34 |
2 April 1948 - 17 March 1950 Hard cover bound notebook Title
page insc: Diary/Donald Friend/Hill End/April 1948/[?] "Forsan et haec olim,
preminisee juvabit"/to Italy/March 1950 |
| Item 35 |
29 March 1950 - 28 November 1952 Hard cover half leather bound
notebook Title page insc: [in another hand - Attilio Guarracino's?]: FAGIO:
PONPINI.E.LO/PRENDO.IN [C]OLO/ AVANDI Giovanotti che o' [l]'ella[m]e[n]te
crandi crosso e/LUNCO/questo e un/versso di Donaldo Frend/A/[in DF's hand]:
diary/Donald Friend/29 March 1950/Comminciato a Pallanza/Dante disce/a posto di
un burrone/"meglio un culo sano/di cento fesse rotte"/"Non [r]ida della mei
beattae(?) a vventure/e non goda(?) delle mie disgrazie......"/29th March '50 -
Italy -/10th May '50 - London -/25th September 50 Australia -/8th February '52
Italy - /6th August - 28th November England |
| Item 36 |
29 November 1952 - 21 September 1954 Hard cover half leather
bound notebook Title page insc: Diary/Donald Friend/"All the river passes
bye, except what you drink from it"/(Yoruba)/Commenced in England 29th November
1952/to Hill End, NSW, Australia, 8th October 1953/to North Queensland 12th
June 1954/completed at Cairns 21st September 1954 |
| Item 37 |
22 September 1954 - 8 December 1956 Hard cover half leather
bound notebook Title page insc: Diary/Donald Friend/Commenced at Cairns, N.
Queensland September 1954/To Hill End 30 October '54/Completed 8 October 56
Hill End/"Once upon a time the wild animals, the big ones, used to roar/Today
they are stuffed"/Gaugin |
| Item 38 |
10 December 1956 - 7 January 1959 Hard cover half leather bound
notebook Title page insc: Diary/Donald Friend/Commenced at Hill End 10th
December 1956/"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive"/Chinese
proverb/(a saying I, personally, doubt D.F.)/Ceylon 1957, '58/Ended Ceylon
January 7th 1959 |
| Item 39 |
8 January 1959 - ? January 1964 Hard cover half leather bound
notebook Title page insc: Diary/Donald Friend/Commenced in Ceylon January
8th 1959/Ceylon 1960, 1961/Australia 1962/Paddington January 1964/"Be careful
when dismounting a tiger"/(proverb) |
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Loose inserts to diaries 1950-68 |
| Item 40 |
11 February 1964 - 28 June 1966 Hard cover cloth bound
notebook Title page insc: Diary/Donald Friend/Hampden St. Paddington Sydney
February 1964/to June 28th 1966/ "Plus ca change, plus c'est la
meme/chose" |
| Item 41 |
29 June 1966 - 1 January 1968 Hard cover cloth bound
notebook Title page insc: Donald Friend/Diary/June 29th 1966/ 1 Hampden
Street Paddington/"Deo, fammiti vedere in ogni loco:/Se da mortal bellezza
ander mi sento,/Apresso al tuo mi sara foco ispento/e io nel tuo saro, com'ero,
in foco"/Michelangelo/29th December 66 Bali/1st January '68 Sydney |
| Item 42 |
28 October 1969 - 2 October 1972 Hard cover cloth bound
notebook Title page insc: Diary/Batu Djimbar/Bali 28th October '69/Australia
18th February '70/Bali 18th March '70/France '72/Bali - 2nd October
'72 |
| Item 43 |
18 October 1972 - 7 February 1975 Hard cover cloth bound
Swains printed diary for 1973, cover with applied paper label insc: DIARY
1972-3/Australia/Bali/Ceylon; otherwise illegible Title page insc:
Diary/Donald Friend/Sydney Australia/18th October 1972/Bali/13th January '73/
Ceylon/-Bali again 1975/7th February Australia 1975 |
| Item 44 |
13 February 1975 - 11 February 1978 Hard cover vinyl bound
Collins printed diary for 1975 (no title page) (Bali, Melbourne,
Sydney) |
| Item 45 |
14 February 1978 - 18 May 1982 Hard cover vinyl bound Collins
printed diary for 1978 Title page insc: Diary covering/14th February
1978/until/18th May 1982/Donald Friend |
| Item 46 |
19 May 1982 - 1 February 1987; 4-28 April 1988 Hard cover full
leather bound book, the cover stamped in gold: DONALD FRIEND
Title page insc: DIARY/DONALD FRIEND/For the Years 1982-198...,
should/he, by God's Grace, or Tolerance, or even/Absent-Mindedness, be
permitted to/continue in this Vale of Tears, recording/[ink and watercolour
drawing of DF drawing a bird, watched by an aborigine]//rapid Thoughts, Vacuous
Opinions,/Vain Desires & Vacant Doings/of an Existence so chock-full of/
Worthlessness it may serve as an/EXAMPLE/of what Simple Citizens should/avoid
in their striving for Perfection/Eet cet Your Excellencies, & cet. |
| Item 47 |
2 March - 3 December 1987 Hardcover leather bound book, the
cover with applied paper label with an ink self portrait of DF Title page
insc: DIARY/from March 1987 to 19/[still life, watercolour]/Does Age bring
Wisdom?-it/certainly teaches one to value the trivia/which help the hours to
pass/Donald Friend |
Item 48 (Folio) |
19 December 1988 Hardcover cloth half bound book (No title
page; contains: colour photographs of various works; part of a jungle adventure
story in manuscript, written pre-September 1987; and DF's final diary
entry) |
| Items 49-50 |
2 Nigerian notebooks, 1939 (exercise books) |
| Item 51 |
Added 10.12.94 1 album of Javanese and Balinese
Bronzes |