Guide to the Papers of Dame Mary Gilmore
MS 727
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2026
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Gilmore, Mary, Dame, 1865-1962
- Title
- Papers of Dame Mary Gilmore
- Date Range
- 1870 - 1962
- Collection Number
- MS 727
- Extent
- 3.21 metres (13 archive boxes + 5 MS boxes + 4 packets)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
- Sponsor
- This finding aid was revised and published with the assistance of the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust
Introduction
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this collection may contain the names and images of deceased people and other material that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words of descriptions which reflect the period in which the material was created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice
This collection contains Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples, including Aboriginal place names and artworks, and descriptions of cultural practices. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, sheet music, photographs, press cuttings, scrapbook, and printed material.
A description of the Dame Mary Gilmore Collection appears in W.H. Wilde Courage and grace: a bibliography of Dame Mary Gilmore (Melbourne, 1988).
Conditions Governing Access
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1418838).
Conditions Governing Use
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Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Dame Mary Gilmore, National Library of Australia, MS 727, [series/file/item number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers held at MS 727 were received by the Library in several instalments between 1958 and 1991.
Related Materials
Other collections containing letters and papers of Mary Gilmore include the following:
Kate Baker (MS 1533); W.P. Bluett (MS 4714); J.H. Catts (MS 658); Alec Chisholm (MS 1880), M. Condon (MS 2375); Ralph De Boissiere (MS 8402); Harold W. Eather (MS 2015); Edward Findley (MS 2111); Annie Louise Green (MS 8574); Elioth Gruner (MS 8965); Clement Hosking (MS 2680); Norman Jeffery (MS 1948); Marie McNiven (MS 2012); and W. Farmer Whyte (MS 970).
The Library also holds records of the Mary Gilmore Centenary Committee, 1964-65 at MS 1696.
Separated Materials
Papers of Mary Gilmore are held at MS 1662, MS 1695 and MS 8766 and diaries, 1940-49 are held at MS 614 (copies: originals held by Mitchell Library, Sydney). Small collections of letters by Mary Gilmore are held at MS 633, MS 1728, MS 1888, MS 2685 and MS 5644.
Other papers of Dame Mary Gilmore are held by the Mitchell Library, Sydney; the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra; and Charles Sturt University Regional Archives.
Biographical Note
Mary Cameron, poet and journalist, was born at Mary Vale, Woodhouselee, near Goulburn, NSW, on 16 August 1865. She was educated at Brucedale, near Wagga Wagga, and later at Wagga Wagga Public School. Between 1877 and 1895 she taught in a variety of schools in New South Wales. She became involved in the New Australia movement and on 31 October 1895 resigned from teaching and sailed to Paraguay on the Ruapehu. Cameron remained at the Cosme settlement in Paraguay until 1899. 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 Cosme. Before returning to Australia in 1902, she taught English in Rio Gallegos in southern Patagonia and wrote for Buenos Aires papers.
Gilmore's verse first appeared in the Australian Worker in 1902, and from 1908-31 she edited the women's page of this newspaper. Her first published volume, 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), Battlefields (1939), and Fourteen men (1954).
In 1937, in recognition of her contribution to Australian literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire - the first woman to receive this award for services to literature. Dame Mary 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 life member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Dame Mary Gilmore died on 3 December 1962.
Item Descriptions
Series 1. Unpublished and undated poems, n.d.
This series contains unpublish and undated poems by Dame Mary Gilmore; the poems in this series are arranged alphabetically by first line. For the purposes of this finding aid, "unpublished" means any verse not included in the published works listed in Series 3.
Series 2. Manuscripts and typescripts of poems (unpublished but dated), 1900 - 1959
This series contains manuscripts and typescripts of poems by Dame Mary Gilmore. Poems in this series are primarily arranged by year and then alphabetically by the first letter of the first line. In some cases, Gilmore has co-located variously dated pieces with similar titles. Conversely, variously dated poems often appear on one sheet together.
Series 3. Manuscripts and typescripts of published poems, 1912 - 1949
This series comprises of manuscript and typescript copies of poems by Dame Mary Gilmore subsequently published in the following titles:
The poems are arranged alphabetically by first line.
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems from 14 Men (part 2), n.d. (File 3) - Box 8 (MS 727)
Multiple copies of poem entitled No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest printed on card with different coloured borders. Some copies signed or annotated by Mary Gilmore. Also contains a promotional leaflet for Mary Gilmore's poetry collection The Rue Tree signed by the author.
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems from Marri'd and other verses, c. 1985-1903 (File 5) - Box 8 (MS 727)
Series 4. Sheet music, 1906 - 1940
Eight pieces, including drafts and copies of Australian Battle Cry, Six Poems by Dame Mary Gilmore set to music by John Arcot, and Six Songs from the South words by Mary Gilmore; music by G.H. Clutsam.
Six Songs From The South, 1906 (Item 1) - Folio-Box (Shared)
Words by Mary Gilmore and music by G. H. Clutsam. Comprises of The Awakening, Under the Orchard Tree, Time Will Not Wait, My Hand in Thine, Sing Sweet, Little Bird, and The Bush's Secret. Contains handwritten annotations by Mary Gilmore.
Sheet music, n.d. (File 2) - Folio-Box (Shared)
Contains draft manuscript of Six Poems by Mary Gilmore set to music by John Arcot, Love and Flowers by Ethel Voss and George Graff Jr., and draft manuscript of Australian Battle Cry.
Sheet music, c. 1935-1940 (File 3) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this file may contain words or descriptions that reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP is in the form of words in First Nations languages. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Scope and contents: Contains draft manuscripts of Only, Alice, Bid Me to Live, Rose Marie and When the Wind Swings out to Sea. Also contains a printed hymn book gifted to Mary Gilmore by Isabel Bjelke-Petersen and 48 copies of printed sheet music for Australian Battle Cry.
Series 5. Scrapbooks, 1906 - 1954
Scrapbook, 1906 - 1912 (File 1) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations people. The ICIP comes in the form of lists of Aboriginal place names. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Scope and contents: Scrapbook contains household hints, recipes, etc., also some articles on socialism, Aboriginal place names.
Series 6. Correspondence - outwards, 1949 - 1959
Correspondence - outwards, 1949 - 1959 (File 1) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this file may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Scope and contents: Articles for publication and letters to editors by Mary Gilmore. Includes draft of an article titled A Black Civilisation".
Series 7. Correspondence - inwards
Many of the letters in this series are annotated by Mary Gilmore with the details of her reply.
Subseries 7.1. Correspondence - inwards, 1957 - 1959
Please note that this sub-series does not contain a File 1 and begins at File 2. In addition, items 14, 15, 30, 49, 51, and 58 were previously relocated to another series and are not reflected here.
Correspondence - inwards, 1957 - 1958 (File 2)
Joyce Batty, n.d. (Item 1) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Handwritten letter with typed document "Jiembra - the dancing star: an Australian legend" by Joyce Batty.
L. Kahan, n.d. (Item 3) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Requesting an appointment to do a sketch of Mary Gilmore for Meanjin.
T. J. N. Foley, 22 November 1957 (Item 9) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Chairman of the Tobacco Company (Australia) Limited. In response to an article by Mary Gilmore on smoking causing lung cancer.
John Kennedy and D. G. Whiteman, 7 January, 27 March 1958 (Item 11) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP comes in the form of descriptions of past Aboriginal settlements at Lake Midgeon. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Scope and contents: Two letters relating to Lake Midgeon Station, Narrandera, NSW.
Murray S. Smith, 12 February 1958 (Item 12) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Typed document on Hiroshima panels, and copy of letter by Mary Gilmore sent to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Elizabeth K., 12 April 1958 (Item 16) - Box 9 (MS 727)
With notes from Mary Gilmore on the back of the final page.
Walter McRae Russell, 4 May 1958 (Item 17) - Box 9 (MS 727)
President Council of Victorian Literary Societies. Includes photo of Crouch Medal.
Henrich Scully, 7 July 1958 (Item 18) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Includes newspaper cutting relating to Mary Adolphus Daly.
Rene Foster, 7 July 1958 (Item 19) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Enclosing her review of Prosper the Commonwealth by Sir Robert Garran.
N. T. Flentje, 8 July 1958 (Item 20) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Head of Department of Plant Pathology, Waite Agricultural Research Institute.
Correspondence - inwards, 1958 - 1959 (File 3)
Maude Elizabeth Edmondson, 17 October 1958 (Item 31) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Re husband's passing and early memories of Gilmore's teacher.
K. R. Bernard-Smith, 3 December 1958 (Item 32) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Correction of Gilmore's newspaper article on architecture.
R. G. Casey, 15 December 1958 (Item 33) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Re Age letter, and photocopy of letter concerned.
Margaret Murray, [1959?] (Item 36) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Birthday greetings on behalf of Gilmore House, Asquith Girls High School.
Stan Moran, 6 January 1959 (Item 38) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Invitation to be a guest in the May Day parade.
Colin Roderick, 7 January 1959 (Item 40) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Requesting access to Lawson material at the Mitchell Library.
Aboriginal Australian Fellowship, 12 January 1959 (Item 43) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Scope and contents: Circular to members and affiliated organisations.
Correspondence - inwards, 1959 (File 4)
Correspondence - inwards, 1959 (File 5)
W. Donaldson, 21 June 1959 (Item 84) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Quoting and explaining Robert Burns' poem Look up and see.
J. Horner, 22 June 1959 (Item 85) - Box 9 (MS 727)
Secretary of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, thanking Mary Gilmore for her recent letter.
Subseries 7.2. Correspondence - inwards, 1957 - 1958
Material in this sub-series was added 13 July 1972.
Correspondents include Book Collectors' Society of Australia, Clair White, Stephen Murray-Smith, Edith Haynes, Herbert S. Groves, Rev. Armand Whitehead, J.K. Moir, Ada Warner, Australian Aboriginal Fellowship, James McAuley, W.E. Steele-Smith, Albert E. Leane, Dr W. McRae Russell, Dr A.L. McLeod, Bernard Peach, R.H. Croll, Helen Cameron Roberts, H.M. Green, Philip Whelan, Jessie D. Fisher, Sheila Searle, Dorothy Catts, H.J. Brophy, Colin Newsome, Brownie Downing, Grace Cheers, Maude Healey, B. O'Donovan, E. Ailsa Lewis, and Rita Turner.
Series 8. Correspondence - inwards, 1959 - 1962
Many of the letters in this series are annotated by Mary Gilmore with the details of her reply.
Items 7, 58, 71, 77, 80 and 81 were previously relocated to another series and are not reflected here.
Correspondence - inwards, 1959 (File 1)
G. Bardsley, 6 August 1959 (Item 2) - Box 10 (MS 727)
From Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship re Stuart case.
Jessie M. G. Street, 6 August 1959 (Item 3) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Invitation from Australia-Soviet Friendship Society.
J. Horner, 15 August 1959 (Item 9) - Box 10 (MS 727)
From the Hon. Sec., Aboriginal Australian Fellowship.
H. Grace, 19 August 1959 (Item 16) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Includes copy of Grace's poem Boiling the Billy.
A. L. Hingston, 19 August 1959 (Item 17) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Includes copy of Hingston's poem Namatjira.
Rev. Normal Anderson, 1959 - 1962 (Items 21) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Circulars from Australian and New Zealand Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament. Also includes Peace Action, a pamphlet from the World Disarmament Congress in Moscow, 9-14 July 1962 and a letter to Dame Mary Gilmore from Marian Hill at the New South Wales Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament.
Correspondence - inwards, 1959 - 1960 (File 2)
Louis Critchley, October 1959 (Item 31) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Circular from the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Bart O'Donovan, 16 October 1959 (Item 32) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Giving news of the Hay Historical Society and Hay centenary celebrations.
Meryl Baulch, 14 October 1959 (Item 37) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Scope and contents: Includes leaflet Books by and about Meher Baba.
J. King, 26 October 1959 (Item 38) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Invitation to present at the Blind Book Society.
Karine Lancaster, Graeme Dawe, 19 November 1959 (Item 44) - Box 10 (MS 727)
School captains at Wagga Wagga Primary School.
Norman MacKenzie, 25 November 1959 (Item 46) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Social Science Research Council of Australia.
Correspondence - inwards, 1960 (File 3)
Len Fox, 13 January 1960 (Item 54) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation (Miner's Federation).
Colin Roderick, 12 April 1960 (Item 74) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Includes circular for the 1960 Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival
Mary Lester, 13 April 1960 (Item 75) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Includes program relating to the 1960 International Women's Day Committee.
Correspondence - inwards, 1960 - 1961 (File 4)
Leslie Haylen, 22 June 1960 (Item 93) - Box 10 (MS 727)
President of the Australasian Book Society. Requesting Dame Mary Gilmore add her name to a statement calling for greater public support for Australian writing.
L. de K. Huon, 22 October 1961 (Item 103) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Includes typescript poetry and family history information.
Enid Morton, 11 November - 20 December 1961 (Item 104) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Regarding the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Includes press release.
Correspondence - inwards, 1962 (File 5)
M. Alexander, 21 January 1962 (Item 111) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Includes photograph and several poems by E. A. Brown.
R. Wilson, 19 March 1962 (Item 112) - Box 10 (MS 727)
Secretary of the N.S.W. Festival Information Centre
Series 9. Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1917 - 1962
Subseries 9.1. Items received in original consignment
Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1950 - 1959 (File 1)
Artwork and letters to Gilmore by Byram Mansell, 1950 - 1951 (Item 1) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Scope and contents: A booklet created by Byram Mansell titled In the Dream Time which encloses three stories under the title Australian Legends. The stories are How the Sky was Lifted, The Rain Cloud and The Fish Cave. The cover is illustrated in ink and clay pigment and inserted on the inside cover are two letters to Gilmore from Mansell. The first page includes an inscription to Mary Gilmore from Mansell, dated 1950. There is a separate copy of How the Sky was Lifted in a hand-made paper, painted cover, inscribed from Mansell to Gilmore in 1951 and a decorated wallet containing photographs and news cuttings of Mansell's work, together with a letter to Gilmore in 1950.
Report on Aborigines in Australia by Jessie M. G. Street, May - June 1957 (Item 2) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1917 - 1959 (File 2)
Sydney De Vries Memorial Scholarship Reunion, 2 November 1959 (Item 7) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Program for the tenth annual reunion.
Fellowship: a Monthly Magazine of Undogmatic Religion and Social and Literary Criticism, November 1917, January 1920 (Item 9) - Box 11 (MS 727)
v.4, no.4; v.6, no.6.
Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1949 - 1959 (File 3)
Walkabout, October 1959 (Item 14) - Folio-Box (Shared)
Volume 25, No. 10. Sent to Mary Gilmore by Brett Hilder, author of article Exodus from Sydney Island.
Hiroshima Panels, March - May 1958 (Item 15) - Folio-Box (Shared)
Iri Maruki and Toshiko Akamatsu exhibition.
Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1928 - 1961 (File 4)
Sixth Annual Commemoration of Australia's Writer and Poet, Henry Lawson, 2 September 1928 (Item 19) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Order of service for commemoration event held at Footscray Hill Park by the Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society of Footscray.
Exhibition of Contemporary Photography by Goeffrey Lee, 24 June - 3 July 1958 (Item 20) - Box 11 (MS 727)
At the David Jones Gallery.
The Miles Franklin Award, 17 April 1961 (Item 20A) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Invitation to the award ceremony.
Materials towards a Checklist of "Bulletin" Contributions by A. B. Paterson to 1902., December 1957 (Item 22) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1947 - 1959 (File 5)
International Union of Radio Science documents, January - April 1925 (File 6) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Documents in both French and English.
Greeting cards from other writers, n.d. (File 7) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this file may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP is in form of First Nations artworks. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Greeting cards, n.d. (File 8) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this file may contain images, words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Greeting cards and telegrams, n.d. (File 9) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this file may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Subseries 9.2. Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1956 - 1958
Addition to the collection 13 July 1972
Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1956 - 1958 (File 10) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Programs, booklets, agendas and other printed items received by Dame Mary Gilmore. Includes September 1957 issue of Singabout: a Bush Music Club Publication and several issues of Biblionews, the newsletter of the Book Collectors Society of Australia, as well as Peaceful Poems by Florence Griffith with a letter to Mary Gilmore from the author attached.
Issues of The Bulletin, 1957 (File 11)
The Bulletin Vol. 78 - No. 4024, 27 March 1957 (Item 11.2) - Box 11 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain images, words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Subseries 9.3. Miscellaneous items received by Mary Gilmore, 1922 - 1958
Publications added to the collection 1991.
The Trans-Australian Wonderland by A. G. Bolam, 1930 (Item 1) - Box 12 (MS 727)
Inscribed to Miss Hollings from E. Symons.
A Breath of Australian Bushland: Poems by M. L. Kennedy, n.d. (Item 2) - Box 12 (MS 727)
Contains letter to Dame Mary Gilmore from the author.
Socialism in Australia: Communist View on Democratic Socialism by L. L. Sharkey, 1957 (Item 7) - Box 12 (MS 727)
From Rossville to the Victorian Goldfields in 1852 by Lachlan Ross, 1918 (Item 8) - Box 12 (MS 727)
Letter to Dame Mary Gilmore enclosed.
Under the Wilgas by Mary Gilmore, 1936 (Item 11) - Box 12 (MS 727)
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP is in the form of words in an Aboriginal language. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Ramajerri: an Aboriginal Ballad by Clair White, 1957 (Item 12) - Box 12 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP is in the form of words in an Aboriginal language. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Scope and contents: Typescript copy.
Catalogue of the Fine Antique and Reproduction Furniture, Rare... 'Babworth House, 1957 (Item 14) - Box 13 (MS 727)
Journey Among Men by Jock Marshall and Russell Drysdale (Item 19) - Box 13 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this collection may contain names and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions that reflect the period in which the material was created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Eureka Stockade Centenary, 1954 (Item 20) - Box 13 (MS 727)
Includes Thomas Kennedy's march from Creswicks Creek by Harry Hastings Pearce
Commonwealth of Australia Jubilee, 1951 (Item 22) - Box 13 (MS 727)
Part 1 of official program of celebrations.
Exhibition of Contemporary Photography by Goeffrey Lee, 24 June - 3 July 1958 (Item 25) - Box 14 (MS 727)
At the David Jones Gallery.
Poems of David Martin, n.d. (Item 27) - Box 14 (MS 727)
Inscribed to Dame Mary Gilmore by the author.
Booran, a Tale of Early Australia by M. J. Unwin, 1958 (Item 28) - Box 14 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Scope and contents: Inscribed to Dame Mary Gilmore by the author.
The Moods of Love by Laurence Collinson, 1957 (Item 30) - Box 14 (MS 727)
Inscribed to Dame Mary Gilmore by the author.
Silhouette of Silverton, 14 September 1958 (Item 31) - Box 14 (MS 727)
Souvenir booklet. Includes newspaper clippings.
The ANZAC Memorial, n.d. (Item 32) - Box 14 (MS 727)
Published by the ANZAC Memorial Official Publications.
The Wattle and the Rowan by John White, 1957 (Item 35) - Box 14 (MS 727)
Inscribed to Dame Mary Gilmore by the author.
Human Rights for Australian Aborigines by Mary M. Bennett, 1957 (Item 37) - Box 15 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain names and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Uplands Pastures by William A. Bailey, 1950 (Item 38) - Box 15 (MS 727)
History of Crockwell District, New South Wales.
Old Tales in a New Land by Clement Hosking., 1957 (Item 42) - Box 15 (MS 727)
Some European customs and legends. Inscribed to Mary Gilmore by the author.
The Swagless Swaggie and Other Ballads: Selected Verse of Edward Harrington, 1958 (Item 43) - Box 15 (MS 727)
Inscribed to Mary Gilmore by the author.
Peeps into the Past: a Book of Melbourne's Curiosities by Mary Maxwell, 1957 (Item 44) - Box 15 (MS 727)
Inscribed to Mary Gilmore by the author.
Funafuti, or, Three Month on a Coral Island by Mrs Edgeworth David, 1899 (Item 45) - Box 15 (MS 727)
Ramajerri: an Aboriginal Ballad by Clair White, 1958 (Item 46) - Box 16 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain names and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP is in the form of words in an Aboriginal language. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Scope and contents: Inscribed to Mary Gilmore by the author.
The Great Boomerang by Ion L. Idriess, 1957 (Item 47) - Box 16 (MS 727)
Proposes a method of diverting rivers from Queensland to create an inland sea.
Baringa (Item 48) - Box 16 (MS 727)
Literary magazine of Wagga Teachers' College. Contains a program of opening of the Dame Mary Gilmore memorial gates at the College.
Prism: the Official Organ of the Poetry Society of Australia, 1957 (Items 49) - Box 16 (MS 727)
Four issues: Volume 4, Numbers 8, 9, 11, 12.
Inostrannaya Literature [Foreign Literature], 1957 (Item 51) - Box 16 (MS 727)
Russian literary magazine with an article on Dame Mary Gilmore written by Stephen Murray-Smith.
Series 10. Photographs and Printed Matter, 1895 - 1958
Printed Matter, c. 1870 - 1958 (File 1) - Box 17 (MS 727)
Newspaper clippings, some glued into scrapbook.
Photographs, c. 1870 - 1957 (File 2) - Box 17 (MS 727)
Series 11. Newspaper Clippings, 1919 - 1962
Columns and articles authored by Mary Gilmore, 1921 - 1960 (File 1) - Box 17 (MS 727)
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Notice: This item may contain Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) of Australian First Nations peoples. The ICIP is in the form of a description of Aboriginal processes for fish trap construction. Restrictions on access, copying and publication of this material may apply. Contact the National Library of Australia for further information.
Scope and contents: Includes several "Notes on Goulburn" columns.
Columns and articles authored by Mary Gilmore, 1919 - 1957 (File 2) - Box 17 (MS 727)
Includes several poems.
Mary Gilmore's Arrows, 1956 - 1960 (File 3) - Box 17 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this file may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Scope and contents: Columns written for The Tribune.
Clippings from The Tribune, 1956 - 1959 (File 4) - Box 17 (MS 727)
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this file may contain words or descriptions which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
Scope and contents:Includes "Mary Gilmore's Arrows" columns.
Clippings from The Tribune, 1956 - 1959 (File 5) - Box 17 (MS 727)
Includes "Mary Gilmore's Arrows" columns.
Manuscripts and correspondence, 1918 - 1959 (File 8) - Box 17 (MS 727)
Includes handwritten drafts of poems and articles, as well as some typescripts and correspondence.
General clippings, 1924 - 1962 (File 14) - Box 18 (MS 727)
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