Papers of W. Farmer Whyte

Copyright Undetermined. Available for research. Not for loan.

0.75 m. (1 box) + 1 fol. packet. MS 563 is a diverse collection comprising correspondence, legal documents, newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, a cheque and reference material relating to a range of notable people, as well as printed Australiana and other published matter (1 box, 1 fol. packet). Manuscript letters to Farmer Whyte in the collection were written by James Bryce, Ethel Curlewis, L.H. Allen, Victor Daley, Norman Lindsay and Jim Taylor. The legal documents, many from Brisbane dated 1857-1874, together with accounts and land sales papers, include the 1835 conditional pardon for William Clarke bearing the seal of George III. There is material describing Charles Dicken's links with Australia including a letter written by James B. Rudd and a memo by T.H. Williams that refers to an article by Farmer Whyte on Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens. Material relating to World War I and war memorials includes an unsigned typescript letter from Berlin, 1914, describing the environment as the war broke out. There is also a Craftsmen's keepsake on Sir Henry Parkes for 1935-1936. Published matter includes copies of two journals: Old times, vol. 1, no. 2, issued in Sydney in May 1903, and The Harefield Park boomerang, no. 6, March 16, 1917, and newspaper cuttings. Also, nineteenth century issues of The Sydney herald, 23 January 1837, Sydney morning herald, 4 July 1846, and The Empire, 29 July 1853 and 4 May 1857. The non-Australian documents in the collection include manuscript letters of Lord Birdwood, John Walker to Reginald F.D. Palgrave, T.B. Lord Macaulay, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle to J. Kaines, Sir Henry Irving, G.B. Lord Rodney to Arthur Murphy, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington to the Duc de Richelieu, Sophie Dumaresq to Eliza O'Connell (cross-written), and autograph signatures of J.H. Leigh Hunt and Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection includes a copy of the publication Della Nuova Guinea: memoria del. prof. Amato Amati (Milano, 1869).