A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF EDWIN JAMES BRADY - Mallacoota ...

A Primary Sources
1 Unpublished material.
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There are large numbers of Brady manuscripts – poems, short stories, letters –
in the libraries, especially in the National and Mitchell. The National Library
collection has not been fully catalogued. Major items only can be listed.
Although some of the short stories and poems which occur in unpublished
manuscripts have been published in periodicals, by no means are the majority
of them in this category. They are more accessible through these collections
than in isolated periodicals.
i Biography
John Archibald: Life and Times of a Great Editor – an undated manuscript,
although completed in the early 1940’s. It consisted of 214 pages, with
another 70 of collected impressions of Archibald written by nineteen of his
colleagues. An Appendix has details of Archibald’s will and the prize he
bestowed upon Sydney. One copy is owned by Oscar Mendelsohn, the other
by the Australian Journalists’ Association, New South Wales Branch.
Odd Men Out – undated manuscript of biographies of twenty seven famous
men, 1892 - 1950, 140 pp., in National Library.
Prime Ministers, Premiers and Politicians I have Known, covering the period
1904 – 1950, 236 pp., in National Library.
Some Big Australians, containing brief biographies of twenty-five Australians
famous in various fields, 1936, 77 pp., in National Library.
ii Collections, notebooks, etc.
Australian Art and Letters, 1905 – 1950. A collection of written material,
letters, newspaper cuttings and articles, in two volumes. Vol I – 1905 – 1927;
vol. II – 1927 – 1950, in National Library
Australian Artists’ Biographies, a collection of personal details, newspaper
cuttings and letters obtained for a projected book, Artists of Victoria, to
contain twenty-six biographies. 1911, in Mitchell Library.
Grafton and Clarence River, a collection of material compiled on his northern
trip and when he was living at Grafton. Covers the period 1899 – 1903. 140
pp., in National Library.
Literary Notebook, a large volume begun in 1894 and extending to 1951,
containing notes, news-cuttings, scribbled comments, photographs, which
Brady had saved for future literary use. In National Library.
The Murray River, 1908 – 1950, collection of letters and newspaper cuttings,
complete with Brady’s comments, on water conservation, irrigation, and
Murray River. In Mitchell Library.