VII
A Select Bibliography
A Primary Sources
1 Unpublished
11 Published
B Secondary Sources
1 Books
11 Articles etc.
111 Letters
Select Bibliography
A Primary Sources
1 Unpublished material.
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 Although some of the short stories and poems which occur in unpublished manuscripts have been published in periodicals, by no means are the majority of them in this category.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.
My Blackfellow Book, short stories, articles, cuttings on aboriginal theme, 1950, in National Library.
Nautical Notes and Clippings, collected material on sea and sailors, for sue in poems, articles. Undated, in National Library.
Personalia, a collection of personnel and family papers, collated in 1951, in Mitchell Library.
The Simple Life, a collection of articles. Stories, and newspaper cuttings on outdoor life, undated, in National Library.
Utopias Ltd., collection of handwritten, typescript and printed material on collective settlements. Vol. I – 1902 – 1932, dealing with early cooperative settlements throughout the world; Vol. II – 1923 – 1933, dealing with Mallacoota Community Farm. In Mitchell Library.
Victor J. Daley, correspondence, papers and transactions, collated, with biographical notes, by Brady when he was secretary of a fund which raised money for Daley’s tombstone and for a grant to his family. Covers the period 1898 – 1929, in Mitchell Library.
iii Drama
“Antonelli” – an Australian Photo-Drama in 5 reels, scenario for film, undated, in National Library.
“Fallen Leaves”. A play set at Mallacoota and possibly adaptable to a film, in National Library.
“Life on a Rubber Plantation”, typescript play set in Malaya, undated, in National Library.
iv Letters
Brady to Dr. James Booth, 1927 – 1936, 4 letters, in La Trobe Library.
Brady to A.H. Chisholm, 1935 – 1951, 24 letters, in possession A.H. Chisholm, Sydney.
Brady to Thomas Cooke, 1935 – 1952, 11 letters, in La Trobe Library.
Brady to Mrs. E. Ella (his cousin), 1939 – 1944, 7 letters, in possession of Mrs. Jack, Dee Why.
Brady to Miles Franklin, 1943 – 1945, 3 letters, in Mitchell Library.
Brady to Muir Holburn, 1944 – 1951, 49 letters, in Mitchell Library.
Brady to Oscar Mendelsohn, 1946 – 1951, 81 letters, in possession of Oscar Mendelsohn, Melbourne.
Brady to J.K. Moir, 1937 – 1951, 91 letters in La Trobe Library.
Brady to A.G. Stephens, 1901 – 1930, 3 letters in Mitchell Library.
v Political and philosophical.
The Red Objective, an incomplete manuscript planned to have some thirty chapters, undated, but worked on over many years. In National Library.
This book was planned as a major undertaking by Brady. It was to set out the complete history of the Labor Party in Australia, especially in New South Wales, from its inception. Much work was done on it, and individual chapters, sometimes in three drafts, appear in his papers.
A Religion of Humanity, written from 1929 to 1932, sets out Brady’s religious and philosophical credo, almost totally socialistic. It is dedicated to Hugh Brady, first Protestant Bishop of Meath, and has an Introduction. 209 pp, in National Library.
vi Short stories.
A list among Brady’s papers contains the names of 28 “short stories” and 38 “humorous stories” (Ms 206, Box 31). Some of these cannot be traced; a few have been published; many appear in the various collections of short stories listed below, sometimes more than once.
Beachcomber and Bushrangers, a collection of 34 stories, 1940 – 1942, 443 pp, in Mitchell Library.
The Gippslanders, 35 stories and sketches, 1947, in National Library.
Kangaroo Tales, a collection of 32 stories, 1894 – 1939, in National Library.
Knights of New Arcadia, 38 stories based on the adventures of the Poet and the Artist, undated, in National Library.
The Lotus Eaters (The Land of the Lotus), 26 short stories, many overlapping with Knights of New Arcadia, undated in National Library.
The Message Stick, collection of 44 essays and short stories, undated, in National Library.
vii Verse.
Some of the poems in these unpublished collections have been published in periodicals; most are unpublished.
Ballads and Chanties, 6o poems, undated, in Mitchell Library.
The Cat and the Fiddle, 62 poems, undated, in La Trobe Library.
Juvenilia, containing poems from 1888 to 1892 but collated by Brady 1946 – 1950, in Fryer Memorial Library.
Keel and Caravan, collected verse mentioned in several places, the manuscript of which was not sighted.
Native Notions, a collection of 24 light and nonsense poems, undated, in National Library.
Rhymes of Revolt, 52 revolutionary poems written 1890 – 1944, with a Foreword dated 1944, in National Library.
The Wandering Foot, 50 poems, undated but 1944 from external mention in letters, in National Library.
II Published material.
i. Books
a. Poetry
The Ways of Many Waters (Sydney, 1899).
The Earthen Floor (Grafton, 1902).
The Ways of Many Waters (Melbourne, 1909).
Bushland Ballads (Melbourne, 1910).
Bells and Hobbles (Melbourne, 1911).
The House of the Winds (London, 1919).
Wardens of the Seas, (Sydney, 1933).
b. Prose
Sydney Harbour, (Sydney, 1903)
Sydney: The Commercial Capital of the Commonwealth, (Sydney, 1904).
The King’s Caravan (London, 1911).
Picturesque Port Phillip (Melbourne, 1911)>
River Rovers (Melbourne, 1911).
Tom Pagdin: Pirate (Sydney, 1911).
Australia Unlimited (Melbourne, 1918), issued in a one-volume and two-volume edition.
The Land of the Sun (London, 1924).
The Overlander: The Prince’s Highway, (Melbourne, 1926).
Dr. Mannix: Archbishop of Melbourne (Melbourne, 1934).
Two Frontiers Sydney, 1944).
In addition to these titles, three books were written, principally by Brady, but using ideas from Leslie Rubins:
Depression and Its Cure: The Gold Measure Theory (Melbourne, 1933), with an introduction by Brady.
The Golden Key to Victory, Peace and Prosperity (Melbourne, 1942).
Dreams and Realities (Melbourne, 1944).
ii Serials.
“Rougemont Outdone” (in manuscript, entitled “The Cruise of the Gospel Truth”), The Arrow, 26.11.1898 to 14.1.1899.
“On the Wallaby”, The Arrow, 11.2.1899 to 17.6.1899.
“A Juvenile World Walker”, The Arrow, 24.6.1899 to 16.9.1899.
“War in the Transvaal” (also “The African War”), The Arrow, 21.10.1899 to 28.7.1900.
“War in China”, The Arrow, 4.8.1900 to 20.10.1900.
“A Younger Quixote”. The Arrow, 27.10.1900 to 23.2.1901.
iii Introductions, Forewords, etc.
Foreword (pp. 1 – 18) in E.H. Anderson, The Economics and Finance of a New Order (Melbourne, 1946).
Foreword to E. Harrington, Boundary Bend and Other Ballads (Melbourne, 1936).
Foreword, “Personal Impressions of Victor Daley and His Work” (pp. 11 – 14) in Muir Holburn and Marjorie Pizer (eds.), Creeve Roe: Poetry by Victor Daley (Sydney, 1947).
Foreworfd (pp. 7,8), dated February 1948, to H.H. Pearce, The Song of Nature (Melbourne, 1948).
iv Editorial Material.
Brady wrote regular editorial material as editor of various publications. There is too much of this to list, but it is available as follows:
The Arrow, 1896 – 1900
The Grip, 1901 – 1903
The Worker (Sydney), 1904 – 1905.
The Native Companion, 1907
v General Prose.
“Life’s Highway” a series of reminiscences and autobiographical notes, extracts from which were published in Southerly, No. 4, 1952 to No. 4, 1955.
“Louis Esson: Memories and Impressions”. L. Esson, The Southern Cross and Other Plays (Melbourne, 1946), pp. 215 – 217.
“The Voice of Australia”, a biographical essay on Lawson in Cecil Mann (ed.), The Stories of Henry Lawson, Third Series (Sydney, 1964), pp. 488 – 505.
Major Contributions were made to:
Bank Notes, 1938 – 1941.
Focus, 1946 – 1948.
The Labor Call, 1930 – 1936.
Life Digest, 1945 – 1950.
A fairly exhaustive card-file has been made of Brady’s contributions to various publications, including over a thousand poems. With such voluminous production, the names only are given of publications which have printed his work.
VII
A.B.E. Weekly
The Age
All About Books
The Argus
The Arrow
Art in Australia
Art and Letters
Aussie
Australian Clothing Trades Journal
Australian Dramatic Annual
Australian Journal
Australia To-Day
Australian Pastoralist
Australian Workman
The Australasian
Australasian Stage Annual
Australasian Traveller
B.P. Magazine
Bairnsdale Advertiser
Bank Notes
Barrier Daily Truth
Beckett’s Budget
Biblionews
Bird-O’-Freedom
Bohemia
Bookfellow
The Bulletin
The Centennial Magazine
Cerise and Blue
A Comment
Corroboree
Country Life Annual
Courier (Adelaide)
The Echo
Evening News
Farmer and Settler
The Field
Focus
Freeman’s Journal
Golden North
Grip
Hassell’s Australian Miscellany
Henslowe’s Annual
Herald (Melbourne)
The Home
International Socialist
The Journalist
Kat Magazine
Labor Call
The Land
The Leader
Life Digest
Lilley’s Magazine
The Listener In
Lone Hand
The Magnet (Eden)
Man
Meanjin
Midday Times
The Native Companion
New Idea
New Triad
Newspaper News
Our Annual
Our Swag
Pacific Islands Monthly
The Publicist
Punch Annual
Review of Reviews
The School Magazine
The Shop Assistant
The Sketcher
Smith’s Weekly
Snowy River Mail
Southerly
Spectator
The Sun (Sydney)
Sunday Mail (Brisbane)
Sunday Sun (Sydney)
Sunday Times
Sydney Mail
Sydney Morning Herald
Table Talk
Telegraph (Hobart)
Telegraph (Sydney)
Tocsin
Tomorrow
Truth
The Union Voice
The Unemployed Gazette
Walkabout
Weekly Times
The Western Mail
Windsor and Richmond Gazette
Worker (Brisbane)
Worker (Sydney)
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B Secondary Sources
1. Books
There are no books which throw much light on Brady’s life, with the exception perhaps of Green’s general survey, but those making passing reference to him and those of use in this biography are listed:
J. Barnes (ed.), The Writer in Australia 1895 – 1964 (Melbourne, 1969).
M. Barton and O. Sitwell, Sober Truth (London, 1930).
G. Black, The Origin and Growth of the Labor Movement in New South Wales (Sydney, 1915).
R Boynton and M. Mack, Introduction to the Short Story (New York, 1965).
J. Le Gay Brereton, Knocking Around, (Sydney, 1930).
C. Brown, Writing For Australia: A Nationalist Tradition in Australian Literature (Melbourne, 1956).
E.W. Campbell, History of the Australian Labour Movement: A Marxist Interpretation (Sydney, 1945).
Z Cross, An Introduction to the Study of Australian Literature (Sydney, 1922).
A.H. Chisholm, The Joy of the Earth (Sydney, 1969).
R.H. Croll, I Recall (Melbourne, 1939).
G. Dutton (ed.), The Literature of Australia (Adelaide, 1964)
E. Dyson, The Golden Shanty (Sydney, 1963).
R.N. Ebbels, The Australian Labor Movement 1850 – 1907 (Melbourne, 1960 (1965))
L. Esson, Dead Timber and Other Plays (London, 1920).
J.K. Ewers, Creative Writing in Australia (Melbourne, 1962.
P. Ford, Cardinal Moran and the A.L.P. (Melbourne, 1966).
Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (Edinburgh, 1901 (Sydney, 1965) ).
Laughter, Not for a Cage (Sydney, 1956).
H.M. Green, A History of Australian Literature (Sydney, 1961 (1962) ).
F.S. Greenop, The History of Magazine Publishing in Australia (Sydney, 1947).
Ada A Holman, Memoirs of a Premier’s Wife (Sydney, 1948).
B. Hornadge, The Yellow Peril (Dubbo, 1971).
T. Inglis Moore, Social Patterns in Australian Literature (Sydney 1971).
A.W. Jose, The Romantic Nineties (Sydney, 1933).
E.H. Lane, Dawn To Dusk (Brisbane, 1939).
D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo (London, 1923).
Bertha Lawson and J. Le Gay Brereton, Henry Lawson by Mates (Sydney, 1931).
N. Lindsay, Creative Effort London, 1924).
Saturdee, (Sydney, 1934 (1966) ).
Bohemians of the Bulletin (Sydney, 1965)
F.T. Macartney, A Historical Outline of Australian Literature (Sydney, 1957).
E. McDonnell (Hugh Stone), The Land of the Budgeriga (Newcastle, 1936).
J. Masefield, A Sailor’s Garland (London, 1906).
J. Miller (William Lane), The Workingman’s Paradise (Sydney, 1892 (1948) ).
Vance Palmer (ed.), A.G. Stephens: His Life and Work (Melbourne, 1941).
The Legend of the Nineties (Melbourne, 1954).
The Rainbow Bird and Other Stories (selected by A. Edwards) (Sydney, 1957 (1969) ).
Denton Prout, Henry Lawson: The Grey Dreamer (Adelaide, 1963).
L. Rees, Towards an Australian Drama (Sydney, 1953).
C. Roderick, An Introduction to Australian Fiction (Sydney, 1950).
C. Semmler, The Banjo of the Bush: The Work, Life and Times of A.B. Paterson (Melbourne, 1966 (1967) ).
(ed.) Twentieth Century Australian Literary Criticism (Melbourne, 1967).
W.G. Spence, The History of the A.W.U. (Sydney, 1961).
D. Stewart and Nancy Keesing (eds), Australian Bush Ballads (Sydney, 1955 (1968) )
J.H. Sutcliffe, A History of Trade Unionism in Australia (Melbourne, 1921).
G.A. Taylor, Those Were the Days (Melbourne, 1918).
Kylie Tennant, Australia: Her Story (London, 1953).