M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from August 2007

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from August 2007

An apology.(Correction notice)
August 1, 2007... In the April 2007 edition of Margin No 71 there appeared an article by Elizabeth June Torcasio entitled 'What's in a Lael' Due to a series of accidents page one of this article was missed when the copy was proof read. The result was that...

Frederick Fisher's materialisation in Australia convict, papermaker, murder victim and ghost.
August 1, 2007... George Worrall, who was convicted on Friday last of the murder of Frederick Fisher, yesterday suffered the dreadful sentence of the law. Till about 5 o'clock on the morning of his execution, he persisted in asserting his innocence, when he was...

The John Lang page.
August 1, 2007... The John Lang Project continues to flourish with the publication in 2007 of Lang's famous best selling novel Violet, or the Danseuse. The second book for the year will be Legends of India a collection of stories and articles written by him...

Thomas Shepherd's Landscape Gardening in Australia (1836).
August 1, 2007... In 1836 in Sydney bookshops there appeared a book entitled Lectures on Landscape Gardening in Australia by the late Mr. Thomas Shepherd. The book was published by William McGarvie, a Sydney bookseller, and the operator of a subscription library...

Another two Neilson Poets.
August 1, 2007... Andrew Peake of South Australia has written to Margin about two poets of Penola, South Australia who were members of the same family as the famous Australian Poet John Shaw Neilson. The two brothers John and William Neilson were his uncles. Mr...

The bibliography of Australian literature K to O.
August 1, 2007... This important reference work continues to be published and there are now three volumes with two more to go. When completed we will have a new up to date reference work of the books of fiction published in Australia. I must emphasise that the...

David Scott Mitchell and Australia's first book.
August 1, 2007... The bicentenary of the publication of Australia's first book was noted in an article in Margin in 2002. (1) The Mitchell Library in Sydney is the proud custodian of two copies of this very rare book with the rather prosaic title of New South...

A first fleet letter from Port Jackson.
August 1, 2007... Letters from convicts are very rare and to have one written by a woman is even more rare. The letter was printed in Historical Records of New South Wales Vol. 2 Appendix E (British Library Papers). Port Jackson 14th November, 1788 I...

The dreadful Organ bought for the Sydney International Exhibition.(A Sydney Musical Calamity)
August 1, 2007... The 'Grand Organ' used at the Sydney International Exhibition was not altogether in keeping with the magnificent contents of the Garden Palace. It was an instrument built in London, in the year 1804, by Gray and Davison and was specially...