[1977.0025] Papers of Tarlton Rayment

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IdentifierUMA-ACE-19770025Extent5 boxesLinear Meterage1.24Scope and ContentBox 1 - photographs, drawings and diagrams of “Commercial Bee Farming in Australia”; printing block.
Box 2 - typescript (with some handwritten edits) and illustrations of “The Bees of Western Australia”; typescript (with some handwritten edits) and illustrations of “Our First Cousins”, ‘written at the request of the Anthropological Society of Victoria’ for school children.
Box 3 - typescripts (with some handwritten edits) of bee-related publications. Includes letters to editors concerning transcripts, and some related photographs and diagrams hand-drawn by Rayment.
Box 4 - typescripts (with some handwritten edits) of bee-related publications. Includes letters to editors concerning transcripts and hand-labelled mounted photographs; large map of ‘Parish of Magnetic County of Elphinstone, Townsville Land Agent’s District, North Kennedy, Queensland’ in 1956; handwritten notes and workings.
Box 5 - complete typed draft of novel “Seven Singers”’ (unpublished?);folder containing typescript of “The Moonspell; a play in three acts” (unpublished?) with watercolours of various scenes; tied-up ‘first typed draft of novel “Ringed Timber”’ (unpublished?); folder containing typescript of “The Ringed Tree; sequel to The Valley of the Sky” dated 1938. The stamp on the first page of this item suggests it was received by publishers in London in 1938. [Valley of the Sky (1937) 'a romantic idyll of the pioneering of Gippsland' was based on the life of Angus McMillan and won the British section of an all-nations novel competition].Collection CategoryCulture and the ArtsAccess StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this Accession

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CreatorRayment, TarltonRoleCreator Last edited by: mbarrie@unimelb.edu.au

Dates

Date1938-1949

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Previous System ID1977.0025State of ListUnlisted

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Genre/FormDocuments Last edited by: mbarrie@unimelb.edu.au

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[1977.0025] Papers of Tarlton Rayment