Commandant of solitude : the journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828-1831, (1992)

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Series 22

Content Summary:

Commandant of solitude : the journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828-1831 was published in Melbourne by the Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press in 1992. Mulvaney edited the journals of Captain Collet Barker in collaboration with historian Neville Green. Barker, who arrived in Australia from Ireland in 1827, commanded remote settlements at Raffles Bay (Northern Territory) from 1828 to 1829, and King George Sound (Western Australia) from 1829 to 1831. Barker died soon after leaving the King George Sound settlement, while on a mission to survey the east coast of Gulf St Vincent (South Australia). This series includes correspondence, notes, extensive research material including newspaper cuttings and other printed items, manuscript and typescript draft material, page and galley proofs and computer discs. There are papers relating to Mulvaney's various talks and writings on Barker and related topics, including 'John Graham : the convict as Aboriginal' for Irish Convict Lives, edited by Bob Reece (Sydney : Crossing Press, 1993). Among the major correspondents are Don Aitkin, Janet Anderson, John Calaby, David Carment, John Carroll, Esther Davies, Peter Forrest, Sheila Forrest, Ralph Grandison, Neville Green, Ted Green, Anne Machin, Janet Mackenzie, Campbell Macknight, Isabel McBryde, Clare McMillan, Janet Putnam, Bob Reece, Ted Street, Heather Sutherland, Wendy Sutherland and Stephen Wild.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original instalment of this collection (MS 9615) was donated by Professor Mulvaney under the Cultural Gifts Program in September 1999. Further instalments were received in 2013 and 2017.

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