John Huybers (1859-1920), artist, writer, Melbourne, Europe, United States, Greece

Containers:

Box 29 (MS 8363)

Component identifier:

File 25

Content Summary:

Correspondence Geoffrey Stilwell, Allport Curator and Librarian, 27 May 1991

Photocopy of title page etc of presentation copy of When I was a boy in Greece by George Demetrios illustrated by John Huybers (born Hobart 5 November 1859), Boston, 1913. Presented by John Huybers, Boston USA April 1913 to Public Library Hobart.

Obituary John Huybers, Tasmanian Mail, 23 September 1920 (died 27 May 1920)

Letter Bruce Gomez, New York, re John Huybers, 26 Oct 1991

Photocopy Huybers Memorial Fund Committee document (Edith Valerio, sister, Secretary.Chairman, Aristides E. Phoutrides, University of Athens.

Print of article by John Huybers, 'How I went up the Eiffel Tower', Pall Mall Budget, 25 April 1889

Prints of pages of illustrations by John Huybers, Pall Mall Budget, 17, 31 October 1889

Illustrations The last of the Paris Exhibition, 21 November 1889; 9 January 1890

Print of article and drawings, John Huybers, 'How they cremate in Paris', 17 April 1890

Review of art exhibition John Huybers, headed Tasmanian Talent, Mercury, 17 July 1886

Extract An Art Student's Reminiscences of Paris in the Eighties by Shirley Fox.

Copy letter John to brother William, 20 February 1913, Mass. USA

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Patricia Clarke were donated to the National Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme (now the Cultural Gifts Program (CGP)) in 1990, 1994 and 1997. Further donations were received via CGP in 2006 and 2011.

Subjects:

History
Literature

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