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Papers of Victor Daley
MSS 047

Collection Title

Papers of Victor Daley

Collection Identifier

MSS 047

Inclusive date(s)

1882 to 1905

Extent and Medium

1 box

Category

Literature

Collection Description

Two bound scrapbooks, compiling letters, commentary, news clippings and an unpublished short story.

Administrative / Biographical history

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Daley

Victor Daley was an Irish-Australian poet regarded as an exemplar of the Celtic Twilight in Australia. Born in County Armagh, Ireand, Daley emigrated to Australia in 1878. He became a writer for several periodicals in New South Wales and Victoria. He published a number of poems in the Bulletin; most of his poetry was published in the Bulletin and similar periodicals including Punch and Freeman's Journal. His first book of verse At Dawn and Dusk came in 1898. Two of his other books, Poems (1908) and Wine and Roses (1911), were published posthumously.

As well as lyric poetry, Daley wrote satirical socio-political verse, mostly written under the pseudonym 'Creeve Row'. A collection of this was published posthumously in 1947.

Victor Daley died of tuberculosis in 1905.

References:
Author record, Victor Daley, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A12512 16/01/2019].

G. D. Ailwood Keel, 'Daley, Victor James William Patrick (1858–1905)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/daley-victor-james-william-patrick-5867/..., published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 16 January 2019.

Acquisition Details

Provenance unknown.

Scope and Content

A small collection of material, bound in two scrapbooks. Material consists of several poems and letters by Victor Daley as well as a short story, 'Hogan's Keeper', apparently unpublished. Also includes some news clippings.

Access Restrictions

Other

Access: Open Access

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

Copying: Copying of material authored by Victor Daley under section 51 (1) of the Copyright Act (more than 50 years since the death of the author) is approved.

Existence and Location of Orginals

Special Collections, UNSW Canberra

Disclaimer

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

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