1776-1954, Italian, English, French, Unpublished edition: Papers of W. Farmer Whyte, [manuscript]. Whyte, W. Farmer (William Farmer), 1877-1958.

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Physical Description
  • 0.75 m. (1 box) + 1 fol. packet.
Published
  • [1776-1954]
Language
  • Italian
  • English
  • French

Edition details

Title
  • Papers of W. Farmer Whyte, 1776-1954
Creator
  • Whyte, W. Farmer (William Farmer), 1877-1958.
Published
  • [1776-1954]
Medium
  • [manuscript].
Physical Description
  • 0.75 m. (1 box) + 1 fol. packet.
Subjects
Time Period
  • 1776-1954
Summary
  • MS 563 is a diverse collection comprising correspondence, legal documents, newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, a cheque and reference material relating to a range of notable people, as well as printed Australiana and other published matter (1 box, 1 fol. packet).
  • Manuscript letters to Farmer Whyte in the collection were written by James Bryce, Ethel Curlewis, L.H. Allen, Victor Daley, Norman Lindsay and Jim Taylor. The legal documents, many from Brisbane dated 1857-1874, together with accounts and land sales papers, include the 1835 conditional pardon for William Clarke bearing the seal of George III. There is material describing Charles Dicken's links with Australia including a letter written by James B. Rudd and a memo by T.H. Williams that refers to an article by Farmer Whyte on Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens. Material relating to World War I and war memorials includes an unsigned typescript letter from Berlin, 1914, describing the environment as the war broke out. There is also a Craftsmen's keepsake on Sir Henry Parkes for 1935-1936.
  • Published matter includes copies of two journals: Old times, vol. 1, no. 2, issued in Sydney in May 1903, and The Harefield Park boomerang, no. 6, March 16, 1917, and newspaper cuttings. Also, nineteenth century issues of The Sydney herald, 23 January 1837, Sydney morning herald, 4 July 1846, and The Empire, 29 July 1853 and 4 May 1857.
  • The non-Australian documents in the collection include manuscript letters of Lord Birdwood, John Walker to Reginald F.D. Palgrave, T.B. Lord Macaulay, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle to J. Kaines, Sir Henry Irving, G.B. Lord Rodney to Arthur Murphy, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington to the Duc de Richelieu, Sophie Dumaresq to Eliza O'Connell (cross-written), and autograph signatures of J.H. Leigh Hunt and Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection includes a copy of the publication Della Nuova Guinea: memoria del. prof. Amato Amati (Milano, 1869).
Biography
  • Journalist and author. William Farmer Whyte was born at Bombala, New South Wales, in 1877 and attended Bombala and Orange Superior Public Schools. After working for the Bombala times and as a journalist in Sydney, Whyte travelled to New Zealand as sub-editor on the New Zealand Herald, 1907-1910. He also visited Samoa and Tonga and contributed to the Cyclopedia of Samoa (Sydney, 1907) and collaborated with H.J. Moors on With Stevenson in Samoa (London, 1910). In 1910 Whyte toured the United States where he interviewed President Taft, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison for articles commissioned by various Australian newspapers. Whyte joined the Sydney morning herald and became known for his forceful wartime editorials. In 1918 he chaired the Australian Journalists' Association's inquiry into education for journalists.
  • Whyte was appointed to newspaper editorships with the Brisbane Daily mail, 1918-1921, and the Sydney Daily telegraph, 1921-1923. In 1927 he joined the federal parliamentary press gallery in Canberra and conducted the Federal News Service, supplying political articles and his The Canberra times column, "Over the Speaker's chair" to country newspapers throughout Australia. In 1937-1939 he edited a monthly magazine, Australian national review. In 1952 Whyte edited the Australian parliamentary handbook and in 1957 he published a biography of William Hughes titled William Morris Hughes: his life and times. Whyte died in Canberra in 1958.
Notes
  • Manuscript reference no.: MS 563.
  • Associated materials: Correspondence of W. Farmer Whyte, 1944-1950 MS 970.
  • Includes items in French and Italian.
Cited In
  • Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia,
Access Conditions
  • Available for research. Not for loan.
Language
  • Italian
  • English
  • French
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