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y separately published work icon The Millendon Memoirs: George Fletcher Moore's Western Australian Diaries and Letters, 1830-1841 single work   diary  
Note: Edited with an introduction by J. M. R. Cameron.
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 The Millendon Memoirs: George Fletcher Moore's Western Australian Diaries and Letters, 1830-1841
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After having been approached to write an article on George Fletcher Moore's contribution to Western Australia in the pre-convict period (published as Ambitions's Fire: The Agricultural Colonization of Pre-Convict Western Australia (1981)), J. M. R. Cameron went back to Moore's original letters held by the J. S. Battye Library of Western Australian History in Perth, Western Australia. Here Cameron found much material not published in the 1834 version edited by Martin Doyle, or the 1880-1882 serialisation edited by Thomas Cockburn-Campbell and the subsequent selected work compiled by Moore and published by Walbrook in 1884.

Source: J. M. R. Cameron, 'Introduction' The Millendon Memoirs: George Fletcher Moore's Western Australian Diaries and Letters, 1830-1841 (2006): x.

Notes

  • 'The text of the book is derived from three main sources ... As far as possible the text is based on George Fletcher Moore's surviving letters and journals ['held by the J S Battye Library of Western Australian History as Original Letters and Journals (BL263)']. Gaps ... have been covered up to the end of July 1833 by drawing on Martin Doyle's edited Extracts and, after 20 February 1834, from Sir Thomas Cockburn Campbell's edited version of the journals as serialised in the West Australian. This latter is supplemented whenever possible by surviving remnants of the journal transcipts [J S Battye Library of Western Australian History 'Transcripts from Moore's Journals (BL1151A)'] used by Campbell but not published in his newspaper ... the Diary of Ten Years has been used as reference point for both sources.

    Source: J. M. R. Cameron, 'Introduction' The Millendon Memoirs: George Fletcher Moore's Western Australian Diaries and Letters, 1830-1841 (2006): x.

  • Moore's journal of his voyage out to Western Australia in 1830 is not reproduced by Cameron. Cameron comments: 'The manuscript version [of this journal] does not appear to have surived. However, an edited version is contained in Extracts from the Letters and Journals of George Fletcher Moore, published in 1834 (pp. 1-29) which was reproduced in Diary of Ten Years, printed in 1884 (pp. 1-21).' (1)
  • Poetry indexed separately.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Carlisle, Victoria Park area, South & South East Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Hesperian Press , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
To the Maidens of the Boweri"Cull oh cull each choicer flower", George Fletcher Moore , single work poetry (p. 94-96)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlisle, Victoria Park area, South & South East Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Hesperian Press , 2006 .
      Extent: xiv, 522p.
      Description: illus., maps, ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      • Includes appendices: I. Sources of the Text II. Flora and Fauna by Dr Ian Abbott III. References cited in Notes
      ISBN: 0859053881
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y separately published work icon Extracts from the Letters and Journals of George Fletcher Moore, Esq. Now Filling a Judicial Office at the Swan River Settlement George Fletcher Moore , Martin Doyle (editor), London Dublin : Orr and Smith W. Curry, Jun. and Co. , 1834 Z1569072 1834 single work diary
Letters Illustrative of the Early History of the Colony Diary Illustrative of the Early History of the Colony George Fletcher Moore , Thomas Cockburn-Campbell (editor), 1880-1882 single work diary
y separately published work icon Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia; and, Also a Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language of the Aborigines George Fletcher Moore , London : M Walbrook , 1884 Z844670 1884 selected work diary criticism poetry

In his 'Preface: Introductory and Explanatory' to this 1884 version of his Diary, Moore describes 'the "Diary or Journal" herinafter contained ... It was commenced soon after my embarcation from Dublin ... for the space of ten years in the colony, until my first return home on leave of absence. It was not continued after that time. ' (vi) The 'original letters' were first 'carefully preserved by those to whom they were sent in [Ireland]' and later 'confided to the care of a near relative in the colony, who had expressed a great desire to see them.' (vii). They were shown to Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, half owner and editor of the West Australian newspaper who requested permission from Moore to 'publish extracts from them seriatim in his paper, according as space would admit of.' (vii). Cockburn-Campbell sent Moore 'a copy of each paper which contained an extract.' Moore 'cut out those extracts and gummed them into an album ... enabl[ing] me to publish them all here afresh.' (vii)

With the Diary of Ten Years, Moore added 'a "Descriptive Vocabulary" of the language of the Aborigines...' (vii) originally published in 1842 and 'long out of print'. (ix)

J. M. R. Cameron in his introduction to The Millendon Memoirs (2006) notes that the Diary 'brought together the 1834 Extracts as they appeared originally, edited by Doyle not Campbell, and Campbell's edited excerpts for the later period.... [However] Moore deleted entries for the period from 10 April to 11 June 1836 which had appeared in the [West Australian] newspaper on 4 April 1882. (viii-ix)
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Last amended 7 Oct 2009 09:16:21
Subjects:
  • Perth, Western Australia,
  • 1830-1841
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