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Issue Details: First known date: 1826... 1826 Song
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'Spurns the memory of a former love in favour of "wine, women and song". Presumably by G. James Macdonald who was a more prolific writer of poetry and prose in the eighteen-thirties.' (Webby)

Notes

  • Author's note, in the Australian: 'Bernera' (possibly a dairy farm near Liverpool, N.S.W.).
  • Composition date, at foot of poem, in the Sydney Monitor: 1826.

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First known date: 1826
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian 25 July 1827 Z1719929 1827 newspaper issue 1827 pg. 3
    Note: In Column: Horae Poeticae
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Monitor vol. 8 no. 570 29 May 1833 Z1720053 1833 newspaper issue 1833 pg. 4
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Commissioner and the Squatter : Or Armidale Visited and Revisited 1839-1889-2009 Lionel Gilbert , Armidale : Armidale Historical Society , 2009 Z1720486 2009 single work biography A biographical study of New England Crown Lands Commissioner George James Macdonald (1805-1851) and Darling Downs squatter Arthur Hodgson (1818-1902). This work is particularly interesting for the information it provides on what Gilbert terms the 'Wener-Eliott Album', a scrap-book containing cuttings of poems by Macdonald that appeared in nineteenth century newspapers, along with manuscript versions of a number of Macdonald's apparently unpublished poems. According to Gilbert, the album originally belonged to Jane Richards (nee Nicholas), the wife of William Richards, who once held Winterbourne station (near present day Walcha), and is currently held in a private collection. Armidale : Armidale Historical Society , 2009 pg. 8-9
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Works about this Work

To the Editor of the Sydney Monitor 'Anti-Egoist' , 1833 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 4 June vol. 31 no. 2292 1833; (p. 2)
To the Editor of the Sydney Monitor 'Anti-Egoist' , 1833 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 4 June vol. 31 no. 2292 1833; (p. 2)
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