From the Archives - The Merro Scrapbooks - a very incomplete collection of articles by John Meredith found in other publications

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As far as anyone knows, there is no definitive list of everything John Meredith wrote.

Some of the articles in the Scrapbooks were found in our Archives, others have been collected from magazines in our Library or from TROVE.

We currently have 2 Scrapbooks in the Library & articles will be added as located.

The Merro scrapbook, copies of articles in other magazines - Vol 1 - Accession no. 839

The Merro scrapbook, copies of articles in other magazines - Vol 1

PAGE	ARTICLE details	citation
1-2	Martin Mc Adoo - When Grandmother was just a girl (pic of Meredith sisters)	Lansdowne, 1983
3	letter - re poem coll. by Merv Lilley Ode to Ben Chifley	S&G, 6(2), p.2
4	letter - Fragment - What's the use of talking ...	S&G, 2(5), p.3
5-6	article - Jackson's - Wally Wildsmith	S&G, 6(2), pp.12-13
7-12	article - John Meredith Speaks for Himself, interview by Bob Campbell	S&G, 6(2), pp.4-9
13	portrait of John Meredith	S&G, 6(2), back cover
14	Review - Frank the Poet (Lester Grace)	S&G, 1(4)
15-16	Primitive Rhyme	AusTrad 1(5), pp10-11
17	Letter - Attempted Robbery of the Rabbiter's Gift (or as John Meredith puts it) Those Thieving Kiwis	Monaro Musings, p.2-citation cut off
18	Article - Some more THEMATIC FOLK TALES	S&G, 6(1), p.29. 1986?
19-20	letters- from Merro & Bob Bolton re ID of pic & letter from Merro re Ben Chifley	S&G, 6(1), 2 pages, un-numbered
21-23	article - On the track of the SHED REP part 1. Part 2 by Rob Willis	Speewah, no.1, Mar97, pp12-14
24	article - The death of Les Darcy	S&G, 2(4), p.4
25-31	article - Ballads from Bearbong - Some songs of Harry Dicks, music transcribed by Peter Parkhill	S&G, 6(1), 1986? 22-28
32	Portrait of Harry Dicks	S&G, 6(1), back cover
33	letter - Go Home Yankee by John Hasted, parody of Tramp, Tramp	S&G, 5(3), p.2
34	letter re Zulu War song collected by Chris Sullivan	S&G, 5(3), p.1
35-36	article - Ballad of the Breelong Blacks	S&G 5(3), pp.6-7
37-38	article - Isandhlwana Revisited - The Blessed Zulu War	S&G, 5(3), pp14-15
39	letter - A Garland for Sally Sloane made without permission	S&G, 5(2) p.3, May 1984
40	article - Ned Kelly - A Century of Deification - 6 new books & 7 reprints	S&G, 3(2), p. 8
41	article - The Foggy Dew	S&G, 5(2), 22-23, May 84
43	letter - re collecting for 2nd vol of Folk Songs of Australia.	S&G, 4(3), p.1
44	article - A Tale of Two Fingers	S&G, 5(2), p.25, May 84
45	letters - re Shirley Andrews article	S&G, 4(2), p.1
46	article - Will the real Starlight please stand up	S&G, 4(2), p.13
47-50	article - Stringy Bark, the continuing Mudgee tradition	S&G, 4(2), pp. 1-0
51	article - Death of Sally Sloane	S&G, 4(3), p. 2
52	article - The Case of the Missing Ballads	S&G, 4(3), p. 27
53	letter - re Douglas Park	S&G, 4(1), p. 1
54	Review - The Coo-ee March, reviewed by Lester Grace	S&G, 3(3), p. 29
55	letter - re Ron Edwards' Big Book of Australian Folk Song	S&G, 5(4), p.1
56-60	article - Song of Warsaw. The Varsovienne in Australia	S&G, 3(4), pp.6-10
61	letter - Ye sons of Australia	S&G, 3(1), p.1
62-64	article - Three Songs of Sally Sloane - Young Pat Maguire, The Maid of Gauteen, Squire Scroble or The Old Oak Tree	S&G, 3(1), pp,7-9
65-67	cover & 2 pages from Ned Kelly - After a century of Acrimony, Kelly's Green Silk Sash, lyrics & dots
68-73	Songs of our land	Walkabout's Australia, 1968
74	John Stanley's squeeze-boxes called the tune at a thousand bush dances	People, Dec 9 1959 , 99. 4-5
75	The recording of Ma Seal	NLA News June 1994, p.5
76	Meandering with Meredith by Rob Willis	Trad&Now, No.1, Spring 2002
77	The Aboriginal Rock Carvigs of Eastern N.S.W by John Meredith & Brian Loughlin	undated clipping from Walkabout Magazine - 17(2), 1951
78	The Lore of the Billy - from unknown title Vol 1, no 5, Sept 65-	also Monaro Folk Music Society newsletter, July 1980

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The Merro scrapbook, copies of articles in other magazines - Vol 2

The Merro Scrapbook, Copies of articles in other magazines - Vol 2

PAGE	ARTICLE DETAILS	Citation
1	When Skillicorn Rode - A rare broadside	Australian Tradition, Sept 1968. pp. 24-26
2	Along the Road to Gundagai - but how many miles?	Australian Tradition, Jan 1967, pp. 6-9
3	Old Bush songs	The Bulletin, March - May 1955
4	Original field Notes - Tales from the Upper Murray	1955
5	Final copy - Tales from the Upper Murray	1955
6	Tales from the Upper Murray (extract)	Australian Tradition, Dec 1967, pp. 5,17,21,24,26
7	Bury the Dead Horse (sailors songs) - blurry copy, made by Keith McKenry from a folder in NLA Meredith collection.	Challenge, Wed March16,1955
8.	The Old Rabbiter's Gift (undated typescript) written 16/1/97 & originaly publ. in Transmissions 9, Aug 2003
9.	Mailbag - letter from John Meredith	Aus.Tradition,issue 3, 1964

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Note regarding item 7 - Challenge newspaper is held in the Carl Weber Collection at Wollongong University Archives - a Collection of publications from the archives of the Communist Party of Australia. Includes both local and overseas items   https://documents.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@lib/documents/doc/uow256808.pdf   but is not digitised.

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