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- 1930-1973 (Creation)
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1 box
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Poet and academic Ernest George Moll was born in Victoria in 1900, attended schools in New South Wales, and then went to the United States where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Lawrence College in 1922 and Master of Arts from Harvard University in 1923. In 1928 he was appointed Professor of English at the University of Oregon, a position he retained until his retirement in 1966. In 1939 he returned to Australia for a year as an exchange lecturer at the Teacher’s College, Sydney. He died in 1997 in California, USA.
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Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1930-1972
Collection alternatively titled as: Ernest George Moll Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Acquired via Cecil Hadgraft, University of Queensland English Department.
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Scope and content
Manuscripts of poems.
Folder 1
Moll, Ernest George: Letter 30 Mar 1960 to Joan Rattner, This Week Magazine, New York re article requested, enclosing copies of verse. Attached: 2 leaves discussing Lawson’s idea of mateship, which possibly belong with this letter.
Letter, Dec 1974, from Ernest Moll’s daughter to Cecil Hadgraft with mss note from Moll.
Folder 2
Below these hills, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1957, Original notes based on discussions with his brother AO Moll, owner of “Strathdown”; draft chapters and notes.
Folder 3
Briseis [a poem] New York, Pagent Press, 1965, Manuscript with notes and draft versions.
Folder 4
Campus sonnets, Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Press, 1934, Manuscript of 9 poems published in this anthology.
Folder 5
Jonah at Ninevah [poem] 1953, Work-sheets of Jonah at Ninevah, first published in The lifted Spear, Angus and Robertson, 1953
Folder 6
The road to Cactus-land [a group of poems] Sydney, Edwards & Shaw, 1971, Manuscript with draft versions. Note: The first version was about twice as long as the final one, 17 Apr 1972.
Folder 7
Ruth [poem]. Unfinished manuscript of a poem intended as a companion piece to Jonah at Ninevah.
Folder 8
Unpublished poems beginning 9 Nov 1959, this seems to mean unpublished in book form, as
some at least have appeared in periodicals.
Folder 9
Three letters from EG Moll dated 1968 to 1973
Folder 10
Review of Collected poems 1930 – 1965, by AD Hope, New York, Viking Press, 1966, published in Northwest Review.
Folder 11
Autobiographical material: Repertory ramblings: reminiscences of the Brisbane Repertory Society and its producer Barbara Sisley, 1956. [This item has been transferred to the George Landen Dann collection, see UQFL65 Item E6]
Item 1
Notebook containing the original versions and emendations of several volumes of his poems.
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Unrestricted access.
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- English
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- La Boite Theatre (Brisbane, Qld.) (Subject)
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Revised
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Revised, Linda Justo, 13-Aug-2024. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.