Guide to the Papers of Ernest G. Moll, 1878-1996

Summary

Collection number:

MS 9283

Creator:

Ernest G. Moll and Moll, Carolyn

Extent:

2.24 metres and (16 ms boxes + 2 map folios + 3 sound/av carriers)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Ernest G. Moll, National Library of Australia, MS 9283, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The collection comprises correspondence, personal documents, manuscripts, publications, newspaper clippings and photographs. These papers generally relate to Moll's writing and publishing activities, with little documentation of his activities as a lecturer at the University of Oregon. The collection includes material relating to Moll's poetry and prose writings 'Shoes of silence' (unpublished), Blue interval: poems of Crater Lake (1935), Brief waters (1945), Beware the cuckoo and other poems (1947), The waterhole (1948), The lifted spear (1953), Below these hills: the story of a Riverina farm (1957), Collected poems: 1940-55 (1957), The rainbow serpent and other poems (1962),Briseis(1965), The road to cactus-land: a group of poems (1971), The well and the star (1983), The view from a ninetieth birthday (1992), Recognitions at ninety-three (1993), The children of Somalia 1992-1994 and other poems (1994), A gleaner's sheaf of poems (1995) and other unpublished writings.

Among the correspondents are George Mackaness, Horace Stelling, Beatrice Davis, James McAuley, Hugh McCrae, David McCord, Christof Wegelin, Cecil Hadgraft, A. D. Hope, Vance Palmer, John Le Gay Brereton, Sir Robert Menzies, Rex Ingamells, Rosemary Dobson, George Ferguson and Kenneth Slessor.

Biographical Note:

Date	Event
1900	Born in Murtoa, Victoria, on 25 August
1909	Moved to Strathdown, Gerogery, New South Wales
1913-18	Attended Concordia College, Adelaide
1920	Moved to the United States
1922	Graduated Bachelor of Arts, Lawrence College
1923	Graduated Master of Arts, Harvard University
1923-25	Lectured at Colorado College
1925-26	Collected and imported 3 000 Australian native birds to the United States
1927	Returned to Colorado College
1927	Married Nieva Remington on 24 September [They had two children, Richard and Carolyn]
1927	Published first book of verse, <em>Sedge fire</em> (Harold Vinal)
1928	Appointed Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon
1931	Published <em>Native moments and other poems</em> (Metropolitan Press)
1933	Published <em>The appreciation of poetry</em> (F. S. Crofts)
1934	Published <em>Campus sonnets</em> (Metropolitan Press) and <em>Poetry: the problem of appreciation</em> (University of Oregon)
1935	Published <em>Blue interval: poems of Crater Lake</em> (Metropolitan Press)
1939-40	Lectured on exchange at Sydney Teachers' College
1940	<em>Cut from mulga</em> (1940, Melbourne University Press) chosen by the Commonwealth Literary Committee as best book of the year
1945	Published <em>Brief waters</em> (Australasian Publishing Company)
1947	Published <em>Beware the cuckoo and other poems</em> (Australasian Publishing Company)
1948	Published <em>The waterhole</em> (Angus Robertson)
1953	Published <em>The lifted spear</em> (Angus Robertson)
1957	Published <em>Collected poems: 1940-55</em> (Angus Robertson)
1957	Published <em>Below these hills: the story of a Riverina farm</em> (Melbourne University Press), written in collaboration with brother Otto Moll
1962	Published <em>The rainbow serpent and other poems</em> (Angus Robertson)
1965	Published <em>Briseis</em>(Pageant Press)
1966	Retired from the University of Oregon, and was awarded the University Medal for Distinguished Academic Service
1971	Published <em>The road to cactus-land: a group of poems</em> (Edwards Shaw)
1972	Moved to Oroville, California
1983	Produced <em>The well and the star</em> (privately printed)
1992	Published <em>The view from a ninetieth birthday</em> (La Jolla Poets Press)
1993	Produced <em>Recognitions at ninety-three</em> (printed by Comer's Print Shop, Oroville)
1994	Produced <em>The children of Somalia 1992-1994 and other poems</em> (Comer's Print Shop)
1995	Produced last book of verse, <em>A gleaner's sheaf of poems</em> (Comer's Print Shop)
1997	Died in Oroville on 15 May

Provenance:

The bulk of the Ernest Moll Papers were donated to the Library by Moll's daughter Dr Carolyn Moll in September 1997. An addition to the papers was made in October 1998 by Moll's nephew Peter Moll.

Arrangement:

The collection was received in good order, and the Library has retained this arrangement.

Indexed terms

Names:

Moll, Carolyn

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn95684).

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Ernest G. Moll, National Library of Australia, MS 9283, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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