This 40th anniversary issue includes memories of the Library and its Journal by Keith Dunstan, Marjorie Tipping and others. It also focuses on Charles Joseph La Trobe and recounts some stories from the history of Melbourne.
List of contents
- From the Editorial Chair
- I Forty Years On: The Library and the Journal
- Circle of Learning: Personal Memories by Marjorie Tipping
- Tristan Buesst, First President of the Friends of the La Trobe Library by Wallace Kirsop
- Researching in the Library by Keith Dunstan
- Remembering the La Trobe Library by Dianne Reilly, John Arnold, Paul de Serville
- On Being an Editor by Tony Marshall
- A Note on the History of the Journal by John Arnold
- II Charles Joseph La Trobe
- A Letter from ‘Jolimont en Murs’ by CJ La Trobe
- Thomas Woolner’s Portrait Medallion of CJ La Trobe by Caroline Clemente
- ‘More Beautiful than Port Phillip’: The La Trobe Family in Van Diemen’s Land by John Barnes
- Vice-Regal Reading in Van Diemen’s Land by Joan and Wallace Kirsop
- La Trobe and the Melbourne Public Library by John Barnes
- III The Melbourne Scene
- John Batman’s Place in the Village by Shane Carmody
- A Royal Duke in Melbourne: ST Gill’s 1867 Drawings by Madeleine Say
- The Double Diary Keeper by Paul de Serville
- Stretching the Imagination: Melbourne as a Conservative City by Paul Fox
Feature article
Caroline Clementes outlines the importance of Thomas Woolner's medallion of Charles Joseph La Trobe to the development of Woolner's career and later status as one of the finest sculptors of the Victorian period.
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Obtaining a copy
You can buy a copy of this edition of the La Trobe Journal via the online shop.
Members of the State Library of Victoria Foundation receive copies of the journal as part of their membership.
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