• Title
  Journal of the Apophthegm Society [Edition de luxe]
• Creator
  F.R. (Frederick Rudolph) Barlee
• Call number
  MLMSS 11258/ Box 1X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  15 August 1893-1 September 1894
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9664176
• Physical Description
  0.2 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - 24 x 19 x 2.5 - manuscript, typescript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Frederic Rudolph Barlee is the nephew of Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee, Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, 1855-1875. Frederic Barlee studied a Master of Arts degree at Sydney University. He was admitted to the Bar of New South Wales, 1887 and then to the Bar of Western Australia, 1897. Barlee was appointed Supreme Court Librarian in 1905 until his death in 1941.
  
  Reference:
  The Daily News. 28 October 1941. "Mr. Barlee buried". Accessed 16 March 2022. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78566368
• Collection history
  By descent from C.E. Cowan to his daughter-in-law Kaye Cowan
• Scope and Content
  286 page handwritten journal in ink documenting the monthly meetings of the Apophthegm Society, Sydney, 15 August 1893-1 August 1894. The journal is divided into three volumes and includes hand drawn illustrations in ink throughout. It begins with an introduction to the conception of the society: to record and invent good sayings, followed by the society's rules, and the focus subjects and resultant sayings documented each month.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title sourced from title page
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "C. E. Cowan" stamped on top right corner of second page
  Typescript note attached to the frontispiece: "This book was found in a Red Cross waste products shop during the second World War. Inside the cover it bore the following inscription: - "Fred. R. Barlee, Wentworth Court, Sydney, N.S.W., July 1893".
• Subject
  Aphorisms and apothegms.
  Conduct of life.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20535043

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