Collection 11: Marsden Hordern further papers, 1888-2019

MLMSS 12058/Boxes 1-26
MLMSS 12058/Box 27X
ON 716
DC 128
R 2413

sub-fonds

1888-2019

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Moving Images, Paper money

9673901

4.7 boxes of textual material (26 boxes and 1 outsize box), includes photographs, clippings and ephemera
111 negatives - 35 mm - chiefly colour
30 slides - 35 mm - chiefly b&w
1 transparency - 4 x 5 - colour
1 computer disc - 12 cm - DVD
12 invasion notes

Marsden Hordern (1922-) is the grandson of Edward Carr Hordern, one of the founders of Hordern Bros Ltd. He joined the Royal Australia Navy in World War II, became Lieutenant and commanded a patrol boat in the Pacific. During his time in the Navy, Hordern also studied part-time to complete an arts degree at the University of Sydney. After the war, he established a fine art print gallery, Hilton Hordern, which he directed for 38 years (1958-1996). He also competed in the early Sydney to Hobart yacht races as navigator of the schooner Mistral II. He is the author of 'Mariners are Warned' (1989), 'King of the Australian Coast' (1997) and 'A Merciful Journey: Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man' (2005).

Reference:

Australians at War Film Archive. “Marsden Hordern.” Accessed 3 May 2023.
https://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/archive/2277

Computer disc removed from MLMSS 12058/Box 23

This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, research notes, and other material collected by naval officer, ocean sailor, historian, and author Marsden Hordern (1922-). It covers his war years, the extended Hordern family, Major Chint Singh, his Sydney-Hobart yacht racing days, research and drafts of his three published books – Mariners are Warned! John Lort Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia, 1837-1843 (1989), King of the Australian Coast: The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822 (1997) and his memoir of his war experiences, A Merciful Journey: Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man (2005)- and Maritime history generally.

BOX 1
War Reports, 1930s-1940s.

FOLDER 1
Correspondence re Studies for M.A. Degree

FOLDER 2
Special messages and press clippings

FOLDER 3
Medical history documents and navy portrait of Marsden Hordern

FOLDER 4
War poetry

FOLDER 5
Japanese invasion money [Removed to R 2413], pay books and documents

FOLDER 6
Letters and operation reports

FOLDER 7
War time action and reports of proceedings

FOLDER 8
Reports and application to serve in China, ‘The Selaru Operation’ by Trevor Vear and copies of reports of proceedings of Timor Operation

BOX 2
Correspondence J-Z, ca. 2012-ca. 2018
Correspondence N-R, ca. 2001-ca. 2008

BOX 3
Melbourne University Press correspondence, 1994-1997
‘A Merciful Journey’ – Correspondence with publishers and friends, 2001-2004
‘Journeying Mercies’ – correspondence with publishers; Miriam Estensen’s biography of Bass, 2004.
Guidelines and Melbourne University Press correspondence, 1997-2002

BOX 4
Correspondence S-Z, ca. 2001-ca. 2011
Correspondence D-G, ca. 2002-ca. 2011

BOX 5
Fairmile Association. Includes newsletters, correspondence, membership lists, photographs, ephemera, 1996-2007
Knox. Includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, ephemera, 1990s-2012

BOX 6
‘In the Beginning. Early Hobart Yacht Races.’ Annotated draft, correspondence, 2012-2016
Dutch Minesweeper Abraham Crijnssen; Medals; Bathurst Island; Book Reviews; Fairmiles History; Naval History. Includes correspondence, newspaper cuttings, photographs, 1953-2000
Naval Warfare Officers Association. Correspondence, membership lists,2003-2006.

BOX 7
‘A Merciful Journey. Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man’. Annotated and corrected draft manuscript, 2004.

BOX 8
‘Journeying Mercies. Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man’ (published as A Merciful Journey). Annotated and corrected drafts.
Melbourne University Press correspondence, 2003-2004.

BOX 9
Correspondence F-H, 2011-2019
Correspondence H-M, 2001-2011

BOX 10
War letters home, 1940-1946, with related letters, 1979-2004

BOX 11
Annotated and corrected draft of ‘Mariners are Warned!’.
Correspondence re The Retford Society, 1994-2003
‘Darwin’s Ship Beagle and her Captains’, 2009
Manuscript of D’Entrecasteaux, Baudin and D’Urville in Australia, 2012

BOX 12
Hordern Scrap Book 1914-??
Swinton Letters (Letters from Norman Swinton to Marsden Hordern), 1940s-2000.
Copy of Letters of Harry Alington Creaghe 1865-1868 (published 2012)
Correspondence and other papers of Noel Hordern (Marsden Hordern’s sister)
Program for funeral of Sir Roden Cutler, 2000s with notes made on the spot by Marsden Hordern

BOX 13
Correspondence, Notes, and Research re Mariners are Warned!, 1970s-1980s
Correspondence and draft manuscripts for Stokes and Wickham entries in the Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography, 1988-89
Melbourne University Press Correspondence, 1987-1990

BOX 14
Miscellaneous Correspondence A-J, 1986-2001
Miscellaneous Correspondence K-Z, 1980-2001

BOX 15
Correspondence A-E, 2013-2020
Miscellaneous Correspondence A-C, 2001-2010

BOX 16
Naval Historical Society correspondence and manuscripts re Maritime History, 2003-2012
“Mariners” and King and Maritime Related Correspondence G-N, ca. 1989-ca. 2002

BOX 17
Manuscript of ‘King of the Australian Coast’ with editor’s notations, ca. 1997

BOX 18
Manuscript of ‘Mariners are Warned’ with specified index entries.

BOX 19
Manuscript of ‘A Merciful Journey’ – paginated proofs for checking, 2004.
Manuscript of ‘Journeying Mercies’ - with pencil corrections.
‘Ocean racing 63 years Ago’. Duplicate manuscripts offered to Naval Historical Society in May 2010.

BOX 20
Marcus Loane, Allan Blanch, Angus Cottee, 2000-2012
Beagle Project – Beagle's anchors, Australian National Maritime Museum and King’s anchors, 2006-2012.

BOX 21
Correspondence about P. P. King, O-Z, 1980s-2000
Correspondence about P. P. King A-F and Maritime History generally, 1990-2004

BOX 22
Talks
“Stokes and Beagle in Australia” with slides, 1996-2009
Notes for Talks etc., 1980s-2002
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1980s – includes Early Fliers, Mary Bryant, Stokes, Life in Darwin 1943, Timor ML 814.
Mary Bryant
John Septimus Roe, 2011
P. P. King, 1997-2004
Fake Japanese Ensign, 1980-2010
Re Talk ‘There Go the Ships

BOX 23
Talks cont.
The Mermaid Tree, 1992-2004
Sydney Cove, 2001
Researching Australian History; Okey’s Best Boy; History under the White Ensign;
Introduction to Maritime History, 1990s.
Jim Ellwood – Signals to and from our Guerillas in Timor in World War II, 1940s,1992
King, Mermaid Talks, 2000, 2004
P. P. King, 1996-98, 2000
Touching on Fairmiles; Grey Funnel Line – Banana Boat 1347, 1990s
Memoir of N.B. Wallis; Where were You on V.J. Day?, 1992, 1996
Patrol Boat Operations in the Arafura and Timor Seas, 1943, 2010

BOX 24
Sydney-Hobart Yacht Races
Monthly Log of schooner ‘Mistral’, 1947-48, 1948-49 kept by M. Hordern, Navigator
Log of schooner ‘Mistral’ on passage Sydney to Hobart (Narrative Form) 1947-48, 1948-49
‘Ocean Racing sixty-three years ago. The Schooner Mistral II’s 1947 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race’
Draft manuscripts of ‘In the Beginning’, 2012
Papers re ‘Mistral’
The 1949 Crew
Some Sailing Reflections by Magnus Halvorsen, 2001
Logs/Narratives etc. ‘Mistral II’1947-51, ‘White Cloud’, 1954-55 and related papers.
Re Sydney-Hobart Yachts etc., 1940s-2000s
Re MLs, Halvorsens, Hobart Races etc.
Re Hobart Yacht Races and Cruising Yachts
Photographs
Newspaper Cuttings

BOX 25
Chint Singh and the Sepik
Singh’s Story as recorded on 4 Nov. 1945
‘The Men Who Never Were: Indian POWs in the Second World War’ by G.S. Douds, 2004
Chint Singh’s Report on his Trip, 1970
Letters to and from Chint Singh and Marsden Hordern, 1970
Transcript of Chint Singh’s conversation with Chint Singh re his sufferings, 1945
Copies of letters Marsden Hordern wrote to parents in Oct 1945 re Sepik River,
Japanese prisoners and Chint Singh.
Derick Monk’s account of finding Chint Singh in 1945.
Various papers re Chint Singh
Further papers re Chint Singh

BOX 26
The New South Wales Centennial Almanac, 1888
Brian Abbott’s manuscripts and correspondence on P. P. King, 2009
Journal of Commander Pringle Stokes R.N. 1st captain of the HMS ‘Beagle’ in her
survey of Magellan Straits – under the direction of Capt. P.P. King
H.O. .5 Pringle Stokes Journal (copy)
Re Sepik and Victoria Rivers
Correspondence re Rodney Popham and the ‘Mermaid’ replica and Col. Gibson re his model plans of her rig, 2002-2010
Correspondence with Capt. J.J. Doyle and Andrew David re P.P. King’s charts, 1993-95
Statue to P.P. King, Stokes’ statue and Beagle’s anchor, 1989-2009
Miscellaneous correspondence, 2006-2009

BOX 27X
Galley proofs of ‘Mariners are Warned!’ - corrections - marked, 1989
Photograph of Sydney-Hobart Yacht race ca. 1940s-1950s
Copy of plans of the Mermaid by R. T. Sexton, 2005 with related correspondence, 2008

ON 716
Negatives
1-36. King George River Gorge N.W. Aust. 18/11/92
37-75. Dampier's monument Nov 92
76-102. The children and grandchildren's visit to Marsden and Lesley Hordern's home on Reserve Forces Day July 2010
103-111. Fake Japanese ensign

Transparency
1. Fake Japanese ensign

Slides
1-29. Stokes and Beagle in Australia
30. Mermaid Tree Niche with Mark Bolger.

DC 128
DVD of ‘A Merciful Journey: reflections of a World War 2 patrol boat man’, 2007, 2010
PowerPoint presentations, photos and video

R 2413 [Removed from Box 1 Folder 5]
Invasion money, pay books and documents from Japanese soldiers

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