John Miller Tregenza (1931-1999)
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Series 2: Australian National University 1956-58; Travelling scholarship 1963  (136 cm)

2.1 First concept for PhD thesis on taste and ideas of the Australian bourgeoisie 1870-1890

Mss and typed notes on:

• Thesis title / intellectual history
• Notes from 19th century reviews: architecture
• Bibliography
• Clerical opinion: science vs religion
• Literature 1840-1890
• Education
• Conservation
• Imperial federation etc
• Nationalism
• Libraries
• Newspapers
• Melbourne suburbs
• Radicalism
• Spiritualism
• Liberal [political] opinions
• Melbourne Review / Victorian Review / Notes on contributions19th Century Reviews (Australian literary periodicals of the 19th century; Australian magazines and reviews 1858-1891 checklist; ms subject index to reviews; Nineteenth century literary reviews and magazines: general notes; magazines before 1876: New Zealand magazines; Australian 19th century literary magazines 1821-99)
• ‘The city clerisy’ – Victorian Review. Seminar paper on The Melbourne Review and it’s contributors …, delivered 8/11/1956, The significance of The Victorian review and notes on content and contributors, some dated 1955
• Contributors and significance of the Sydney Quarterly Magazine
• Seminar paper ‘The Melbourne Review and its contributors 1876-Oct. 1879’ for research project described as ‘A history of Australian opinions in the 1870s and 80s’, with typed and ms notes

Handwritten and typescript draft of paper read in History Dept. Seminar, A.N.U. 1956, “Australian Pastoral Workers and the Literature of the ‘Nineties” / Tregenza

2.2 Papers relating to PhD thesis for a biography of Charles Henry Pearson

Notes and transcripts for a biography of Pearson, arranged chronologically June 1877-October 1894. [extracted from 2 arch files]

Tregenza’s ms and typed notes and draft sections compiled for the biography, including newspaper cuttings, correspondence with researchers and repositories and photographs

• Ideas for the book (characterisation)
• Pearson – notes on education
  National life and character: a forecast / by Charles H. Pearson (1893): includes transcripts of Pearson’s correspondence with Macmillan & Co, transcripts of obituaries, and reviews. (Early photocopies of reviews were discarded)
• Articles by C.H. Pearson (typescript copies)
• Political career
• Minister of Public Instruction
• Parliamentary debates 1885-90
• Bible in State school controversy (incl. Falkingham notes)
• Education 1870-90
• Victorian State schools
• Technical education
• General strike of 1890
• Visit to Russia [Pearson travelled extensively in Russia in 1858 and published his impressions in a series of letters in the Continental Review and later in book form as Russia, by a recent traveller] 2 folders
• Pearson’s sources of liberalism
• Pearson & liberalism in Victoria
• Various wills / Pearson papers
• Pearson’s ‘A dream of a seeker after Christ’ MS in the Pearson papers, La Trobe Library M57126. Includes a photocopy of the ms.
• Pearson in South Australia
• Hodder’s summary of events in South Australia 1863-1873 = South Australia at the time of Pearson’s arrival
  Bibliography. Lists of writings by Pearson
• Miscellaneous. Extracts from speeches, newspaper articles and books re Pearson. Notes re Pearson’s University career and teaching
• Pearson and Melbourne University 1873-77
• Maps and illustrations: map to illustrate Pearson’s South Australian years; map of Victoria, Pearson’s scheme of state high schools, 1878; negative strip of cartoons re Pearson
• Pearson’s family life
• National life and character
• Literary work in London 1892-96
• Secretary to the Agent General 1892-94
• Identification of contributions to 19th century periodicals
• Letters to Mrs E.L. Pearson (transcripts)
• Extracts from Mrs E.L. Pearson’s diary
• Various indexes to letters and papers (correspondents of Pearson. Letters to Pearson and wife, Pearson’s letters and papers, references to Pearson in Melbourne Punch)
• Income from books purchased
• Pearson’s poetry (typed transcripts)
• The Canoness
• Pearson’s History of England and historical maps
• Polish insurrection
• London
• CHP and Russia
• CHP letters to the Provost of Oriel / Joseph Blanco White
• Oxford Union / Oxford
• Rugby / King’s College
• ‘Roots’ / family history / Ravenstone
• Pedigree, Parry family & ms ‘Story of my life’
• Biographical notes of Pearson’s friends

Research notes from box files

• Australian politics 1850-1900
• Melbourne Punch to 1892
• Pearson and the Church of England in Melbourne
• Melbourne Working Men’s College
• CHP’s diary from 1885
• Pearson and the Melbourne Public Library
• Stories by E.L. Pearson
• Pearson in Parliament
• The Age
• Melbourne University and women
• Religious references in Nelson’s Royal Readers
• Melbourne 1870-90
• Melbourne University
• South Australia
• Independent schools

Correspondence re research for PhD

• 1957-60 (incl. re papers of Sir John Cockburn, Arthur Gray Butler, Sir Robert Hamilton, Anthony Musgrave)
• 1960-66 (includes Geoffrey Searle, Mrs Sokolov-Grant, C.A. McCallum, R.W. Hung of Bodlian Library, Balliol College, State Library of Victoria, Lord Goschen)

Sources for PhD

• Bibliography
• C.H. Pearson’s Papers in the State Library of Victoria. Typescript contents lists and notes on other related source material
• Books relevant to biography (Pearson)
• Typescript (processed copy of Pearson’s ‘Democracy in Victoria’, originally published in Fortnightly Review no 149 (New series), May 1 1879.
• Letters in Pearson’s Papers (ms notes and typescript & photographic copies, with ms index). Arranged alphabetically. Also typescript indexes of letters to C.H. Pearson listing correspondents, with some summaries of contents. 5 folders
• Pearson’s letters to ‘The London Speaker’
• Articles by Pearson in The Age, Leader, London Spectator, and other papers. Includes indexes, typescripts and photographic copies of some articles
• Photographs of C.H. Pearson, his family and associates not used in the books
• Typescript transcript of ELP’s diary 1883-1891
• Obituary notices
• ‘Memorials & Reviews’ and ‘Critical Essays’
• Article on the Pearson Papers in La Trobe Library for La Trobe Journal. Includes correspondence and list of Pearson’s articles in The Age
• Correspondence re typing, examination and acceptance of thesis, 1959; Conferring of degrees booklet 19/5/1960

2.3 Professor of democracy (1968)  1 cm

(Notes, photographs and typescripts compiled for Tregenza’s book “Professor of democracy: the life of Charles Henry Pearson, 1830-1894, Oxford don and Australian radical” (Melbourne University Press; Cambridge University Press, 1968))

Photographs for Pearson book

Reviews of and correspondence relating to “Professor of democracy” 1968-69. 1 cm.

Correspondence with Melbourne UP and others re indexing, publishing and sale of book 1968-1994

Interview of Dr Tregenza by John Hirst re Pearson, ABC program "Books and authors", 1972. 1 cassette

Interview of Dr Tregenza re Pearson on ABC Radio program "The Scholars" by Pierre Vickery, along with Mark Oliphant 20/5/1976, 1 cassette tape with related correspondence.

2.4 Other  5 cm

Articles on Australian subjects by Pearson, 1867-1880. 1 v.
“Most of these articles were typed up c. 1971 with a view to publishing a Pearson ‘reader to complement my biography … I was encouraged to prepare such a reader by the late Mr JM Main of Flinders University, but for various reasons I did not reach the point of offering the text to a publisher …”

Draft by Tregenza of entry for Pearson for revised Dictionary of National Biography, 1997 10 p. (typescript)

2.5 Oxford University

A.N.U. travelling scholarship

• 1960 flyer inviting applications
• 1961 correspondence re available scholarships/fellowships and accommodation in England, including with Sir Keith Hancock

Oxford University – Postdoctoral fellow 1962
Seventh Anglo-American Conference of University Historians, July 1962, University of London. Conference papers, programme, notes