p41 ‘Before me as . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1935, ‘Roses of yesterday: Are modern blooms complete?’ The Argus, 13 April, p6. pp43–45 This reconstruction is largely based on the recollections of George Harms, 1963, and Susan Millman, 1950, quoted in Peter Harms’ family history. The details of the dock scene are drawn from the diary of Alfred Withers, 3 January 1857, in Andrew Hassam, 1994, Sailing to Australia: Shipboard diaries by nineteenth century British Immigrants (Manchester University Press: Manchester) p60. ‘The vans almost . . .’ is from Richard Jefferies, 1883/1923, The story of my heart (Bretanos: New York) pp72–73. p46 ‘Men for the . . .’ and ‘women for the . . .’ from a 1928 overseas settlement poster ‘The Southern Cross’, National Archives of Australia, A434, 1949/3/21685. Details of this particular voyage of the Ionic throughout this chapter are drawn from George Harms’ recollections and ‘The SS Ionic’, The Mercury, 24 September 1887, p2 as well as a later journey on the same ship by John Fraser, 1887–8, ‘Shipboard diary’, New Zealand Yesteryears, http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/diaries/ionic1888.html [accessed 29.01.17]. p47 Accounts of women on ships from Francis Thiele, 2001, ‘Recreating the polite world: shipboard life on nineteenth-century lady travellers to Australia’, The Latrobe Journal, No 68: Spring and Andrew Hassam, 1995, No Privacy for Writing: Shipboard diaries, 1852–1879 (Melbourne University Press: Melbourne) including ‘It seems as if . . .’ p110. Jane Snodgrass to her mother Margaret, 18 October 1886–17 January 1887, http://www.theshipslist.com/accounts/LochLong_1886.shtml [accessed 28.01.2017] . pp48–49 ‘The conical peaks . . .’ 6 January 1888, ‘Nothing of interest . . .’ 13 January 1888 and ‘Nothing of interest today . . .’ 17 January 1888, from John Fraser, 1887–88, ‘Shipboard diary’. p50 ‘It is no use . . .’ in ‘Letter Written on Board the S.S. Great Britain From the Hon. Anna-Maria Georgiana Bright to her Parents, the Viscount and Viscountess Canterbury’, 1875, MS 12973, La Trobe Manuscripts Collection, SLV, p30, quoted in Francis Thiele, 2001. pp50–51 ‘As we sail . . .’ diary of Elizabeth Fenton, 11 August 1829, in Hassam, Sailing to Australia, pp181–2. ‘At 4 o’clock . . .’ quoted in Hassam, Sailing to Australia, p162. p52 ‘The country consists . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1926. ‘Orchids at the National Park’, Victorian Naturalist, 43, p211. p53 Charles Lamb, 1840, The essays of Elia, V1–2 (Edward Moxon: London) p67. ‘cannibal blacks and . . .’ Ada Cambridge, 1903, Thirty years in Australia (Methuen and Co: London) p1. The alternative journey is from a biographical note on Edith Coleman, Rica Erickson Papers, SLWA. p56 ‘Everywhere they looked . . .’ Michael Cannon, 1995, The Land Boomers: The Complete Illustrated History (Melbourne University Publishing: Melbourne) p4. pp57–59 Extract from Edith Coleman, 1931, ‘Ships that pass: Fascination of Point Lonsdale’, The Argus, 10 January, p4. The black tea-tree (M. pubescens) is probably Melaleuca lanceolata, black paperbark or moonah.
Chapter 4: A teacher of great promise
p61 ‘Nothing in Nature . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1931, ‘The Teachings of Nature: Lessons from Plants and Insects’ The Age, 26 September, p4. pp63–64 This reconstruction is based on a letter from Edith Harms to the Education Department, 20 January 1896, PROV 640/P0 729 37893. p64 ‘The long narrow . . .’ Charles R. Long, 1922, ‘Part II: 1872–1901’, in E. Sweetman, C. R. Long and J. A. Smyth, History of State Education in Victoria (Education Department of Victoria: Melbourne) p76. p66 I am grateful for the painstaking search by Peter Gill for the records of Edith Harms and Frank Tate at the PROV and other archives. p67 ‘slating Villa all . . .’ The Age, 2 February 1888, p6. pp68–69 Enrolment numbers and pupil-teacher salaries from Les J. Blake (ed) 1973, Visions and Realisation: A centenary history of state education in Victoria (Education Department of Victoria: Melbourne) v2, pp312–313, 286. Housemaid salaries from Henry H. Hayter, 1890, Victorian Year Book 1889–90 (Government Printer: Melbourne) v2, p228. pp68–70 Teacher Records for Edith Coleman, PROV, VPRS 13579/P1 v39; Harry Harms, VPRS 13579/P1 v37 and Lottie Harms VPRS 13579/P1 v37. Lottie married J. G. Bowman, a commander in Calcutta of the British India Steamship Navigation Company, on 20 August 1898, in Camberwell, ‘Family Notices’, The Australasian, 3 September 1898, p55. Details of Education Department history from Blake, 1973, Visions and Realisations, v1, pp270–271, 286. Details of Harry’s life from Peter Harms’ family history. pp71–72 Edith’s connection with Frank Tate is documented in Kate Baker, 1942, p16. ‘Developing a fine . . .’ quoted in Grant Rodwell, 1997, ‘Nature Enthusiasm, Social Planning and Eugenics in Australian State Schools, 1900–1920’, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 29, p9. Richard J. W. Selleck, 1990, ‘Tate, Frank (1864–1939)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography (Melbourne University Press: Melbourne) v12. pp72–4 Details of subjects offered to trainee teachers from Long, 1922, ‘Part II: 1872–1901’, p90. ‘Mr Tate was . . .’ and Tate’s letter to Edith are from Kate Baker, 1942, p 17. Tate’s passion for literature and nature is described in Selleck, 1990, ‘Tate, Frank’ and much of this discussion of nature study in Australian curriculum is drawn from Rodwell, 1997, ‘Nature Enthusiasm’, pp1–19, although the interpretation is my own. p73 ‘The city sits . . .’ Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1911, The Country Life Movement in the United States (The Macmillan Company: New York) p20. p74 ‘What is most . . .’ John Dawson, quoted in Rodwell, 1997, p10. p75 ‘Sir, I have . . .’ letter from the head teacher at Camberwell to the Education Department, 14 March 1893, PROV 640/PO 512 93/45652. Details from medical certificate provided by John Cuthbert, 18 September 1891, PROV 640/PO 512 91/57869. ‘owing to ill health . . .’ letter from Edith Harms to the Education Department, 8 October 1892, PROV 640/PO 512 92/50138 . . . p76 Details of Victorian school history from Long, 1922, pp66–84. pp77–78 The two photos referred to are from Foster Primary School History, http://www. fosterps.vic.edu.au/school-history/ [accessed 14.02.2017] and (reproduced) J. W. Anderson, ‘Children and School House,
