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Charles Harpur, a major nineteenth-century Australian poet, made a living as a sheep farmer and civil servant in New South Wales. Elizabeth Perkins first published a good edition of his poems in 1984. His manuscripts can be seen at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.

• Adam Lindsay Gordon letters: State Library of New South Wales, copies at Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
• Gordon, Adam Lindsay. Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. 1870.
• --Poems. Ed. Robert A. Thompson. London and Melbourne: A. H. Massina, 1920.
• --Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. Melbourne: Fergusson and Moore, 1867. Google Books.

• Alline, Henry. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Boston: Peter Edes, 1786. Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 44842. Online.
• Bumsted, J.M. "Alline, Henry." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Vol. IV. University of Toronto / Université Laval, 2000.

• Henry Kendall papers: State Library of New South Wales, and National Library of Australia.
• Kendall, Thomas Henry. Leaves from Australian Forests. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1869.
• --. Poems and Songs. Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1862. Internet Archive.
• --. Songs from the Mountains. Sydney: William Maddock, 1880. Google book.

• Bailey, Alfred G. "Odell, Jonathan." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Sargent, Winthrop, ed. The Loyal Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Doctor Jonathan Odell. Albany: J. Munsell, 1860. Internet Archive

• Barcroft Capel Boake notes and Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake letters (State Library of New South Wales); Boake manuscript (National Library of Australia).
• Boake, Barcroft Henry Thomas. Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems. Ed. A.G. Stephens. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897.

• Cambridge, Ada. Hymns on the Litany. Oxford: J.H. and J. Parker, 1865.
• --. Hymns on the Holy Communion. London: Houlston and Wright, 1866.
• --. The Manor House and Other Poems. London: Daldy, Isbister, 1875.
• --. Unspoken Thoughts. London: Kegan Paul, 1887.

• Guruswamy, Rosemay Fithian. The Poems of Edward Taylor: a reference guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
• Hammond, Jeffrey A. American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Taylor, Edward. The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.

As a child slave, Phillis Wheatley was shipped on the Phillis to Boston from West Africa, possibly the Gambia river region, on July 11, 1761, when she was about 7-8 years of age. Susanna Wheatley, a Christian and wife of merchant John Wheatley, purchased her. Taught by Susanna's daughter Mary, Phillis began writing by 1765.