Thanks to everyone who put fingers to keyboards and sent us emails. Below is a selection of those that arrived in the inbox. If you have anything to say... even if it is just hello... please send it through to us at letters@mountaintracks.com.au
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This website was sent to me by a friend (USA) who is doing the Vennard Family Tree. He came across it while doing a search.
Bowyang was my Grandfather. I was very excited to see the link.
Thank-you
Cheryl
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I enjoyed this website so much, I sent it to e-mail friends in the US, Canada, and Scotland. Keep up the good work. Slan go foill (Bye for now). Yours aye.
Edna.
Queensland
[Ed: Thanks Edna for the feedbaack and for helping spread the word about the site. We appreciate it!]
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Hello,
Just found your site and have thoroughly enjoyed reading. Although I am a New Zealander, my great-grandparents arrived in Fremantle in 1830 so consider myself at least part Australian. I love the Australian songs and poetry from long ago - but not your heat and snakes!! Thank you for a site I will definitely be re-visiting.
Jackie
Auckland
[Ed: Now that you mention it Jackie, I'm not that thrilled with the heat and snakes either!]
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Thank you so very much for the receipe for the jelly pads. It appears the same as mine, but I'm thinking that when I made them before it was in the winter and we have a high humidity level here on the west coast and I think I'll wait for a warm day to try it again. Mine turned out very sticky and when I boiled them down it didn't get any better.
We scraped the jelly off the pan, boiled it and reset it for the next printing. We could do this over and over until the jelly was almost black. We did not use carbon paper, we used an endlible pencil to write the master.
Then came the spirit duplicator using methol hydrate and then the ink Gestetner and finally the photo copier.
Wow, we've come a long way.
Again thank you so much.
Joan
USA
[Ed: I'm glad we could help, Joan, and thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, we have certainly sped ahead, haven't we?]
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Recently I came across the poem Marion Lee in a collection of the recitations sent to Bill Bowyang and which was published by Ron Edwards some time ago. Although that collection has the author as anonymous, I have since discovered it was written by Bernard Espinasse. At the same time I discovered a rather similar poem written by Elise Espinasse.
As I consider both poems to be very good,I would very much like to know if you can supply any further information regarding either of these people. The only information I have been able to obtain is that Bernard Espinasse co authored a musical play about 1900 with the famous entrepeneur J.C. Williamson which was to be performed at the then Her Majesty's in Sydney.
Regards
Vic
ACT
[ From DAVID MULHALLEN:
Thank you Vic, for your letter re 'Marion Lee' and the Espinasse family.
I agree with what you have written. As with several other poems, 'Marion Lee' was included in the Bowyang Reciters as author unknown. You may recall that in my Simply Australia article, I wrote that Bowyang tended to let slide recognition of authors even when he knew who they were.
As for information about Bernard and Elise Espinasse, I have notes about them somewhere and will go looking. One day I mean to have a brilliant filing system so that I can have an answer to a question such as yours at my finger tips immediately. However, having looked in all the obvious places I have now got to go hunting through all my clippings to see what I can find. As well, I will include some notes in the next Simply Australia. ]
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